It is not that I am not willing to pay, I am. It is just that I like to know who I am paying and what I am paying for.
Can you imagine having to subscribe and pay individually for each service you use on the Internet? I can't, because then I would have dozens of bits of money flying off in donzens of directions; I would not feel in control. That would mean dozens of user agreements that affect my *wallet* to keep track of.
While I would gladly pay $100 to a single service to fufill all my needs, and maybe $50 to 2 services and even $25 to 4 services, I will not consider paying $1 to 100 different services. Unfortunately, no such single service exists on the Internet.
I don't agree. Starting off with assembler is like starting off a driver's education course with a class on auto repair.
I find that the original question kinda vague. "Is Java a good learning language?". Good to learn what? If you are trying to learn OO programming, Java is fine. If you are trying to learn about programming algorithms and patterns(which what 90% of programming is about), just about any high level language will do (even FORTRAN).
If you are trying to learn something about computers and how they work, Java is insufficient. It hides far to much for the programmer to learn about low-level "under-the-hood" concepts.
This is an UL that is repeated in reality. I have actually been involved in a situation like this. Not quite the same, but close.
When I was a graduate student I TA'ed a class that was a traditionally feared and dreaded by the students. I was marking one of the labs when I noticed that the discussion from one student sounded very very familiar. They were not words that I had written, but words that I had read elsewhere. I checked my old textbooks and found the discussion there, word for word.
Knowing that we would recognize a discussion copied from the current textbook, this student went to the library and checked out one of the older texts he could find. He didn't realize that his choice was the very textbook I used when I took the class.
I gave him a 0 for his discussion and told him to find a different textbook.
I don't think the man actually moved between shots. The shots were not taken so far apart that the man could move and then come back again. Besides, if the shots were taken that far apart, the other people in the photos would not appear so clearly, since they would also have moved slightly.
In this particular case, I think the man in red and blue was wearing colours that didn't show up clearly under a particular filter. The man is there, he is just very very dim.
There are shots were the was definite movement between shots. This one for example. The colourful shimmer on the water is probably caused by the fact that the water moved slightly between shots.
Wind is not the issue. The difficulty is turbulence. However, if all the wind around a body is moving in the same direction and at the same velocity, then from the body's point of view there is no turbulence. If the body is light and not fixed to anything (like, say, a model airplane) then the body is unlikely to notice the effects of the wind.
We humans tend to notice wind as very turbulent because
We are usually fixed to the ground and do not move with the wind.
We are usually deep inside the boundry layer of the earth, where ground effects and obstacles (trees, building, etc) cause all sort of turbulent eddies.
What really pissed off NASA
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...was that they wanted the US to be the first person to put a tourist into space.
>>The nordic nations, the Netherlands and Finland, in particular, have the best human rights and social development records on earth >>
They do? The only Finnish person I have ever met was incredibly racist and bigotted. He essentially told me that, as a non-white person, I was not welcome in his country. I would not normally stereotype on a statistical sample of 1, except that this guy was a Finnish diplomat.
Since he's the only Finnish person I have ever met, I've been wondering about Finland ever since.
It's not nearly as simple as "I've got a home studio now I can compete with the big boys"
The big problems are
Marketing:
Somebody at home can't market with the reach of a large corporation. Oh, sometimes something comes out of somebody's basement and then suddenly it's everywhere. But being everywhere only happens after the big boys get involved and the original artist has lost control of the marketing.
Experience:
Just because somebody has a quality home studio doesn't mean they will no how use it. Professional recording studios are staffed by experienced sound engineers who really know their stuff. No amount of easy to use software will overcome this.
Talent:
This could lead to a lot of crap being passed around. Just look at mp3.com. There is a lot of good stuff there, but there much more bad stuff. Separating the wheat from the chaff leads us back to the importance of marketing.
The "it won't be copied, it's too big" argument seems kinda flakey to me, for the following obvious reasons:
What's big today will not seem all that big 10, or even 5, years from now. This argument seems self-dating.
Anything uncompressed can be stored compressed. How small will the files get once they are compressed?
I am sure more reasons will occur to me the more I think about it.
These device also have built in copy protection, JVC claims, but if the built in copy protection is so great why present these additional flakey arguments.
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The estimates of a space elevator bringing the cost of shipping a person to space down to a buck or two per kilogram are totally ludicrous. This estimate assumes that the cost of maintaining the elevator is zero, which will not be the case.
An analogy is that it costs me (very rough guess) about $2 worth of gas for me to commute to work in the morning. Add to that the cost of car maintenance, insurance, and the amount of my taxes that go to maintaining the roads and supporting the police that patrol the roads, etc etc...
Has anybody ever done an analysis of what it will cost to operate a space elevator? Up to and including the cost of having gang of stewards and stewardesses attending to the passengers for a 36,000 km trip. This would be a fascinating business plan to read.
There *was* a movie of Rendezvous with Rama in the making, starring Morgan Freeman. Unfortunately, it seems to have died in pre-production, though I recently came across a movie posted for it at
Revelations Films. I love to hear from anybody with more information.
Another Clarke novel I'd love to see as a movie is "A Fall of Moondust".
I wonder what other persons, who have made decisions that impact our every day lives, have been almost forgotten.
Like who decided that the standard paper size in North America should be 8.5x11" (was it a person or a committee)? Who decided to put letters next to the numbers on a phone dial? Who invented the dial tone, and who decided what pitch it should be?
With a little (or a lot) of digging I am sure the answers to these questions can be found. But, like the inventor of email, the knowledge may eventually disappear into history.
This latest strategy of mp3.com is going to fall flat and hard. Very few people are going to want to pay for a service which allows them to listen to music that they already paid for. That would be like having to pay to listen to a radio. I loved the my.mp3.com server when it was free, but I doubt that business model will work until online advertising starts pulling in real money, on par with radio and TV advertising.
An idea for adding value: I pay a fee, and I get to not only listen to my own music, but the music from other people as well. This would be a Napster type of thing, expect that is would be client server instead of p2p.
...that Sir Arthur is involved with this. He must be getting old to be sucked in by a flashy salesman in a Ferrari. Next thing you know he will be buying vacuum cleaners from door-to-door salesman.
Fortunately for ACC, the statement "the launch of the Omniputer would be put on hold until the legal issues have been resolved" can be translated as "Never gonna happen".
Why waste the effort? Because Nature does not select the best design, just the design that is good enough. Would you say that human beings, or any other life form existing today, are perfect or even high quality? Immensely complicated, yes. Very efficiently assembled, yes. But the best solution. I don't think so.
Also, Nature's "design solutions" often fall apart when applied to a problem that was not in the original scope of the solution. I doubt bacteria have been "designed" to push little carts around.
While early effort will get a head start by apdapting existing systems, I do not doubt that in the future superior systems will be designed that are completely artificial
It might be their policy to disallow (among others things) mp3s, but I do not agree with their enforcement methods. At the very least, the ISP should warn you via email that the files are against policy, and then delete them if you don't do anything about it. Their current approach appears to be "shoot first, ask questions later".
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No wait! I can't do that. Too much prior art!
Can you imagine having to subscribe and pay individually for each service you use on the Internet? I can't, because then I would have dozens of bits of money flying off in donzens of directions; I would not feel in control. That would mean dozens of user agreements that affect my *wallet* to keep track of.
While I would gladly pay $100 to a single service to fufill all my needs, and maybe $50 to 2 services and even $25 to 4 services, I will not consider paying $1 to 100 different services. Unfortunately, no such single service exists on the Internet.
What does that mean? It means that they still do not make any money off of their operations. Their revenue is still less than the cost of goods sold.
I find that the original question kinda vague. "Is Java a good learning language?". Good to learn what? If you are trying to learn OO programming, Java is fine. If you are trying to learn about programming algorithms and patterns(which what 90% of programming is about), just about any high level language will do (even FORTRAN).
If you are trying to learn something about computers and how they work, Java is insufficient. It hides far to much for the programmer to learn about low-level "under-the-hood" concepts.
When I was a graduate student I TA'ed a class that was a traditionally feared and dreaded by the students. I was marking one of the labs when I noticed that the discussion from one student sounded very very familiar. They were not words that I had written, but words that I had read elsewhere. I checked my old textbooks and found the discussion there, word for word.
Knowing that we would recognize a discussion copied from the current textbook, this student went to the library and checked out one of the older texts he could find. He didn't realize that his choice was the very textbook I used when I took the class.
I gave him a 0 for his discussion and told him to find a different textbook.
In this particular case, I think the man in red and blue was wearing colours that didn't show up clearly under a particular filter. The man is there, he is just very very dim.
There are shots were the was definite movement between shots. This one for example. The colourful shimmer on the water is probably caused by the fact that the water moved slightly between shots.
Most cool, I think.
We humans tend to notice wind as very turbulent because
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They do? The only Finnish person I have ever met was incredibly racist and bigotted. He essentially told me that, as a non-white person, I was not welcome in his country. I would not normally stereotype on a statistical sample of 1, except that this guy was a Finnish diplomat.
Since he's the only Finnish person I have ever met, I've been wondering about Finland ever since.
In a physical store, if the staff is too busy too notice, is it legal to shoplift? I don't think so.
Besides, Einstein did not prove that travel faster than light was impossible. He merely proved that travel *at* the speed of light was impossible.
The big problems are
Marketing: Somebody at home can't market with the reach of a large corporation. Oh, sometimes something comes out of somebody's basement and then suddenly it's everywhere. But being everywhere only happens after the big boys get involved and the original artist has lost control of the marketing.
Experience: Just because somebody has a quality home studio doesn't mean they will no how use it. Professional recording studios are staffed by experienced sound engineers who really know their stuff. No amount of easy to use software will overcome this.
Talent: This could lead to a lot of crap being passed around. Just look at mp3.com. There is a lot of good stuff there, but there much more bad stuff. Separating the wheat from the chaff leads us back to the importance of marketing.
Also, did not the US Navy once shoot down a civilian 737 in the Middle East? In today's warfare, you rarely get withing visual distance of your enemy.
- What's big today will not seem all that big 10, or even 5, years from now. This argument seems self-dating.
- Anything uncompressed can be stored compressed. How small will the files get once they are compressed?
I am sure more reasons will occur to me the more I think about it.These device also have built in copy protection, JVC claims, but if the built in copy protection is so great why present these additional flakey arguments.
An analogy is that it costs me (very rough guess) about $2 worth of gas for me to commute to work in the morning. Add to that the cost of car maintenance, insurance, and the amount of my taxes that go to maintaining the roads and supporting the police that patrol the roads, etc etc...
Has anybody ever done an analysis of what it will cost to operate a space elevator? Up to and including the cost of having gang of stewards and stewardesses attending to the passengers for a 36,000 km trip. This would be a fascinating business plan to read.
Another Clarke novel I'd love to see as a movie is "A Fall of Moondust".
"Story by Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C Clarke"
and the book bylined
"Story by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrik"
Like who decided that the standard paper size in North America should be 8.5x11" (was it a person or a committee)? Who decided to put letters next to the numbers on a phone dial? Who invented the dial tone, and who decided what pitch it should be?
With a little (or a lot) of digging I am sure the answers to these questions can be found. But, like the inventor of email, the knowledge may eventually disappear into history.
This latest strategy of mp3.com is going to fall flat and hard. Very few people are going to want to pay for a service which allows them to listen to music that they already paid for. That would be like having to pay to listen to a radio. I loved the my.mp3.com server when it was free, but I doubt that business model will work until online advertising starts pulling in real money, on par with radio and TV advertising.
An idea for adding value: I pay a fee, and I get to not only listen to my own music, but the music from other people as well. This would be a Napster type of thing, expect that is would be client server instead of p2p.
Fortunately for ACC, the statement "the launch of the Omniputer would be put on hold until the legal issues have been resolved" can be translated as "Never gonna happen".
Why waste the effort? Because Nature does not select the best design, just the design that is good enough. Would you say that human beings, or any other life form existing today, are perfect or even high quality? Immensely complicated, yes. Very efficiently assembled, yes. But the best solution. I don't think so.
Also, Nature's "design solutions" often fall apart when applied to a problem that was not in the original scope of the solution. I doubt bacteria have been "designed" to push little carts around.
While early effort will get a head start by apdapting existing systems, I do not doubt that in the future superior systems will be designed that are completely artificial
It might be their policy to disallow (among others things) mp3s, but I do not agree with their enforcement methods. At the very least, the ISP should warn you via email that the files are against policy, and then delete them if you don't do anything about it. Their current approach appears to be "shoot first, ask questions later".