b) EXCEPTION.--Subsection (a) does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device, if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations adopted under section 104 and not subsequently modified in violation of (a) or 103(a).
I believe this grandfather clause covers any current technology already out there.
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Are you trying to say that Cajuns don't know how to dress up when the occasion calls for it? I am glad that so many people noted that the reason his website is in French is because he is from southern Lousisiana.
Now as to whether or not Cajuns speak French or not, if Cajuns don't speak French, then Americans don't speak English. Learn the difference between a dialect and a language.
The virtue of Bayesian algorithms is that they are based on probabilities learned as the system is used. They would only come up when the probabilities reach a point where they show a person is having problems. So, if a person obviously knows how to use MS Office, then the paper clip guy would stay hidden as the evidence nodes of the Bayesian network wouldn't be set by proper use. Therefore the only times the Paperclip agent would show is if you are clicking around aimlessly or if you started writing in a form close to one of their templated forms (i.e. letters).
Bayesian networks are super cool...I took a grad level course in them as an undergrad my last semester of school.
Will it be a nasty IE-only site loaded up with Quicktime and Flash5 movies? If he makes it downloadable will it be in a nice portable format that I could use in my Rocket eBook, for example?
We all have to make choices, and dependent upon what Tad Williams is familiar, we shouldn't judge him if he uses formats not viewable for everyone. In all life, there must be sacrifices.
He[Williams] is also very good at vivid imagery that really sets your imagination spinning.
Yeah, vivid imagery I really love the way Tad Williams tells a story. I get wrapped up in the stuff so much. As to the imagery, his style fits to the setting so well. In Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn, the only Williams I have read, in all-out battle, the writing is extremely fast-paced. And during the cave-crawling scenes, the style was very slow and excruciating, but it was like being in a cave with no light.
The tobacco industry does not kill people. People make the choice to smoke, and nowadays, no one can be a smoker and not know the harmful side effects. I smoke because I like to smoke, and I am tired of people trying to take something away from me that I like. It is the same as if the government made all open source software illegal for whatever reason or whatever it is that you like to do, video games, caffeinated(sp?) beverages, etc. I like to smoke. It is a great thing, and I am not a pack a day smoker. I smoke a pack in maybe a weeks time unless I have an active weekend or something. We've already tried prohibition in the US, it didn't work.
Obviously you have never seen Loveline on MTV. It not only broadcasts there, but I believe also on KROQ(radio) in L.A. Yeah, it's pretty tame, but they do discuss sex. And that's just a recent show. People like Dr. Ruth have been on the air for years. I remember a show out of NY that was syndicated in a bunch of cities, including New Orleans, in the mid-nineties. The hosts were Dr. Judy and Jagger or something like that, can't remember. Anyone else remember them?
To get your music downloaded on Napster, you essentially have to be famous already. On MP3.com, people can actually find you, even if you're unknown simply by browsing.
I was speaking from the experience a friend of mine's band had with Napster and neglected to include mp3.com in my statement. They use mp3.com as well to promote their music. I have to disagree with you that Napster is lame for new musicians, at least in my experience. Napster does highlight musicians who are not famous in many of their pages. Also, a little work in the chat rooms on Napster can also help new musicians. My friends get in the rooms that relate to their style of music and pretty much ask people to give it a try. Apparently it has worked for them, they recently had to close their website mailing list because they were getting to many applicants for the guys in the band to handle.
I hope that Napster does not die. I hope Napster will still be around for when musicians will want to make individual deals with Napster to release songs there. Even putting in place a payment scheme so the musicians can receive some compensation. I think Napster may open the eyes of many musicians to the crappy contracts they have with the recording companies. You do not have to mass produce mp3's in order to distribute your music, as is the case with CD's, you only need one. From that one, music can be copied and copied and copied.
I believe that society has put too much stock in musical and cinematic superstars. People used to do these things for the artistic merits behind them. It wasn't until the marketing industry of the MPAA and RIAA began gouging with prices that musicians became the greedy, self-serving bastards that many are today.
I can see where the RIAA has been detrimental to music. How many times have you heard this statement: "So-and-so is okay, but I liked their earlier stuff better." I know I've said it many times. What happens, I believe, is that because of the contracts for X number of albums, the "artists" do not put their heart into the music. They know they have their contract to fall back on. They can write a couple of good songs and fill their album with crap, and because of those good songs, they will make money still.
Anyway, all I really want to say is: Listen to Prince, he is releasing his next single on Napster!!!
This seems to be the pervailing attitude among those at Microsoft and elsewhere: users are stupid
You know, I have run across a lot of people in my life who are not efficient computer users. Windows offers a friendly environment that makes it easy to use software. Truthfully, there are a lot of people out there for whom Linux is not an option. There are a lot of people out there who don't know how to compile the source they got from someone to get a program to run. To be an efficient Linux user, this is one of the many special skills you have to have. In this sense, Windows does appeal to a lot of people, a lot of smart people too, the only difference is they are not computer techs, they have other specialities.
I'd like to see you run Linux, knit a sweater, play a musical instrument, and fix a car. Hell, I can just barely do the first. I am not a supreme Linux user. I can do a lot of things, but I can't get WINE to work, use the Gimp worth a damn, etc. There are many types of people in this world, not everyone has to use Linux.
Just like there have been a few Linux kernel versions this year? It hasn't been a year since 2.4 was out. What's the problem with service releases? They find problems, fix those problems, and put them out for the public. I don't get what you are talking about. Microsoft versioning is no different than any other versioning out there.
I do not think it is a pertinent argument to say that since this has been up for days it is not/. worthy./. is more than a news board, it is also a forum board where people can post arguments and ideas. And besides, some of us don't have time or want to scan every single webboard out there. I personally like to stick to/. or CNN.
Let's see, what things do we need to make this watch work?
1. A battery that would last an entire day and that could be recharged overnight.
2. Natural speech processing technology and a microphone.
3. Significant storage
4. For the truly cool, wireless display piece
5. Wireless networking
Can anyone think of anything else to include to make this worth using. I know storage is a major problem, but aren't people working on crystal storage that would be able to hold more volume in a smaller place. I could see wearing this as opposed to crap on my belt.
It is a pretty well known fact in the antrhopological community (IANAAnthro) that man evolved as mainly a meat eater. Think mammoths, aurochs, and other large fauna. Man subsisting on large amounts of vegetation did not come about until about 10,000 years ago.
Vegetables are a hard thing to eat a balanced diet with. In order to get the amount of nutrients, minerals, etc that a human needs, he would have to eat a multitude of different types of vegetables, i.e. beans for protein, citrus for Vitamin C, etc. The problem with this is that to get everything necessary, you would have to eat a lot of veggies, and as we know, veggies are bulky. It would be hard to consume the amount necessary to round off a diet. You can get a lot of the same things you get from plants from animals, liver is chock full of different vitamins.
Next, meat is easier to digest than vegetables since animal cells do not have that cell wall found in vegetables. The only reason meat would decay in your body is because the digestive fluids would be breaking it down. Hence the same would be occurring with vegetables.
I am not preaching that humans should be complete carnivores; I couldn't give up veggies, love the little buggers. I am just saying that there is nothing wrong with eating meat.
One last remark regarding:
consider the spiritual damage living off another of God's creature does to your soul.
The way you speak of God, would seem like the way a Christian would mention a deity. Doesn't the Bible say that the plants and the animals were put here for our use? Now, IANAChristian, but I did go through 13 years of Catholic schooling and read a large portion of the Bible. If you are not a Christian, explain, please
Oh please, you are throwing around buzzwords like Jon Katz. I really do not think that because of what Taco Bell (Pepisco) did, more people are going to eat at Taco Bell. If anything, what Taco Bell did is more in homage to Mir than anything. I think the Russians are proud that they built a space station that lasted fifteen years, and probably could have lasted longer if they had had the money. I'd hope that they would recognize the global support for the Mir endeavor(sp?) including this name pitch by Taco Bell.
If anyone is being cynical here it is you in assuming that Taco Bell only did this for brand recognition and not as part brand recognition and part honoring the Russians.
And besides, there is nothing wrong with brand recognition. Many brands out there have that recognition because they are the best. I don't go to a restaurant and order a cola beverage when I want a Coke. I personally can't stand a lot of the generic cola beverages where I live.
I loved the last quotes from this article so much:
"'One is that it won't fall on Tonga. The other is that it will fall on Tonga.'... 'If it does fall on Tonga, we can yell for compensation and we might get much more than Tonga has ever earned in many years put together.'"
First and foremost, I'd like to mention that I have just finished reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson again. Some of the ideas put forth by this article remind a lot of the Metaverse from the book.
1. "Stores" where chairs are sold to put in your house.
2. Parties at houses in the Simverse
3. Buying digital real-estate in the Simverse
What happens if we drop the game and develop a better environment interface. Of course, I think it would be fun for the sword fights and motorcycle races.
I understand your meaning from the above post. I just get upset when people throw around the word cult, being a person who has been labelled a cultist. I do not consider myself a "cult", especially since I currently am not a member of any group.
Now onto the meat I was referring to in my post. I was merely pointing out that the term cult, at best, has been spin doctored to fit the use of many different groups, in my experience, many Christian outreach groups. I also wanted to point out that many people still use it for its true meaning in the instance of the papally sanctioned Cult of Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. I only wanted to point out that just because something is labelled a cult, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
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b) EXCEPTION.--Subsection (a) does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device, if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations adopted under section 104 and not subsequently modified in violation of (a) or 103(a).
I believe this grandfather clause covers any current technology already out there.
Are you trying to say that Cajuns don't know how to dress up when the occasion calls for it? I am glad that so many people noted that the reason his website is in French is because he is from southern Lousisiana.
Now as to whether or not Cajuns speak French or not, if Cajuns don't speak French, then Americans don't speak English. Learn the difference between a dialect and a language.
Don't forget the fact that Yahoo probably pays a pretty penny to use them as their web search.
The virtue of Bayesian algorithms is that they are based on probabilities learned as the system is used. They would only come up when the probabilities reach a point where they show a person is having problems. So, if a person obviously knows how to use MS Office, then the paper clip guy would stay hidden as the evidence nodes of the Bayesian network wouldn't be set by proper use. Therefore the only times the Paperclip agent would show is if you are clicking around aimlessly or if you started writing in a form close to one of their templated forms (i.e. letters).
Bayesian networks are super cool...I took a grad level course in them as an undergrad my last semester of school.
Will it be a nasty IE-only site loaded up with Quicktime and Flash5 movies? If he makes it downloadable will it be in a nice portable format that I could use in my Rocket eBook, for example?
We all have to make choices, and dependent upon what Tad Williams is familiar, we shouldn't judge him if he uses formats not viewable for everyone. In all life, there must be sacrifices.
Go to the library. About as open as I can think.
He[Williams] is also very good at vivid imagery that really sets your imagination spinning.
Yeah, vivid imagery I really love the way Tad Williams tells a story. I get wrapped up in the stuff so much. As to the imagery, his style fits to the setting so well. In Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn, the only Williams I have read, in all-out battle, the writing is extremely fast-paced. And during the cave-crawling scenes, the style was very slow and excruciating, but it was like being in a cave with no light.
A nation that has room for both Amish farmers and corporate tycoons also has room for free-software hackers.
Yeah, except one minor detail, you can eat the farm products, but you can't eat the software.
The tobacco industry does not kill people. People make the choice to smoke, and nowadays, no one can be a smoker and not know the harmful side effects. I smoke because I like to smoke, and I am tired of people trying to take something away from me that I like. It is the same as if the government made all open source software illegal for whatever reason or whatever it is that you like to do, video games, caffeinated(sp?) beverages, etc. I like to smoke. It is a great thing, and I am not a pack a day smoker. I smoke a pack in maybe a weeks time unless I have an active weekend or something. We've already tried prohibition in the US, it didn't work.
Obviously you have never seen Loveline on MTV. It not only broadcasts there, but I believe also on KROQ(radio) in L.A. Yeah, it's pretty tame, but they do discuss sex. And that's just a recent show. People like Dr. Ruth have been on the air for years. I remember a show out of NY that was syndicated in a bunch of cities, including New Orleans, in the mid-nineties. The hosts were Dr. Judy and Jagger or something like that, can't remember. Anyone else remember them?
To get your music downloaded on Napster, you essentially have to be famous already. On MP3.com, people can actually find you, even if you're unknown simply by browsing.
I was speaking from the experience a friend of mine's band had with Napster and neglected to include mp3.com in my statement. They use mp3.com as well to promote their music. I have to disagree with you that Napster is lame for new musicians, at least in my experience. Napster does highlight musicians who are not famous in many of their pages. Also, a little work in the chat rooms on Napster can also help new musicians. My friends get in the rooms that relate to their style of music and pretty much ask people to give it a try. Apparently it has worked for them, they recently had to close their website mailing list because they were getting to many applicants for the guys in the band to handle.
I hope that Napster does not die. I hope Napster will still be around for when musicians will want to make individual deals with Napster to release songs there. Even putting in place a payment scheme so the musicians can receive some compensation. I think Napster may open the eyes of many musicians to the crappy contracts they have with the recording companies. You do not have to mass produce mp3's in order to distribute your music, as is the case with CD's, you only need one. From that one, music can be copied and copied and copied.
I believe that society has put too much stock in musical and cinematic superstars. People used to do these things for the artistic merits behind them. It wasn't until the marketing industry of the MPAA and RIAA began gouging with prices that musicians became the greedy, self-serving bastards that many are today.
I can see where the RIAA has been detrimental to music. How many times have you heard this statement: "So-and-so is okay, but I liked their earlier stuff better." I know I've said it many times. What happens, I believe, is that because of the contracts for X number of albums, the "artists" do not put their heart into the music. They know they have their contract to fall back on. They can write a couple of good songs and fill their album with crap, and because of those good songs, they will make money still.
Anyway, all I really want to say is: Listen to Prince, he is releasing his next single on Napster!!!
This seems to be the pervailing attitude among those at Microsoft and elsewhere: users are stupid
You know, I have run across a lot of people in my life who are not efficient computer users. Windows offers a friendly environment that makes it easy to use software. Truthfully, there are a lot of people out there for whom Linux is not an option. There are a lot of people out there who don't know how to compile the source they got from someone to get a program to run. To be an efficient Linux user, this is one of the many special skills you have to have. In this sense, Windows does appeal to a lot of people, a lot of smart people too, the only difference is they are not computer techs, they have other specialities.
I'd like to see you run Linux, knit a sweater, play a musical instrument, and fix a car. Hell, I can just barely do the first. I am not a supreme Linux user. I can do a lot of things, but I can't get WINE to work, use the Gimp worth a damn, etc. There are many types of people in this world, not everyone has to use Linux.
Just like there have been a few Linux kernel versions this year? It hasn't been a year since 2.4 was out. What's the problem with service releases? They find problems, fix those problems, and put them out for the public. I don't get what you are talking about. Microsoft versioning is no different than any other versioning out there.
I personally think it is all the "Girls Gone Wild" commercials on Comedy Central after 10PM.
I do not think it is a pertinent argument to say that since this has been up for days it is not /. worthy. /. is more than a news board, it is also a forum board where people can post arguments and ideas. And besides, some of us don't have time or want to scan every single webboard out there. I personally like to stick to /. or CNN.
Geeky
Way to go Slashdot community, you slashdotted the inciteful anti-abortionists, right on.
Let's see, what things do we need to make this watch work?
1. A battery that would last an entire day and that could be recharged overnight.
2. Natural speech processing technology and a microphone.
3. Significant storage
4. For the truly cool, wireless display piece
5. Wireless networking
Can anyone think of anything else to include to make this worth using. I know storage is a major problem, but aren't people working on crystal storage that would be able to hold more volume in a smaller place. I could see wearing this as opposed to crap on my belt.
It is a pretty well known fact in the antrhopological community (IANAAnthro) that man evolved as mainly a meat eater. Think mammoths, aurochs, and other large fauna. Man subsisting on large amounts of vegetation did not come about until about 10,000 years ago.
Vegetables are a hard thing to eat a balanced diet with. In order to get the amount of nutrients, minerals, etc that a human needs, he would have to eat a multitude of different types of vegetables, i.e. beans for protein, citrus for Vitamin C, etc. The problem with this is that to get everything necessary, you would have to eat a lot of veggies, and as we know, veggies are bulky. It would be hard to consume the amount necessary to round off a diet. You can get a lot of the same things you get from plants from animals, liver is chock full of different vitamins.
Next, meat is easier to digest than vegetables since animal cells do not have that cell wall found in vegetables. The only reason meat would decay in your body is because the digestive fluids would be breaking it down. Hence the same would be occurring with vegetables.
I am not preaching that humans should be complete carnivores; I couldn't give up veggies, love the little buggers. I am just saying that there is nothing wrong with eating meat.
One last remark regarding:
consider the spiritual damage living off another of God's creature does to your soul.
The way you speak of God, would seem like the way a Christian would mention a deity. Doesn't the Bible say that the plants and the animals were put here for our use? Now, IANAChristian, but I did go through 13 years of Catholic schooling and read a large portion of the Bible. If you are not a Christian, explain, please
Oh please, you are throwing around buzzwords like Jon Katz. I really do not think that because of what Taco Bell (Pepisco) did, more people are going to eat at Taco Bell. If anything, what Taco Bell did is more in homage to Mir than anything. I think the Russians are proud that they built a space station that lasted fifteen years, and probably could have lasted longer if they had had the money. I'd hope that they would recognize the global support for the Mir endeavor(sp?) including this name pitch by Taco Bell.
If anyone is being cynical here it is you in assuming that Taco Bell only did this for brand recognition and not as part brand recognition and part honoring the Russians.
And besides, there is nothing wrong with brand recognition. Many brands out there have that recognition because they are the best. I don't go to a restaurant and order a cola beverage when I want a Coke. I personally can't stand a lot of the generic cola beverages where I live.
for any of you who actually read at this low a level, this is a goatsex link
I loved the last quotes from this article so much:
... 'If it does fall on Tonga, we can yell for compensation and we might get much more than Tonga has ever earned in many years put together.'"
"'One is that it won't fall on Tonga. The other is that it will fall on Tonga.'
-The CNN article from above
First and foremost, I'd like to mention that I have just finished reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson again. Some of the ideas put forth by this article remind a lot of the Metaverse from the book.
1. "Stores" where chairs are sold to put in your house.
2. Parties at houses in the Simverse
3. Buying digital real-estate in the Simverse
What happens if we drop the game and develop a better environment interface. Of course, I think it would be fun for the sword fights and motorcycle races.
Allow me to apoligize, I made a slightly small mispelling in my post. Of course this is my being a vulgar American. I swapped the b for the p.
I understand your meaning from the above post. I just get upset when people throw around the word cult, being a person who has been labelled a cultist. I do not consider myself a "cult", especially since I currently am not a member of any group.
Now onto the meat I was referring to in my post. I was merely pointing out that the term cult, at best, has been spin doctored to fit the use of many different groups, in my experience, many Christian outreach groups. I also wanted to point out that many people still use it for its true meaning in the instance of the papally sanctioned Cult of Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. I only wanted to point out that just because something is labelled a cult, it is not necessarily a bad thing.