Can it synthesize meaning out of a collection of words appearing in context? Like, instead of writing "democracy" in the blog, could one simply write "a form of government based on popular vote?"
Or maybe go the 1984 route: everwhere you want to write the word "freedom" write "slavery" instead.
Whether or not it's old news, the referred article is certainly *poorly reported news*. The conversational style is a little too "tee hee" for my tastes. I imagine a stereotypical ditz flipping her hair with a vacant smile as she writes the article. It makes me doubt that she's got her facts straight.
Would that this was the modus operandi of the sellers as well...
When did the idea of risk become unacceptable to businesses? Why is it the customer who shoulders the burden of risking whether a product is any good or not?
10) Still profit. But not as much as you potentially could at this point.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda; potential doesn't count in a sale. It's still profit, more than they had before, and therefore worth pursuing because the benefits outweigh the expendatures.
Plus, limiting the scope of sale to one line doesn't make sense. By getting one's foot in the door of sales of a popular product (having come to it late) a business stands to become the source of *other* products in the same vein, and this time they can be first on the floor.
All this makes me wonder why there's even a gap between broadcasting a TV show and selling the DVD; they should really be released on the same day with the broadcast considered as an advertisement for the whole set. Stupid fucking studios.
I'd back you up here, but I don't subscribe to Slashdot, I adblock all the flash on the page, and don't allow popups.
Funny thing: once upon a time, everything on the Internet WAS free. Pay for access, sure, but once the pipe was open there was a whole world of academics, collaborators, hobbyists, and so on whose whole reason for being on the Internet was to share. Share! Amazing!
Commerical interests have no "this isn't how it should be" claim to stake. They're the Jonnys-come-lately online, and they *still* have to learn how to adjust.
(I only learned the following after two years in college following a lackluster academic career in public school.)
The idea behind homework is not simply to tie you to a desk for the happy hours of your mis-spent youth.
Homework ideally is assigned for two reasons: practice, and to do work that is inappropriate in the classroom.
The first case, practice, is for hammering into place skills that are complex but necessary for future skill development. For example, you memorize your multiplication tables so that you can do algebra quickly. And yeah, the only way to get it done is to do it over and over on your own time. Teachers don't have the time to go over every skill with every student one-on-one -- it is incumbent on the student to take the initiative and learn... even when the teacher isn't around! (Gasp!)
The second case is for work that takes a long time or does not benefit from a group setting. I'm thinking of homework like gathering material for a science project, constructing a display to show the class, or reading a book for later discussion. It's a waste of class time to have the students collectively bury their noses in a story, and the potential for distraction negates the benefit of grouping together for some kinds of work to begin with.
The time spent with a teacher can be better spent, especially if you're prepared to go through the material or have something interesting to contribute: a process that is insured by doing homework.
If you're in trouble, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team!
Or Knight Rider! Or Airwolf! Or the Dukes of Hazzard! Or M.A.N.T.I.S.!
Surely one of these roaming vigilante justicars will be willing to lend you a hand in times of trouble! Truth be told, they could probably use the work, too.
If the number of copyrighted works is virtually infinite, then there must logically be a finite improbability of finding that work.
Therefore, for any given copyrighted file, all you need to do is figure out exactly how improbable it is to find a torrent of it, feed that number into your torrent client, dunk your network cable into a nice hot cup of tea, and hit "go."
It's too bad the Brits didn't have a Slashdot-alike back in the day!
They'd probably have called it "Slashpoint" or "Slantdot" something, given the minor linguistic hurdles between the UK and America. But at least there'd be somewhere to gain karma by grousing.
Surely that problem exists on the provider's side, not the search engine's side? If I share a movie file with BitTorrent, is it BitTorrent's fault?
If I share a movie via FTP on my web server and Google's spiders find it and link to it, is it Google's fault that I've broken copyright law?
The protocol is irrelevent. (The constant game of cat and mouse, protocol-of-the-week antics confirms this.) Even the uses to which people *put* the protocol are irrelevent. What matters is that people are sharing materials to which they have no copyrights, not that they're using BitTorrent to do it.
BitTorrent doesn't share movies. People share movies.
Fine then. I don't need Rome telling me how to read the Blogible! I'm nailing my 99 most wanted Amazon wish list items to your door! With emoticon nails!
I wish I could teach it again -- it was my final project for my senior year. Now that I'm graduated, the class is but a memory. Perhaps one of the students will take it up for *their* senior project?
I called it "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon." I'm sure you can figure out the influences there... Coincidentally, the last day of the class was on opening day of the HGttG movie, which naturally begins with the destruction of the Earth. Synchronicity, you know?
A quick rundown of the reading list: Kingdom Come, Martian Chronicles, Childhood's End, Cat's Cradle, Canticle for Leibowitz, and of course Watchmen. We had plenty of academic articles to give some structure to how we read each of the texts.
It was an awesome experience. If I ever get the chance, I'll happily teach it again. Maybe open my own academy or something.:)
I had a Handspring Prism and a nice portable keyboard for a while. It worked really well.
The problem was that back then the connectors on the PDAs hadn't standardized. (Heck, I'm still not sure if they have or not.) So *every* model of PDA had its own special connector and form factor apart from the other models, even ones made by the same manufacturer. In my case that meant when my Prism died, my (then) $90 keyboard became a useless lump of plastic.
It's a pity. I called that rig my "laptop killer."
The Dana is nice, but I went for the Neo. When I decided I wanted a word processor, I realised that was *all* I wanted, and the Neo fits a treat. No PalmOS, no distracting "fun" apps to keep me from working, no fancy, no schmancy.
Just me, a keyboard, three alkaline batteries, and 4-8 lines of LCD text in a crappy front. BLISS.
I banged out my latest novel on it, reviews of my students, countless notes and God knows what else. Instant on/off. It looks like a keyboard to the USB port, so I don't have to carry my software around with my to sync to a computer - just type 'n' run.
I'm not a shill, but I'll rave on my Neo for hours at a time.
As I understand, only a big name like Alan Moore can get the kind of contracts where retention of ownership is even possible. At least, that's the case when dealing with big houses like DC/WB.
Back when Image first debuted their line of comics, they trumpeted how the creative elements actually got to keep their creations. Popular titles like Spawn, The Maxx, Gen13, and Witchblade soon followed. Made pretty good money, as I recall.
I think Image died recently though, didn't they? If not in name then in spirit? Gotta look that up. I'm not in the scene anymore...
Yes. It will appear on his annual performance review at Microsoft regional headquarters. It will also appear on the pink slip given to him later that week.
If he's clever, it will finally appear on his resume' when he applies for a new job with a funded OSS project...
So: when we say it's going to be a "how to" show, are we talking a show about how to understand computer technology, evaluate tech you're interested in, make your tech all work together happily, and get more out of life with your tech...... or how to close down your brain, open your wallet, and buy the swanky new shiny thing?
Slashdot Mirror
Can it synthesize meaning out of a collection of words appearing in context? Like, instead of writing "democracy" in the blog, could one simply write "a form of government based on popular vote?"
Or maybe go the 1984 route: everwhere you want to write the word "freedom" write "slavery" instead.
Well, to use letter transposition, you have to write with... um... letters.
I see what you're after though. Perhaps spamming techniques *is* a freedom of speech issue after all...
I like that projects like these are under active development and getting a lot of attention.
I have to ask, though, why require the download of yet *another* media application to use it?
Would it be possible to make a plugin of the protocol for gstreamer, WMP, or any of the already established multimedia players?
Why not just emulate one inside the other?
Guns don't record evidence.
Whether or not it's old news, the referred article is certainly *poorly reported news*. The conversational style is a little too "tee hee" for my tastes. I imagine a stereotypical ditz flipping her hair with a vacant smile as she writes the article. It makes me doubt that she's got her facts straight.
You either make an informed decision or gamble
Would that this was the modus operandi of the sellers as well...
When did the idea of risk become unacceptable to businesses? Why is it the customer who shoulders the burden of risking whether a product is any good or not?
10) Still profit. But not as much as you potentially could at this point.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda; potential doesn't count in a sale. It's still profit, more than they had before, and therefore worth pursuing because the benefits outweigh the expendatures.
Plus, limiting the scope of sale to one line doesn't make sense. By getting one's foot in the door of sales of a popular product (having come to it late) a business stands to become the source of *other* products in the same vein, and this time they can be first on the floor.
All this makes me wonder why there's even a gap between broadcasting a TV show and selling the DVD; they should really be released on the same day with the broadcast considered as an advertisement for the whole set. Stupid fucking studios.
I'd back you up here, but I don't subscribe to Slashdot, I adblock all the flash on the page, and don't allow popups.
Funny thing: once upon a time, everything on the Internet WAS free. Pay for access, sure, but once the pipe was open there was a whole world of academics, collaborators, hobbyists, and so on whose whole reason for being on the Internet was to share. Share! Amazing!
Commerical interests have no "this isn't how it should be" claim to stake. They're the Jonnys-come-lately online, and they *still* have to learn how to adjust.
(I only learned the following after two years in college following a lackluster academic career in public school.)
The idea behind homework is not simply to tie you to a desk for the happy hours of your mis-spent youth.
Homework ideally is assigned for two reasons: practice, and to do work that is inappropriate in the classroom.
The first case, practice, is for hammering into place skills that are complex but necessary for future skill development. For example, you memorize your multiplication tables so that you can do algebra quickly. And yeah, the only way to get it done is to do it over and over on your own time. Teachers don't have the time to go over every skill with every student one-on-one -- it is incumbent on the student to take the initiative and learn... even when the teacher isn't around! (Gasp!)
The second case is for work that takes a long time or does not benefit from a group setting. I'm thinking of homework like gathering material for a science project, constructing a display to show the class, or reading a book for later discussion. It's a waste of class time to have the students collectively bury their noses in a story, and the potential for distraction negates the benefit of grouping together for some kinds of work to begin with.
The time spent with a teacher can be better spent, especially if you're prepared to go through the material or have something interesting to contribute: a process that is insured by doing homework.
If you're in trouble, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team!
Or Knight Rider! Or Airwolf! Or the Dukes of Hazzard! Or M.A.N.T.I.S.!
Surely one of these roaming vigilante justicars will be willing to lend you a hand in times of trouble! Truth be told, they could probably use the work, too.
If the number of copyrighted works is virtually infinite, then there must logically be a finite improbability of finding that work.
Therefore, for any given copyrighted file, all you need to do is figure out exactly how improbable it is to find a torrent of it, feed that number into your torrent client, dunk your network cable into a nice hot cup of tea, and hit "go."
It's too bad the Brits didn't have a Slashdot-alike back in the day!
They'd probably have called it "Slashpoint" or "Slantdot" something, given the minor linguistic hurdles between the UK and America. But at least there'd be somewhere to gain karma by grousing.
Surely that problem exists on the provider's side, not the search engine's side? If I share a movie file with BitTorrent, is it BitTorrent's fault?
If I share a movie via FTP on my web server and Google's spiders find it and link to it, is it Google's fault that I've broken copyright law?
The protocol is irrelevent. (The constant game of cat and mouse, protocol-of-the-week antics confirms this.) Even the uses to which people *put* the protocol are irrelevent. What matters is that people are sharing materials to which they have no copyrights, not that they're using BitTorrent to do it.
BitTorrent doesn't share movies. People share movies.
Fine then. I don't need Rome telling me how to read the Blogible! I'm nailing my 99 most wanted Amazon wish list items to your door! With emoticon nails!
I wish I could teach it again -- it was my final project for my senior year. Now that I'm graduated, the class is but a memory. Perhaps one of the students will take it up for *their* senior project?
:)
I called it "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon." I'm sure you can figure out the influences there... Coincidentally, the last day of the class was on opening day of the HGttG movie, which naturally begins with the destruction of the Earth. Synchronicity, you know?
A quick rundown of the reading list: Kingdom Come, Martian Chronicles, Childhood's End, Cat's Cradle, Canticle for Leibowitz, and of course Watchmen. We had plenty of academic articles to give some structure to how we read each of the texts.
It was an awesome experience. If I ever get the chance, I'll happily teach it again. Maybe open my own academy or something.
I taught Watchmen as the grand finale to an honors college course on apocalyptic literature. The response was outstanding.
Little pictures of people in funny costumes do not an immature genre make. Not in Moore's case, not by a long shot.
I had a Handspring Prism and a nice portable keyboard for a while. It worked really well.
The problem was that back then the connectors on the PDAs hadn't standardized. (Heck, I'm still not sure if they have or not.) So *every* model of PDA had its own special connector and form factor apart from the other models, even ones made by the same manufacturer. In my case that meant when my Prism died, my (then) $90 keyboard became a useless lump of plastic.
It's a pity. I called that rig my "laptop killer."
The Dana is nice, but I went for the Neo. When I decided I wanted a word processor, I realised that was *all* I wanted, and the Neo fits a treat. No PalmOS, no distracting "fun" apps to keep me from working, no fancy, no schmancy.
Just me, a keyboard, three alkaline batteries, and 4-8 lines of LCD text in a crappy front. BLISS.
I banged out my latest novel on it, reviews of my students, countless notes and God knows what else. Instant on/off. It looks like a keyboard to the USB port, so I don't have to carry my software around with my to sync to a computer - just type 'n' run.
I'm not a shill, but I'll rave on my Neo for hours at a time.
Also, I type in bullet time.
As I understand, only a big name like Alan Moore can get the kind of contracts where retention of ownership is even possible. At least, that's the case when dealing with big houses like DC/WB.
Back when Image first debuted their line of comics, they trumpeted how the creative elements actually got to keep their creations. Popular titles like Spawn, The Maxx, Gen13, and Witchblade soon followed. Made pretty good money, as I recall.
I think Image died recently though, didn't they? If not in name then in spirit? Gotta look that up. I'm not in the scene anymore...
Yeah. We call it Red Hat.
Or IBM.
Or Suse.
Or...
Or SCO? Naaaaaw.
Yes. It will appear on his annual performance review at Microsoft regional headquarters. It will also appear on the pink slip given to him later that week.
If he's clever, it will finally appear on his resume' when he applies for a new job with a funded OSS project...
So: when we say it's going to be a "how to" show, are we talking a show about how to understand computer technology, evaluate tech you're interested in, make your tech all work together happily, and get more out of life with your tech... ... or how to close down your brain, open your wallet, and buy the swanky new shiny thing?
No fooling. Just curious.
Go Neuros!
/me is not a shill.