He paraphrases and regurgitates large quantities of articles onto his blog and tries to get them linked to slashdot to increase his advertising revenue.
He doesn't actually add anything to the stories, merely acts as a middle man to siphon off some of the ad revenue.
Thus, people are bothered because slashdot links to him when they could link directly to the primary source with no more effort.
I think the most likely speciator is distribution between gravity wells.
Once you realize how incredibly hard it is to get across a 1g (or even.38g for mars) gravity well, if you assume that there are going to be three different groups of people, I don't think speciation is out of the question.
The three groups that I would hypothesize are:
"down here"
stuck on the surface in a gravity well of some magnitude and size great enough to be inconvienient, I'd say maybe a Moon-like body or larger
"hanging around"
microgravity environments close enough to a massive body to profit from it, but not be tied to it (orbital earth, mars, venus)
"out there"
Distant colonies, 5+ AU, (asteroids, neptune/saturn, kuiper belt) where the sheer distance of transit becomes a barrier
Nice, he says "when they break the law" so you say "Sometimes they aren't breaking the law"
I think it's pretty clear that he's discussing the times when there aren't special provisions built into the law.
In general, the police must obey the laws much as a normal citizen would. Their exceptional powers are pretty sharply defined and limited, unlike COPS and the police force would like you to believe.
Actually, with the state of modern criminal code, there's no possible way for someone to avoid breaking the law. In many cases, there are multiple contradictory laws that are simply not enforced unless the police want to arrest you.
(see also laws prohibiting sex offenders from living within X feet of a school, bus stop, playground, day care center etc. In one case in Georgia, they made the entire county terra non grata for sex offenders by this method)
Read the grandparent again. Asprin is a drug that acts very similarly to NSAIDs, which he SPECIFICALLY disclaimed
Marijuana is a non sequitur, he's talking about central nervous system analgesics.
Try that one again, this time, with reading comprehension.
For reference: Asprin: peripheral analgesic Heroin: central analgesic Ibuprofen: peripheral analgesic Oxycodone: central analgesic.
See a pattern here? pethidine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, diamorphine, fentanyl, basically anything that is inhibited by a mu antagonist is going to get you addicted if you take it long enough.
When I must show off my hairy manbreasts to all the hot ladies on the internet, I choose Windows Media Encoder.
Multi-bitrate streams are very useful, since then you can pump out three or four different rates, depending on who all is watching, and what your upstream is.
Also, realize that no video is going to look terribly great on a cable modem, as some have uploads as low as 128kbit. Even 'moderate' at 512mbit isn't going to be that great once you split it two ways.
...that we have observed. The key answer is, that we have observed.
The radius of observation of these kinds of things is substantially smaller than infinite. Especially when you consider that earlier periods had a lower capability of observation.
So, really, we're talking about a fairly finite range of space and time in which supernovas would have to occur for them to be human-observable.
Factor in the density of media: you can fairly well assimilate a 2mb photo in a second or two.
High-definition video is similarly large, at least 14MB/second
Textual data, even at very high rates of speed, is only going to average maybe 5kb/s IF you include side channels like font, size, weight, italics, etc
For most people, assimilating plain ascii at rates greater than 5kb/min would be very hard.
The worst part was, in her class, there was no way to determine if people were cheating (many did, trust me), as she was requesting picture-perfect source and output.
In other words, if you added a linebreak, that was zero credit. Basically, before every class we all ran a unified diff of our assignments and if there were any differences, we reconciled them.
Madness. And this is in a 200-level class that ostensibly teaches design and higher thinking (on oracle, no less), not the 100-level Access-for-dummies course.
My point is, in a class about database design, queries, and optimization, give us a dataset and let us create a database and query it ourselves.
She had us do everything verbatim from the book, down to the variable names.
It's not like the times tables where innovation is a bad thing. It's more like a higher math course, where proofs can and do differ, and you should recieve more credit based on the elegance of your answers, as well as their correctness.
I had a database class that the teacher wanted picture perfect examples as homework. In other words, "Write this query, have it print out the output, and hand in a screenshot with your query"
I tried to explain that if it was in the book, then someone already knew how to do it, and therefore my time was being wasted, but unfortunately, that didn't go over so well.
Now, I have no degree, but I do have a fairly decent job NOT reinventing the wheel.
There's a reason creative commons was created, and that's because BSD and other software licenses don't work for music, stories, video, and other non-code media.
For example, most songs you can buy the tablature and lyrics (source), or even get them in the liner notes. And for stories, well, the only compiler is the one that resides in your brain.
Proper way to say it would be "citizens of the USA" or "United States Citizens" or even (longwindedly) "natural citizens of the United States of America"
Perhaps simplifying it to 'US citizens' is best, as really, the USA is composed of several cultures intermeshed in a single country (try introducing someone from rural west virginia to someone from Los Angeles County. Statistically speaking, odds are 50/50 they don't speak the same native language)
Slashdot Mirror
Just think what a fantastic way to die that would be. You'd get all kinds of notoriety.
He paraphrases and regurgitates large quantities of articles onto his blog and tries to get them linked to slashdot to increase his advertising revenue.
He doesn't actually add anything to the stories, merely acts as a middle man to siphon off some of the ad revenue.
Thus, people are bothered because slashdot links to him when they could link directly to the primary source with no more effort.
I think the most likely speciator is distribution between gravity wells.
.38g for mars) gravity well, if you assume that there are going to be three different groups of people, I don't think speciation is out of the question.
Once you realize how incredibly hard it is to get across a 1g (or even
The three groups that I would hypothesize are:
"down here" stuck on the surface in a gravity well of some magnitude and size great enough to be inconvienient, I'd say maybe a Moon-like body or larger "hanging around" microgravity environments close enough to a massive body to profit from it, but not be tied to it (orbital earth, mars, venus) "out there" Distant colonies, 5+ AU, (asteroids, neptune/saturn, kuiper belt) where the sheer distance of transit becomes a barrier
Man, imagine how simple-minded and yet weak superhuman an AI that ran solely on GPUs would be?
"I can think of many, many things at once. As long as they are the same type of thing."
It evolves, which is even more amusing to me.
Nice, he says "when they break the law" so you say "Sometimes they aren't breaking the law"
I think it's pretty clear that he's discussing the times when there aren't special provisions built into the law.
In general, the police must obey the laws much as a normal citizen would. Their exceptional powers are pretty sharply defined and limited, unlike COPS and the police force would like you to believe.
Actually, with the state of modern criminal code, there's no possible way for someone to avoid breaking the law. In many cases, there are multiple contradictory laws that are simply not enforced unless the police want to arrest you.
(see also laws prohibiting sex offenders from living within X feet of a school, bus stop, playground, day care center etc. In one case in Georgia, they made the entire county terra non grata for sex offenders by this method)
Read the grandparent again. Asprin is a drug that acts very similarly to NSAIDs, which he SPECIFICALLY disclaimed
Marijuana is a non sequitur, he's talking about central nervous system analgesics.
Try that one again, this time, with reading comprehension.
For reference:
Asprin: peripheral analgesic
Heroin: central analgesic
Ibuprofen: peripheral analgesic
Oxycodone: central analgesic.
See a pattern here? pethidine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, diamorphine, fentanyl, basically anything that is inhibited by a mu antagonist is going to get you addicted if you take it long enough.
Well, the answer is, good enough to see her... face? yeah... face... that's what we're looking at... /me looks around nervously
The internet is for porn! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iAWst1zXkM
When I must show off my hairy manbreasts to all the hot ladies on the internet, I choose Windows Media Encoder.
Multi-bitrate streams are very useful, since then you can pump out three or four different rates, depending on who all is watching, and what your upstream is.
Also, realize that no video is going to look terribly great on a cable modem, as some have uploads as low as 128kbit. Even 'moderate' at 512mbit isn't going to be that great once you split it two ways.
woe betide the forgetful, who end up chaining multiple email accounts together in order to remember one password.
...
...
"Damn, what was my hotmail password?"
"Damn, what was my Yahoo password?"
"Damn, what was my Gmail password?"
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
...that we have observed. The key answer is, that we have observed.
The radius of observation of these kinds of things is substantially smaller than infinite. Especially when you consider that earlier periods had a lower capability of observation.
So, really, we're talking about a fairly finite range of space and time in which supernovas would have to occur for them to be human-observable.
Factor in the density of media: you can fairly well assimilate a 2mb photo in a second or two.
High-definition video is similarly large, at least 14MB/second
Textual data, even at very high rates of speed, is only going to average maybe 5kb/s IF you include side channels like font, size, weight, italics, etc
For most people, assimilating plain ascii at rates greater than 5kb/min would be very hard.
The problem, in general, is that often the need for an application is immediate, while maintenance is a later problem.
In otherwords, the future value of 'doing it right' is lower than the immediate value of 'damn the torpedoes' and getting it done. (unfortunately)
Mmm, pocky
That doesn't help, you need to post the coral link to the movies themselves. Coral isn't a rewriting cache/proxy.
m ovie/testflight060526_1.movm ovie/testflight060526_p.movm ovie/fly_01web.avim ovie/fly_02web.movm ovie/pilot_cam_web.movm ovie/howtomakeM01.movm ovie/expo.movm ovie/M-01_test.movm ovie/moewe1_2test02.mov
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
http://www.petworks.co.jp.nyud.net:8090/~hachiya/
Fuel density:
Kerosene (Diesel fuel): 11,000 watt-hours per liter, 13,000 watt-hours per kg
Typical ultralight engine: 30,000 watts
Assuming you are running at full throttle all the time (fairly unlikely):
a 10 liter tank will last you 3-odd hours and weigh right around 12 kg. Most ultralights have a fuel capacity between 8 and 35 liters.
Does the math work out better for you now?
The worst part was, in her class, there was no way to determine if people were cheating (many did, trust me), as she was requesting picture-perfect source and output.
In other words, if you added a linebreak, that was zero credit. Basically, before every class we all ran a unified diff of our assignments and if there were any differences, we reconciled them.
Madness. And this is in a 200-level class that ostensibly teaches design and higher thinking (on oracle, no less), not the 100-level Access-for-dummies course.
My point is, in a class about database design, queries, and optimization, give us a dataset and let us create a database and query it ourselves.
She had us do everything verbatim from the book, down to the variable names.
It's not like the times tables where innovation is a bad thing. It's more like a higher math course, where proofs can and do differ, and you should recieve more credit based on the elegance of your answers, as well as their correctness.
God, I wish teachers understood that.
I had a database class that the teacher wanted picture perfect examples as homework. In other words, "Write this query, have it print out the output, and hand in a screenshot with your query"
I tried to explain that if it was in the book, then someone already knew how to do it, and therefore my time was being wasted, but unfortunately, that didn't go over so well.
Now, I have no degree, but I do have a fairly decent job NOT reinventing the wheel.
There's a reason creative commons was created, and that's because BSD and other software licenses don't work for music, stories, video, and other non-code media.
For example, most songs you can buy the tablature and lyrics (source), or even get them in the liner notes. And for stories, well, the only compiler is the one that resides in your brain.
Proper way to say it would be "citizens of the USA" or "United States Citizens" or even (longwindedly) "natural citizens of the United States of America"
Perhaps simplifying it to 'US citizens' is best, as really, the USA is composed of several cultures intermeshed in a single country (try introducing someone from rural west virginia to someone from Los Angeles County. Statistically speaking, odds are 50/50 they don't speak the same native language)
Jump the gap, in my experience.
You're assuming I'm plugging it into mains. I'm thinking three-phase, myself.
Etherkillers.
/me runs away