TV listing information is currently limited to the USA. If there is enough demand for listing information outside of North America, we can make DataDirect::TV data available to European users."
Come on guys! The USA is not North America. As a Canadian MythTv user I would definitely consider the service if offered here. Just don't tell me I'm actually in the US.
Actually I would expect exactly opposite from BBP numbers. The fact that the digits can be found independently seems to show that there is little to no relation of a digit to the digit before or after. And I don't think I'm alone. If you pick up "Mathematics by Experiment" by Bailey and Borwein (same Bailey from BBP but different Borwein - however he is related) there is a chapter on the normallity of numbers which discusses exactly this point.
Maybe it's just me but I don't get it. Where's the fun in paying with $2 bills? It seems the only reason to do that is you can force others into a conflict where you will be proven right in the end. I understand confronting people and then being proven right. But egging others into a conflict? That just seems wheeny.
Not only do I not get the humour but I get the outrage even less. Why do people get mad when they spend two dollar bills and the seller doesn't recognize it as legal tender. By very nature of the fact that the spender is going out of his way to get two dollar bills he has to recognize that they are rarely used and many don't know they exist. Don't you give up your right to be outraged by people questioning your actions when you've chosen actions just so that they would raise questions?
If you enjoy creating conflict with these kinds of stunts then fine. I mean I still don't get it but your fun doesn't seem to harm anyone. But if you're going to get angry when people respond to the bait that you are laying out for them then why do it? And I certainly don't think there's any reason to have empathy for you if you do get exactly the responce you were hoping for.
Is this where the browser and database are integrated?
clearly that was firebird
I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before
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Does anybody else think that the combination of torrent and emerge (or torrent and apt-get for that matter) would be a great match? I mean transfers are pretty quick already but this way the bandwidth loads from updates can be passed around with out a serious security risk. Bah I'm probably just being an idiot.
This doesn't actually make sense as a potential spamming medium. A spammer does what he does because he can reach so many eyes with so little effort. I mean he reaches cities worth of eyes. That effort to eyes ratio goes down the crapper when you have to take a few minutes to put your tag in each geographic location and then travel to the next one.
Your highly moderated reply saved my eyes... I literally already had the image open in a background tab but hadn't looked yet. Closed the whole browser just to be safe. You are my personal hero.
Yes showing games or robotic arms would definitely get the most interest but does it really expose anybody to anything? That would be like a baker bringing in cakes and cookies. It doesn't really reach out to any kids and makes them think "yeah I might like to cook."
How about this. Have a task that takes some thought to do but at the same time the procedure is straight forward once you've done it a few times. Like maybe taking a list of numbers and writing them out in order. Let kids do this. Let them race even. Then start asking them to explain the steps they were doing to sort the list and try to create the code that does that as they go (using nice long names for methods). Not all the kids will find this entertaining but that's perhaps not the point. There will definitely be some kids who are really excited by the idea that they can put ideas of how to do something into words and shapes. Bring some prepared methods that also work and you can use by hand. If you can come up with a method that looks like it should work but doesn't for what ever reason that would probably be really exciting. Being able to see a list ordered wrong but in a predictable way.
When the poll was released last week that 80%+ of Canadians were against the missle defense shield
What poll are you talking about? I have not seen any poll that has shown more than 55% of Canadians against missile defence. In Quebec I read a report that their numbers were as high as 70% against and Quebec was by and far much more against missile defence than the rest of the country. Can you quote something?
I see the point you're trying to make but you analogy has a serious problem. In your example the difference between Residence Fees and taxes seems to be artificial. The basic definition of both would be almost completely the same.
The point the grand parent was making that the difference between fees here are real. A late fee is a penalty that does not relieve the renter of the obligation to return the video. However the charge Blockbusters is chargeing after 30 days does relieve the renter the obligation to return the video.
On the other hand the $1.50 restocking fee after week could easily be defined as a late fee. The grand parent still has a significant point.
As stupid as it sounds I think it's a big deal because it's a big deal. There are some events that, for what ever reason, have the ability to pick up some momentum. And from there people wonder what is this thing with all this momentum. To be honest I almost believe this is rational. The quality of generating a lot of interest is interesting. Not because I want to become part of the crowd but I want to see what could gather such a crowd. I feel there is a distinction between this and jumping on the bandwagon but I don't know of an objective test to differentiate the two.
Too many people point to 1984 as an illustration of the insidiousness of totalitarianism
Most of us on reading 1984 come away a bit frightened. Not all of us realize why, but years after reading it, I realized that it was because nothing in the book was terribly difficult to imagine. People DO behave this way, and it's important for us to come to terms with that.
And I think this is the grand parents point. The fact that people DO behave this way is because Orwell chose behaviors that resemble real life. But that these behaviors can slide into totalianarism is Orwell's assertion. Orwell showed how these behaviors and comments could fit into a totalianarism society but he never actually shows that they lead to them. The point I'm trying to make is that Orwell specifically picked behaviors and comments that people would recognize. Taking behaviors that people took as innocuous and painting them into a situation where they weren't.
But what is someone trying to do when they quote 1984 and compare it to a statement a company or a government made? The quoter is taking the comment as evidence that the company resembles a totalitarian outfit.
So putting it all together the argument is circular. Orwell chooses well used comments that people took as innocuous and illustrated how a totalitarian outfit would use that comment. Someone else then alludes to 1984 and says if a company sounds similar then the company is more likely to be totalitarian.
It would be similar to a crime novelist who picks out traits for his murderer to be as average as possible. It is reasonable for the reader to conclude that a murderer can in fact appear average. It is not reasonable for the reader to conclude that an average looking person is more likely to be a murderer.
Orwell had an important point. He taught us that even governments making innocuous comments still need to be watched. But the quoter who links an organization to 1984 because they sound the same is not making a cogent argument. 1984 is designed to sound like everyone.
As an aside isn't making several orthogonal points a good thing? Sounds like a basis to a spanning argument to me (god I hate linear algebra jokes).
As it is, leechers are a significant problem for many torrent networks.
Are you certain that is true? It seems the protocol deals with the leacher situation pretty effectively already. I mean you just have to try bring in a bittorrented file with out the proper port forwarding to see how slow things move for leeches. The only other leech issue I can think of is people who close their client as soon as the transfer is over. But again the protocol deals with that. I would say my share rating is generally well over one when the file completes. Is there some data out there of how leechers are hurting torrent networks. As for NAT I 100% agree with you. I would love to see a next gen bt that deals with NAT's better
Reform IP law to stop M$ abuse? RIAA I understand but what is your complaint against microsoft that IP law would remedy. Are you bothered that you can't legally pirate windows or get it from a friend? I honestly didn't think this was a real complaint anymore. I mean there is a real alternative that does allow such things.
And I highly doubt companies are legally required to maximize profits. All sorts of companies have major charaties associated with them. Yes that lowers the tax burden but I'm pretty certain the Ronald Macdonald House costs more than it could possibly save or make in free advertising.
Every time I hear some proprietary advocate spouting about how you can't make money by giving things away, I'm going to respond with "IBM says you're wrong" until they shut up or go away.
To be fair IBM is not saying you can make money by giving things away. They're saying that if they give stuff away they can make more money. They're even hoping that by you giving stuff away they can make more money. But what holds for IBM doesn't necessarily hold for you too. I have no idea of your situation but maybe you should hear the advice from guys like your father-in-law instead of blindly dismissing everything he says. I'm not saying he's right but how will you know if you just keep repeating "IBM says you're wrong?"
I realize that there is a slashdot community that the editors are heavily reliant upon. However aren't you putting on false heirs by using the word we instead of you in respect to this decision?
By using we you are suggesting we all have a say on these decisions. We don't. These are the editors decisions. I have no complaint with observing and critisizing and even heckling. But in the end accept you don't have a vote. This may be considered our site but these are not our decisions.
It makes total sense to rate this post of mine as (-1, OffTopic)
I think the point is not that it's just easier but 15 lines impies that it is very easy in which case there might be an argument for making it legal. Your example happens to be the best example I can think of. What if crack could be made with a handful of household ingredients and the method was simple enough that an average person could not only implement it but think it up. Sure crack wouldn't become any less harmful but any law against would be a joke. It would be unenforcable since anyone could make it anytime they wanted in the privacy of their own homes.
Once something becomes that easy society needs to change its focus to how to integrate it in the least harmful way. In that world crack would become a fact of life. In this world p2p programs are.
I checked earlier today and my first few searches turned up nothing. And these weren't super obscure searches. Normal stuff like the proclaimers and nofx. My buddy - the music elitist - thought it was great because when he tried to test it with hip obscure stuff a lot of it was there; including some indie Victoria bands. So what's going on... is there a big push to get the block busters on there and the really obscure stuff. And those of us in the middle are left in the cold?
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"Is LxMSuite available outside the USA?
TV listing information is currently limited to the USA. If there is enough demand for listing information outside of North America, we can make DataDirect::TV data available to European users."
Come on guys! The USA is not North America. As a Canadian MythTv user I would definitely consider the service if offered here. Just don't tell me I'm actually in the US.
Good thing fox cancelled Firefly. There's clearly no public interest in that franchise.
Parent should be modded up. The statement that there is no OO.o for the mac just isn't true... it's just called open office.
You are aware that star trek isn't real right? Not like Babylon 5.
Actually I would expect exactly opposite from BBP numbers. The fact that the digits can be found independently seems to show that there is little to no relation of a digit to the digit before or after. And I don't think I'm alone. If you pick up "Mathematics by Experiment" by Bailey and Borwein (same Bailey from BBP but different Borwein - however he is related) there is a chapter on the normallity of numbers which discusses exactly this point.
Maybe it's just me but I don't get it. Where's the fun in paying with $2 bills? It seems the only reason to do that is you can force others into a conflict where you will be proven right in the end. I understand confronting people and then being proven right. But egging others into a conflict? That just seems wheeny.
Not only do I not get the humour but I get the outrage even less. Why do people get mad when they spend two dollar bills and the seller doesn't recognize it as legal tender. By very nature of the fact that the spender is going out of his way to get two dollar bills he has to recognize that they are rarely used and many don't know they exist. Don't you give up your right to be outraged by people questioning your actions when you've chosen actions just so that they would raise questions?
If you enjoy creating conflict with these kinds of stunts then fine. I mean I still don't get it but your fun doesn't seem to harm anyone. But if you're going to get angry when people respond to the bait that you are laying out for them then why do it? And I certainly don't think there's any reason to have empathy for you if you do get exactly the responce you were hoping for.
I hope the take the history of Mathworld as a warning as what can happen in the publishing world.
Is this where the browser and database are integrated?
clearly that was firebird
Does anybody else think that the combination of torrent and emerge (or torrent and apt-get for that matter) would be a great match? I mean transfers are pretty quick already but this way the bandwidth loads from updates can be passed around with out a serious security risk. Bah I'm probably just being an idiot.
This doesn't actually make sense as a potential spamming medium. A spammer does what he does because he can reach so many eyes with so little effort. I mean he reaches cities worth of eyes. That effort to eyes ratio goes down the crapper when you have to take a few minutes to put your tag in each geographic location and then travel to the next one.
I don't know... White blood cells that believe in homeopathy? They sound pretty stupid to me.
Your highly moderated reply saved my eyes... I literally already had the image open in a background tab but hadn't looked yet. Closed the whole browser just to be safe. You are my personal hero.
Yes showing games or robotic arms would definitely get the most interest but does it really expose anybody to anything? That would be like a baker bringing in cakes and cookies. It doesn't really reach out to any kids and makes them think "yeah I might like to cook."
How about this. Have a task that takes some thought to do but at the same time the procedure is straight forward once you've done it a few times. Like maybe taking a list of numbers and writing them out in order. Let kids do this. Let them race even. Then start asking them to explain the steps they were doing to sort the list and try to create the code that does that as they go (using nice long names for methods). Not all the kids will find this entertaining but that's perhaps not the point. There will definitely be some kids who are really excited by the idea that they can put ideas of how to do something into words and shapes. Bring some prepared methods that also work and you can use by hand. If you can come up with a method that looks like it should work but doesn't for what ever reason that would probably be really exciting. Being able to see a list ordered wrong but in a predictable way.
When the poll was released last week that 80%+ of Canadians were against the missle defense shield
What poll are you talking about? I have not seen any poll that has shown more than 55% of Canadians against missile defence. In Quebec I read a report that their numbers were as high as 70% against and Quebec was by and far much more against missile defence than the rest of the country. Can you quote something?
Can someone explain the relevance of the link to imdb?
Get the point?
I see the point you're trying to make but you analogy has a serious problem. In your example the difference between Residence Fees and taxes seems to be artificial. The basic definition of both would be almost completely the same.
The point the grand parent was making that the difference between fees here are real. A late fee is a penalty that does not relieve the renter of the obligation to return the video. However the charge Blockbusters is chargeing after 30 days does relieve the renter the obligation to return the video.
On the other hand the $1.50 restocking fee after week could easily be defined as a late fee. The grand parent still has a significant point.
As stupid as it sounds I think it's a big deal because it's a big deal. There are some events that, for what ever reason, have the ability to pick up some momentum. And from there people wonder what is this thing with all this momentum. To be honest I almost believe this is rational. The quality of generating a lot of interest is interesting. Not because I want to become part of the crowd but I want to see what could gather such a crowd. I feel there is a distinction between this and jumping on the bandwagon but I don't know of an objective test to differentiate the two.
Too many people point to 1984 as an illustration of the insidiousness of totalitarianism
Most of us on reading 1984 come away a bit frightened. Not all of us realize why, but years after reading it, I realized that it was because nothing in the book was terribly difficult to imagine. People DO behave this way, and it's important for us to come to terms with that.
And I think this is the grand parents point. The fact that people DO behave this way is because Orwell chose behaviors that resemble real life. But that these behaviors can slide into totalianarism is Orwell's assertion. Orwell showed how these behaviors and comments could fit into a totalianarism society but he never actually shows that they lead to them. The point I'm trying to make is that Orwell specifically picked behaviors and comments that people would recognize. Taking behaviors that people took as innocuous and painting them into a situation where they weren't.
But what is someone trying to do when they quote 1984 and compare it to a statement a company or a government made? The quoter is taking the comment as evidence that the company resembles a totalitarian outfit.
So putting it all together the argument is circular. Orwell chooses well used comments that people took as innocuous and illustrated how a totalitarian outfit would use that comment. Someone else then alludes to 1984 and says if a company sounds similar then the company is more likely to be totalitarian.
It would be similar to a crime novelist who picks out traits for his murderer to be as average as possible. It is reasonable for the reader to conclude that a murderer can in fact appear average. It is not reasonable for the reader to conclude that an average looking person is more likely to be a murderer.
Orwell had an important point. He taught us that even governments making innocuous comments still need to be watched. But the quoter who links an organization to 1984 because they sound the same is not making a cogent argument. 1984 is designed to sound like everyone.
As an aside isn't making several orthogonal points a good thing? Sounds like a basis to a spanning argument to me (god I hate linear algebra jokes).
You sir are a nut
As it is, leechers are a significant problem for many torrent networks.
Are you certain that is true? It seems the protocol deals with the leacher situation pretty effectively already. I mean you just have to try bring in a bittorrented file with out the proper port forwarding to see how slow things move for leeches. The only other leech issue I can think of is people who close their client as soon as the transfer is over. But again the protocol deals with that. I would say my share rating is generally well over one when the file completes. Is there some data out there of how leechers are hurting torrent networks. As for NAT I 100% agree with you. I would love to see a next gen bt that deals with NAT's better
Reform IP law to stop M$ abuse? RIAA I understand but what is your complaint against microsoft that IP law would remedy. Are you bothered that you can't legally pirate windows or get it from a friend? I honestly didn't think this was a real complaint anymore. I mean there is a real alternative that does allow such things.
And I highly doubt companies are legally required to maximize profits. All sorts of companies have major charaties associated with them. Yes that lowers the tax burden but I'm pretty certain the Ronald Macdonald House costs more than it could possibly save or make in free advertising.
Every time I hear some proprietary advocate spouting about how you can't make money by giving things away, I'm going to respond with "IBM says you're wrong" until they shut up or go away.
To be fair IBM is not saying you can make money by giving things away. They're saying that if they give stuff away they can make more money. They're even hoping that by you giving stuff away they can make more money. But what holds for IBM doesn't necessarily hold for you too. I have no idea of your situation but maybe you should hear the advice from guys like your father-in-law instead of blindly dismissing everything he says. I'm not saying he's right but how will you know if you just keep repeating "IBM says you're wrong?"
can we just spell it as it is for once
I realize that there is a slashdot community that the editors are heavily reliant upon. However aren't you putting on false heirs by using the word we instead of you in respect to this decision?
By using we you are suggesting we all have a say on these decisions. We don't. These are the editors decisions. I have no complaint with observing and critisizing and even heckling. But in the end accept you don't have a vote. This may be considered our site but these are not our decisions.
It makes total sense to rate this post of mine as (-1, OffTopic)
I think the point is not that it's just easier but 15 lines impies that it is very easy in which case there might be an argument for making it legal. Your example happens to be the best example I can think of. What if crack could be made with a handful of household ingredients and the method was simple enough that an average person could not only implement it but think it up. Sure crack wouldn't become any less harmful but any law against would be a joke. It would be unenforcable since anyone could make it anytime they wanted in the privacy of their own homes.
Once something becomes that easy society needs to change its focus to how to integrate it in the least harmful way. In that world crack would become a fact of life. In this world p2p programs are.
I checked earlier today and my first few searches turned up nothing. And these weren't super obscure searches. Normal stuff like the proclaimers and nofx. My buddy - the music elitist - thought it was great because when he tried to test it with hip obscure stuff a lot of it was there; including some indie Victoria bands. So what's going on... is there a big push to get the block busters on there and the really obscure stuff. And those of us in the middle are left in the cold?