I hope you aren't saying that being falsifiable is the same as being demonstrated to be false; because that isn't true. Falsifiable is a concept coined by Karl Popper and it doesn't mean that a statement is false. It means that a statement has to "expose itself to disproof." Only if a hypothesis or theory is falsifiable can it be considered truly scientific.
In other words when a knowledgeable reader sees a hypothesis or theory he must be able to envision evidence that would disprove said theory - otherwise the theory is not scientific. For example if my theory is "all foo's are bar" a knowledgeable reader can realized all she needs to find is a single foo that isn't bar. So that statement is falsifiable. But if my theory states "all people are controlled by little green men (LGMs) that live inside their heads and the LGMs disappear the moment they could be observed" then it is not falsifiable. No matter what evidence a reader envisions (ie. I cut open a head and find no LGM) I can always show that this evidence doesn't out right contradict my theory (ie Well the LGM disappeared moments before you cut open the head).
Maybe I'm being naive and everybody is already clear on what falsifiable actually means. It should be understood that falsifiable statements can be true. And non-falsifiable statements can be false.
As I understand it, it is none of those things... but it can facilitate those things. What it is is kind of a different paradigm for the internet. At the moment with the internet I type in an address and I get data from the person who has registered that address - if he has the bandwidth. I know who is sending the info and who posted it. And if that person has spare bandwidth or is being/.'ed and needs more bandwidth, well that's just tough. With freenet I put info on freenet that is connected to some sort of name (I don't fully get how that works). Then freenet somehow determines where to actually store that data, in parts, depending on demand and who running freenet has bandwidth; ie what freenet clients to store parts of the file. Then if somebody is running freenet they can run some 3rd party freenet client (or any normal internet client I think) and enter 127.0.0.1:8888 followed by the name of the link. This queries freenet (that is running on your computer) and figures out where that data is stored and the most efficient way to retrieve it. One of the interesting things is nobody knows what data is being stored on there computer so nobody can feel guilty for that info. Of course that cuts both ways. You may feel guilty for every bit of naughty data spread by freenet because it may have come from your computer.
If I'm wrong anywhere please correct. Or if I'm right but kind of shaky please reassure me. Hope this helps
A few tips for those trying to get this up
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the package appears to not be gzipped (despite the suffix). Hence use tar -xf freenet-0.5.0.tgz. Also the shell scripts in the package don't have the proper executable attributes set so that also needs to be modified. After that just follow the instructions:)
When you by the Hip album "In Violet Light" you get membership to The Hip Club. Membership includes things like free bonus tracks of unreleased and live material, exclusive merchandise only available to THC members, first in line ticket access to select shows... Sounds like more new ground being broken by Canadians and credit being given to Americans.
So what do you think of global thermal nuclear war then?
Re:Where, exactly, is modding prohibited?
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XBox Linux HOWTOs
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When you buy something, you *own* it, and can do whatever the hell you want with/to it.
hey you didn't rip the tag off your mattress did you?
This project is more difficult than it appears
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Speech For The Deaf
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Upon first look these 95% does not seem that impressive. 1 in 20 words wrong or every third sentence gives across the wrong meaning. This would not be useful for effective communication.
But to give proper credit to the reseachers, understanding signs is very difficult: atleast, if not more, difficult than comprehending speach. Signs are not just a shape of the hand. Words and phrases are distinguished by differences in shape, location, and motion. Plus there are other subtle differences that usually cannot be picked upon by non-signers. Much in the same way there are subtle differences that speakers can pick up between similar sounding words but cannot hear with out the context of language.
The only reason that speakers are able to comprehand speach in real time is because they have an area of the speciallized for comprehension. Without this area - known as Wernicke's area - the mind is simply not quick enough to understand speach as quickly and fluently as it does. This is why, despite a computer's much faster processing ability, it is unable to comprehend speach as well as we do.
The amazing thing about Wernicke's Area is that in the case of signers it is able to leap from auditory comprehension to visual comprehension. So all the power that goes into speach comprehension is also used in signing comprehension. In this respect a computer picking up 95% is an impressive accomplishment.
This is an easy question to answer
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Napster Not To Blame
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To find out if filesharing has had an effect on music sharing one only needs to look at the success of a different product that shares many characteristics with cds: for example MTV and concert tickets. If cd sales have dropped because consumers have lost interest in the music then we should see a similar decline in concert ticket sales and MTV ratings.
I have neither these numbers available to me nor the interest to properly evaluate them (properly meaning statisticly... not just scanning them with the naked eye.) But the numbers are there and any interested party could resolve this.
If concert ticket sales have declined it would be very difficult for the industry to say that this is the fault of filesharing. But at the same time if it is found that Britney Spears concerts are still selling out then it is also very hard for consumers to say there is less interest in listening to her.
Perhaps by stating their claims so heavily, both sides have too much to lose if they are found to be wrong.
In order for addition of a digits-reversed number to yield a palindrome, there must be no carries in the addition and hence each pair of digits must sum to 9 or less.
This is an assertion from
John Walker's Three Years Of Computing. Several other sites reference this statement and it appears to be over generalized. Certainly for any addition of this form the sum is a palindrome but not all digit-reversed sums that are palindromes are of this form. For example conside 74 + 47 = 121 or
7744 + 4477 =12221
These are only a few counter examples. There may be some general rule on how to generate all such numbers.
I hope this statement isn't fundemental in any greater works.
Numbers that resolve into the series also have the same characteristic... for example
295 + 592 = 887
394 + 493 = 887
689 + 986 = 1675
Prove it for 196 and all these numbers fall with it.
I just did a little checking and found out that in fact it is only your cd-rom that keeps the cd stationary. From what I can tell the rest of us seem to be rotating around it.
I don't think they're argument is one of "deserve" or "justice" or "rightiousness." What they are saying is that, at a purely pragmatic level, it is in everybodies best interest to keep the code from being released. This is an argument that the courts often do take into consideration.
major accomplishment left out of the write up
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RIP: Stephen Jay Gould
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I can't remember Gould with out also remembering his guest appearance on the Simpsons, in "Lisa The Skeptic." oh and I guess he wrote a book or two as well.
If I build a tree house on my property that is unsafe and someone tresspasses and uses this tree house (which I haven't even said he could use) and gets hurt then I am potentially liable both crimally and civilly. It's called an attractive nuiscence.
I didn't charge anybody anything... I didn't even give permission for it to happen. Yet I am still at fault.
Just because I don't profit off of a transaction doesn't give me a right to put somebody at risk - financially or physically - unless perhaps I am completely forth right; and even then often not. And simply saying "Well, at your own risk," is not completely forth right, not even close.
The only different with purchasing the product is that the legal agreement is explicit. And in an explicit agreement risk can be accepted by the customer. But in the implicit agreement it is assumed that risk is accepted only if it obvious.Otherwise you're buying the right not to be put in a dangerous situation. Which u can't buy because u fundamentally own this as a citizen.
As for the suggestion that there can't be a law suit because there is no company - I think it is pretty clear in the american litigation system there are no lack of defendants.
I checked out those rules and they appear incomplete. What about the fact that Gravity needs to be fueled by the falling object and if the falling object does not have the required level of fuel to continue to fall the decent will stop.
This was clearly shown by Prof Bunny's experiment of the rapidly decending rocket ship.
have u tried turning using_dma on with hdparm on/dev/cdrom? Common mistake and fixed everything up with me... also are u using cvs or some version... cvs mplayer is very stable and tends to fix these bugs
Despite what other replies are saying this ruling is not a step to out law these games. In your post you refered to a law that requires parental consent before buying Mature video games. The video game industry was trying to get this law thrown out as being unconstitutional. The only judgement made was to maintain the law that already exists.
Since this clie comes only with the usb cradle I'm curious how well it'll work with linux. Has anybody experimented the the usb support in pilot-link. Is it stable? What about getting mp3s on? Does anybody out there know?
The lower cost machines are what is going to make money. Something that I believe Apple is still desprately in need of.
Exactly what aapl are you looking at. Apple may not hold the record for market share but when it comes to making a profit Apple holds her own. One of the great things about Apple is they have so much in the bank that they can afford to take a risk here and there. The reason the price went up: their research suggests people will pay more. This is not a desperate act. And I doubt anybody in the market will interpret this as a desperate act either.
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and is intimidated enough to change the name of WinAmp. Seems like rough just for the whole FreeAmp -> Zinf event
I hope you aren't saying that being falsifiable is the same as being demonstrated to be false; because that isn't true. Falsifiable is a concept coined by Karl Popper and it doesn't mean that a statement is false. It means that a statement has to "expose itself to disproof." Only if a hypothesis or theory is falsifiable can it be considered truly scientific.
In other words when a knowledgeable reader sees a hypothesis or theory he must be able to envision evidence that would disprove said theory - otherwise the theory is not scientific. For example if my theory is "all foo's are bar" a knowledgeable reader can realized all she needs to find is a single foo that isn't bar. So that statement is falsifiable. But if my theory states "all people are controlled by little green men (LGMs) that live inside their heads and the LGMs disappear the moment they could be observed" then it is not falsifiable. No matter what evidence a reader envisions (ie. I cut open a head and find no LGM) I can always show that this evidence doesn't out right contradict my theory (ie Well the LGM disappeared moments before you cut open the head).
Maybe I'm being naive and everybody is already clear on what falsifiable actually means. It should be understood that falsifiable statements can be true. And non-falsifiable statements can be false.
Yeah.... but what is it? P2P? Blogger? Messenger?
/.'ed and needs more bandwidth, well that's just tough. With freenet I put info on freenet that is connected to some sort of name (I don't fully get how that works). Then freenet somehow determines where to actually store that data, in parts, depending on demand and who running freenet has bandwidth; ie what freenet clients to store parts of the file. Then if somebody is running freenet they can run some 3rd party freenet client (or any normal internet client I think) and enter 127.0.0.1:8888 followed by the name of the link. This queries freenet (that is running on your computer) and figures out where that data is stored and the most efficient way to retrieve it. One of the interesting things is nobody knows what data is being stored on there computer so nobody can feel guilty for that info. Of course that cuts both ways. You may feel guilty for every bit of naughty data spread by freenet because it may have come from your computer.
As I understand it, it is none of those things... but it can facilitate those things. What it is is kind of a different paradigm for the internet. At the moment with the internet I type in an address and I get data from the person who has registered that address - if he has the bandwidth. I know who is sending the info and who posted it. And if that person has spare bandwidth or is being
If I'm wrong anywhere please correct. Or if I'm right but kind of shaky please reassure me. Hope this helps
the package appears to not be gzipped (despite the suffix). Hence use tar -xf freenet-0.5.0.tgz. Also the shell scripts in the package don't have the proper executable attributes set so that also needs to be modified. After that just follow the instructions :)
I wasn't sure how to take this message...
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Hello, would you like to get laid? Call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx
alas, now that I know it's spam.. my hopes have been crushed...
Of course I meant it. But you never called
When you by the Hip album "In Violet Light" you get membership to The Hip Club. Membership includes things like free bonus tracks of unreleased and live material, exclusive merchandise only available to THC members, first in line ticket access to select shows... Sounds like more new ground being broken by Canadians and credit being given to Americans.
So what do you think of global thermal nuclear war then?
When you buy something, you *own* it, and can do whatever the hell you want with/to it.
hey you didn't rip the tag off your mattress did you?
Upon first look these 95% does not seem that impressive. 1 in 20 words wrong or every third sentence gives across the wrong meaning. This would not be useful for effective communication.
But to give proper credit to the reseachers, understanding signs is very difficult: atleast, if not more, difficult than comprehending speach. Signs are not just a shape of the hand. Words and phrases are distinguished by differences in shape, location, and motion. Plus there are other subtle differences that usually cannot be picked upon by non-signers. Much in the same way there are subtle differences that speakers can pick up between similar sounding words but cannot hear with out the context of language.
The only reason that speakers are able to comprehand speach in real time is because they have an area of the speciallized for comprehension. Without this area - known as Wernicke's area - the mind is simply not quick enough to understand speach as quickly and fluently as it does. This is why, despite a computer's much faster processing ability, it is unable to comprehend speach as well as we do.
The amazing thing about Wernicke's Area is that in the case of signers it is able to leap from auditory comprehension to visual comprehension. So all the power that goes into speach comprehension is also used in signing comprehension. In this respect a computer picking up 95% is an impressive accomplishment.
To find out if filesharing has had an effect on music sharing one only needs to look at the success of a different product that shares many characteristics with cds: for example MTV and concert tickets. If cd sales have dropped because consumers have lost interest in the music then we should see a similar decline in concert ticket sales and MTV ratings.
I have neither these numbers available to me nor the interest to properly evaluate them (properly meaning statisticly... not just scanning them with the naked eye.) But the numbers are there and any interested party could resolve this.
If concert ticket sales have declined it would be very difficult for the industry to say that this is the fault of filesharing. But at the same time if it is found that Britney Spears concerts are still selling out then it is also very hard for consumers to say there is less interest in listening to her.
Perhaps by stating their claims so heavily, both sides have too much to lose if they are found to be wrong.
In order for addition of a digits-reversed number to yield a palindrome, there must be no carries in the addition and hence each pair of digits must sum to 9 or less.
This is an assertion from John Walker's Three Years Of Computing . Several other sites reference this statement and it appears to be over generalized. Certainly for any addition of this form the sum is a palindrome but not all digit-reversed sums that are palindromes are of this form. For example conside
74 + 47 = 121
or
7744 + 4477 =12221
These are only a few counter examples. There may be some general rule on how to generate all such numbers.
I hope this statement isn't fundemental in any greater works.
Numbers that resolve into the series also have the same characteristic... for example 295 + 592 = 887 394 + 493 = 887 689 + 986 = 1675 Prove it for 196 and all these numbers fall with it.
I just did a little checking and found out that in fact it is only your cd-rom that keeps the cd stationary. From what I can tell the rest of us seem to be rotating around it.
I don't think they're argument is one of "deserve" or "justice" or "rightiousness." What they are saying is that, at a purely pragmatic level, it is in everybodies best interest to keep the code from being released. This is an argument that the courts often do take into consideration.
I can't remember Gould with out also remembering his guest appearance on the Simpsons, in "Lisa The Skeptic." oh and I guess he wrote a book or two as well.
do u mean prosecution or persecution. not an attack, just a not for next time
If I build a tree house on my property that is unsafe and someone tresspasses and uses this tree house (which I haven't even said he could use) and gets hurt then I am potentially liable both crimally and civilly. It's called an attractive nuiscence.
I didn't charge anybody anything... I didn't even give permission for it to happen. Yet I am still at fault.
Just because I don't profit off of a transaction doesn't give me a right to put somebody at risk - financially or physically - unless perhaps I am completely forth right; and even then often not. And simply saying "Well, at your own risk," is not completely forth right, not even close.
The only different with purchasing the product is that the legal agreement is explicit. And in an explicit agreement risk can be accepted by the customer. But in the implicit agreement it is assumed that risk is accepted only if it obvious.Otherwise you're buying the right not to be put in a dangerous situation. Which u can't buy because u fundamentally own this as a citizen.
As for the suggestion that there can't be a law suit because there is no company - I think it is pretty clear in the american litigation system there are no lack of defendants.
I checked out those rules and they appear incomplete. What about the fact that Gravity needs to be fueled by the falling object and if the falling object does not have the required level of fuel to continue to fall the decent will stop.
This was clearly shown by Prof Bunny's experiment of the rapidly decending rocket ship.
have u tried turning using_dma on with hdparm on /dev/cdrom? Common mistake and fixed everything up with me... also are u using cvs or some version... cvs mplayer is very stable and tends to fix these bugs
this is classic /. humour... sure it's a little tired but someone has to say it every time
dude the matix only has a single vector subspace... the whole things linearly dependant on Keanu
Despite what other replies are saying this ruling is not a step to out law these games. In your post you refered to a law that requires parental consent before buying Mature video games. The video game industry was trying to get this law thrown out as being unconstitutional. The only judgement made was to maintain the law that already exists.
when will people stop using lynx and start using the superior links, the pretty ascii web browser
Since this clie comes only with the usb cradle I'm curious how well it'll work with linux. Has anybody experimented the the usb support in pilot-link. Is it stable? What about getting mp3s on? Does anybody out there know?
The lower cost machines are what is going to make money. Something that I believe Apple is still desprately in need of.
Exactly what aapl are you looking at. Apple may not hold the record for market share but when it comes to making a profit Apple holds her own. One of the great things about Apple is they have so much in the bank that they can afford to take a risk here and there. The reason the price went up: their research suggests people will pay more. This is not a desperate act. And I doubt anybody in the market will interpret this as a desperate act either.