At least where I live the opposite is true. Comcast does not allow servers or NAT (though I still do NAT but I only use one computer at a time), has both an upload and download speed cap (@home only an upload) and costs more than DSL. Bell south is the only real DSL provider in the area (others have very small coverage area). No caps, static ip's, any servers - basically your bandwidth do what you want. and It's cheaper to boot.
In areas that have the DSL comcast reduces their costs and increases thier benefits to inline with the DSL. Both then are about 50 a month, I pay 60 (not a huge difference but irritating as the govt enforced monopoly is what causes this).
The local govt here enforces a single cable company - but they can not enforce a single phone company (federal will not allow that) so comcast has a monopoly. We pay nearly 3 times what cable (not the cable modem) costs in west tennessee and the above mentioned 10 dollars more than them for the cable modem service (plus they get all the better contracts). Idealy I would like to see competition both dslcable, cablecable, dsldsl to keep everyone relativly hosnest.
Rant #2: NP hard problems are hard to solve. You just need lots of time.
It's also important to note that the algorithm may be well known and quite small (as in number of lines) but take a REALLY long time to run.
One of the biggest "disappointments" of my CS carrer was seeing some of the "grand challenge" problems that takes weeks/months to code (as I have seen more of them they have now transitioned back into the "COOL" category). Some as nothing more than a simple mathematical equation and distributing that answer to many nodes at each step, it just needs done 5 billion billion times to get a good answer. Some of these are as small as 5000 lines of code.
To a non theoretical CS person hard had always meant "took great brain power to develope algorithm", took me several classes before I realised what was meant by "hard".
well, I was tending to write that from a western point of view. I would assume that even pop-culture in Syria is commercial. But what I get to see of it isn't. The titles you listed as "non-commercial" are the titles that I can easily find/purchase. the other I've never seen.
Plus if I don't live there much of the commercialization goes right over my head (for instance, I watch some souju (or however it is spelled) anime, I mentally understand it's deseigned for young females but it is so different from what I associate with young females I don't really associate it there).
I also do not notice stuff such as product placement. Thye may do it but I can't reconize the writing. I also don't see the dramatic pause to show the "coke" symbol or the weird closeup just to get the At&t symbol. I still see those occasionally but they seem much more demure.
And lastly thier is no equivilent of stuff like Vandread ot Love Hina. It is easier to find "alternate" titles in anime. This to me is part of the commercialization. The complete unwillingness to "go out an a limb" so to speak. It is possible to find some western obscure stuff that does, but the parent poster explicitly said mainstream.
Unforunatly this seems to be a trend in our (I am assuming American) society. Accused of sexual harrasment? Not only do our courts assume you are guilty but so does society. Copyright violation? you need to produce a liscense, not them prove you don't have one.
While this may work in civil court (simple preponderance of the evidence - inability to produce liscense *may* constitute this) it is appaling how often this occurs in criminal hearings. It is simply a sign of the decline of our society. We have "protected" classes that can basically do no wrong and "unprotected" classes that can do no right. I am reminded of one of the politcal quotes I once read "The severity of the charge is such that impeachment is relevant" in the case of a senator that HAD NOT DONE WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH!!!!!! It was provable that he had not, yet they still wanted impeachment (though they didn't get it).
While I have no particular love for the govt there is no reason to punish any entity (either an individual or group) simply because they were accused of a serious crime (or non-serious crime).
I better stop typing, I can go on for hours about this:)
Can an enthusiast PLEASE explain why this form is in any way comparable to more mainstream types of entertainment?
That is preciesly why I watch it, it's not really compariable to mainstream. Nor is anime trying to be western/american mainstream (anime is mainstream in japan, so I am assuming this is written from a more western point of view), that niche is already filled well and the Japanese will most likely not fill the western mainstream niche well anyway.
I don't watch Anime for "big eyes, poor dubbing or sleep (snot?) bubbles", I watch it becuase I find the stories incredibly entertaining, different, and humorous. I enjoy a look at the different culture shown in the shows.
This is like saying "little shop of horrors" or "the rocky horror picture show" are worthless. Both are liked well (though I personally can not stand either one) because they are not mainstream stories. They still have merit if you like that type of story.
So you don't like anime, don't watch it. I don't mean that in a smart ass way, I greatly dislike most mainstream media, it's too commercial, so I don't watch it. Like any genre some will not "get" it, you don't have too - it is perfectly acceptable to simply not like that style of story telling (as I have never seen a musical that I like - I can not stand to watch one - many love them). I personally have been more emotionally/intellectually/sexually stimulated by the advertising copy on the back of a box of breakfast cereal than I have by most things in mainstream media.
Actually, like all laws in a democracy, patents are supposed to be solely for the benefit of society.
That was my point. For society to benefit there needs to be an incentive for either an individual or corperation to profit. As soon as they have made enough profit to give them the incentive it needs to go into the public domain. There is also some form of protection for an individual. Say I invent (I didn't, this was a slashdot story I remeber from a while back) a split keyboard that also functions as a mouse, without a patent system a large corperation is able to bowl over the person. That's why a patent system is supposed to be a balancing act, all inteded to protect the rights of an individual and benefit society.
If anyone comes up with a solution close to the patent the invention is declared trivial and unpatentable
What would be better is a patent worker must be educated in the field they are issuing patents on. Allowing an open patent process if it makes it past the officer where you can have people submit and try and debunk with the submitter able to defend - more like a court.
The problem with a brainstorming session in that some ideas are reltively trivial in that field but a bitch to implement. Take nuclear fission. compressing a sphere of plutonium with a set of hugh explosive is not very difficult, once physicist were pointed in the right direction (what they would have been shown to brainstorm in a patent) would likely get the right idea. But this tookyears to actually implement.
"The point is when does intelectual property become a rediculous concept, or is it a rediculous concept from the very begining?"
That is a really difficult question. At what point does an algorithm become a mathematical equation. At what point does patenting it become a detriment to society.
To use medical stuff as a starting point the theory (and it is well played out in reality) is that the development cost is huge, manufacturing cost is tiny - same is true in CS. In order for them to recoupe costs (and therefore make them want to do the research) they are given a period of unilateral controll of sales. In the end it drives progress, for a few years only a select few get the rewards, in the long run the poorest are extremely elevated.
Software, unfortunatly, does not have the much harder line that a pill does (not really a physical product from quicksort). Is a windowing system patentable? is Quicksort?
Ultimatly the question is "does this help advance society". We, in many cases, are quite capable of answering this question. That question is supposed to be the job of the courts or the patent office. Unfortunatly they want an expert system type of decision making. A simple yes/no based on a simple given input written in a few pages of documentation. Patenting online sales in our current date is idiotic, but it passes thier simple "yes/no algorithm". Patenting a new extremely low latency/high throughput network interconnect is patentable (and really should be).
The next question is length of patents. In our industry a 5 year patent is really "in the past" let alone our current patent system. If you can't make a profit in 5 years in CS a ten year patent will not make you a profit, nor will a longer one. On the other hand it seriously dampens societies progress.
Patents are supposed to be, and should be, a balance between the need of society to benefit from advances in tech, and the people who invented the tech (or corperation) need to profit from the tech. When one is given great priority over the other the system gets screwed. It generally takes a person, capable of rational thought, to find that line, not a simple "yes/no" solution. Plus they need to realise the line is not necessarily in the same place each time (and some may disagree), that is why there is such a thing as "comprimise" (which is where neither side is happy, and neither side is greatly unhappy:) ).
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You know the sad thing? I pictured a dwarf smoking a pipe saying that and then wondered "why would a dwarf say that?".
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Well, the problem is that the "errors" would appear to, well, not be quite unpainfull. In the end it is still alive. While I personally beleive we have every right to eat them and use them (I hunt/fish and regulalry eat/wear parts of them, some medical research is also OK) we have a responsibility to be humane. If you can humanely clone the animal - go for it. If you can't there better be a REALLY good reason to submit an animal to torture.
If you grew up in a farming community would you begin butchering the animal alive? beat it to death? at least the one I grew up in no, you tried to, as humanely as possible, kill the animal. While nature can, and is, very violent, we do not have to be. A croc can do no better than to try and eat a wildbeast alive, we are able to do better.
The night vision glasses only worked on white clothing. It enabled both the thermal imaging and light gathering source open at the same time. This had the affect of taking the normal light image (so they looked like a person) plus the underlying form (the thermal imaging portion). Looked like a 3D model with only a single texture apllied to the model (I.E. all flesh tone, not, ummm, other colors (at work, nothing more will make it through the censors:) ). While not truly see through, it did look pretty good:P
then don't sell 24/7 unlimited bandwidth if you don't mean it. They have the same thing as an "all you can eat bar". Should I not be allowed to purchase all you can eat ribbs because last time I did I ate four full racks? Should I not be allowed to eat the crab leggs because I at 12 halves? that is the bisuness model, sell "all you can use" to everybody, a few use alot most don't. The ones who don't feel good becuase they CAN use large amounts, if you kick off everyone who does then it's not unlimited (and at least in the US you can sue). Same concept with insurance and many many other things.
AT&T dialup used to send me frequent letters about "too much usage on my unlimited plan. After about the 5'th day I got one I sent back a polite letter. They said If I wanted 24/7 I should purchase the bussiness plan. I e-mailed them back with my service plan and basically said if they kicked me I am a student, have unlimtied time, and could probably find a lawyer who is willing to work for 80 percent of the winnings - go ahead and try. Apparently they were having difficulty with others doing this, made it metered and lost nearly all thier customers, then re-instated thier unlimited plan.
They can't have it both ways (have unlimted usage and require no one use much), if you offer "all you can eat" someone like me is going to come along and eat all they can.
What are you doing people with your traffic that 4GB per month is not enough? Watching p0rn?
and this is illegetimate how? I can understand a P2P server, I can understand trying to run a popular website, especially when they give a decent amount of space for a residential web page (basically I can understand thier wanting to limit servers on a residential line), but if my client takes up bandwidth then I don't have a problem.
If I can only surf the web, no binaries (porn, software, music, video, etc.), then broadband REALLY losses interest to me. If a web page I regualry visits would NEED broad band (and several forums I visit several times a day have ~400-800k in crappy pictures people put as thir.sig) then I will go over that limit (probably not 1 Gb per day, but 4 per month). I would just go with an unlimited 56 k and saturate it.
interesting enough where I work (a national lab) does something similar to this. Due to our local govt only allowing a single cable company (somehow this promoted competition, though it must only work out in the politicians head that gets the kickback) Comcast has/had nearly the entiere broadband market where I am at. As such they royally screw over thier customers (high price, speed caps, blocked ports, etc..). So apparently after enough complaints (need VPN to check e-mail from home) everything goes over non-standard ports. They also use some cisco VPN stuff instead of the "standard" windows stuff (works under linux - a lot of linux users at work).
Bell south is slowly moving out DSL (none of the restrictions, you pay for 24/7 bandwidth - you get it to do with as you please) but they still have a small coverage area, direct tv used to be the only outlet but not any more (went broke, they also had a poor coverage area). It is interesting to note that all the crap they put on thier cable network dissapears in areas bell south adds DSL. I know I for one, the day DSL is available in my area, will drop comcast.
no, it is not secure. Hack the central database. It's just not really worth it. be able to withdraw/purchase a large amount of money anonymously from it and see if it isn't hacked.
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Ahh, so if that os the case they can still track purchases, not truly anonymous like cash.
Still easy to steal. Same problems that credit cards currently have, just now you have no real recourse to get your money back.
sure it may take some group a year or two to crack this, but once they do the amount of money they can get is HUGE. With cash, even if you know how it is difficult to counterfit (at least no 16 year old is going to do it).
What I said still stands, hack card, hack server, hack servers. Once broken thousands of 15 year old hackers will be buying stuff like mad. I hope it happens before they make it to where I live and people realise digital/computer/convenient doesn't always mean better.
If what you say is true (and yes the pictures seem to indicate this) then I would question the level of "anonymous" these cards have. Tracking numbers typically don't imply anonymous.
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This is actually a good point. One of the advantages of cash is that it can be split into whatever demoniations you have.
For instance, if I have a 45 dollar card and I want you to have 5 dollars, can't do it without a transfer machine (or if you forgot your card). With cash easy, assuming I have a five.
And then counterfitting. Wow, if money is only a string of ones and zeros on a card WOO HOOO. So its digitally signed? great I just bought a 100 dollar card and did a bit by bit copy.
Use a central authority, better hope that thing never gets hacked. Use a distributed method - gonna have SEVERE syncing problems (if it is anonymous then you can't just bill me later for the over charge).
As of right now there is not enough incetive for many to hack a system, make it so it is and you will have script kiddies cloning money - yech.
So, this is coming from someone who gave a talk at OLS wearing a T-shirt from thinkgeek.com (tell me again your user name? read $luser) I will say this.
It depends on what your aim is. Our aim was to get the other geeks on the bandwagon, and that seemed to be the other presentation's aim - and perfectly in line with the conferance.
On the other hand if your goal is to woo (wow I actually used that word!) corperate investors I would wear something a bit nicer, including a tie. While I also dislike this (and where I work allows REALLY casual dress) that is what reality is.
I don't think the parent poster meant people wearing such wrote bad code (nor do I mean so). But corperate america wants this, and you do look more polished. Though I, and most geeks, could care less, to the business only person this is important.
From a personal stance, I would have to be bad off to take a job where my dress code was such, and so may be yours. But there are more jobs where a tie and slacks are required.
Plus should I actually want corperate investors I would most likely spell check this post:) (but then, does python care that I never can remeber the correct spelling for "corperate"? As long as I am consistent, no:) )
yes, they call it finance reform, but, as I say, "If I call myself the king of england does it make it so?". Well, no, thier idea of "finance" is purchasing time on the media to talk and ban everyone from doing so. This has the affect of giving all the sources of information to the news media, who of course are bastions of integrity and never allow any bias to show through and as such, it is unconstitutional.
The general consensus at the time was the bill was unconstitutional and would be struck down, but they would either be viewed as doing something but not really changing anything or if they voted against it said to be pandering to special interest (more than several congressmen said this explcitly).
Speaking as someone who has about 17 cannons in his basement (well, 17 chambers, they have interchangable barrells, about 25 or so barraells for shooting different material), compressed air is by far the best. I have shot in the combustion: wd40, hairspray, ether, propane, acetylene, and MAPP gas. Mapp gas was the best. The only thing we haven't tried yet is adding oxygen (We have a remote charging/detonation system rigged from spare RC car parts to try that this summer).
Firing the MAPP gass yeilded about a 175 yard shot (measured both at a gun range and with a laser distance finder). Using a piston type cannon with same barrall length at 120 psi the potato desntegrated about 50 or so feet from the barrell. Reducing pressure to around 60 psi drove the potato approxamtly 230 yards. Plus one of the nice things about compressed air is that, well, you can make one as large as you want. I have seen, but not made (no where to mount the thing four launching) pneumatic guns with barrells up to 20 feet. My max is about 12 feet. Plus you can shoot anything that will fit in the barrell, even liquids (somewhere on the web - I don't have the link - some individuals shot gasoline out of one with a burning ember on the end: quite impressive but not really recomended).
yea, I know. At one time I somewhat *somewhat* jokingly said if the US gets rid of the first or second amendment I will move to switzerland or australia.
That's now a problem. As most of the "free" countries move toward globalization instead of looking and saying "the US has these great freedoms, Europe these, Australia these, etc.. and lets make this great big freedom type world" we have said "well the us restricts this, the EU restricts this, etc.. so lets combine these all" and create the most sucky restricted environment possible.
Note to lawmakers: just because your neighbour makes something illegal doesn't mean you have to also. Manytimes the reason people wish to emmegrate into your country is EXACTLY because you have said freedoms.
And then the other problem is that they may choose to get rid of all thier rights and effectivly slit thier own throats.
Absolute free trading of files does reduce thier income and is not long term fiscally viable. That is of course assuming that thier main revenue stream is selling CD's. Though I think most money is made in concerts and merchandise now: which free trading would actually promote.
Absolute restriction of sharing of information is not socially long term viable. There need to be some freedom to use other content in a reasonable amount of time, otherwise everything possible will be copyrighted. If you can't make a profit in 24 years (original maximum copywright) why do you think you can make money with an infinate one?
That's why the saying "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" is so important.
Well, technically "." by itself requires something to be there, so if you want nothing your out of luck. Also if you want multiple things your screwed. ".*" is a better anything you want.
Though in formal languages the kleene star means ".*"
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At least where I live the opposite is true. Comcast does not allow servers or NAT (though I still do NAT but I only use one computer at a time), has both an upload and download speed cap (@home only an upload) and costs more than DSL. Bell south is the only real DSL provider in the area (others have very small coverage area). No caps, static ip's, any servers - basically your bandwidth do what you want. and It's cheaper to boot.
In areas that have the DSL comcast reduces their costs and increases thier benefits to inline with the DSL. Both then are about 50 a month, I pay 60 (not a huge difference but irritating as the govt enforced monopoly is what causes this).
The local govt here enforces a single cable company - but they can not enforce a single phone company (federal will not allow that) so comcast has a monopoly. We pay nearly 3 times what cable (not the cable modem) costs in west tennessee and the above mentioned 10 dollars more than them for the cable modem service (plus they get all the better contracts). Idealy I would like to see competition both dslcable, cablecable, dsldsl to keep everyone relativly hosnest.
Rant #2: NP hard problems are hard to solve. You just need lots of time.
It's also important to note that the algorithm may be well known and quite small (as in number of lines) but take a REALLY long time to run.
One of the biggest "disappointments" of my CS carrer was seeing some of the "grand challenge" problems that takes weeks/months to code (as I have seen more of them they have now transitioned back into the "COOL" category). Some as nothing more than a simple mathematical equation and distributing that answer to many nodes at each step, it just needs done 5 billion billion times to get a good answer. Some of these are as small as 5000 lines of code.
To a non theoretical CS person hard had always meant "took great brain power to develope algorithm", took me several classes before I realised what was meant by "hard".
well, I was tending to write that from a western point of view. I would assume that even pop-culture in Syria is commercial. But what I get to see of it isn't. The titles you listed as "non-commercial" are the titles that I can easily find/purchase. the other I've never seen.
Plus if I don't live there much of the commercialization goes right over my head (for instance, I watch some souju (or however it is spelled) anime, I mentally understand it's deseigned for young females but it is so different from what I associate with young females I don't really associate it there).
I also do not notice stuff such as product placement. Thye may do it but I can't reconize the writing. I also don't see the dramatic pause to show the "coke" symbol or the weird closeup just to get the At&t symbol. I still see those occasionally but they seem much more demure.
And lastly thier is no equivilent of stuff like Vandread ot Love Hina. It is easier to find "alternate" titles in anime. This to me is part of the commercialization. The complete unwillingness to "go out an a limb" so to speak. It is possible to find some western obscure stuff that does, but the parent poster explicitly said mainstream.
Why are they guilty until proven innocent.
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Unforunatly this seems to be a trend in our (I am assuming American) society. Accused of sexual harrasment? Not only do our courts assume you are guilty but so does society. Copyright violation? you need to produce a liscense, not them prove you don't have one.
While this may work in civil court (simple preponderance of the evidence - inability to produce liscense *may* constitute this) it is appaling how often this occurs in criminal hearings. It is simply a sign of the decline of our society. We have "protected" classes that can basically do no wrong and "unprotected" classes that can do no right. I am reminded of one of the politcal quotes I once read "The severity of the charge is such that impeachment is relevant" in the case of a senator that HAD NOT DONE WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH!!!!!! It was provable that he had not, yet they still wanted impeachment (though they didn't get it).
While I have no particular love for the govt there is no reason to punish any entity (either an individual or group) simply because they were accused of a serious crime (or non-serious crime).
I better stop typing, I can go on for hours about this
Can an enthusiast PLEASE explain why this form is in any way comparable to more mainstream types of entertainment?
That is preciesly why I watch it, it's not really compariable to mainstream. Nor is anime trying to be western/american mainstream (anime is mainstream in japan, so I am assuming this is written from a more western point of view), that niche is already filled well and the Japanese will most likely not fill the western mainstream niche well anyway.
I don't watch Anime for "big eyes, poor dubbing or sleep (snot?) bubbles", I watch it becuase I find the stories incredibly entertaining, different, and humorous. I enjoy a look at the different culture shown in the shows.
This is like saying "little shop of horrors" or "the rocky horror picture show" are worthless. Both are liked well (though I personally can not stand either one) because they are not mainstream stories. They still have merit if you like that type of story.
So you don't like anime, don't watch it. I don't mean that in a smart ass way, I greatly dislike most mainstream media, it's too commercial, so I don't watch it. Like any genre some will not "get" it, you don't have too - it is perfectly acceptable to simply not like that style of story telling (as I have never seen a musical that I like - I can not stand to watch one - many love them). I personally have been more emotionally/intellectually/sexually stimulated by the advertising copy on the back of a box of breakfast cereal than I have by most things in mainstream media.
Actually, like all laws in a democracy, patents are supposed to be solely for the benefit of society.
That was my point. For society to benefit there needs to be an incentive for either an individual or corperation to profit. As soon as they have made enough profit to give them the incentive it needs to go into the public domain. There is also some form of protection for an individual. Say I invent (I didn't, this was a slashdot story I remeber from a while back) a split keyboard that also functions as a mouse, without a patent system a large corperation is able to bowl over the person. That's why a patent system is supposed to be a balancing act, all inteded to protect the rights of an individual and benefit society.
If anyone comes up with a solution close to the patent the invention is declared trivial and unpatentable
What would be better is a patent worker must be educated in the field they are issuing patents on. Allowing an open patent process if it makes it past the officer where you can have people submit and try and debunk with the submitter able to defend - more like a court.
The problem with a brainstorming session in that some ideas are reltively trivial in that field but a bitch to implement. Take nuclear fission. compressing a sphere of plutonium with a set of hugh explosive is not very difficult, once physicist were pointed in the right direction (what they would have been shown to brainstorm in a patent) would likely get the right idea. But this tookyears to actually implement.
"The point is when does intelectual property become a rediculous concept, or is it a rediculous concept from the very begining?"
:) ).
That is a really difficult question. At what point does an algorithm become a mathematical equation. At what point does patenting it become a detriment to society.
To use medical stuff as a starting point the theory (and it is well played out in reality) is that the development cost is huge, manufacturing cost is tiny - same is true in CS. In order for them to recoupe costs (and therefore make them want to do the research) they are given a period of unilateral controll of sales. In the end it drives progress, for a few years only a select few get the rewards, in the long run the poorest are extremely elevated.
Software, unfortunatly, does not have the much harder line that a pill does (not really a physical product from quicksort). Is a windowing system patentable? is Quicksort?
Ultimatly the question is "does this help advance society". We, in many cases, are quite capable of answering this question. That question is supposed to be the job of the courts or the patent office. Unfortunatly they want an expert system type of decision making. A simple yes/no based on a simple given input written in a few pages of documentation. Patenting online sales in our current date is idiotic, but it passes thier simple "yes/no algorithm". Patenting a new extremely low latency/high throughput network interconnect is patentable (and really should be).
The next question is length of patents. In our industry a 5 year patent is really "in the past" let alone our current patent system. If you can't make a profit in 5 years in CS a ten year patent will not make you a profit, nor will a longer one. On the other hand it seriously dampens societies progress.
Patents are supposed to be, and should be, a balance between the need of society to benefit from advances in tech, and the people who invented the tech (or corperation) need to profit from the tech. When one is given great priority over the other the system gets screwed. It generally takes a person, capable of rational thought, to find that line, not a simple "yes/no" solution. Plus they need to realise the line is not necessarily in the same place each time (and some may disagree), that is why there is such a thing as "comprimise" (which is where neither side is happy, and neither side is greatly unhappy
You know the sad thing? I pictured a dwarf smoking a pipe saying that and then wondered "why would a dwarf say that?".
Well, the problem is that the "errors" would appear to, well, not be quite unpainfull. In the end it is still alive. While I personally beleive we have every right to eat them and use them (I hunt/fish and regulalry eat/wear parts of them, some medical research is also OK) we have a responsibility to be humane. If you can humanely clone the animal - go for it. If you can't there better be a REALLY good reason to submit an animal to torture.
If you grew up in a farming community would you begin butchering the animal alive? beat it to death? at least the one I grew up in no, you tried to, as humanely as possible, kill the animal. While nature can, and is, very violent, we do not have to be. A croc can do no better than to try and eat a wildbeast alive, we are able to do better.
The night vision glasses only worked on white clothing. It enabled both the thermal imaging and light gathering source open at the same time. This had the affect of taking the normal light image (so they looked like a person) plus the underlying form (the thermal imaging portion). Looked like a 3D model with only a single texture apllied to the model (I.E. all flesh tone, not, ummm, other colors (at work, nothing more will make it through the censors :) ). While not truly see through, it did look pretty good :P
then don't sell 24/7 unlimited bandwidth if you don't mean it. They have the same thing as an "all you can eat bar". Should I not be allowed to purchase all you can eat ribbs because last time I did I ate four full racks? Should I not be allowed to eat the crab leggs because I at 12 halves? that is the bisuness model, sell "all you can use" to everybody, a few use alot most don't. The ones who don't feel good becuase they CAN use large amounts, if you kick off everyone who does then it's not unlimited (and at least in the US you can sue). Same concept with insurance and many many other things.
AT&T dialup used to send me frequent letters about "too much usage on my unlimited plan. After about the 5'th day I got one I sent back a polite letter. They said If I wanted 24/7 I should purchase the bussiness plan. I e-mailed them back with my service plan and basically said if they kicked me I am a student, have unlimtied time, and could probably find a lawyer who is willing to work for 80 percent of the winnings - go ahead and try. Apparently they were having difficulty with others doing this, made it metered and lost nearly all thier customers, then re-instated thier unlimited plan.
They can't have it both ways (have unlimted usage and require no one use much), if you offer "all you can eat" someone like me is going to come along and eat all they can.
As other people have pointed out, if you don't need high bandwidth why are you getting broadband anyway?
What are you doing people with your traffic that 4GB per month is not enough? Watching p0rn?
.sig) then I will go over that limit (probably not 1 Gb per day, but 4 per month). I would just go with an unlimited 56 k and saturate it.
and this is illegetimate how? I can understand a P2P server, I can understand trying to run a popular website, especially when they give a decent amount of space for a residential web page (basically I can understand thier wanting to limit servers on a residential line), but if my client takes up bandwidth then I don't have a problem.
If I can only surf the web, no binaries (porn, software, music, video, etc.), then broadband REALLY losses interest to me. If a web page I regualry visits would NEED broad band (and several forums I visit several times a day have ~400-800k in crappy pictures people put as thir
interesting enough where I work (a national lab) does something similar to this. Due to our local govt only allowing a single cable company (somehow this promoted competition, though it must only work out in the politicians head that gets the kickback) Comcast has/had nearly the entiere broadband market where I am at. As such they royally screw over thier customers (high price, speed caps, blocked ports, etc..). So apparently after enough complaints (need VPN to check e-mail from home) everything goes over non-standard ports. They also use some cisco VPN stuff instead of the "standard" windows stuff (works under linux - a lot of linux users at work).
Bell south is slowly moving out DSL (none of the restrictions, you pay for 24/7 bandwidth - you get it to do with as you please) but they still have a small coverage area, direct tv used to be the only outlet but not any more (went broke, they also had a poor coverage area). It is interesting to note that all the crap they put on thier cable network dissapears in areas bell south adds DSL. I know I for one, the day DSL is available in my area, will drop comcast.
no, it is not secure. Hack the central database. It's just not really worth it. be able to withdraw/purchase a large amount of money anonymously from it and see if it isn't hacked.
Ahh, so if that os the case they can still track purchases, not truly anonymous like cash.
Still easy to steal. Same problems that credit cards currently have, just now you have no real recourse to get your money back.
sure it may take some group a year or two to crack this, but once they do the amount of money they can get is HUGE. With cash, even if you know how it is difficult to counterfit (at least no 16 year old is going to do it).
What I said still stands, hack card, hack server, hack servers. Once broken thousands of 15 year old hackers will be buying stuff like mad. I hope it happens before they make it to where I live and people realise digital/computer/convenient doesn't always mean better.
If what you say is true (and yes the pictures seem to indicate this) then I would question the level of "anonymous" these cards have. Tracking numbers typically don't imply anonymous.
This is actually a good point. One of the advantages of cash is that it can be split into whatever demoniations you have.
For instance, if I have a 45 dollar card and I want you to have 5 dollars, can't do it without a transfer machine (or if you forgot your card). With cash easy, assuming I have a five.
And then counterfitting. Wow, if money is only a string of ones and zeros on a card WOO HOOO. So its digitally signed? great I just bought a 100 dollar card and did a bit by bit copy.
Use a central authority, better hope that thing never gets hacked. Use a distributed method - gonna have SEVERE syncing problems (if it is anonymous then you can't just bill me later for the over charge).
As of right now there is not enough incetive for many to hack a system, make it so it is and you will have script kiddies cloning money - yech.
Information wants to be free!
may I then please have you checking/ routing number and your social security number? It really wants to be posted to slashdot and set free.
So, this is coming from someone who gave a talk at OLS wearing a T-shirt from thinkgeek.com (tell me again your user name? read $luser) I will say this.
:) (but then, does python care that I never can remeber the correct spelling for "corperate"? As long as I am consistent, no :) )
It depends on what your aim is. Our aim was to get the other geeks on the bandwagon, and that seemed to be the other presentation's aim - and perfectly in line with the conferance.
On the other hand if your goal is to woo (wow I actually used that word!) corperate investors I would wear something a bit nicer, including a tie. While I also dislike this (and where I work allows REALLY casual dress) that is what reality is.
I don't think the parent poster meant people wearing such wrote bad code (nor do I mean so). But corperate america wants this, and you do look more polished. Though I, and most geeks, could care less, to the business only person this is important.
From a personal stance, I would have to be bad off to take a job where my dress code was such, and so may be yours. But there are more jobs where a tie and slacks are required.
Plus should I actually want corperate investors I would most likely spell check this post
yes, they call it finance reform, but, as I say, "If I call myself the king of england does it make it so?". Well, no, thier idea of "finance" is purchasing time on the media to talk and ban everyone from doing so. This has the affect of giving all the sources of information to the news media, who of course are bastions of integrity and never allow any bias to show through and as such, it is unconstitutional.
The general consensus at the time was the bill was unconstitutional and would be struck down, but they would either be viewed as doing something but not really changing anything or if they voted against it said to be pandering to special interest (more than several congressmen said this explcitly).
Speaking as someone who has about 17 cannons in his basement (well, 17 chambers, they have interchangable barrells, about 25 or so barraells for shooting different material), compressed air is by far the best. I have shot in the combustion: wd40, hairspray, ether, propane, acetylene, and MAPP gas. Mapp gas was the best. The only thing we haven't tried yet is adding oxygen (We have a remote charging/detonation system rigged from spare RC car parts to try that this summer).
Firing the MAPP gass yeilded about a 175 yard shot (measured both at a gun range and with a laser distance finder). Using a piston type cannon with same barrall length at 120 psi the potato desntegrated about 50 or so feet from the barrell. Reducing pressure to around 60 psi drove the potato approxamtly 230 yards. Plus one of the nice things about compressed air is that, well, you can make one as large as you want. I have seen, but not made (no where to mount the thing four launching) pneumatic guns with barrells up to 20 feet. My max is about 12 feet. Plus you can shoot anything that will fit in the barrell, even liquids (somewhere on the web - I don't have the link - some individuals shot gasoline out of one with a burning ember on the end: quite impressive but not really recomended).
yea, I know. At one time I somewhat *somewhat* jokingly said if the US gets rid of the first or second amendment I will move to switzerland or australia.
That's now a problem. As most of the "free" countries move toward globalization instead of looking and saying "the US has these great freedoms, Europe these, Australia these, etc.. and lets make this great big freedom type world" we have said "well the us restricts this, the EU restricts this, etc.. so lets combine these all" and create the most sucky restricted environment possible.
Note to lawmakers: just because your neighbour makes something illegal doesn't mean you have to also. Manytimes the reason people wish to emmegrate into your country is EXACTLY because you have said freedoms.
And then the other problem is that they may choose to get rid of all thier rights and effectivly slit thier own throats.
Absolute free trading of files does reduce thier income and is not long term fiscally viable. That is of course assuming that thier main revenue stream is selling CD's. Though I think most money is made in concerts and merchandise now: which free trading would actually promote.
Absolute restriction of sharing of information is not socially long term viable. There need to be some freedom to use other content in a reasonable amount of time, otherwise everything possible will be copyrighted. If you can't make a profit in 24 years (original maximum copywright) why do you think you can make money with an infinate one?
That's why the saying "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" is so important.
Well, technically "." by itself requires something to be there, so if you want nothing your out of luck. Also if you want multiple things your screwed. ".*" is a better anything you want.
Though in formal languages the kleene star means ".*"