Science has always been open to unexplainable phenomena. Ball lightning, for example. We're pretty sure it exists. Plenty of theories for why. Nothing concrete yet.
Spooky houses. They creep a lot of people out. Could be ghosts, but we need to test that theory. Could also be low frequency vibrations.
The problem with ID is that it's not an obsevation, it's an explanation. And in science, we value explanations that conform to a certain number of criteria, foremost of which is testability. If ID proponents were to come foreward and say, "Here's what ID predicts that's different from evolution, and here's the experiments we can run to get the results that will let us choose," then it would be scientific. But ID is just an untestable explanation. Not science. And as such, should not be taught int he science classroom, except as an example of bad science.
Score, you know better than that and you shouldn't be trying to use inflammatory rhetoric. The fact that a price/demand curve tends to a 0 price in no way implies that it goes infinite price.
In some cases there is no pre-creation demand, because no-one knows they want it. Examples include music from unknown artists, fiction from unknown authors, etc. In other cases the demand is better (though not perfectly) known: a new Radiohead album, an Indiana Jones movie, or spaceflight for tourists.
I don't see how this is relevant. Techdirt's article was all about how real business models need to reflect both the near-zero marginal cost of additional copies of media and (therefore) the need to make money on scarce commodities.
For example, programmers generally charge for scarce commodities (time or solutions), and don't attempt to trade for the free stuff (additional (marginal) copies of their completed software).
They then point out how the blogger blew it (trying to get paid for near-zero marginal cost items) and how Radiohead didn't. Similarly, Google gives away searches (near-zero marginal cost) and sells the scarce stuff (ad space on often-viewed and topically related web pages).
Having painfully(1) read GamePolitics' coverage of the trial, I find myself concluding that the real victims of Thompson are not gamers but the lawyers and judges of Alabama and Florida. As gamers, we can ignore him and go back to playing our games while occasionally enjoying schadenfreude at his expense.
The lawyers and judges that had to deal with him endured harassment, patently false accusations, completely incoherent arguments, abuse of law and process, and threats at every turn. It made me glad to be on the receiving end of only the news stories about him.
(1) Both because Thompson's rants are difficult to parse and because GamePolitics.com's servers were awful.
Both of these techologies required special hooks to be used within the game code. It's worth noting that DigiScents went out of business and Color Kinetics does not seem to market Surround Light any more.
I still have an iSmell T-shirt from the 2000 Game Developers Conference. Heh.
Let's face it. Benny Hill and Love American Style are poor second choices to House, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Seinfeld. All of the latter require more sophistication from the watcher instead of pure... whatever it was that Love American Style thought was funny.
It's also not really clear to what extent the teenager believed he was the primary character. It might have been a linguistic convention, where he just avoided having to say, "My character in GTA..." It might have reflected humanity's tendency to anthropomorphize everything. It might have reflected a healthy level of immersion and suspension of disbelief, and he was trying to convey the emotional impact of the situation.
What it almost definitely does not mean is that he was confusing his own sense of self with that of the character.
It's at least partially because Linux advocates view their success in terms of Microsoft's failures and every new Microsoft install as a lost opportunity. Trumpet your greatness (Apache), gloss over your weaknesses (fragmentation and ease of use), and jump on every news story that says or implies that the balance is shifting one way or another.
113 shuttle flights, 2 catatrophic failures. A ten-fold improvement means we should only lose the entire crew 1 time in 560.
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Every single media advance since the year 1000 has been pushed forward by porn.
Johann Gutenberg made his printing press around 1448, and one of the very first books to appear in print was Il Decamerone, an erotic book. Photography was invented in 1832, and in 1874 London police confiscate 130,000 photographs and 5,000 slides from one guy.
No, Telus did not terminate this as a result of a public outcry. Let's look at what the website did first.
For starters, the website is not a union website. It sides with the union, but it's a private concern. What it did was to publish pictures of individuals crossing picket lines, and advocated intimidatating and threatening those people.
Telus blocked access to the website for its customers, and asked for a court order to have the material removed. On July 27 this was granted by an Alberta court. On July 28, Telus and the website owner came to an out-of-court settlement, whereby the owner would remove the material, and Telus would verify that it was removed and lift the restriction. The material was removed, and access to the site was restored.
More likely, though, intelligence is controlled by at least a handful, if not a multitude of genes. In this case, even smaller populations will average out.
Actually, no. Genes are not selected for or against. Their effects are. So if a group of genes produce higher intelligence, and higher intelligence is selected for, then that group of genes reproduces more often.
The real difficulty has not been saying that intelligence might be selected for by evolution. The real problem lies with race.
If I recall my Canadian history properly, J. Philippe Rushton, a professor at Western University in Canada, published a paper in 1989 that claimed that Asians were more intelligent than whites, who in turn were more intelligent than blacks.
The problem was that Rushton's classification of race (and just about everyone else's) has little to do with genetics and everything to do with appearance, perceived differences and grievances, history, religion, economics, and everything except real evolutionary pressures on well-defined subsets of species.
You were doing well until you made the point that MP3 devices don't faciliate the copying of music. Regardless of the truth of that statement, it's irrelevant.
The recordable media levy is placed upon the media, not the recording/copying devices. Hence, tapes and CD-Rs are levied, tape recorders are not. In most flash MP3 players, the flash/hard drive is non-removable. Hence, the levy.
As someone who participated in the last round of levy setting, I can tell you that the CPCC tried to get DVD+-Rs -RWs, flash memory, and small hard drvies levied. The idea there was the same as for CD-Rs: apply the levy against all media sold, but scale the levy according to what proportion of the media are used for music.
e.g. 20% (not a real number) of DVD-Rs are used to copy music, so multiply the levy by 0.2, but apply it to all DVD-Rs sold.
I can also tell you that parliament was being lobbied to change the copyright act anyway, because this provision only provides cash for music copyright holders. Nothing for video games, nothing for the movies, and nothing for photos. All of those stakeholders would love for this to apply to them. Further, the CPCC would like the Act to state the filesharing is not fair use of material (it's a grey area now).
I think it's a piece of debris from an airplane. Perhaps a chunk of ice, which might explain the trail. Do any airplanes discharge their toilets while airborne?
There is a problem with orienting the spin axis hoorizontally: you can only read the text on one side of the globe. Text would be parallel to line of longitude, and would go up and over (or down and under) the globe as you rotated it. On the other side of the globe they would be upside down.
I am neither a lawyer nor a patent officer, though I do have a patent officer for a housemate. She's a Canadian chemistry patent officer, so you may discount her opinions appropriately.
She says that one of the significant differences between US and Canadian patent law is that in Canada the person who files first wins, but in the US the one who *invents* first wins, which often results in Americans' favourite pastime, lawsuits. Anyway, Sim's presentation does not automatically "prior art" the patent; Creative might well have invented before Sim, but filed later.
If I read the judgement correctly, the TRO orders NAC to allow IP access. Is it not the case that the TRO would have to order ARIN to move the IPs? Does NAC have, in a technical (not legal) sense the ability to assign IP addresses to another ISP?
By this logic, news should be suppressed if you don't agree with the motivations or tactics of one of the participants.
Sorry, media should report and people can talk about whetever they want, including the unsavoury actions of the RIAA. Look at it this way: if the media were suppressing the story, it would be a far worse situation: people would be being sued, and we wouldn't know who, nor how, nor if the RIAA were being even- or heavy-handed.
Sharky claims that 64- and 128-bit bit depths will result in more color vibrancy. It won't. Pure red is always the same pure red, regardless of whether it's represented as (0xf,0,0) or (0xffff,0,0).
What it will result in is fewer banding problems, particularly in areas where there's little color variation over a large area, such as fog. Such artifacts are more obvious in moving pictures such as movies or real-time 3D than they are in static images.
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You're confusing observation with theories.
Science has always been open to unexplainable phenomena. Ball lightning, for example. We're pretty sure it exists. Plenty of theories for why. Nothing concrete yet.
Spooky houses. They creep a lot of people out. Could be ghosts, but we need to test that theory. Could also be low frequency vibrations.
The problem with ID is that it's not an obsevation, it's an explanation. And in science, we value explanations that conform to a certain number of criteria, foremost of which is testability. If ID proponents were to come foreward and say, "Here's what ID predicts that's different from evolution, and here's the experiments we can run to get the results that will let us choose," then it would be scientific. But ID is just an untestable explanation. Not science. And as such, should not be taught int he science classroom, except as an example of bad science.
Score, you know better than that and you shouldn't be trying to use inflammatory rhetoric. The fact that a price/demand curve tends to a 0 price in no way implies that it goes infinite price.
In some cases there is no pre-creation demand, because no-one knows they want it. Examples include music from unknown artists, fiction from unknown authors, etc. In other cases the demand is better (though not perfectly) known: a new Radiohead album, an Indiana Jones movie, or spaceflight for tourists.
I don't see how this is relevant. Techdirt's article was all about how real business models need to reflect both the near-zero marginal cost of additional copies of media and (therefore) the need to make money on scarce commodities.
For example, programmers generally charge for scarce commodities (time or solutions), and don't attempt to trade for the free stuff (additional (marginal) copies of their completed software).
They then point out how the blogger blew it (trying to get paid for near-zero marginal cost items) and how Radiohead didn't. Similarly, Google gives away searches (near-zero marginal cost) and sells the scarce stuff (ad space on often-viewed and topically related web pages).
Having painfully(1) read GamePolitics' coverage of the trial, I find myself concluding that the real victims of Thompson are not gamers but the lawyers and judges of Alabama and Florida. As gamers, we can ignore him and go back to playing our games while occasionally enjoying schadenfreude at his expense.
The lawyers and judges that had to deal with him endured harassment, patently false accusations, completely incoherent arguments, abuse of law and process, and threats at every turn. It made me glad to be on the receiving end of only the news stories about him.
(1) Both because Thompson's rants are difficult to parse and because GamePolitics.com's servers were awful.
Digiscents gave us iSmell, and Color Kinetics gave us Surround Light.
Both of these techologies required special hooks to be used within the game code. It's worth noting that DigiScents went out of business and Color Kinetics does not seem to market Surround Light any more.
I still have an iSmell T-shirt from the 2000 Game Developers Conference. Heh.
Let's face it. Benny Hill and Love American Style are poor second choices to House, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Seinfeld. All of the latter require more sophistication from the watcher instead of pure... whatever it was that Love American Style thought was funny.
It's also not really clear to what extent the teenager believed he was the primary character. It might have been a linguistic convention, where he just avoided having to say, "My character in GTA..." It might have reflected humanity's tendency to anthropomorphize everything. It might have reflected a healthy level of immersion and suspension of disbelief, and he was trying to convey the emotional impact of the situation.
What it almost definitely does not mean is that he was confusing his own sense of self with that of the character.
It's at least partially because Linux advocates view their success in terms of Microsoft's failures and every new Microsoft install as a lost opportunity. Trumpet your greatness (Apache), gloss over your weaknesses (fragmentation and ease of use), and jump on every news story that says or implies that the balance is shifting one way or another.
113 shuttle flights, 2 catatrophic failures. A ten-fold improvement means we should only lose the entire crew 1 time in 560.
Every single media advance since the year 1000 has been pushed forward by porn.
.NET because it failed the pr0n test.
Johann Gutenberg made his printing press around 1448, and one of the very first books to appear in print was Il Decamerone, an erotic book. Photography was invented in 1832, and in 1874 London police confiscate 130,000 photographs and 5,000 slides from one guy.
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No, Telus did not terminate this as a result of a public outcry. Let's look at what the website did first.
For starters, the website is not a union website. It sides with the union, but it's a private concern. What it did was to publish pictures of individuals crossing picket lines, and advocated intimidatating and threatening those people.
Telus blocked access to the website for its customers, and asked for a court order to have the material removed. On July 27 this was granted by an Alberta court. On July 28, Telus and the website owner came to an out-of-court settlement, whereby the owner would remove the material, and Telus would verify that it was removed and lift the restriction. The material was removed, and access to the site was restored.
Actually, no. Genes are not selected for or against. Their effects are. So if a group of genes produce higher intelligence, and higher intelligence is selected for, then that group of genes reproduces more often.
The real difficulty has not been saying that intelligence might be selected for by evolution. The real problem lies with race.
If I recall my Canadian history properly, J. Philippe Rushton, a professor at Western University in Canada, published a paper in 1989 that claimed that Asians were more intelligent than whites, who in turn were more intelligent than blacks.
The problem was that Rushton's classification of race (and just about everyone else's) has little to do with genetics and everything to do with appearance, perceived differences and grievances, history, religion, economics, and everything except real evolutionary pressures on well-defined subsets of species.
So mammals survived the dinosaur extinction because they did have a space program?
You were doing well until you made the point that MP3 devices don't faciliate the copying of music. Regardless of the truth of that statement, it's irrelevant.
The recordable media levy is placed upon the media, not the recording/copying devices. Hence, tapes and CD-Rs are levied, tape recorders are not. In most flash MP3 players, the flash/hard drive is non-removable. Hence, the levy.
As someone who participated in the last round of levy setting, I can tell you that the CPCC tried to get DVD+-Rs -RWs, flash memory, and small hard drvies levied. The idea there was the same as for CD-Rs: apply the levy against all media sold, but scale the levy according to what proportion of the media are used for music.
e.g. 20% (not a real number) of DVD-Rs are used to copy music, so multiply the levy by 0.2, but apply it to all DVD-Rs sold.
I can also tell you that parliament was being lobbied to change the copyright act anyway, because this provision only provides cash for music copyright holders. Nothing for video games, nothing for the movies, and nothing for photos. All of those stakeholders would love for this to apply to them. Further, the CPCC would like the Act to state the filesharing is not fair use of material (it's a grey area now).
I think it's a piece of debris from an airplane. Perhaps a chunk of ice, which might explain the trail. Do any airplanes discharge their toilets while airborne?
In Canada local calls are free.
There is a problem with orienting the spin axis hoorizontally: you can only read the text on one side of the globe. Text would be parallel to line of longitude, and would go up and over (or down and under) the globe as you rotated it. On the other side of the globe they would be upside down.
I am neither a lawyer nor a patent officer, though I do have a patent officer for a housemate. She's a Canadian chemistry patent officer, so you may discount her opinions appropriately.
She says that one of the significant differences between US and Canadian patent law is that in Canada the person who files first wins, but in the US the one who *invents* first wins, which often results in Americans' favourite pastime, lawsuits. Anyway, Sim's presentation does not automatically "prior art" the patent; Creative might well have invented before Sim, but filed later.
If I read the judgement correctly, the TRO orders NAC to allow IP access. Is it not the case that the TRO would have to order ARIN to move the IPs? Does NAC have, in a technical (not legal) sense the ability to assign IP addresses to another ISP?
Sorry, media should report and people can talk about whetever they want, including the unsavoury actions of the RIAA. Look at it this way: if the media were suppressing the story, it would be a far worse situation: people would be being sued, and we wouldn't know who, nor how, nor if the RIAA were being even- or heavy-handed.
This was early 2000, so it still qualifies as a dot-com fad.
Just to be clear, the article states that the methane deposits are under 850 metres of water, not that the deposits themselves are 850 metres thick.
What it will result in is fewer banding problems, particularly in areas where there's little color variation over a large area, such as fog. Such artifacts are more obvious in moving pictures such as movies or real-time 3D than they are in static images.
Here's a company that makes the type of keyboards you lust for.