I think he did mean capella. I used to play with those. I asked for an mp3 player for Christmas, and I asked for some music, or an instrument, and what did I end up with? A capella.
It doesn't even work right without at least four people to play. My capsela set was way cooler. It wasn't nothing, unlike the capella. It was an actual thing.
I remember taking it to class to demonstrate the concept of polarity by switching the wires connected to the battery and showing the motor changing direction (I was 7).
If you would add a cabin to one of these for foul weather, it should achieve 90% of what the technical side of this project hopes.
Of course, you won't get so many returns during foul weather...so much as retrievals - from ditches, cliff bottoms, in the grills of trucks, etc. Wherever your customers ended up after their uber-unsafe ride.
I suppose you could make some kind of arrangement with funeral companies to farm out business. That might recoup the losses from all the mangled-beyond-repair motorbikes...
Seriously, I think this could work, but we'd need not so much motorbike lanes, as motorbike tracks - which have nice, rounded edges going up quite a ways on either side to make sure that crashing is almost never fatal, or damaging to the vehicles. That may actually be more expensive than just not using bikes.
They don't have good senses of timing, of editing, of rhythm, or of narrative structure.
Fortunately, there's a ridiculously large number of professional writers who do, but who can't really break into Hollywood without so much work that they'd rather just be writers.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a new class of films where the writer is more like a director and the director is more like a camera coordinator.
Think of a random proper noun that's got multiple usages. Now think of a usage that you have heard for it before. (My thought was "Alice", followed by "Alice in Wonderland").
Now go to Wikipedia and search for that first term and see how long it takes to get to the second.
You probably found the thing you wanted, or an article that points you to it in a single link.
Now imagine the same, except that *every single example of that proper noun in existence is included*. That's way too much stuff to easily search through it.
The point is that we need filtering to make search work, but currently the delete filter is too overzealous because the editors are applying a domain-independent importance determination that doesn't work when applied to web-only based anything. This needs to change.
He was not. He was an ECE undergrad. They state it in the article. Which makes it even more impressive - this is an accomplishment that doesn't even really go along with his field.
Pretty much always, yes. Just like now. A fast hurricane moves at 20MPH towards the shore, and most give warning many days in advance. Most are slower than that - especially the big, dangerous ones. Evacuating a city shouldn't take more than 48 hours.
And on that note, given how long it took to finally give an evac order for New Orleans, does it really matter?
Yes. New Orleans government was (and, considering that their mayor got reelected somehow, probably still is) fantastically corrupt. The consequence of this corruption is diverted emergency planning & training funds. I know because my company is in that industry. When the time came, the response was delayed because nobody was really prepared. In most cases, such a plan would go into effect immediately when disaster conditions are likely.
Ok, so their idea is "help consumers" by regulating it so everyone who owns a piece of spectrum has to make acquaintance for every device and service
See the OSI model. Idea is that the people who buy it only get to control the network layer and below. Not the application layer...or, more specifically, they will only have *full* control of the network layer and below.
so if they want IPTV over that spectrum the cell phone company must provide IPTV?
this seems a little counterproductive to me.
The provider just provides the network layer and anybody can run anything over it they like...just like the internet. You probably won't be able to do IPTV because it takes to much bandwidth. The regulation wouldn't say anything about that. However, VOIP has a pretty low bandwidth requirement...
You can perhaps see why wireless providers might have a problem with this. Nobody would need to buy minutes anymore. Only the amount of data used would be an issue, and we're all used to unlimited data by now, so we'd expect the same...
It's the end of their gravy train. Unless they can add some loopholes to keep them from actually having to do like the FCC is talking about.
The one that springs to mind is that I don't see anything in there that forces them to actually make use of this bandwidth. So the current batch of gravy-trainers could just buy the bandwidth and sit on it so that there's nobody implementing this and ruining their oligopoly. The other possible loophole I see is red tape. Just make sure that approved devices and technology used in this network are always so slow to be implemented that this network is always the slowest and least reliable compared to all the other kinds.
That second one seems like it could be a real problem. The FCC can always put into the contract, "use it or lose it," but it's a lot harder to enforce something like, "if your network is lame then we're taking it back."
I don't think that anyone would argue that the ticket belongs to the ticket holder, and that they can do whatever they want with it: rip it up, sell it, eat it, etc. The physical thing is yours to do with whatever you like.
But who does the stadium belong to? Who do the teams belong to?
It isn't the ticket holders. Do the owners of those things have the rights to do whatever they want with them?
Because it seems like your argument favors that they do because it's "natural," though your conclusion seems to claim the opposite...
I personally don't think that there's anything natural at all about selling someone the privilege of sitting in a specific location for a specific period of time in order to view a specific activity. It is not at all obvious what rights you get to have about that. Obviously, the issue is that the Patriots aren't doing anything to keep track of who they made such agreements with. If they wanted to only let particular people into the stadium, that's not going to fly.
The parts of the article which are not altered are analogous to genes which are not affecting the "organism" of the article as severely (either positively or negatively) as the change which was effected.
Oh yes?
Are there are vestigial portions of every article that have nothing to do with the subject of the article? Do articles ever become something totally different by merging with other unrelated articles? Do articles experience a fitness algorithm (that doesn't rely on intelligence)?
I think the answer to these is "no." The analogy may work...kind of, but it has some serious flaws.
Would you ban all franchises, then, on the same basis? Or perhaps a company that owns a hardware store on one end of town and a home decor store on the other?
This is defintely a straw man. Unlike the case of most franchises, radio stations, and newspapers are a limited public resource (newspapers are a limited resource only because of the government bureaucracy that must be waded through in order to have one). Further, unlike a hardware store, they both naturally affect public opinion about them because they're media sources - so they're natural monopolies. Monopolies do bad things when they're confined to a region, but they get really bad when the get bigger.
It makes zero business sense, either in media or most any other industry.
This is where your argument falls apart. I'd go so far as to say that it profitability and productivity actually goes down when you go beyond a certain size in almost every industry because the people "running the show" become necessarily less detached from their target market and the people doing the work become detached from a profit-motive (because income isn't really tied to profitability and/or doing what they love). The only thing it does is make a few people very, very rich most of the time. The exception to this is commodities that everyone wants exactly the same way, like milk, gasoline, eggs, internet access, etc.
I think this is especially true of radio stations - which have local community listeners. The local operators are the ones who should be making the decisions because they're the ones who know their audience. Further, every area needs pretty much the same equipment. It's not like corporations get a big boost in efficiency because they're a corporation.
Of course in Europe a billion is one million million (bi-million). Thats why people say one thousand million - because it's completely different. Fixed that for you. The "US" usage of billion is more common worldwide, and increasingly more so. It keeps us all from having to deviate from the systematic approach. A trillion isn't a million million million, is it?
It gets really confusing when you're talking in powers of higher than that. A novemdecillion, for instance, is easy to calculate - that's nove - 9, dec-10, so 19 groups of "000" after the first. The formula for understanding the number is more complex under the french system, which is why it's falling out of common usage more and more worldwide.
While this is possibly true, the real purpose of the drilling is not understanding, but prevention of earthquakes.
Over five tons of sheep's bladders are going to be dumped directly into the hole. It is the firm belief of Arthur and all of his brave knights (and also Sir Robin), that this allow many more years of peace within this land...at least, as soon as the duck-weight based justice system is instituded.
I'm not sure where he got that either, but if you read between the lines, you can pick up this as a possibility. You can also figure out (by just looking at the Wikipedia entries), that this *isn't supposed to be possible now*.
Blu-Ray players will allow approved code to execute under a specific virtual machine. The specification for this virtual machine is specifically not known. It is forbidden to be known, actually, to prevent tampering. We have been assured, however that BD+ doesn't affect the state of the machine permanently.
Unfortunately, the current trouble with DVDs could easily be fixed by *removing* the need for this, by having firmware updates happen in the discs themselves, or by requiring internet access that's directed by BD+ to download new firmware (which is essentially the same thing as having BD+ do it, isn't it)?
Once you can do firmware updates, you can do what the GP is talking about, can't you?
The unfortunate truth is that most of humanity does not really qualify for the "sapiens" label in "homo sapiens".
Which is probably as it should be. As Wakko the animaniac said to the queen of England when she used the royal we, "How many people have you got in there?" I prefer sapience, and I like the sapient, but I don't know a single person that qualifies for the plural - who consists of multiple "sapiens."
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go prostate myself.
We lose profound knowledge about a culture and the way it sees the world.
Well...I don't know about profound. Is all knowledge profound? Are all cultures truly world-changing? I don't think so.
Unfortunately, since language is so powerful in molding minds...
Or is it the other way around? Could it be that a culture's location affect how the language evolves almost as much as vice-versa, if not more? This is not something you can just assume is true....we lose a lot when a language dies. To an anthropologist or linguist, this loss is irreplaceable, which is why there are projects about whose goal is to record native languages before their last speaker dies
This is arguably not universal. When you've got tens of thousands of similar languages in the same part of the world with the same way of life and same level of technology, does one language add a lot of knowledge? Some of these losses may be quite replaceable. While another language won't be exactly the same, it may yield up the same info about human civilization that another would - which is what anthropologists and linguists are interested in in this case. Even with extinct languages, we've got more culture than we've got culturalists to study.
English is getting stripped of a bunch of silly rules that were never really core to the language
What's at the core? IMHO, English *is* just a bunch of silly rules. I'm not sure that the core is actually part of the language itself, but rather the worldwide culture that has made it easy for new words, silly rules, and ideas to easily be added or removed.
Personally, I think of it as the perl of natural languages - there's many, many more ways than one to say it, and the language-culture includes built-in ways of modifying itself. Just like with perl, the many speech patterns that are possible make it so that it is possible for two speakers to not understand each other if they both know different areas of sublanguage.
Similarly, I expect that as concepts continue to emerge, new sublanguages will arrive. Some will be nothing more than jargon on top of existing things, but I imagine some will be more complete.
I like my logging. I have a complete history of everything that anyone has ever said to me available in the log, and I can always pick up where I left off.
We beat it with technology the way that we do with spam.
Instead of having a nationally maintained "do not call" list, we have a website maintained "do not answer" list. All unlisted numbers and numbers listed in the blacklist aren't allowed. We'd just need caller-id filters that can check against this list.
All we need then is for the phone companies to provide anyone who asks information about phone number changes for public entities, and it's all over as soon as it starts. No company on the "do not answer" list would ever be able to call you (without , and there's nothing they could do about it, because such lists would be maintained by private entities just like they are with spam, and would be updated with new numbers as soon as those numbers changed.
The question is, why hasn't this been done, and why doesn't anybody talk about doing it? Is it too cost prohibitive?
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I think he did mean capella. I used to play with those. I asked for an mp3 player for Christmas, and I asked for some music, or an instrument, and what did I end up with? A capella.
It doesn't even work right without at least four people to play. My capsela set was way cooler. It wasn't nothing, unlike the capella. It was an actual thing.
I remember taking it to class to demonstrate the concept of polarity by switching the wires connected to the battery and showing the motor changing direction (I was 7).
If you would add a cabin to one of these for foul weather, it should achieve 90% of what the technical side of this project hopes.
Of course, you won't get so many returns during foul weather...so much as retrievals - from ditches, cliff bottoms, in the grills of trucks, etc. Wherever your customers ended up after their uber-unsafe ride.
I suppose you could make some kind of arrangement with funeral companies to farm out business. That might recoup the losses from all the mangled-beyond-repair motorbikes...
Seriously, I think this could work, but we'd need not so much motorbike lanes, as motorbike tracks - which have nice, rounded edges going up quite a ways on either side to make sure that crashing is almost never fatal, or damaging to the vehicles. That may actually be more expensive than just not using bikes.
They don't have good senses of timing, of editing, of rhythm, or of narrative structure.
Fortunately, there's a ridiculously large number of professional writers who do, but who can't really break into Hollywood without so much work that they'd rather just be writers.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a new class of films where the writer is more like a director and the director is more like a camera coordinator.
in my mailbox for an unlimited amount of time, drop it in the mail when I'm done, and four days later have another one in my mailbox
30/4 (round down) = 7. So you get to exchange at maximum 7 times in a month.
You're paying more than the GP, and they're doing less work to make that happen. Doesn't really seem fair.
why does it matter if it's deemed "important"
Think of a random proper noun that's got multiple usages. Now think of a usage that you have heard for it before. (My thought was "Alice", followed by "Alice in Wonderland").
Now go to Wikipedia and search for that first term and see how long it takes to get to the second.
You probably found the thing you wanted, or an article that points you to it in a single link.
Now imagine the same, except that *every single example of that proper noun in existence is included*.
That's way too much stuff to easily search through it.
The point is that we need filtering to make search work, but currently the delete filter is too overzealous because the editors are applying a domain-independent importance determination that doesn't work when applied to web-only based anything. This needs to change.
that he was a computer science undergrad
He was not. He was an ECE undergrad. They state it in the article. Which makes it even more impressive - this is an accomplishment that doesn't even really go along with his field.
I've seen it done using all analog circuitry. So it doesn't necessarily even have bits.
but Aquanoid and the like are essentially Pong
:))
Aquanoid? Is that an Arkanoid clone? Hmm....Google tells me that it is.
I think Tetris may have them all beat, though.
Don't you mean Fretris? Personally, I think the best original game ever is FreeCiv.
Will there be time to do either?
Pretty much always, yes. Just like now. A fast hurricane moves at 20MPH towards the shore, and most give warning many days in advance. Most are slower than that - especially the big, dangerous ones. Evacuating a city shouldn't take more than 48 hours.
And on that note, given how long it took to finally give an evac order for New Orleans, does it really matter?
Yes. New Orleans government was (and, considering that their mayor got reelected somehow, probably still is) fantastically corrupt. The consequence of this corruption is diverted emergency planning & training funds. I know because my company is in that industry. When the time came, the response was delayed because nobody was really prepared. In most cases, such a plan would go into effect immediately when disaster conditions are likely.
Ok, so their idea is "help consumers" by regulating it so everyone who owns a piece of spectrum has to make acquaintance for every device and service
See the OSI model. Idea is that the people who buy it only get to control the network layer and below. Not the application layer...or, more specifically, they will only have *full* control of the network layer and below.
so if they want IPTV over that spectrum the cell phone company must provide IPTV?
this seems a little counterproductive to me.
The provider just provides the network layer and anybody can run anything over it they like...just like the internet. You probably won't be able to do IPTV because it takes to much bandwidth. The regulation wouldn't say anything about that. However, VOIP has a pretty low bandwidth requirement...
You can perhaps see why wireless providers might have a problem with this. Nobody would need to buy minutes anymore. Only the amount of data used would be an issue, and we're all used to unlimited data by now, so we'd expect the same...
It's the end of their gravy train. Unless they can add some loopholes to keep them from actually having to do like the FCC is talking about.
The one that springs to mind is that I don't see anything in there that forces them to actually make use of this bandwidth. So the current batch of gravy-trainers could just buy the bandwidth and sit on it so that there's nobody implementing this and ruining their oligopoly. The other possible loophole I see is red tape. Just make sure that approved devices and technology used in this network are always so slow to be implemented that this network is always the slowest and least reliable compared to all the other kinds.
That second one seems like it could be a real problem. The FCC can always put into the contract, "use it or lose it," but it's a lot harder to enforce something like, "if your network is lame then we're taking it back."
"I pay for it,it is mine"
I don't think that anyone would argue that the ticket belongs to the ticket holder, and that they can do whatever they want with it: rip it up, sell it, eat it, etc. The physical thing is yours to do with whatever you like.
But who does the stadium belong to? Who do the teams belong to?
It isn't the ticket holders. Do the owners of those things have the rights to do whatever they want with them?
Because it seems like your argument favors that they do because it's "natural," though your conclusion seems to claim the opposite...
I personally don't think that there's anything natural at all about selling someone the privilege of sitting in a specific location for a specific period of time in order to view a specific activity. It is not at all obvious what rights you get to have about that. Obviously, the issue is that the Patriots aren't doing anything to keep track of who they made such agreements with. If they wanted to only let particular people into the stadium, that's not going to fly.
The parts of the article which are not altered are analogous to genes which are not affecting the "organism" of the article as severely (either positively or negatively) as the change which was effected.
Oh yes?
Are there are vestigial portions of every article that have nothing to do with the subject of the article?
Do articles ever become something totally different by merging with other unrelated articles?
Do articles experience a fitness algorithm (that doesn't rely on intelligence)?
I think the answer to these is "no." The analogy may work...kind of, but it has some serious flaws.
Would you ban all franchises, then, on the same basis? Or perhaps a company that owns a hardware store on one end of town and a home decor store on the other?
This is defintely a straw man. Unlike the case of most franchises, radio stations, and newspapers are a limited public resource (newspapers are a limited resource only because of the government bureaucracy that must be waded through in order to have one). Further, unlike a hardware store, they both naturally affect public opinion about them because they're media sources - so they're natural monopolies. Monopolies do bad things when they're confined to a region, but they get really bad when the get bigger.
It makes zero business sense, either in media or most any other industry.
This is where your argument falls apart. I'd go so far as to say that it profitability and productivity actually goes down when you go beyond a certain size in almost every industry because the people "running the show" become necessarily less detached from their target market and the people doing the work become detached from a profit-motive (because income isn't really tied to profitability and/or doing what they love). The only thing it does is make a few people very, very rich most of the time. The exception to this is commodities that everyone wants exactly the same way, like milk, gasoline, eggs, internet access, etc.
I think this is especially true of radio stations - which have local community listeners. The local operators are the ones who should be making the decisions because they're the ones who know their audience. Further, every area needs pretty much the same equipment. It's not like corporations get a big boost in efficiency because they're a corporation.
It gets really confusing when you're talking in powers of higher than that. A novemdecillion, for instance, is easy to calculate - that's nove - 9, dec-10, so 19 groups of "000" after the first. The formula for understanding the number is more complex under the french system, which is why it's falling out of common usage more and more worldwide.
While this is possibly true, the real purpose of the drilling is not understanding, but prevention of earthquakes.
Over five tons of sheep's bladders are going to be dumped directly into the hole. It is the firm belief of Arthur and all of his brave knights (and also Sir Robin), that this allow many more years of peace within this land...at least, as soon as the duck-weight based justice system is instituded.
I'm not sure where he got that either, but if you read between the lines, you can pick up this as a possibility. You can also figure out (by just looking at the Wikipedia entries), that this *isn't supposed to be possible now*.
Blu-Ray players will allow approved code to execute under a specific virtual machine. The specification for this virtual machine is specifically not known. It is forbidden to be known, actually, to prevent tampering. We have been assured, however that BD+ doesn't affect the state of the machine permanently.
Unfortunately, the current trouble with DVDs could easily be fixed by *removing* the need for this, by having firmware updates happen in the discs themselves, or by requiring internet access that's directed by BD+ to download new firmware (which is essentially the same thing as having BD+ do it, isn't it)?
Once you can do firmware updates, you can do what the GP is talking about, can't you?
The unfortunate truth is that most of humanity does not really qualify for the "sapiens" label in "homo sapiens".
Which is probably as it should be. As Wakko the animaniac said to the queen of England when she used the royal we, "How many people have you got in there?" I prefer sapience, and I like the sapient, but I don't know a single person that qualifies for the plural - who consists of multiple "sapiens."
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go prostate myself.
The effect can be produced using a pretty simple inline filter. You can even use a digital one if you like.
How about for actually accomplishing something?
Sort of like how we have nobel prizes, etc. we also have celestial body naming.
Also...hot women. I've always liked the idea of celestial bodies named after celestial bodies.
Think about it, the only two possible exceptions to this in the whole of the 20th century were the atomic/hydrogen bombs and possibly the internet.
Transistors, assembly lines, and discovery of Chomsky's hierarchy are a few order-of-magnitude type improvements that come to mind.
Of course, there's also the obvious one: computers. Obviously they've had order of magnitude improvements every eighteen months.
We lose profound knowledge about a culture and the way it sees the world.
...we lose a lot when a language dies. To an anthropologist or linguist, this loss is irreplaceable, which is why there are projects about whose goal is to record native languages before their last speaker dies
Well...I don't know about profound. Is all knowledge profound? Are all cultures truly world-changing? I don't think so.
Unfortunately, since language is so powerful in molding minds...
Or is it the other way around? Could it be that a culture's location affect how the language evolves almost as much as vice-versa, if not more? This is not something you can just assume is true.
This is arguably not universal. When you've got tens of thousands of similar languages in the same part of the world with the same way of life and same level of technology, does one language add a lot of knowledge? Some of these losses may be quite replaceable. While another language won't be exactly the same, it may yield up the same info about human civilization that another would - which is what anthropologists and linguists are interested in in this case. Even with extinct languages, we've got more culture than we've got culturalists to study.
English is getting stripped of a bunch of silly rules that were never really core to the language
What's at the core? IMHO, English *is* just a bunch of silly rules. I'm not sure that the core is actually part of the language itself, but rather the worldwide culture that has made it easy for new words, silly rules, and ideas to easily be added or removed.
Personally, I think of it as the perl of natural languages - there's many, many more ways than one to say it, and the language-culture includes built-in ways of modifying itself. Just like with perl, the many speech patterns that are possible make it so that it is possible for two speakers to not understand each other if they both know different areas of sublanguage.
Similarly, I expect that as concepts continue to emerge, new sublanguages will arrive. Some will be nothing more than jargon on top of existing things, but I imagine some will be more complete.
I like my logging. I have a complete history of everything that anyone has ever said to me available in the log, and I can always pick up where I left off.
Pidgin has *almost* replaced e-mail for me.
We beat it with technology the way that we do with spam.
Instead of having a nationally maintained "do not call" list, we have a website maintained "do not answer" list. All unlisted numbers and numbers listed in the blacklist aren't allowed. We'd just need caller-id filters that can check against this list.
All we need then is for the phone companies to provide anyone who asks information about phone number changes for public entities, and it's all over as soon as it starts. No company on the "do not answer" list would ever be able to call you (without , and there's nothing they could do about it, because such lists would be maintained by private entities just like they are with spam, and would be updated with new numbers as soon as those numbers changed.
The question is, why hasn't this been done, and why doesn't anybody talk about doing it? Is it too cost prohibitive?
No more than anything that causes overwealming pleasure, like Heroin, or Crack, or...
You might have a pretty good point there.