You could be right, but none of the things you listed creates wealth, so I'm not sure what the point of listing them was. What, other than labour, creates wealth?
Knowledge. And not just knowledge gained through experimentation or research, sometimes you can gain profitable information just looking out the window at the right moment.
He's behind the times, the Texas law got overturned in 2008 after the Supreme Court made it possible by saying that laws that control private sexual conduct to enforce a moral code was unconstitutional.
Last I knew, Alabama was the only state with laws against the sale of sex aids.
Think about how many Christians think only the New Testament is valid. Then watch a sampling of sunday morning Christian television or a sampling of Christians on various talking head shows.
One gets the impression that the Christians that shape opinion and policy aren't very Christ-like. I realize that asking for even "quasi-Christ-like" is asking a lot of humans, but I wonder if the ones on TV and those in government are really even trying.
Do you know this from personal experience? How many times did you repeat the experiment to ensure it was not an anomaly? Do we trust the advice of someone who jumped off the windward side of a building more than once? =)
Heh, indeed. However, one can also learn from observation.
Until somebody gets a hold of the government private keys. Then all those systems that were made assuming the government keypairs would never change will be screwed. Alternatively, the update mechanism will be compromised in those systems that allowed for change.
Plus, you can tell who was in the group of programmers developing this because they will never get a traffic ticket again. (Your name is "mister invisible"? Well, your ID checks out...)
A) You are mistaking "floatiness" for purity. The floating stuff might be a lower grade of ore, it just happens to be on the high flux side of the planet B) It is kind of hard to mine shit that floats. If you dig away to much of the ore, it falls on you. If you clear to much dross, it flys off into space
B makes since without having to wank over the properties of imaginary minerals and planets, but A) makes some sense because they stated in the movie that the floating mountains was in an area of high-flux that screwed up the instruments.
Humans are mining an alien planet for a special mineral worth lots, primitive natives harass them and also happen to live on top of a large vein of it.
Protagonist is an ex-jarhead paraplegic that is twin to a scientist who got shot before the movie. The scientist twin and some others are studying the natives by tele-operating clones, because the aliens are 15 ft tall and breathe methane. The tele-operated clones require the operator to have the similar DNA Jarhead protagonist initially sides with the mining corp and intends to get the natives to move out
Jarhead meets blue girl, goes Dances with Wolves, becomes part of the tribe, gets laid. Jarhead now sides with natives
Mining co gets tired of waiting and "Shock and Awes" the giant tree the natives live in Jarhead convinces natives to fight back Natives beat high-tech with the aid of the semi-sentient planet
Jarhead gets consciousness permanently installed in blue clone and lives happily ever after with Smurfette
Oregon Trail taught me cost analysis, supply chain management, and opportunity costs:)
Don't buy expensive supplies when you can buy cheap bullets, shoot food, and then trade for supplies. Don't shoot fast small animals when you can shoot large slow animals.
Why couldn't I have a bigger wagon and some drying racks so I could take the whole damn buffalo?
My oldest book is from around 1930. I can't read it anymore, because it is too fragile to open. I wish I had scanned it 20 years ago, except scanners were still pretty damn expensive back then. One of these days I'll probably bite the bullet and scan it anyway, but the spine won't survive and I'll probably lose some characters around the edges when they crumble.
Information goes bad when the storage medium goes bad. If you copied all your disks when you got a new drive, you'd still have them. I've still got all my Amiga software because I copied them when I switched to PCs and can still run them in an emulator.
Back then, even serials and penny dreadfuls were still too expensive, people would form clubs to buy just one and share it and plagiarism was rife. They were printed on cheap pulp that rarely lasted.
Most didn't even bother registering for copyright because they couldn't enforce it. The only numbers I have handy show that after the US started giving copyrights, 556 works were copyrighted in the first decade, but 13,000+ were published. How many are still around?
Well made books cost such that even the middle class could only afford a few, so they bought just the classics. Heck, I have a few novels from 90 years ago and they've gone crumbly and yellow, certainly won't last 300 years.
Yes, but if an author can't get an advance from a publishing company, fewer authors will be able to afford to take the time away from their "real jobs" to write a book.
Um, no. Unless you already have several popular books, you couldn't feed a dog on an author's advance, let alone a family. Your second book advance might feed the dog, if you were already halfway done when your first was published.
The way that an author can afford to write them is by taking an advance and writing the book. It's the advances that keep the author fed, clothed, and sheltered between books if it's budgeted properly.
The way an author stays fed, clothed and sheltered is the author's spouse:)
Books were probably the second computer-pirated items after software, back when they were typed by hand because it only takes one bored person to do so and then everybody has it. If you don't like digital you can find a printer that costs a penny a page these days.
And, as someone who watches over a few printers, I'm glad they don't make cheap automatic binding machines that take office paper, or I'd have to start a quota at work.
The only thing preventing epaper books from taking off is lack of marketing and the fact that books aren't as popular as music. We just need the Ipod of book readers or a few more "half the women/children on the continent read it" books to tip the scales.
Hell, my mom learned how to pirate so she could get those harry potter crappy book-on-floor scans before her pre-ordered hardcopy arrived. And much like her Ipod, her ebooks consists of pirated copies of stuff she owns in another format, pirated copies of stuff that aren't possible to buy, and legit copies of stuff that is cheaper to buy electronically than physically.
What, like an openRD client? It's like $250 currently.
If you want cheaper and don't care about lots of ports and local storage, you can use a USB video card with a Sheevaplug for $100+cost of the USB dongle.
If you saw it in 3d, the theater you were in might not have had a sufficiently awesome projector and frame rate would have been halved(same total, just split between left/right).
The big feline looked a bit like a panther version of the 6 legged felinoid from Winds of Altair to me and the "invading another world using remote-controlled bodies" mechanic was in book that as well, albeit clones vs implanting local sapients.
I think that point comes when you look at the world you live in and see that we are obsessed with death and mayhem on the news, while in the real world, many people suffer and we (as a collective) do nothing to aid their lives.
Apparently you missed the last, oh, 4000 years.
Shakespeare, Homer, Roman gladiatorial combat, even old Mesopotamian pottery makers, all did suffering and death as the best entertainment. Previous cultures generally did zilch to help the rest of humanity, unless they wanted to "civilize" them through slavery and conquest.
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I already need glasses to see just a 2d tv, you insensitive clod!
Knowledge. And not just knowledge gained through experimentation or research, sometimes you can gain profitable information just looking out the window at the right moment.
He's behind the times, the Texas law got overturned in 2008 after the Supreme Court made it possible by saying that laws that control private sexual conduct to enforce a moral code was unconstitutional.
Last I knew, Alabama was the only state with laws against the sale of sex aids.
Several ereaders have "jump to page X" or "jump to X%" features.
Think about how many Christians think only the New Testament is valid. Then watch a sampling of sunday morning Christian television or a sampling of Christians on various talking head shows.
One gets the impression that the Christians that shape opinion and policy aren't very Christ-like. I realize that asking for even "quasi-Christ-like" is asking a lot of humans, but I wonder if the ones on TV and those in government are really even trying.
I'd be more afraid of a cargo ship full of conventional explosives sailing into NY harbor than a nuke in NYC. Simply more feasible.
Heh, indeed. However, one can also learn from observation.
Until somebody gets a hold of the government private keys. Then all those systems that were made assuming the government keypairs would never change will be screwed. Alternatively, the update mechanism will be compromised in those systems that allowed for change.
Plus, you can tell who was in the group of programmers developing this because they will never get a traffic ticket again. (Your name is "mister invisible"? Well, your ID checks out...)
possible reason:
A) You are mistaking "floatiness" for purity. The floating stuff might be a lower grade of ore, it just happens to be on the high flux side of the planet
B) It is kind of hard to mine shit that floats. If you dig away to much of the ore, it falls on you. If you clear to much dross, it flys off into space
B makes since without having to wank over the properties of imaginary minerals and planets, but A) makes some sense because they stated in the movie that the floating mountains was in an area of high-flux that screwed up the instruments.
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Humans are mining an alien planet for a special mineral worth lots, primitive natives harass them and also happen to live on top of a large vein of it.
Protagonist is an ex-jarhead paraplegic that is twin to a scientist who got shot before the movie.
The scientist twin and some others are studying the natives by tele-operating clones, because the aliens are 15 ft tall and breathe methane.
The tele-operated clones require the operator to have the similar DNA
Jarhead protagonist initially sides with the mining corp and intends to get the natives to move out
Jarhead meets blue girl, goes Dances with Wolves, becomes part of the tribe, gets laid.
Jarhead now sides with natives
Mining co gets tired of waiting and "Shock and Awes" the giant tree the natives live in
Jarhead convinces natives to fight back
Natives beat high-tech with the aid of the semi-sentient planet
Jarhead gets consciousness permanently installed in blue clone and lives happily ever after with Smurfette
The end
And remember, jump with the wind, if possible.
It isn't pleasant when you jump on the windward side and get blown into the side of the building.
It looks like the regular popcorn hour, but neutered. No on-disk storage, no local streaming/media server.
Oregon Trail taught me cost analysis, supply chain management, and opportunity costs:)
Don't buy expensive supplies when you can buy cheap bullets, shoot food, and then trade for supplies.
Don't shoot fast small animals when you can shoot large slow animals.
Why couldn't I have a bigger wagon and some drying racks so I could take the whole damn buffalo?
Um, except that statement isn't true. People who had legit copies weren't affected.
They only deleted copies from one vendor who was committing copyright infringement, because 1984 is still under the excessively long US copyright.
On the other hand, anyone sufficiently paranoid to back up their files didn't lose anything.
My oldest book is from around 1930. I can't read it anymore, because it is too fragile to open. I wish I had scanned it 20 years ago, except scanners were still pretty damn expensive back then. One of these days I'll probably bite the bullet and scan it anyway, but the spine won't survive and I'll probably lose some characters around the edges when they crumble.
Information goes bad when the storage medium goes bad. If you copied all your disks when you got a new drive, you'd still have them. I've still got all my Amiga software because I copied them when I switched to PCs and can still run them in an emulator.
There is some selection bias going on.
Back then, even serials and penny dreadfuls were still too expensive, people would form clubs to buy just one and share it and plagiarism was rife. They were printed on cheap pulp that rarely lasted.
Most didn't even bother registering for copyright because they couldn't enforce it. The only numbers I have handy show that after the US started giving copyrights, 556 works were copyrighted in the first decade, but 13,000+ were published. How many are still around?
Well made books cost such that even the middle class could only afford a few, so they bought just the classics. Heck, I have a few novels from 90 years ago and they've gone crumbly and yellow, certainly won't last 300 years.
Um, no. Unless you already have several popular books, you couldn't feed a dog on an author's advance, let alone a family. Your second book advance might feed the dog, if you were already halfway done when your first was published.
The way an author stays fed, clothed and sheltered is the author's spouse:)
Books were probably the second computer-pirated items after software, back when they were typed by hand because it only takes one bored person to do so and then everybody has it. If you don't like digital you can find a printer that costs a penny a page these days.
And, as someone who watches over a few printers, I'm glad they don't make cheap automatic binding machines that take office paper, or I'd have to start a quota at work.
The only thing preventing epaper books from taking off is lack of marketing and the fact that books aren't as popular as music. We just need the Ipod of book readers or a few more "half the women/children on the continent read it" books to tip the scales.
Hell, my mom learned how to pirate so she could get those harry potter crappy book-on-floor scans before her pre-ordered hardcopy arrived. And much like her Ipod, her ebooks consists of pirated copies of stuff she owns in another format, pirated copies of stuff that aren't possible to buy, and legit copies of stuff that is cheaper to buy electronically than physically.
Sort of like how book publishers will become editing & advertising agencies.
You can shoot a film (on film) for $7K if you don't blow your money on expensive locations, huge effects, and overpaid actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
What, like an openRD client? It's like $250 currently.
If you want cheaper and don't care about lots of ports and local storage, you can use a USB video card with a Sheevaplug for $100+cost of the USB dongle.
Probably not, since hulu expired the video.
Got another link?
If you saw it in 3d, the theater you were in might not have had a sufficiently awesome projector and frame rate would have been halved(same total, just split between left/right).
The big feline looked a bit like a panther version of the 6 legged felinoid from Winds of Altair to me and the "invading another world using remote-controlled bodies" mechanic was in book that as well, albeit clones vs implanting local sapients.
Apparently you missed the last, oh, 4000 years.
Shakespeare, Homer, Roman gladiatorial combat, even old Mesopotamian pottery makers, all did suffering and death as the best entertainment. Previous cultures generally did zilch to help the rest of humanity, unless they wanted to "civilize" them through slavery and conquest.