As much as we like Linux, it still has a long way to go. Also, for security purposes Debian is not really a contender. How can they even document or verify what they are running? From this url:
Debian creates and provides its entire distribution free of charge. Debian does not manufacture its own CDs, but relies on 3rd party vendors. To make it easier for CD vendors to provide a high quality disk we provide Official CD images for them. This is the only version that has been fully tested by our testing team and is by far the most popular way to buy Debian.
Have you even used OpenOffice? I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
I was wondering that as well. Also, this "study" seems like a correlational one, yet there are no correlation stats (pearson r, or whatever). And everyone knows that correlation does not mean causation.
All the nit picking aside, I'm impressed with this work from a freshman. Much better than anything I did the first couple of times as a freshman:)
One thing to keep in mind is that the US population is the largest of any industrialized nation. More people mean more customers (higher number of cd sales, more inovators (especially industrious immigrants (god this is looking like lisp))). Plus the cd sale data ignores the fact that the cd medium is still fairly new, and a good number of the sales could have come from people upgrading from other formats, etc. I guess you see the problems with correlations.
.50 per mp3 is sometihng people would be willing to pay if you are good, if you arent all that good,.25 per mp3.
If I were a musician, I would prefer to play on a street corner with a hat for ppl's change, vs wasting my time collecting change over the internet.
Its your job as a music company to improve the listeners music experience.
Now this is big. Maybe, just maybe if CDs took after video DVDs and added extra material like that found on a DVD, then people will see the purchase as something with value. They could actually have a 2nd disk full of different bitrate/encoding types. Remember that physical cd production/distribution is practically free.
Right now, the only thing different from a mp3 and a cd for most ppl is 1) no album art/liner notes and 2) the two play on different equipment. Also, note RIAA guys, that the latter is not offered in your business model if the equipment is anything besides a regular cd player.
This infamous "last mile" has been holding things up for at least 5 years now. I don't believe that this is still the case. The demand and the hardware are there. But then again, companies like @HOME can go bankrupt while being a monopoly in a high demand market, so there must be many, many things I don't know about business.
I tried to go with another phone provider besides Verizon in my area, and Verizon (after a long delay) politely told the small phone company that the "port could not be opened".
So, I went w/o a phone for a few _months_ and finally went crawling back to Verizon.
Almost 2 years later, Cox Cable calls me and asks "Would you like to switch to our phone network and save $10 a month?" I said yes.
I dunno where they learned math at Cox, but I've always thought that 26 == 26, where 26 is the number of dollars per month for my phone.
Upon finding this out, I promptly cut my phone and cable from Cox.
I realize that phones are much more expensive in other countries, but the system is pretty fucked here in the US. One perfect example: _all_ (land line) phone companies charge extra _every month_ for caller ID. All of us know that this is part of the phone infrastructure (both ends have to know who's connected to who) and costs the phone company $0, and they want me to pay for this? Same with all of the other "services" that are charged monthly.
I don't understand how my isp bill for $15/month can get me anywhere in the world, but the phoneline that connects me less than 20 miles away costs almost 2x that. Something is not right.
why can't we have an international group of policy makers for the computing world?
Sounds great, but why stop at the computing world? With the "global economy" and market it would seem logical to have a global government/law enforcement, but I don't see this happening any time soon. Multinational corps like being able to pick and choose which country to use for labor and legal reasons. Also, there is national pride within each nation, and the US has pretty much declared themselves policeman of the world since WWII.
Also, their already are a number of existing standards committees, and we all know how well those are followed.
*Scenario* A man takes a cigarette and allegedly dies from lung cancer from it.
In this scenario, the cigarrette manufacturer is to blame, which has spawned parallel cases where ppl have sued gun manufacturers. Guns have not been found liable, cigarette manufacturers have.
Moral: Don't smoke, kill people, or (illegally) trade files.
Actually, its kinda irrelevant. Is it really worth $100 to park in a handicapped place for 5 minutes? Was killing Nicole Brown really worth $33.5 million (OJ Simpson, for those that forgot)?
Damages like this are not absolute because the crime is not tangible. But noone will worry about these things if they don't park in handicapped spots, kill people, or download/upload music that they have no right to do so.
With a gesture system, there will be a tendency to wait and see if the system has properly recognized your motions before returning your attention to the road.
With any phone system, there will be a tendancy to wait and see if the person has properly recognized your previous statement before returning your attention to the road.
According to the study, rubbernecking accounted for 16 percent of accidents reported. This was followed by driver fatigue, which was responsible for 12 percent, looking at scenery or landmarks (10 percent), passenger or child distractions (nine percent), adjusting the radio, tape or CD player (seven percent), and cell phone use (five percent).
True. But the new trend is that these ppl don't see themselves as low lifes, and are entitled to the efforts of others.
I've seen it in college - "Where's my A?", welfare and unemployment "Where's my check?", p2p "Where's my music?", etc.
Actually, in Japan, this is much less of a phenominon. For example, all gas stations (or at least what my Japanese roomate told me) are full service, and they pay much more for it. That is thier version of welfare. Here (USA) we want the cheap gas, and separated from those wellfare folks.
why we have to pay for the material the book is made out of and the shelves that hold the books and the people that make and stock them when we could do it all digitally
OK, you pay for the disk space, the internet connection, and maintain the website or whatever digital distribution method you speak of and give it away for free.
Just look at Corning! The company is now BANKRUPT all based on what is now fully dis-credited "junk science" that somehow linked immunodeficiency illnesses to silicone breast implants.
Wrong. Corning filed bankrupsy to try to get out of the breast implant case.
There is no such thing a "real" science, or at least the way you present it.
Science is a process. Remember Newton's "Laws"? Also the "real" sciences that you talk about are simple compared to the "soft" ones. Control of the environment is almost trivial in physics and chemistry, and almost impossible with live subjects. Also, there is almost no variability in physics (aside from quantum mechanics). Variablility between subjects and within subjects exists in the social sciences, and because of this, modern statistics were designed to measure wether or not there is a significant difference between trials and/or groups.
For almost every study in psychology, there are at least 2 studies that contradict the results of that study, and there are studies to contradict those studies.
Thats science. Maybe it would be better to rely on intuition or dogma for our perception of the universe? None of them are right or wrong.
And especially in psychology, any result can be reproduced, given the right amount of time, and good resources
This is true of anything. The result you talk about something that was observed and measured by an imperfect person. How is this any different than Newton being hit by an apple?
The solution, I think, is on a per-case basis: have the judge evaluate the relevant science before the trial begins. If it is accepted, it is admissible. If it is not submitted for approval, or if it is not accepted, then it is not admissible.
So lets just say fuckit and have 1 person determine what will be presented in court. Thats not very scientific, now is it?
law (or at least lawyers) start with a conclusion-guilt or innocence-and look for evidence that can be construed to support this conclusion and ways to undermine evidence against the conclusion
Actually, I believe its the other way around. The lawyers here in the US are supposed to uphold the law, not the defendant's guilt or innocence. An ideal defense attourney could care less if the defendant commited the crime, they are defending the law and the defendants rites and the rites of citizens as a whole. The guilt or innocence is especially irrelevant to the judge and jury. The judge is supposed to be impartial throughout the trial while upholding the law, and the jury is told to not make a decision until all evidence has been presented.
Science, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion (hypothesis) and look for evidence that can support or (more correctly) negate that conclusion.
Unfortunately science isn't always as concrete as say mathematics.
Science is not concrete, period. Science is a process of negating existing theories, and positing new ones. And these theories are based upon our observations via our senses. My senses 1st told me that the topic was "10th Anniversary of Supreme Court's Dilbert Ruling".
Science is a way of knowing, not the way of knowing.
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Felons may not have bulletproof vests as well, which I classify as self defense.
What about this?
As much as we like Linux, it still has a long way to go. Also, for security purposes Debian is not really a contender. How can they even document or verify what they are running? From this url:
Debian creates and provides its entire distribution free of charge. Debian does not manufacture its own CDs, but relies on 3rd party vendors. To make it easier for CD vendors to provide a high quality disk we provide Official CD images for them. This is the only version that has been fully tested by our testing team and is by far the most popular way to buy Debian.
Have you even used OpenOffice? I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
how do you measure innovation?
:)
I was wondering that as well. Also, this "study" seems like a correlational one, yet there are no correlation stats (pearson r, or whatever). And everyone knows that correlation does not mean causation.
All the nit picking aside, I'm impressed with this work from a freshman. Much better than anything I did the first couple of times as a freshman
One thing to keep in mind is that the US population is the largest of any industrialized nation. More people mean more customers (higher number of cd sales, more inovators (especially industrious immigrants (god this is looking like lisp))). Plus the cd sale data ignores the fact that the cd medium is still fairly new, and a good number of the sales could have come from people upgrading from other formats, etc. I guess you see the problems with correlations.
.50 per mp3 is sometihng people would be willing to pay if you are good, if you arent all that good, .25 per mp3.
If I were a musician, I would prefer to play on a street corner with a hat for ppl's change, vs wasting my time collecting change over the internet.
Its your job as a music company to improve the listeners music experience.
Now this is big. Maybe, just maybe if CDs took after video DVDs and added extra material like that found on a DVD, then people will see the purchase as something with value. They could actually have a 2nd disk full of different bitrate/encoding types. Remember that physical cd production/distribution is practically free.
Right now, the only thing different from a mp3 and a cd for most ppl is 1) no album art/liner notes and 2) the two play on different equipment. Also, note RIAA guys, that the latter is not offered in your business model if the equipment is anything besides a regular cd player.
This infamous "last mile" has been holding things up for at least 5 years now. I don't believe that this is still the case. The demand and the hardware are there. But then again, companies like @HOME can go bankrupt while being a monopoly in a high demand market, so there must be many, many things I don't know about business.
I tried to go with another phone provider besides Verizon in my area, and Verizon (after a long delay) politely told the small phone company that the "port could not be opened".
So, I went w/o a phone for a few _months_ and finally went crawling back to Verizon.
Almost 2 years later, Cox Cable calls me and asks "Would you like to switch to our phone network and save $10 a month?" I said yes.
I dunno where they learned math at Cox, but I've always thought that 26 == 26, where 26 is the number of dollars per month for my phone.
Upon finding this out, I promptly cut my phone and cable from Cox.
I realize that phones are much more expensive in other countries, but the system is pretty fucked here in the US. One perfect example: _all_ (land line) phone companies charge extra _every month_ for caller ID. All of us know that this is part of the phone infrastructure (both ends have to know who's connected to who) and costs the phone company $0, and they want me to pay for this? Same with all of the other "services" that are charged monthly.
I don't understand how my isp bill for $15/month can get me anywhere in the world, but the phoneline that connects me less than 20 miles away costs almost 2x that. Something is not right.
You mean like ODMA?
However, we all know how well standards are followed, not "extended", etc.
why can't we have an international group of policy makers for the computing world?
Sounds great, but why stop at the computing world? With the "global economy" and market it would seem logical to have a global government/law enforcement, but I don't see this happening any time soon. Multinational corps like being able to pick and choose which country to use for labor and legal reasons. Also, there is national pride within each nation, and the US has pretty much declared themselves policeman of the world since WWII.
Also, their already are a number of existing standards committees, and we all know how well those are followed.
*Scenario* A man takes a cigarette and allegedly dies from lung cancer from it.
In this scenario, the cigarrette manufacturer is to blame, which has spawned parallel cases where ppl have sued gun manufacturers. Guns have not been found liable, cigarette manufacturers have.
Moral: Don't smoke, kill people, or (illegally) trade files.
Actually, its kinda irrelevant. Is it really worth $100 to park in a handicapped place for 5 minutes? Was killing Nicole Brown really worth $33.5 million (OJ Simpson, for those that forgot)?
Damages like this are not absolute because the crime is not tangible. But noone will worry about these things if they don't park in handicapped spots, kill people, or download/upload music that they have no right to do so.
Wake me up when there are realworld symbolic links!
With a gesture system, there will be a tendency to wait and see if the system has properly recognized your motions before returning your attention to the road.
With any phone system, there will be a tendancy to wait and see if the person has properly recognized your previous statement before returning your attention to the road.
Yup. Thats what this study found.
True. But the new trend is that these ppl don't see themselves as low lifes, and are entitled to the efforts of others.
I've seen it in college - "Where's my A?", welfare and unemployment "Where's my check?", p2p "Where's my music?", etc.
Actually, in Japan, this is much less of a phenominon. For example, all gas stations (or at least what my Japanese roomate told me) are full service, and they pay much more for it. That is thier version of welfare. Here (USA) we want the cheap gas, and separated from those wellfare folks.
why we have to pay for the material the book is made out of and the shelves that hold the books and the people that make and stock them when we could do it all digitally
OK, you pay for the disk space, the internet connection, and maintain the website or whatever digital distribution method you speak of and give it away for free.
Maybe a clear way to put it is via a question.
What if everybody behaved this way?
Then there would be no content to steal, infringe, or whatever you want to call it.
Public notary maybe?
5) How will a cert get revoked?
This is a big problem with PKI. Remember when some developers posed as Microsoft developers and wrote some signed/trusted java codes?
The only way for this to work would be to verify every email. I don't think this is possible.
Just look at Corning! The company is now BANKRUPT all based on what is now fully dis-credited "junk science" that somehow linked immunodeficiency illnesses to silicone breast implants.
0 6a and many other links.
Wrong. Corning filed bankrupsy to try to get out of the breast implant case.
Or at least according to http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur28.htm and http://overlawyered.com/archives/00oct1.html#0010
There is no such thing a "real" science, or at least the way you present it.
Science is a process. Remember Newton's "Laws"? Also the "real" sciences that you talk about are simple compared to the "soft" ones. Control of the environment is almost trivial in physics and chemistry, and almost impossible with live subjects. Also, there is almost no variability in physics (aside from quantum mechanics). Variablility between subjects and within subjects exists in the social sciences, and because of this, modern statistics were designed to measure wether or not there is a significant difference between trials and/or groups.
For almost every study in psychology, there are at least 2 studies that contradict the results of that study, and there are studies to contradict those studies.
Thats science. Maybe it would be better to rely on intuition or dogma for our perception of the universe? None of them are right or wrong.
And especially in psychology, any result can be reproduced, given the right amount of time, and good resources
This is true of anything. The result you talk about something that was observed and measured by an imperfect person. How is this any different than Newton being hit by an apple?
The solution, I think, is on a per-case basis: have the judge evaluate the relevant science before the trial begins. If it is accepted, it is admissible. If it is not submitted for approval, or if it is not accepted, then it is not admissible.
So lets just say fuckit and have 1 person determine what will be presented in court. Thats not very scientific, now is it?
law (or at least lawyers) start with a conclusion-guilt or innocence-and look for evidence that can be construed to support this conclusion and ways to undermine evidence against the conclusion
Actually, I believe its the other way around. The lawyers here in the US are supposed to uphold the law, not the defendant's guilt or innocence. An ideal defense attourney could care less if the defendant commited the crime, they are defending the law and the defendants rites and the rites of citizens as a whole. The guilt or innocence is especially irrelevant to the judge and jury. The judge is supposed to be impartial throughout the trial while upholding the law, and the jury is told to not make a decision until all evidence has been presented.
Science, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion (hypothesis) and look for evidence that can support or (more correctly) negate that conclusion.
OT, but I'll comment.
Unfortunately science isn't always as concrete as say mathematics.
Science is not concrete, period. Science is a process of negating existing theories, and positing new ones. And these theories are based upon our observations via our senses. My senses 1st told me that the topic was "10th Anniversary of Supreme Court's Dilbert Ruling".
Science is a way of knowing, not the way of knowing.
Has the GPL been proven (held up in court) in any legal system?
I thought I had seen somewhere that it has never really been tested.
No, they don't make them like they used to :)
FM is pretty low quality, especially since the dynamic range is squashed so much.