Those people actually exist. Seriously... it's like they don't even know what B.C. and A.D. stand for. 1611 KJV handwritten by Jesus himself... it's hard to believe they've read the Bible at all when they think that kind of thing.
Whenever one of them starts bugging me I just ask if they believe in Unicorns. When they inevitably say that they DON'T... I show them where the KJV uses the word unicorn several times.
It's because of the hebrew word rheem which they didn't understand in 1611. Some kind of strong animal... huh... must be those unicorns we've heard of! Later on it was found out that rheem is an auroch.
So some people (namely me) have far worse than average memory (which definitely implies there are others with far better than average memory
Okay Mr. Glass, you now know your purpose in life... to find the man with a memory opposite of yours... to discover this great champion of human memory. To find this man... you must be willing to make great sacrifices.
As I read this I thought... "Why announce something and not release it? Everyone will bug you until you do, now you have to do it"
Then I realized... ahah! This creates a buzz and demand for the information that wasn't there before. If he'd simply released it how many would have noticed? Yet mentioning it first creates controversy and gets people insisting on their right to the information guaranteeing instant popularity and followup discussion.
Yeah I should have figured this out months ago in the lead-up to the Cablegate thing... I'm slow. (See ironic sig)
Hey does anyone remember the old file transfer protocol you could use on some BBS systems during the 1990s?
I can't remember the name of it anymore, but you would essentially get double speed while sending and receiving two files at the same time. It seemed impossible but timing the transfers always showed that it worked as promised.
I think it's the pipe bomb instructions that can backfire on people. There's many important little details to keep in mind. You know like, be sure to drill the hole THEN put the cap on. Ooops.
It's also easy to get some powder in the treads and make it pop while screwing it together.
I've seen plenty of guys with missing fingers just from setting off firecrackers, so how many idiots messed up trying to make their own pipe bombs for fun?
For govt produced media I'd agree with you, in the OP I was really speaking about corporate owned media which is what most of our television broadcasts are made up of. Generally corporations use copyrights to assert control over their creations which would be fine if they were trying to sell them, but at times they seek to destroy them or hide their mistakes using copyright as a shield. If you do some searching for racist cartoons you'll find a lot of examples of a constant back and forth with people posting offensive cartoons from Disney, Warner, etc... and then the producer of the video forcing a removal of it. Really copyrights give corporations the power to delete culture and history. Which is why I state if they take it away it should be ours not locked in a vault somewhere forever.
But in the USA you do something like that you end up in court.
"But your honor, I was only trying to help them."
"Your honor, he has no RIGHT to help us!"
But seriously it would be a great clause in the copyright scheme that if a copyrighted work is taken out of distribution it should automatically go public domain. Otherwise publishers can simply delete history like those old racist Warner Brothers videos they keep taking down from Youtube.
Why does that number get thrown around a lot? It's nice and round I suppose. If you're trying not to offend fundamentalists you'd really want to go with 6,000 years ago so is 10,000 a compromise of some sort?
That's all good as long as they make it visitor friendly. I hate being relegated to the non-FasTrack ghetto while passing through Orange County California.
I think the situation is different with a national landmark unless they want a bunch of rental car companies getting bills in the mail everyday.
Overall I dislike FasTrack and the ability of a private company to give out traffic fines.
Actually, in the salinification/desertification example, it's not too late. It can be done any time, and on any scale from a few square km up. But we can't and won't do it on a large scale. Research proceeds on a small scale. Google for "bocage" plus other agriculture-related terms. The information is there, but it's mostly academic, with no local governments getting involved in solving the problem. And note the two meanings of that word "academic", which explains a lot about our attitude toward big problems that we can't organize to solve.
Sounds like a great business plan to me. Specialize in "desert recovery", charge some huge fee to make previously useless land usable and green. Build said fences... sit around and do nothing for a year, advertise your services and use that as more evidence. Soon the whole country will be banging down your door and paying you millions.
Just don't forget to make a renewable contract on said land and include your stipulations for how much water must be used in it.
Lots of support for it, but they had no say in it's design. It will be a de facto standard based on the size of Youtube. It remains to be seen how future WebM versions will be developed.
Like their "chatty" network client architecture? I remember the first time I saw a switch full of local Windows clients, each with Outlook open in the background and constant NETBIOS pings every 15 minutes. It looked like a christmas tree with all the lights blinking with every broadcast and reply, "Hello I'm still here" over and over. And that's a basically idle network.
Compared to a room full of Linux machines where you can just look at the switch and go "So and so is downloading, these 2 are checking their email and this one is tab loading a bunch of webpages".
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Those people actually exist. Seriously... it's like they don't even know what B.C. and A.D. stand for. 1611 KJV handwritten by Jesus himself... it's hard to believe they've read the Bible at all when they think that kind of thing.
Whenever one of them starts bugging me I just ask if they believe in Unicorns. When they inevitably say that they DON'T... I show them where the KJV uses the word unicorn several times.
It's because of the hebrew word rheem which they didn't understand in 1611. Some kind of strong animal... huh... must be those unicorns we've heard of! Later on it was found out that rheem is an auroch.
Wow. "G4"???
They've fallen soo far from tech they're named after an obsolete CPU! That IS sad. :-/
Okay Mr. Glass, you now know your purpose in life... to find the man with a memory opposite of yours... to discover this great champion of human memory. To find this man... you must be willing to make great sacrifices.
Would you feel the same about a "tasteful, nude male background"?
Can you see a penis without "going nuts"?
As I read this I thought... "Why announce something and not release it? Everyone will bug you until you do, now you have to do it"
Then I realized... ahah! This creates a buzz and demand for the information that wasn't there before. If he'd simply released it how many would have noticed? Yet mentioning it first creates controversy and gets people insisting on their right to the information guaranteeing instant popularity and followup discussion.
Yeah I should have figured this out months ago in the lead-up to the Cablegate thing... I'm slow. (See ironic sig)
Hey does anyone remember the old file transfer protocol you could use on some BBS systems during the 1990s?
I can't remember the name of it anymore, but you would essentially get double speed while sending and receiving two files at the same time. It seemed impossible but timing the transfers always showed that it worked as promised.
Blue collar workers.
So that really WAS the book after all. I downloaded a copy of that as a kid and it seemed so stupid I figured I'd gotten a fake one.
I think it's the pipe bomb instructions that can backfire on people. There's many important little details to keep in mind. You know like, be sure to drill the hole THEN put the cap on. Ooops.
It's also easy to get some powder in the treads and make it pop while screwing it together.
I've seen plenty of guys with missing fingers just from setting off firecrackers, so how many idiots messed up trying to make their own pipe bombs for fun?
For govt produced media I'd agree with you, in the OP I was really speaking about corporate owned media which is what most of our television broadcasts are made up of. Generally corporations use copyrights to assert control over their creations which would be fine if they were trying to sell them, but at times they seek to destroy them or hide their mistakes using copyright as a shield. If you do some searching for racist cartoons you'll find a lot of examples of a constant back and forth with people posting offensive cartoons from Disney, Warner, etc... and then the producer of the video forcing a removal of it. Really copyrights give corporations the power to delete culture and history. Which is why I state if they take it away it should be ours not locked in a vault somewhere forever.
But in the USA you do something like that you end up in court.
"But your honor, I was only trying to help them."
"Your honor, he has no RIGHT to help us!"
But seriously it would be a great clause in the copyright scheme that if a copyrighted work is taken out of distribution it should automatically go public domain. Otherwise publishers can simply delete history like those old racist Warner Brothers videos they keep taking down from Youtube.
Why does that number get thrown around a lot? It's nice and round I suppose. If you're trying not to offend fundamentalists you'd really want to go with 6,000 years ago so is 10,000 a compromise of some sort?
Terminology certainly is relative.
As in Zoolander...
"The FILES are INSIDE the computer!"
Well since everyone is busy complaining about your request I'll just throw mine in.
I'm deaf you insensitive clods!
There.
That's all good as long as they make it visitor friendly. I hate being relegated to the non-FasTrack ghetto while passing through Orange County California.
I think the situation is different with a national landmark unless they want a bunch of rental car companies getting bills in the mail everyday.
Overall I dislike FasTrack and the ability of a private company to give out traffic fines.
Holy Crap!
RICE BOWL??
Somebody hurry up and say it so I can go "Godwin!"
It's most likely not a success but I just want to touch on the logical fallacy there.
Simply being unable to explain a phenomenon doesn't mean a scientist hasn't discovered something new.
Perhaps they simply gave them one of the first few common eliminators they use to reject amateur submissions.
Sounds like a great business plan to me. Specialize in "desert recovery", charge some huge fee to make previously useless land usable and green. Build said fences... sit around and do nothing for a year, advertise your services and use that as more evidence. Soon the whole country will be banging down your door and paying you millions.
Just don't forget to make a renewable contract on said land and include your stipulations for how much water must be used in it.
Lots of support for it, but they had no say in it's design. It will be a de facto standard based on the size of Youtube. It remains to be seen how future WebM versions will be developed.
Yes, but WHATEVER YOU DO. Do NOT apply that to Google and WebM.
I like how you said "they ain't got shit on me" rather than "I haven't done anything". ;-)
It's news to me! I only read Slashdot for the pictures.
Like their "chatty" network client architecture? I remember the first time I saw a switch full of local Windows clients, each with Outlook open in the background and constant NETBIOS pings every 15 minutes. It looked like a christmas tree with all the lights blinking with every broadcast and reply, "Hello I'm still here" over and over. And that's a basically idle network.
Compared to a room full of Linux machines where you can just look at the switch and go "So and so is downloading, these 2 are checking their email and this one is tab loading a bunch of webpages".
I agree, that was a terrible movie!