Seems I've seen a bumper sticker somewhere - Nothing ever imrpoves with Government involvement.
Government involvement in this case is kind of ridiculous. This is completely a defense of corporations thing and corporations should have to deal with it themselves. Protect their own content or change their business model. If the government wants to help out, have an Arts Fund where a portion of everyone's taxes goes to struggling artists (and I think that's about 99% of them, no pun intended). Don't spend time or taxpayer dollars taking away the arts from people just to put money in the middle-man's hand.
Hire someone to professionally record your CD. Market yourself on MySpace, your local radio station, Facebook. Wiggle your way onto iTunes indie list. Profit.
The RIAA is the marketing part which is the key to getting rich. But the Internet, and a lot of your own work, lets you skip them and still get your music out there and maybe even eat. And it'll just keep getting easier. The RIAA should work harder on concerts and forget the royalties for recording. They'll shrink considerably, but that's probably a good thing at this point.
With regards to the "one molecule affects the next", there's this kid theory that still considers the universe a type of aether -- the one that was debunked in the Michaelson-Morley experiment last century. You could consider existence to be a big blob of jello and matter as we know it is just perturbations in the jello. Perturb the jello *here* and it will affect the jello *there* to a certain extent, depending on distance, other perturbations, etc. Jello could be swapped with spacetime, of course, but spacetime doesn't allow for everything being inherently connected -- vacuums matter too much.
So if you knew the initial conditions of the universe, you could conceivably predict everything since, if you knew how the perturbations affected each other. It would be difficult of course (pretty much impossible) but if you consider that the previous occurrence directly defines what the next occurrence will be...
Okay, this is going to be totally knocked off as irrelevant but I thought I'd share.:-)
Not sure of the Fiska car is a sports car...it'd better be for $100K. But if you're interested in comparing the MPG between the two, the Tesla Roadster Wikipedia entry has an interesting breakdown of how it's calculated for electric cars. Short answer is it's about 123 MPG, but it's more complicated than that.
And a handy tidbit: apparently the replacement battery for the Tesla (7 years or 70,000 miles) is $12,000. And a funny story: getting off the ferry back home, a Tesla Roadster was parked on the curb with an attendant (probably the guy driving it onto the boat for the owner). Some young adults were unlocking their bike right next to it and they tipped over and missed it by about an inch. What happens when you accidentally scratch a $100,000 car? I'm assuming the owner just deals with it -- I mean, if you can toss $12,000 at a battery replacement, you likely can afford the insurance premium for a buff and paint job.
Just had a cop come by the university to discuss this. In California at least, photos like that are not admissible as evidence. They may allow the police to get your laptop back, but if you press charges those photos, keystrokes, etc are going to be thrown out before they ever see the judge.
Don't you have Find My Mac or something like that on MacBooks? I thought logmein was more of a VPN thing.
Technology makes the need for people less necessary in those jobs. Jobs that can't be replaced by tech should be where people are looking. But even then you can't have that many jobs.
So at some point, we become artists. Creators, inventors, etc
Really? Someone is trying to do what they do, but isn't actually bothering to go through the steps to become a cop?
That's a misread -- I mean I'm happy there are people who want to be police. Superheroes (or people trying to be heroes dressed in superhero-like costumes) are interesting and my internal jury is still out on whether vigilantism is useful.
Agree here. Cops have a pretty awful job and I have to say I'm happy someone is trying to do what they do. Their day is full of difficult conversations and meeting people who have questionable moral ethics. Rarely are police called upon to help someone -- usually it's to arrest someone after the fact. If you want to know why cops can be such jerks upon arrival it's because they don't know what they are walking into. Do you have a knife? A gun? Which one of you three is actually the problem? So you take control quickly and that generally means telling people what to do in a brusque manner.
Friend went through the academy and one scenario is police being called to handle what seems to be a domestic dispute. You knock, the door opens, and you see the person who opened the door, another person sitting on a chair, and someone in the back out of sight. There's a knife sitting on a table out of reach of the person on the chair but further from you than him. So you really have no idea what's going on, there's a dangerous weapon in sight, and an unknown in the back room. I believe the proper way to handle it was to request backup, ask permission to enter, place yourself between the knife and everyone else, call the person from the back room with his hands empty, then start trying to find out what happened. But what if someone reaches into their coat pocket, or even behind them -- are they going for a gun?
While I realize than an MMO is a different beast, I played the original EQ for a couple years and found that dungeon crawling in that game was actually pretty good. Aside from the time it takes to kill something (anything), you definitely have the "down in the tunnels" feeling on a lot of the areas, including the hopelessness of no retreat should something go wrong. Dungeons and Dragons Online was better, I suppose, I just never got into it. I played EQ with first person view and I think that forever jaded me against over the shoulder dungeon crawlers. Sure it's tactically easier to play in over the shoulder mode, or diagonal, or whatever -- but it isn't quite as immersive and I feel the experience is less intense.
But yes..Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder -- great nostalgia.
I wish these people would STFU and stop worrying about my 'immortal soul'. I don't believe in their god, I don't care what they think is going to happen to me
And therein lies the lack of understanding of another person. Go back to my bus analogy. You see a guy standing in the street, facing the wrong direction...would you just shrug and say, "I guess he doesn't believe in that oncoming bus." More likely, whether he believed in the bus or not, you would try to save him. Don't say it's different, God and the bus, just because you believe it is.
I'm guessing the Phelps aren't like this, but I remember reading a letter to the editor in some mainstream magazine where the author said something like, "I don't understand how people can act this way. Their souls will be delivered to eternal torment in Hell. We HAVE to keep trying to change them to prevent that!"
Despite religion being mostly a community of mythologists, some people feel that Hell is as real as an oncoming bus while you're standing in the road. You NEED to listen! You need to get out of the road! Can't you see!
Umm...but that's sort of common in Christianity. "Praise God the doctor saved him!" And then, sure, when you miss the throw to first in little league, you receive an entirely different exclamation to God.
The doctrines of many religions seem to mean well. It's the practitioners who cause the problems. So if THAT'S what you meant, then I'm cool with you.:-)
There's no a mineral on Earth that, even if already processed into useable form and ready to shovel into a spacecraft's hatch, is worth mining in space.
Oh ye of little faith. I realize we are decades off from this, but consider material mining and processing in space if you're only using the product in space. If we can haul stuff around in no-gravity from other places and make it usable up there, it will be worth the effort. Biggest problem with working in space is that you're hauling all your supplies from a gravity well.
And the whole China thing -- wasn't really thinking they were a space racer, but they are competition in just about everything else. Many innovations have come from the military and I suspect that as China's need for resources grows they will be our next true competition economically and militarily. The "Red Scare" is a lot like "Muslim Terrorists" -- Communism was never the problem, it was competition for resources, wars almost always are.
"We go to the Moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard."
There's lots of innovation, but it's based around CEO income and stockholder investments. When we went to the Moon, we were threatened with the possibility of becoming #2 on a public stage. We may see this again with China, and redirect our public funds accordingly back to the space program. Or America may just roll over this time, financially broken after fighting multiple wars over the past 8 years. Or it may be that private industry, not public industry, gets the backing of huge investors and the Industrial Revolution begins again, this time to construct space-based mining platforms.
I realize that most great achievements come from either survival instinct or financial gain (which are related). "What's in it for me?" seems to be how things generally work. I'd like to see more basic research funded so we can have better nanotubes, more efficient RAM, and light sabers. Oh, and teleportation.
Funny, we were just discussing honor and came up with what it should mean:
If we need to fight, we do it one on one with rules we agree on. If I beat you into submission, our argument is over. I don't continue kicking you into the ground like Ender Wiggin. You don't gather your posse and shoot my dog and burn my house down the next day.
If people dealt with things honorably, we'd have a lot fewer problems in the world. Not just fighting rules, but any time.
Mal: This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make peoplebetter. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
. . . Jayne: Shepherd Book used to tell me, "If you can't do somethin' smart... do somethin' right."
I wish I had mod points. I'm not sure what people think protests are. Here's a hint: publicity. You go, you hoot, you holler, you sit in, you get in the way. And yep, if you do it during someone's speech you're likely to get arrested for disturbing the peace, etc. But then you, and your cause, are news which is the whole point -- you don't want to interrupt someone's speech, you want your cause to be heard. So you take one for the team and spend a few hours in jail. Don't be an idiot about it -- just lie there and let them take you in all friendly like.
If you don't want to be heard then yes, go stand in the free speech zone. That's what it's there for.
Meh. The government is hardly in trouble. A cut here or a cut there and we can throw a billion dollars at graphene research too. It's convincing the distinguished and respected senators where to make those cuts -- therein lies the problem.
It's actually meant to stir conversation. If you can "record information from the brain, analyze it in a way similar to the biological network, and return it to the brain" then, conceivably, you could borrow someone's knowledge and transplant it to someone else. What they've done here is sort of a step over a crack compared to jumping the Grand Canyon, but the concept is there.
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Seems I've seen a bumper sticker somewhere - Nothing ever imrpoves with Government involvement.
Government involvement in this case is kind of ridiculous. This is completely a defense of corporations thing and corporations should have to deal with it themselves. Protect their own content or change their business model. If the government wants to help out, have an Arts Fund where a portion of everyone's taxes goes to struggling artists (and I think that's about 99% of them, no pun intended). Don't spend time or taxpayer dollars taking away the arts from people just to put money in the middle-man's hand.
Hire someone to professionally record your CD.
Market yourself on MySpace, your local radio station, Facebook.
Wiggle your way onto iTunes indie list.
Profit.
The RIAA is the marketing part which is the key to getting rich. But the Internet, and a lot of your own work, lets you skip them and still get your music out there and maybe even eat. And it'll just keep getting easier. The RIAA should work harder on concerts and forget the royalties for recording. They'll shrink considerably, but that's probably a good thing at this point.
With regards to the "one molecule affects the next", there's this kid theory that still considers the universe a type of aether -- the one that was debunked in the Michaelson-Morley experiment last century. You could consider existence to be a big blob of jello and matter as we know it is just perturbations in the jello. Perturb the jello *here* and it will affect the jello *there* to a certain extent, depending on distance, other perturbations, etc. Jello could be swapped with spacetime, of course, but spacetime doesn't allow for everything being inherently connected -- vacuums matter too much.
So if you knew the initial conditions of the universe, you could conceivably predict everything since, if you knew how the perturbations affected each other. It would be difficult of course (pretty much impossible) but if you consider that the previous occurrence directly defines what the next occurrence will be...
Okay, this is going to be totally knocked off as irrelevant but I thought I'd share. :-)
Not sure of the Fiska car is a sports car...it'd better be for $100K. But if you're interested in comparing the MPG between the two, the Tesla Roadster Wikipedia entry has an interesting breakdown of how it's calculated for electric cars. Short answer is it's about 123 MPG, but it's more complicated than that.
And a handy tidbit: apparently the replacement battery for the Tesla (7 years or 70,000 miles) is $12,000. And a funny story: getting off the ferry back home, a Tesla Roadster was parked on the curb with an attendant (probably the guy driving it onto the boat for the owner). Some young adults were unlocking their bike right next to it and they tipped over and missed it by about an inch. What happens when you accidentally scratch a $100,000 car? I'm assuming the owner just deals with it -- I mean, if you can toss $12,000 at a battery replacement, you likely can afford the insurance premium for a buff and paint job.
I wonder what would be more expensive:
1) Building a holodeck using 3D technology, force feedback, etc.
2) Hiring a few set designers and a dozen actors to live out your holodeck fantasies (and all that might entail).
Just had a cop come by the university to discuss this. In California at least, photos like that are not admissible as evidence. They may allow the police to get your laptop back, but if you press charges those photos, keystrokes, etc are going to be thrown out before they ever see the judge.
Don't you have Find My Mac or something like that on MacBooks? I thought logmein was more of a VPN thing.
Technology makes the need for people less necessary in those jobs. Jobs that can't be replaced by tech should be where people are looking. But even then you can't have that many jobs.
So at some point, we become artists. Creators, inventors, etc
Really? Someone is trying to do what they do, but isn't actually bothering to go through the steps to become a cop?
That's a misread -- I mean I'm happy there are people who want to be police. Superheroes (or people trying to be heroes dressed in superhero-like costumes) are interesting and my internal jury is still out on whether vigilantism is useful.
Agree here. Cops have a pretty awful job and I have to say I'm happy someone is trying to do what they do. Their day is full of difficult conversations and meeting people who have questionable moral ethics. Rarely are police called upon to help someone -- usually it's to arrest someone after the fact. If you want to know why cops can be such jerks upon arrival it's because they don't know what they are walking into. Do you have a knife? A gun? Which one of you three is actually the problem? So you take control quickly and that generally means telling people what to do in a brusque manner.
Friend went through the academy and one scenario is police being called to handle what seems to be a domestic dispute. You knock, the door opens, and you see the person who opened the door, another person sitting on a chair, and someone in the back out of sight. There's a knife sitting on a table out of reach of the person on the chair but further from you than him. So you really have no idea what's going on, there's a dangerous weapon in sight, and an unknown in the back room. I believe the proper way to handle it was to request backup, ask permission to enter, place yourself between the knife and everyone else, call the person from the back room with his hands empty, then start trying to find out what happened. But what if someone reaches into their coat pocket, or even behind them -- are they going for a gun?
Job sucks.
While I realize than an MMO is a different beast, I played the original EQ for a couple years and found that dungeon crawling in that game was actually pretty good. Aside from the time it takes to kill something (anything), you definitely have the "down in the tunnels" feeling on a lot of the areas, including the hopelessness of no retreat should something go wrong. Dungeons and Dragons Online was better, I suppose, I just never got into it. I played EQ with first person view and I think that forever jaded me against over the shoulder dungeon crawlers. Sure it's tactically easier to play in over the shoulder mode, or diagonal, or whatever -- but it isn't quite as immersive and I feel the experience is less intense.
But yes..Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder -- great nostalgia.
Me then: Hey grandma, go to this URL and download and install VNC.
Me now: Hey grandma, go to this URL and download and install Chrome.
Not seeing how the authentication works yet, I'm guessing VNC might actually be simpler.
I wish these people would STFU and stop worrying about my 'immortal soul'. I don't believe in their god, I don't care what they think is going to happen to me
And therein lies the lack of understanding of another person. Go back to my bus analogy. You see a guy standing in the street, facing the wrong direction...would you just shrug and say, "I guess he doesn't believe in that oncoming bus." More likely, whether he believed in the bus or not, you would try to save him. Don't say it's different, God and the bus, just because you believe it is.
I'm guessing the Phelps aren't like this, but I remember reading a letter to the editor in some mainstream magazine where the author said something like, "I don't understand how people can act this way. Their souls will be delivered to eternal torment in Hell. We HAVE to keep trying to change them to prevent that!"
Despite religion being mostly a community of mythologists, some people feel that Hell is as real as an oncoming bus while you're standing in the road. You NEED to listen! You need to get out of the road! Can't you see!
It's a little spooky.
Umm...but that's sort of common in Christianity. "Praise God the doctor saved him!" And then, sure, when you miss the throw to first in little league, you receive an entirely different exclamation to God.
The doctrines of many religions seem to mean well. It's the practitioners who cause the problems. So if THAT'S what you meant, then I'm cool with you. :-)
There's no a mineral on Earth that, even if already processed into useable form and ready to shovel into a spacecraft's hatch, is worth mining in space.
Oh ye of little faith. I realize we are decades off from this, but consider material mining and processing in space if you're only using the product in space. If we can haul stuff around in no-gravity from other places and make it usable up there, it will be worth the effort. Biggest problem with working in space is that you're hauling all your supplies from a gravity well.
And the whole China thing -- wasn't really thinking they were a space racer, but they are competition in just about everything else. Many innovations have come from the military and I suspect that as China's need for resources grows they will be our next true competition economically and militarily. The "Red Scare" is a lot like "Muslim Terrorists" -- Communism was never the problem, it was competition for resources, wars almost always are.
Kennedy's Moon Speech
"We go to the Moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard."
There's lots of innovation, but it's based around CEO income and stockholder investments. When we went to the Moon, we were threatened with the possibility of becoming #2 on a public stage. We may see this again with China, and redirect our public funds accordingly back to the space program. Or America may just roll over this time, financially broken after fighting multiple wars over the past 8 years. Or it may be that private industry, not public industry, gets the backing of huge investors and the Industrial Revolution begins again, this time to construct space-based mining platforms.
I realize that most great achievements come from either survival instinct or financial gain (which are related). "What's in it for me?" seems to be how things generally work. I'd like to see more basic research funded so we can have better nanotubes, more efficient RAM, and light sabers. Oh, and teleportation.
If you'd just provide your home telephone number and email address, I'll be happy to reply to your post in a meaningful way.
I wonder if my Borders Reward Points, along with my personal information, will transfer to B&N. At least that would be something.
"If it leads to violence, neither side is right, and neither side wins."
But with an honor system, at least you get your ass kicked once and you shake hands and move on.
Funny, we were just discussing honor and came up with what it should mean:
If we need to fight, we do it one on one with rules we agree on. If I beat you into submission, our argument is over. I don't continue kicking you into the ground like Ender Wiggin. You don't gather your posse and shoot my dog and burn my house down the next day.
If people dealt with things honorably, we'd have a lot fewer problems in the world. Not just fighting rules, but any time.
Way better quote:
Mal: This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make peoplebetter. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
. . .
Jayne: Shepherd Book used to tell me, "If you can't do somethin' smart... do somethin' right."
I wish I had mod points. I'm not sure what people think protests are. Here's a hint: publicity. You go, you hoot, you holler, you sit in, you get in the way. And yep, if you do it during someone's speech you're likely to get arrested for disturbing the peace, etc. But then you, and your cause, are news which is the whole point -- you don't want to interrupt someone's speech, you want your cause to be heard. So you take one for the team and spend a few hours in jail. Don't be an idiot about it -- just lie there and let them take you in all friendly like.
If you don't want to be heard then yes, go stand in the free speech zone. That's what it's there for.
Meh. The government is hardly in trouble. A cut here or a cut there and we can throw a billion dollars at graphene research too. It's convincing the distinguished and respected senators where to make those cuts -- therein lies the problem.
I don't even know about it and everything just works (including all my addons)
How does the number and functionality of your Chrome Add-ons compare to Firefox add-ons?
To be fair, two spaces after a sentence close is normal. One space after a comma.
Okay, people ask these kinds of questions:
1) In case they miss something
2) They don't have to spend time looking
3) Everyone else is informed of the solution for their own education*.
*Education: that knowledge you may or may not need right away, but could be useful in the future.
It's actually meant to stir conversation. If you can "record information from the brain, analyze it in a way similar to the biological network, and return it to the brain" then, conceivably, you could borrow someone's knowledge and transplant it to someone else. What they've done here is sort of a step over a crack compared to jumping the Grand Canyon, but the concept is there.
Why am I replying to a Coward?