Do yourself a favor and check out the Matrix Logic books by August Stern. I don't understand why the simple concept of logic as a vector process (a matrix process) isn't better known. I regret even mentioning the words vector and matrix, lest they put people off of understanding how simple the idea is. Conceptually deep, though.
Matrix Logic will completely reshape your head. I hope you truly want what you asked for.
I wanted a NeXT at that time. Man, $6500! But there was no Photoshop equivalent for NeXT, despite their photoshopped brochures, so I called their office in California (seriously) to see if they had any image manipulation software. The person on the phone, a very nice woman, only had scripts to read from. Later that week, though, I happened to see a piece of mail sent from the Free Software Foundation to a professor at my university. (Just the return address, not the contents of the letter.) That's when it first hit ME, that collaboration was an unstoppable idea, because code is modular and such. I had a terrible notion that it would all happen really quickly, that if I borrowed money to buy a NeXT, that free Photoshop-equivalent software would be available almost right away. I'm glad I waited for OS X.
So it's good that Linus came along with a much more realistic idea of time and what could be done with it, with perseverance. Kudos and happy birthday, Penguin person.
The phase space of this experiment is too large to explore with the simple rating system. No wonder the "survivors" all sound hyper-sequenced and repetitive, and nothing like Beethoven. What's happening is a bifurcation of the binary number space, because a music sequence is just a binary value occurring on a binary timeline, and each vote of plus or minus is a bifurcation of that space. An "i love it" vote is no less a simple plus, just a plus with extra survival chances.
The problem is that within the regions of binary space that are voted down, there could be much Beethoven, or even all of Beethoven - who could never be mistaken for OMD or The Magnetic Fields (sans lyrics).
The "evolutionary pressure" here is not astute, not deep. The "survivors" might have a glittering sonic quality, enough to get drive-by votes, but the set-up of the experiment could never teach us anything about music aesthetics. I suggest that this algorithm be re-purposed to selecting blinking patterns for Christmas light displays. Same thing, really - but it has nothing to teach us about music.
This is why the HTML 6 specification will include an olfactory tag, so that biologically compatible people can agree or disagree on the basis of body odor, rather than the meaning of their words. The W3C is also considering the inclusion of an IQ tag, to further facilitate meaningful communication. It is hoped that an advanced markup system will improve the basic functionality of the internet, while also mitigating many of the problems associated with the wrong people getting together online, for understandable but regrettable reasons. The W3C considers the biggest preventable threat to tomorrow's information exchange to be the population of children born as a result of those unfortunate online hookups.
I blame Gordon Gekko. No joke. Ever read Oliver Stone's comments about Wall Street? He's horrified by how many stockbrokers and money managers and accountants and traders come up to him and say, "Thanks. That movie changed my life." Gordon Gekko, who said he made 800 thou on his first real estate deal, and it was better than sex, but now it's just a day's pay. Gekko only got caught because he made the mistake of angering a protege who got too close. The latest batch of Gekko wannabes won't make that mistake.
Seriously, if anyone with inside information wanted to cash in on it, how difficult would it be not to get caught? Just make sure not to leave a trail or be obvious about it. In fact, this is probably factored in to every valuation - as a kind of value leakage, a toll. The cost of doing business. Things could only have gotten a lot more sophisticated since Gekko was king. We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
The same thing happened to songwriter, Steve Thompson, who posted a non-downloadable song he'd composed as an example of his work. (Recorded by Sheena Easton and Barbra Streisand.) Myspace cancelled his account until he took a ridiculous "copyright education program." He was lucky, in that a lawyer from Sony BMG sympathized and intervened.
Suppose the technology becomes so cheap that a hundred thousand motorists can be tracked by GPS in any given city, much less any given state. Why wouldn't the police want to deploy every available tracking device in a fishing expedition, even if no suspicion of wrong-doing guides their choice of who to track? The odds are that eventually someone innocent will be in the wrong place at an inauspicious time. I wouldn't want to be that person, then have to explain how "opportunity" is irrelevant, especially if there is any vaguely tenable argument for the presence of means and motive.
Let them get warrants. Let there be some oversight. The technology hasn't been banned. Presumption of innocence shouldn't begin in the courtroom.
I think this is astroturf too. I've seen it in other venues, as well. Business news, speculating about a Sprint bankruptcy. Sprint, propounding that they will back Clearwire if liquidity is a concern. It's all a lot of bullshit market manipulation, and not a Slashdot-worthy tech issue.
MoCap is a big deal in L.A. Where do you live? The RF approach sounds fishy to me - from off-the-shelf parts? Why haven't you already thought of collaborating with a prof at a school with programs in CGI and EE? One good youtube video would be enough to prove your point. There's something big missing in your story, like, it is hard to believe.
I have mod points, but will refrain from moderating any other comments in this discussion and post a reply instead, because you've nailed it. Wish you could be modded +6
When Wilder Penfield discovered that stimulating a subject's brain cells with an electrode would elicit a particular thought, action, memory or feeling - and in a repeatable fashion, if the same cells were stimulated again and again - a secondary discovery was made, one that is not well known. The subjects always thought that they had willed those thoughts, actions, memories and feelings into existence. They were unaware that any agency other than their own volition was responsible, even though they were well aware of what was being done to them.
It's very freaky, isn't it? That with a microvolt of electricity delivered to some region of your brain, you would think you'd decided of your OWN ACCORD to slap yourself in the forehead? To recall a childhood playground? To feel amorous or vindictive?
PET scans of psychopaths often show damage to the prefrontal cortex, which manage inhibition, but the damage is often so subtle that it's usually overlooked. Law enforcement isn't interested in providing excuses for criminal behavior, so it's rare that a neurologist is called in. Usually, the forensics are done as part of an academic research project. What prevents anyone from acting on a dark impulse, which we all have? Only a miniscule region of the brain that acts as an off switch to those impulses. Those regions are very delicate, and often the first clue to a neuropsychologist is evidence of a scar on the subject's forehead. Maybe the damage happened in a car accident. Maybe they were hit with a rock. Maybe they were dropped as babies. (No joke.)
It's well and good to quarantine such people, to protect society, but the deeper issue of moral responsibility isn't as trivial as your quote suggests. We all have a behavior or tendency we would like to control, but which we find difficult to manage. We all have thoughts that, if acted upon, would get us in deep trouble. The difference between a thought and an action might be a gram or two of brain cells (maybe not even that much) and nothing more.
Yeah, well? Does that mean eugenics is a good idea? Does that mean deep DNA screening is the most cost effective way of preventing crime? Whatever happens, moral outrage is about the bluntest instrument available. That thing you were thinking about yesterday? How you'd like to do something to your boss? Well, did you remand yourself to the police? That desire you felt for your wife's girlfriend? Uh oh. Acting on that impulse could have landed you in jail at one time in history, too.
There's a general misunderstanding I see here anytime record companies are discussed. Time after time, people say that the label pays for all sorts of things to help artists. The truth is that all of that stuff isn't given to the artists, it's an advance on future royalties.
The artist has to repay the label for the cost of recording an album. The labels charge artists for promotion, too. It's a universal practice to include a "breakage" fee, which means the artist only receives royalties on 90% of sales. Concert touring expenses are also recoupable, paid for by the artist. Royalties are calculated on wholesale prices, not retail prices, so deals with record clubs can be based on deeply discounted wholesale prices and lower royalties
The industry is geared to produce a few smash hit artists. Those who aren't given preferential treatment are generally stuck with big debt to the label. If the label decides not to release an artist's music, the artist can't release it on his own - and this happens quite a lot. The label can insist that the artist remain under contract for 7 years or more, while never releasing any recordings, so the artist is essentially silenced
There is no hope of getting a song on a commercial radio station without the influence of "independent promoters," who have a lock on what stations will play and only promote songs after receiving huge payments. Radio airtime has nothing to do with the merits of the music. No song gets played on commercial radio without a payment to an independent promoter
Most people who have very strong opinions against the music industry have little idea of exactly how bad the industry is. It's a rotten and corrupt industry.
I've often wondered if there'd be a market for hard drives especially designed for long-term archiving.
They'd be slow-spinning, with slow transfer rates, and hold less data per square centimeter of disk surface, for the extra magnetic integrity. Some archivists wouldn't mind if they were very large, too, or even very heavy. They could be shelved in a "slow cloud" backup warehouse. They'd be "set and forget" - used once to record the data, then shelved and hopefully never used again, and only when a slow data restoration would be no hardship.
Surely there's a niche market for an odd device with specs that emphasize duration of storage, rather than the usual "faster, smaller" attributes. Until those long-awaited chalcedony drives arrive, it seems there's a niche opportunity here for a low-volume, high-margin manufacturer.
I worked for the Postal Service for 13 years. I can't believe that 1 in 1000 disks would be broken as a result of normal mail processing, even OCR machined mail, much less 1 in 100 or 1 in 50. If that is truly happening, there can be only one reason - the disks are packaged improperly. That is, the packaging is especially designed to be chewed up in mail processing equipment. Is there one Postal worker here who could comment on Gamefly's packaging?
I would not be surprised if the packaging were unsuitable and Gamefly knew it, too. Where I worked, there were three large accounts - both with headquarters nearby - that simply would not listen to USPS feedback about how poorly suited their packaging was to the requirements of processing. One of them moved its headquarters to a different state, rather than simply change the kinds of envelopes it used. Their mail wasn't machinable (but could have been) and moved too slowly, but there was nothing the USPS could do about that, because hand-sorting is, well, slow. Another of the companies printed its catalogs with a highly glossy paper that was so slippery that catalogs would slide from their chutes in the sorting machine and go into the wrong outgoing containers, resulting in delays. The third had envelopes that were incredibly flimsy and incompatible with machining.
I just have to call bullshit on Gamefly. The Postal Service is an easy fall guy. Theft of such a magnitude is just not possible, not within the confines of the mail service. These people are honest and proud of it, except for the few inevitable bad apples.
Uh, but XCode is included with OS X on every Mac. Apple gives it away. It's a fully professional software development environment, and pretty amazing. You can register as a developer, which costs nothing, and get access to tons of documentation online. The iPhone SDK is downloadable for free and includes great tools, like an iPhone emulator and interface builder. Peace to you for enjoying Linux development, but Apple makes it really easy to be a software rockstar too.
Yes, it seemed mild to me too, so I transcribed TFV, in the interests of honesty and fairness. (I'm not a sympathizer of any sort!)
Here's the transcript:
People with limited capacities should be helped. Pensioners should be helped. Developing countries should be helped. And help must not only be simply in the form of giving the money, perpetuating the circle of poverty. Why negotiations at the WTO (?) are at an impasse? Because rich countries cannot meet the needs of the developing economies...let's be frank about it and open... One must look for a compromise, speaking of Russia and our partners in Europe, our partners in Europe and the United States and Indonesia... one needs fully fledged equal partnership. In many respects, our economies are complementary. Indeed, we've managed to achieve a lot in developing informatization, as we say of our society. A few years ago, imagine a village in Siberia with a computer system and internet access. We did it. We made it. We have a government program for that. In every school, I stress, every Russian school has both computer rooms and internet access. In the Far East, in the Far North, everywhere. This movement of IT in the society will continue as dictated by both the development of economy and society... No one would ever think of doubting opportunities of information offered by (the) internet as an open source for information and for opinion sharing. You may like something, you may not like something. But complete freedom is the word here. Speaking of the intentions of the State, we have a program, a federal program - it is called Electronic Russia. We intend to continue this individual program in cooperation with our partners, and it is great pleasure that we will accept, as we have done before, investments into this sector and will continue developing our own products and presenting them to the global market. Many companies of Russia are major operators of the cellular services in a number of the developed economies of the world and we will continue facilitating such experts in the future. We have quite a few coinciding interests in these and in this area of course we will find a few more. Many companies (I will not name them) work in these areas. Of course, it doesn't only deal with hardware, as they say, but also and most importantly with intellectual products, the software, Here we have a few things to offer to the market, and I am grateful to you for this allusion. Traditionally, we have a very strong school of mathematics in Russia, and our programmers are among the best in the world, no doubt about it, and nobody would contest it here, even our Indian colleagues. I would say, let's do [with] the job. Thank you.
Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire go before the FCC on November 4 to seek approval for a merger. It seems very fishy that this Cogent story is breaking right now. Anybody have any ideas on why Sprint might pull a stunt like this as a means to GAIN FCC approval? Or is the story originating from a competitor? Just doesn't look right, especially with the price of Sprint stock scraping bottom lately, despite the huge influx of investment from Google and others. (Billions.) Somebody please explain.
"No/. elitist would munge their grammar in such a fashion"
That should be, "No/. elitist would munge HIS grammar in such a fashion." Not knowing this will cost you 50 points on the SAT test.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are a few semi-cheesey series that might fit the bill.
7 Days Not too bad as is.
Code Name Eternity Very low budget feel.
Earth 2 As mentioned by others.
First Wave Not a terrible premise.
Harsh Realm Came out the same year as The Matrix.
Level 9 Hackers working for the government?
Space Above And Beyond
Space Precinct 2040 Like Barney Miller in space.
Starhunter Interesting premise.
TekWar William Shatner's trashterpiece.
The Invaders The most retro of the lot.
The Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne Too British.
The Sentinel Featuring Fiona Apple's brother.
The Starlost With Keir Dullea - already mentioned.
Time Trax Tootsie as the computer interface?
Total Recall 2070 Could have been better.
Welcome To Paradox
I think Harsh Realm and Level 9 would be the most interesting.
Do yourself a favor and check out the Matrix Logic books by August Stern. I don't understand why the simple concept of logic as a vector process (a matrix process) isn't better known. I regret even mentioning the words vector and matrix, lest they put people off of understanding how simple the idea is. Conceptually deep, though.
Matrix Logic will completely reshape your head. I hope you truly want what you asked for.
I wanted a NeXT at that time. Man, $6500! But there was no Photoshop equivalent for NeXT, despite their photoshopped brochures, so I called their office in California (seriously) to see if they had any image manipulation software. The person on the phone, a very nice woman, only had scripts to read from. Later that week, though, I happened to see a piece of mail sent from the Free Software Foundation to a professor at my university. (Just the return address, not the contents of the letter.) That's when it first hit ME, that collaboration was an unstoppable idea, because code is modular and such. I had a terrible notion that it would all happen really quickly, that if I borrowed money to buy a NeXT, that free Photoshop-equivalent software would be available almost right away. I'm glad I waited for OS X.
So it's good that Linus came along with a much more realistic idea of time and what could be done with it, with perseverance. Kudos and happy birthday, Penguin person.
The phase space of this experiment is too large to explore with the simple rating system. No wonder the "survivors" all sound hyper-sequenced and repetitive, and nothing like Beethoven. What's happening is a bifurcation of the binary number space, because a music sequence is just a binary value occurring on a binary timeline, and each vote of plus or minus is a bifurcation of that space. An "i love it" vote is no less a simple plus, just a plus with extra survival chances.
The problem is that within the regions of binary space that are voted down, there could be much Beethoven, or even all of Beethoven - who could never be mistaken for OMD or The Magnetic Fields (sans lyrics).
The "evolutionary pressure" here is not astute, not deep. The "survivors" might have a glittering sonic quality, enough to get drive-by votes, but the set-up of the experiment could never teach us anything about music aesthetics. I suggest that this algorithm be re-purposed to selecting blinking patterns for Christmas light displays. Same thing, really - but it has nothing to teach us about music.
This is why the HTML 6 specification will include an olfactory tag, so that biologically compatible people can agree or disagree on the basis of body odor, rather than the meaning of their words. The W3C is also considering the inclusion of an IQ tag, to further facilitate meaningful communication. It is hoped that an advanced markup system will improve the basic functionality of the internet, while also mitigating many of the problems associated with the wrong people getting together online, for understandable but regrettable reasons. The W3C considers the biggest preventable threat to tomorrow's information exchange to be the population of children born as a result of those unfortunate online hookups.
I blame Gordon Gekko. No joke. Ever read Oliver Stone's comments about Wall Street? He's horrified by how many stockbrokers and money managers and accountants and traders come up to him and say, "Thanks. That movie changed my life." Gordon Gekko, who said he made 800 thou on his first real estate deal, and it was better than sex, but now it's just a day's pay. Gekko only got caught because he made the mistake of angering a protege who got too close. The latest batch of Gekko wannabes won't make that mistake.
Seriously, if anyone with inside information wanted to cash in on it, how difficult would it be not to get caught? Just make sure not to leave a trail or be obvious about it. In fact, this is probably factored in to every valuation - as a kind of value leakage, a toll. The cost of doing business. Things could only have gotten a lot more sophisticated since Gekko was king. We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Erratum. Celine Dion, not Barbra Streisand.
The same thing happened to songwriter, Steve Thompson, who posted a non-downloadable song he'd composed as an example of his work. (Recorded by Sheena Easton and Barbra Streisand.) Myspace cancelled his account until he took a ridiculous "copyright education program." He was lucky, in that a lawyer from Sony BMG sympathized and intervened.
Suppose the technology becomes so cheap that a hundred thousand motorists can be tracked by GPS in any given city, much less any given state. Why wouldn't the police want to deploy every available tracking device in a fishing expedition, even if no suspicion of wrong-doing guides their choice of who to track? The odds are that eventually someone innocent will be in the wrong place at an inauspicious time. I wouldn't want to be that person, then have to explain how "opportunity" is irrelevant, especially if there is any vaguely tenable argument for the presence of means and motive.
Let them get warrants. Let there be some oversight. The technology hasn't been banned. Presumption of innocence shouldn't begin in the courtroom.
I think this is astroturf too. I've seen it in other venues, as well. Business news, speculating about a Sprint bankruptcy. Sprint, propounding that they will back Clearwire if liquidity is a concern. It's all a lot of bullshit market manipulation, and not a Slashdot-worthy tech issue.
No, the Soviets did that. Here's an old George Will column relating the tale. The subject of the column is Soviet industrial espionage.
MoCap is a big deal in L.A. Where do you live? The RF approach sounds fishy to me - from off-the-shelf parts? Why haven't you already thought of collaborating with a prof at a school with programs in CGI and EE? One good youtube video would be enough to prove your point. There's something big missing in your story, like, it is hard to believe.
I have mod points, but will refrain from moderating any other comments in this discussion and post a reply instead, because you've nailed it. Wish you could be modded +6
When Wilder Penfield discovered that stimulating a subject's brain cells with an electrode would elicit a particular thought, action, memory or feeling - and in a repeatable fashion, if the same cells were stimulated again and again - a secondary discovery was made, one that is not well known. The subjects always thought that they had willed those thoughts, actions, memories and feelings into existence. They were unaware that any agency other than their own volition was responsible, even though they were well aware of what was being done to them.
It's very freaky, isn't it? That with a microvolt of electricity delivered to some region of your brain, you would think you'd decided of your OWN ACCORD to slap yourself in the forehead? To recall a childhood playground? To feel amorous or vindictive?
PET scans of psychopaths often show damage to the prefrontal cortex, which manage inhibition, but the damage is often so subtle that it's usually overlooked. Law enforcement isn't interested in providing excuses for criminal behavior, so it's rare that a neurologist is called in. Usually, the forensics are done as part of an academic research project. What prevents anyone from acting on a dark impulse, which we all have? Only a miniscule region of the brain that acts as an off switch to those impulses. Those regions are very delicate, and often the first clue to a neuropsychologist is evidence of a scar on the subject's forehead. Maybe the damage happened in a car accident. Maybe they were hit with a rock. Maybe they were dropped as babies. (No joke.)
It's well and good to quarantine such people, to protect society, but the deeper issue of moral responsibility isn't as trivial as your quote suggests. We all have a behavior or tendency we would like to control, but which we find difficult to manage. We all have thoughts that, if acted upon, would get us in deep trouble. The difference between a thought and an action might be a gram or two of brain cells (maybe not even that much) and nothing more.
Yeah, well? Does that mean eugenics is a good idea? Does that mean deep DNA screening is the most cost effective way of preventing crime? Whatever happens, moral outrage is about the bluntest instrument available. That thing you were thinking about yesterday? How you'd like to do something to your boss? Well, did you remand yourself to the police? That desire you felt for your wife's girlfriend? Uh oh. Acting on that impulse could have landed you in jail at one time in history, too.
There's a general misunderstanding I see here anytime record companies are discussed. Time after time, people say that the label pays for all sorts of things to help artists. The truth is that all of that stuff isn't given to the artists, it's an advance on future royalties.
The artist has to repay the label for the cost of recording an album. The labels charge artists for promotion, too. It's a universal practice to include a "breakage" fee, which means the artist only receives royalties on 90% of sales. Concert touring expenses are also recoupable, paid for by the artist. Royalties are calculated on wholesale prices, not retail prices, so deals with record clubs can be based on deeply discounted wholesale prices and lower royalties
The industry is geared to produce a few smash hit artists. Those who aren't given preferential treatment are generally stuck with big debt to the label. If the label decides not to release an artist's music, the artist can't release it on his own - and this happens quite a lot. The label can insist that the artist remain under contract for 7 years or more, while never releasing any recordings, so the artist is essentially silenced
There is no hope of getting a song on a commercial radio station without the influence of "independent promoters," who have a lock on what stations will play and only promote songs after receiving huge payments. Radio airtime has nothing to do with the merits of the music. No song gets played on commercial radio without a payment to an independent promoter
Most people who have very strong opinions against the music industry have little idea of exactly how bad the industry is. It's a rotten and corrupt industry.
Read what Janis Ian has to say. Read The Truth about the Music Industry."
I've often wondered if there'd be a market for hard drives especially designed for long-term archiving.
They'd be slow-spinning, with slow transfer rates, and hold less data per square centimeter of disk surface, for the extra magnetic integrity. Some archivists wouldn't mind if they were very large, too, or even very heavy. They could be shelved in a "slow cloud" backup warehouse. They'd be "set and forget" - used once to record the data, then shelved and hopefully never used again, and only when a slow data restoration would be no hardship.
Surely there's a niche market for an odd device with specs that emphasize duration of storage, rather than the usual "faster, smaller" attributes. Until those long-awaited chalcedony drives arrive, it seems there's a niche opportunity here for a low-volume, high-margin manufacturer.
Check out Thunderstone. It's what they do, and they do it very well.
Why were you modded +5 insightful? You're just wrong. I have to plant a wasp larva on you for trying to get away with this.
Go here and read about 20 years of successful biological control of pest insect species
I worked for the Postal Service for 13 years. I can't believe that 1 in 1000 disks would be broken as a result of normal mail processing, even OCR machined mail, much less 1 in 100 or 1 in 50. If that is truly happening, there can be only one reason - the disks are packaged improperly. That is, the packaging is especially designed to be chewed up in mail processing equipment. Is there one Postal worker here who could comment on Gamefly's packaging?
I would not be surprised if the packaging were unsuitable and Gamefly knew it, too. Where I worked, there were three large accounts - both with headquarters nearby - that simply would not listen to USPS feedback about how poorly suited their packaging was to the requirements of processing. One of them moved its headquarters to a different state, rather than simply change the kinds of envelopes it used. Their mail wasn't machinable (but could have been) and moved too slowly, but there was nothing the USPS could do about that, because hand-sorting is, well, slow. Another of the companies printed its catalogs with a highly glossy paper that was so slippery that catalogs would slide from their chutes in the sorting machine and go into the wrong outgoing containers, resulting in delays. The third had envelopes that were incredibly flimsy and incompatible with machining.
I just have to call bullshit on Gamefly. The Postal Service is an easy fall guy. Theft of such a magnitude is just not possible, not within the confines of the mail service. These people are honest and proud of it, except for the few inevitable bad apples.
Uh, but XCode is included with OS X on every Mac. Apple gives it away. It's a fully professional software development environment, and pretty amazing. You can register as a developer, which costs nothing, and get access to tons of documentation online. The iPhone SDK is downloadable for free and includes great tools, like an iPhone emulator and interface builder. Peace to you for enjoying Linux development, but Apple makes it really easy to be a software rockstar too.
Yes, it seemed mild to me too, so I transcribed TFV, in the interests of honesty and fairness. (I'm not a sympathizer of any sort!)
Here's the transcript:
People with limited capacities should be helped. Pensioners should be helped. Developing countries should be helped. And help must not only be simply in the form of giving the money, perpetuating the circle of poverty. Why negotiations at the WTO (?) are at an impasse? Because rich countries cannot meet the needs of the developing economies...let's be frank about it and open... One must look for a compromise, speaking of Russia and our partners in Europe, our partners in Europe and the United States and Indonesia... one needs fully fledged equal partnership. In many respects, our economies are complementary. Indeed, we've managed to achieve a lot in developing informatization, as we say of our society. A few years ago, imagine a village in Siberia with a computer system and internet access. We did it. We made it. We have a government program for that. In every school, I stress, every Russian school has both computer rooms and internet access. In the Far East, in the Far North, everywhere. This movement of IT in the society will continue as dictated by both the development of economy and society... No one would ever think of doubting opportunities of information offered by (the) internet as an open source for information and for opinion sharing. You may like something, you may not like something. But complete freedom is the word here. Speaking of the intentions of the State, we have a program, a federal program - it is called Electronic Russia. We intend to continue this individual program in cooperation with our partners, and it is great pleasure that we will accept, as we have done before, investments into this sector and will continue developing our own products and presenting them to the global market. Many companies of Russia are major operators of the cellular services in a number of the developed economies of the world and we will continue facilitating such experts in the future. We have quite a few coinciding interests in these and in this area of course we will find a few more. Many companies (I will not name them) work in these areas. Of course, it doesn't only deal with hardware, as they say, but also and most importantly with intellectual products, the software, Here we have a few things to offer to the market, and I am grateful to you for this allusion. Traditionally, we have a very strong school of mathematics in Russia, and our programmers are among the best in the world, no doubt about it, and nobody would contest it here, even our Indian colleagues. I would say, let's do [with] the job. Thank you.
Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire go before the FCC on November 4 to seek approval for a merger. It seems very fishy that this Cogent story is breaking right now. Anybody have any ideas on why Sprint might pull a stunt like this as a means to GAIN FCC approval? Or is the story originating from a competitor? Just doesn't look right, especially with the price of Sprint stock scraping bottom lately, despite the huge influx of investment from Google and others. (Billions.) Somebody please explain.
No. The "his or her" construct is grammatically incorrect.
"No /. elitist would munge their grammar in such a fashion"
That should be, "No /. elitist would munge HIS grammar in such a fashion." Not knowing this will cost you 50 points on the SAT test.
Why was this modded Flamebait?