Spam would die if people realized the products being touted are available without the help of spammers, which are actually high-markup middlemen looking for suckers. For example, All Day Chemist is a favorite source of genuine generic Viagra in health-oriented forums discussing diabetes etc.. (healingwell.com, for example.) People buy counterfeit Rolexes from guys on street-corners, so where do those guys get them? Yeah, it's risky to admit where they come from, but if it were easy to find that info on the web, the middleman (egregious spammer) would suffer. People who fall for spam must do SOME web searching before giving up their credit card numbers.
I'm on a chess binge lately and have to say that the youtube repository of videos about Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov is just fascinating. Check out Fischer on the Dick Cavett show to see the how earnest and human Fischer was, for example. The game of chess itself is a formal system with a finite vector space that machines can eventually brute force, but what is interesting is how humans and their neural processing can match the machine approach. The people who play chess well, like Fischer and Kasparov and others, are much more interesting than any algorithm will ever be.
Seinfeld's motto was: "No hugging, no learning." Microsoft's motto is, "Embrace, extend and extinguish." No wonder Jerry and Bill have gone separate ways. One hates hugging, the other insists upon it.
The guys making bucks from RIAA suits are like Danny DeVito in that Matt Damon movie, The Rainmaker. They would have licenses to practice law if they were savvy enough. Don't think of them as legal entities, duly representing the power of the courts, they are just some guys filing paperwork and gloating about the gullibility of people who can't defend themselves. These guys think they're important every time a Slashdot article appears about their scare tactics. RIAA suits should come with a mandatory picture of Danny DeVito pretending to be a lawyer.
Media conglomerates don't want faster broadband in the U.S., and all of them have some stake in the companies that could deliver it. Their assets lose value unless they can keep our attention focused on and paying for their products. People on Slashdot seem to think the challenge is technological, when technology has little to do with it. The raw truth is that Big Media has so much influence over politics in the U.S. that broadband policy is completely subject to their approval. Their influence is impossible to overstate. No candidate running for office can risk running afoul of the news media monoculture, which means that the political parties, not just individuals, are held hostage.
So forget your arguments about population density and so on, they are completely naive. And imagining that only private enterprise can solve the problem, a public utility problem, also serves the interests of NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, News Corporation, and Time Warner
The Matrix Logic series of books by August Stern should give you some ideas. Maybe DARPA has the resources to test if isospin of oxygen is really the basis of intelligence, as Stern considers plausible, due to the vector basis of "logicspace." Look for that missing particle predicted by logic groups while you're at it. I don't know why those books aren't cited more, or why symbolic logic is still taught as it always has been, when matrix logic makes things so much clearer and more consistent. The vector approach to logic can also replace standard programming structures in everyday code. Instead of if-then or case structures, querying a truth table or testing for equivalence term by term--the usual practice in conventional logic, too--a matrix multiplication can calculate the answer directly, if the terms are properly conceptualized. The books are easy to read, too, very clear and straightforward. Everybody oughta check em out.
As to "telepathic spies," the Army's remote viewing program (a.k.a. STARGATE) shouldn't be regarded as a failure. It's an interesting topic, difficult to research due to an abundance of pseudo-science, but there are valid academic studies which conclude that the phenomenon is real. Oddly, remote-viewing success seems to be related to local sidereal time (pdf). The Telepathy episode of National Geographic's Naked Science examines some of the program's achievements and features Joe McMoneagle, who was agent 001 of the Stargate program, doing a successful demonstration.
DARPA deserves credit for being open-minded about a topic so easy to ridicule.
You're worried about sound? Check out what happens to light in the moon-man's visor. Reflections are backwards! Unless Nazis salute with their left arms in 2018.
Verizon paid 9.6 billion for C Block licenses, but Sprint-Nextel has a market cap of only 18 billion, so for 9 billion (more or less) Google could buy controlling interest. Sprint owns WiMax spectrum that reaches everywhere the C Block reaches, and has infrastructure in place that Google would have needed to capitalize on 700 MHz spectrum. Why buy spectrum when you can buy comparable spectrum PLUS a phone company? Google wouldn't have to buy them outright, or buy even 50 percent, either, just put up a few billion, and Sprint would essentially be theirs. Plus, they could still make use of unlocked Verizon and AT&T services.
Google's lobbying for open access was incredibly smart. What they didn't pay for spectrum could buy a whole phone company, one competing against companies burdened by all that auction debt.
Think of all the benefits to law inforcement, though. For example, when CSI finds DNA at a crime scene and it doesn't match a profile in the database, they can just create a human clone from the DNA and put it in jail. Case closed. Realistically, though, cloning will be expensive far into the future, so that only the wealthiest perps can afford clone surrogates to do their time. Repeat offender? No problem, just make more copies.
Last week, Oak Ridge announced development of a material that is virtually unwettable, a nanoetched powder that acts on surface tension and can be applied as a coating to almost any surface. A boat with a coated hull would become a water strider - one continuous stride. Much cooler news than this article.
The Mac PPC version seems to be amiss. During extraction, I noticed an.exe file (Wine routines?) but after completion, there was no Sage icon to click on, per the instructions. Might be a link to the wrong package?
You could use both types of software, commercial and open source, to reinforce the abstract concepts. In Photoshop, for example, the basic concepts are layers, selections, filters, brushes, levels, curves, etc., but when a digital artist plans an image, it's an abstract process, wholly independent of software interfaces (although familiarity with a particular interface can boost productivity). Many of those same concepts transfer to web design and film editing.
Also, the commercial versions of the software you mentioned are expensive, so your students might like to know that there are freeware alternatives to piracy.
Because you are faced with a time constraint, though, it might be better to go with the commercial products. There will be fewer technical snags, more options for further education, more employment opportunities and so on. Besides, as others here have said, the commercial versions available to you are quite advanced. More recent versions have cool tools, but artists got by without them for the longest time, and had to be very creative to get past those limitations.
One company Google has invested in is Nanosolar, whose solar tech Popular Science named Top Innovation of the Year 2007. They are already delivering 30 cents per watt and can't build factories fast enough to meet demand.
For years I desperately wanted a Crow doll (still do) but you didn't seem to do a lot of merchandising back in the day. What's the story? (I asked you this in an AOL live chat in 1996 or so, and even logged in as Belinda Carlisle, hoping that would get me a Crow doll.)
Remember this letter by the defense attorney (Merl Ledford, III) who got an RIAA case dropped? One of his key points was that the RIAA suit was instigated by someone not licensed to practice law, but that point hasn't received a lot of press. It appears that anyone can make a buck on behalf of the RIAA by suing filesharers, and it usually goes unnoticed because people generally pay the fine rather than contest the lawsuit. Imagine Danny DeVito in that movie based on a John Grisham novel, the one with Matt Damon. No license to practice law, but ambulance chasing nonetheless. That appears to be the way the RIAA works.
The people who should be worried about the RIAA are the ones who NEVER illegally share files. That's the point. You think it's easy to prove innocence, or inexpensive? No, it will cost you a lot, and if you have a computer and an internet connection, you could already be considered an infringer. Danny DeVito has his eye on you.
Sprint has invested heavily in 2.5 GHz spectrum, with 85% coverage of U.S. households. Predicted speeds are 2-4 Mbp/s down and 1 Mbps up. Sprint's partnership with Google was announced in July. Quote: " '[T]his is not a cellular model,' said Atish Gude, Sprint's senior vice president for mobile broadband operations." At about the same time, Sprint announced a partnership with Clearwire, the other big WiMax spectrum-holder.
This could really put competitive pressure on telcos, especially if applications development leads to truly useful products. (Instead of silly little widgets.) Who wants a phone that can do less but costs more?
The article references a list of incompatible software There are 19 apps in all, two of them system-backup products (made moot by Time Machine?) and two are antivirus products (to scan for what exactly?) Compared to Vista, which was incompatible with far more apps (and hardware, including the Zune!), the upgrade to Leopard is smooth sailing. Really, the article is FUD.
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Lots of surplus companies sell that kind of stuff. Check out surpluscenter for instance.
Snopes.com is singular and good for wasting time.
Spam would die if people realized the products being touted are available without the help of spammers, which are actually high-markup middlemen looking for suckers. For example, All Day Chemist is a favorite source of genuine generic Viagra in health-oriented forums discussing diabetes etc.. (healingwell.com, for example.) People buy counterfeit Rolexes from guys on street-corners, so where do those guys get them? Yeah, it's risky to admit where they come from, but if it were easy to find that info on the web, the middleman (egregious spammer) would suffer. People who fall for spam must do SOME web searching before giving up their credit card numbers.
I'm on a chess binge lately and have to say that the youtube repository of videos about Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov is just fascinating. Check out Fischer on the Dick Cavett show to see the how earnest and human Fischer was, for example. The game of chess itself is a formal system with a finite vector space that machines can eventually brute force, but what is interesting is how humans and their neural processing can match the machine approach. The people who play chess well, like Fischer and Kasparov and others, are much more interesting than any algorithm will ever be.
Seinfeld's motto was: "No hugging, no learning." Microsoft's motto is, "Embrace, extend and extinguish." No wonder Jerry and Bill have gone separate ways. One hates hugging, the other insists upon it.
The guys making bucks from RIAA suits are like Danny DeVito in that Matt Damon movie, The Rainmaker. They would have licenses to practice law if they were savvy enough. Don't think of them as legal entities, duly representing the power of the courts, they are just some guys filing paperwork and gloating about the gullibility of people who can't defend themselves. These guys think they're important every time a Slashdot article appears about their scare tactics. RIAA suits should come with a mandatory picture of Danny DeVito pretending to be a lawyer.
Media conglomerates don't want faster broadband in the U.S., and all of them have some stake in the companies that could deliver it. Their assets lose value unless they can keep our attention focused on and paying for their products. People on Slashdot seem to think the challenge is technological, when technology has little to do with it. The raw truth is that Big Media has so much influence over politics in the U.S. that broadband policy is completely subject to their approval. Their influence is impossible to overstate. No candidate running for office can risk running afoul of the news media monoculture, which means that the political parties, not just individuals, are held hostage.
So forget your arguments about population density and so on, they are completely naive. And imagining that only private enterprise can solve the problem, a public utility problem, also serves the interests of NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, News Corporation, and Time Warner
The Matrix Logic series of books by August Stern should give you some ideas. Maybe DARPA has the resources to test if isospin of oxygen is really the basis of intelligence, as Stern considers plausible, due to the vector basis of "logicspace." Look for that missing particle predicted by logic groups while you're at it. I don't know why those books aren't cited more, or why symbolic logic is still taught as it always has been, when matrix logic makes things so much clearer and more consistent. The vector approach to logic can also replace standard programming structures in everyday code. Instead of if-then or case structures, querying a truth table or testing for equivalence term by term--the usual practice in conventional logic, too--a matrix multiplication can calculate the answer directly, if the terms are properly conceptualized. The books are easy to read, too, very clear and straightforward. Everybody oughta check em out.
As to "telepathic spies," the Army's remote viewing program (a.k.a. STARGATE) shouldn't be regarded as a failure. It's an interesting topic, difficult to research due to an abundance of pseudo-science, but there are valid academic studies which conclude that the phenomenon is real. Oddly, remote-viewing success seems to be related to local sidereal time (pdf). The Telepathy episode of National Geographic's Naked Science examines some of the program's achievements and features Joe McMoneagle, who was agent 001 of the Stargate program, doing a successful demonstration.
DARPA deserves credit for being open-minded about a topic so easy to ridicule.
Yikes, nevermind. The reflection is correct.
You're worried about sound? Check out what happens to light in the moon-man's visor. Reflections are backwards! Unless Nazis salute with their left arms in 2018.
Verizon paid 9.6 billion for C Block licenses, but Sprint-Nextel has a market cap of only 18 billion, so for 9 billion (more or less) Google could buy controlling interest. Sprint owns WiMax spectrum that reaches everywhere the C Block reaches, and has infrastructure in place that Google would have needed to capitalize on 700 MHz spectrum. Why buy spectrum when you can buy comparable spectrum PLUS a phone company? Google wouldn't have to buy them outright, or buy even 50 percent, either, just put up a few billion, and Sprint would essentially be theirs. Plus, they could still make use of unlocked Verizon and AT&T services.
Google's lobbying for open access was incredibly smart. What they didn't pay for spectrum could buy a whole phone company, one competing against companies burdened by all that auction debt.
This is the topic of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in which the term "paradigm shift" was coined.
Think of all the benefits to law inforcement, though. For example, when CSI finds DNA at a crime scene and it doesn't match a profile in the database, they can just create a human clone from the DNA and put it in jail. Case closed. Realistically, though, cloning will be expensive far into the future, so that only the wealthiest perps can afford clone surrogates to do their time. Repeat offender? No problem, just make more copies.
Thank you for staying cool.
Last week, Oak Ridge announced development of a material that is virtually unwettable, a nanoetched powder that acts on surface tension and can be applied as a coating to almost any surface. A boat with a coated hull would become a water strider - one continuous stride. Much cooler news than this article.
The Mac PPC version seems to be amiss. During extraction, I noticed an .exe file (Wine routines?) but after completion, there was no Sage icon to click on, per the instructions. Might be a link to the wrong package?
You could use both types of software, commercial and open source, to reinforce the abstract concepts. In Photoshop, for example, the basic concepts are layers, selections, filters, brushes, levels, curves, etc., but when a digital artist plans an image, it's an abstract process, wholly independent of software interfaces (although familiarity with a particular interface can boost productivity). Many of those same concepts transfer to web design and film editing.
Also, the commercial versions of the software you mentioned are expensive, so your students might like to know that there are freeware alternatives to piracy.
Because you are faced with a time constraint, though, it might be better to go with the commercial products. There will be fewer technical snags, more options for further education, more employment opportunities and so on. Besides, as others here have said, the commercial versions available to you are quite advanced. More recent versions have cool tools, but artists got by without them for the longest time, and had to be very creative to get past those limitations.
One company Google has invested in is Nanosolar, whose solar tech Popular Science named Top Innovation of the Year 2007. They are already delivering 30 cents per watt and can't build factories fast enough to meet demand.
For years I desperately wanted a Crow doll (still do) but you didn't seem to do a lot of merchandising back in the day. What's the story? (I asked you this in an AOL live chat in 1996 or so, and even logged in as Belinda Carlisle, hoping that would get me a Crow doll.)
Remember this letter by the defense attorney (Merl Ledford, III) who got an RIAA case dropped? One of his key points was that the RIAA suit was instigated by someone not licensed to practice law, but that point hasn't received a lot of press. It appears that anyone can make a buck on behalf of the RIAA by suing filesharers, and it usually goes unnoticed because people generally pay the fine rather than contest the lawsuit. Imagine Danny DeVito in that movie based on a John Grisham novel, the one with Matt Damon. No license to practice law, but ambulance chasing nonetheless. That appears to be the way the RIAA works.
The people who should be worried about the RIAA are the ones who NEVER illegally share files. That's the point. You think it's easy to prove innocence, or inexpensive? No, it will cost you a lot, and if you have a computer and an internet connection, you could already be considered an infringer. Danny DeVito has his eye on you.
The Google SDK will be released by the Open Handset Alliance on November 12th. Bookmark the page.
He was overheard referring to Steve Ballmer as Uncle Fester and Monkey Boy, a la Fake Steve Jobs.
Sprint has invested heavily in 2.5 GHz spectrum, with 85% coverage of U.S. households. Predicted speeds are 2-4 Mbp/s down and 1 Mbps up. Sprint's partnership with Google was announced in July. Quote: " '[T]his is not a cellular model,' said Atish Gude, Sprint's senior vice president for mobile broadband operations." At about the same time, Sprint announced a partnership with Clearwire, the other big WiMax spectrum-holder.
This could really put competitive pressure on telcos, especially if applications development leads to truly useful products. (Instead of silly little widgets.) Who wants a phone that can do less but costs more?
The article references a list of incompatible software There are 19 apps in all, two of them system-backup products (made moot by Time Machine?) and two are antivirus products (to scan for what exactly?) Compared to Vista, which was incompatible with far more apps (and hardware, including the Zune!), the upgrade to Leopard is smooth sailing. Really, the article is FUD.