If we say that it is open to interpretation because it only has some nice stories, then what parts do we follow and what parts are just there as example?
You're right, that's a problem. But, then again: God gave us not only the bible, but also the church and the pope to do the interpretation for us. We're supposed to believe what the pope tells us to believe, and if we don't, we're heretics. It's that easy!:)
(And yes, that little fact comes straight from scripture: Mt 16, 18-19)
Deep Thought, actually. This supercomputer calculated that very number, as the answor to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Earth, Deep Thought's successor, was pretty close to calculating the question, without which the answer obviously doesn't make very much sense - but as we all know, it was destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.
And, most probably, ist is nothing more than an artifact from the telescope.
Nobody seems to have noticed this paragraph of the Article:
What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. "It just boggles my mind," Korpela says
So, everytime they detected it it started at 1420 MHz and then started shifting? How could asignal from 1000 Lightyears away react in such a way? Do you think the aliens restart the signal every time we are looking?
No, sorry, everyone. This looks pretty much. like a malfunction of the telescope in Arecibo.
Not being a native English speaker, could someone clear this up for me? How do you pronounce Phoebe?
Since it's not named after the character from the TV Series "Friends", but after an old greek goddess, it is completely irrelevant how the america-centric Slashdot crowd pronounces it. I'm from Germany, we say "Föbe", with Umlaut, but only the Gods know what the old Greek said. Or maybe a classical philologist.
In any case, the english pronounciation "Fee-Bee" is most probably totally wrong.
I doubt this will happen. Mac OS, formerly System 7, goes back to the days of the Lisa... that is a lot of code that Apple has tried and invested in, why would they throw it out? I expect a major updating of the Mac OS, splitting it to 2(Client / Server) OSes that all use a similar GUI.
I just don't see Jobs throwing out Mac OS, and moving to NextStep (or BeOS, which is just as possible an alternative). It wouldn't make a lot of sense.
This is not really the music industrie's fault.
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Reading through the comments i find lots of statements along the line of "The music industry again doesn't get it" or so, but few seem to realize what all this is really about.
As far as I understand it, it's not only the greedy music managers that are keeping the iTMS Europe from opening. It's basically a structural difference between (continental) European author's rights and copyright in the USA.
The difference is quite obvious. If you have the right to copy some book, or painting, or piece of music or whatever, you can simply give it away. It's not bound to some special person. If I buy the copyright of some work of art it's as good as if I were the artist myself (at least such contracts are possible under the copyright sort of law).
In the concept of author's right, you can't sell any rights. You can allow someone to publish your work, or copy it, or whatever you could think of, but you always keep your author's right, because you are the author, and there is no amount of money in the world that could make someone else the author.
As a consequence this means that, when a new method of publishing emerges (like the internet), the record company has to come back to the artist and ask him, if he would kindly allow the use of this new method now, too - simply because "the internet" isn't mentioned in the old contracts and the company never had the possibility to simply buy "all rights". (It should be possible to have a contract that allows all forms of publishing, but I think that is pretty unusal).
So, I think the managers do know by now that there's a lot of money to make with the iTMS, and they'd be more than happy to make it possible, but the real problem is to get thousands of artists to sign new contracts.
But, then again, im am (happy) not (to be) a lawyer, and I could be wrong.
I bet we could. Wouldn't be the fastest connection, maybe...
But try to imagine this: Since almost all electricity cables in the wall of your rooms, or even the house (and maybe even the neighbours house and big parts of the rest of the world) are connected:
You have a computer, connected to the "electricity-net". Now you decide to buy a scanner. You arrive at home with your freshly bought scanner and just plug it somewhere into your wall, et voilà, you can scan.
Only problem are the big transformer you need for the mice...
I disagree. Try to get a book that is really, really heavy on math. Because, in my experience, the only thing you might understand in quantum mechanics is the math. Doesn't matter if you're a fourth-grader or a physics professor.
Books that try to explain that stuff without giving the mathematical background tend to only give you that nasty feeling of believe.
Ha...! All the same. They got an MBA and think that they know everything about the world.
It's a problem of all those business studies at the Universities themselves. You aren't teached how to work together with people, you are teached to see all your employees as a part of the problem, not the solution.
An example: One day, I visited a business studies class in my University in Munich, just to have a try.
What they were actually told in this class was that there existed a formula to determine the ideal (read: minimum) number of employees in a given firm. The variables were along the line of "how much is sold" and "how much do we spend", also being the only ones.
MBA-Students are taking this stuff for serious and assume that it's "scientific" somehow. IMHO, it's time that people who know that they aren't doing theoretical physics take over management. Maybe Psychologians, or Historians, Linguists, Archeologoists, or god-knows-what.
If such a person would take a three day course about economy, they'd be much, much better qualiefied to lead a business than all these dumb-asses from the MBA-faction - if only because they'd in any given case judge the situation as a whole (and know that they're not doing hard science) and not try to reduce everything to a silly formula.
...making life harder for Microsoft and making Microsoft better for that.
Hey, who the fuck wants M$ to be better? We want them to DIE!!!
Okay, dustpuppy, now stop trying to be (+1 Funny), but really... what Cringely says is not true. There aren't enough Apple-fans to buy Apple-branded hardware just because of the name. I mean, even I thought of buying a clone when they were avalable, it just wasn't the right time, because I didn't have the need or the money.
I don't understand why and how this case can have any influence to the world outside the UK.
I mean, okay, there are those international agreements about patents, and most likely British Telecom's (British) patent will be covered by them, BUT...
If a British court finds that BT really DID invent hyperlinks... so what?
Anyone outside Great Britain would refuse to pay anything to them, bring the case to their courts, and maybe have BT's patent disapproved. Okay, so now you have to pay for a hyperlink if you are in the UK, but, for example, not in Germany (and this is not fantasy - being German, I can't imagine a german court that would follow the British judgement. If in doubt, German judges tend to legalize whatever is useful to the German economy. Since almost every company anywhere uses hyperlinks, you can imagine what'd happen)
As a British citizen with a website, I'd just go to Germany and host my Website - with hyperlinks - from here.
and the entire atmosphere look like LA on a bad day, i know most of europe is already like this...been there, saw it. it's depressing to stand in a beautiful garden in the mountians and look down over barcelona, and barely be able to make out the cathedreal being built there : (
Well... FWIW, Barcelona is, considering the degree of latitude, comparable to Crescent City (very close to the Canadian Border). LA, on the other hand, compares to Tripolis, Libya. Decide yourself where the weather should be better...
No more banner ads for me !! (including slashdot) br>
So, how do you think Slashdot, as a free site even for cowards as anonymous as you, earns the money to keep itself running?
To be honest: I hate this attitude. "Everything on the Internet should be free, but I don't want't to see any advertising."
My advice: If you really want to use some piece of shit like WebWasher, at least send a monthly cheque to any site you want to stay up.
By the way: Your post is even off the topic of this already-off-topic thread. WebWasher has nothing to do with privacy but was originally developed only as a tool to avoid the relatively high prices for online-time in Germany. No one needs too much creativity to spy you out even if you have installed it.
The fact that the more anal-retentive want to dictate precisely how things should look is irrelevant
Well, it seems to me that you never had to work in this business. Good for you. But most of the guys doing HTML for money out there only have the choice of "abusing" it or becoming replaced by some other guy.
And don't tell me to learn C++ or some other "real" stuff. As a student that can only work part-time, I find it *far* more relaxing to do HTML than real programming, which is harder because you always reach your deadline with some crap that won't satisfy yourself - but it's released with a version number and you can't change anything unless you deliver a patch to all customers.
If I have to annoy people like you this way - well such is life...
You can't tell if an image is 1x1 until you download it.
That was my first thought, too. I think, the only reason why the size is encoded in so many of the 1x1 GIFs is that "Web Designers" today don't know a single tag anymore and only jerk around with Dreamweaver and such stuff;-)
Another problem. Things like Mac OS X are slow on some systems because of their lack of 3D-Graphics-Cards. The processor has to do all the transluency and stuff, there. If you've got a cheap, 3D-accelerated card, your CPU nearly doesn't do any work on the GUI.
So, any self-respecting gamer won't notice any difference on his MacOS X-system.
Last year more than six billion individual messages were sent between mobile phones in Britain.
...considering the legal situation in the UK, I would bet the MI5 has a nice searchable database of all those messages. This would be real world literature. And it'd propably even be easier to notify the winners... - by mail, snail mail, or, let's say, via their credit card bills.
the T3E operating system enables a programmer to be seen somehow more as a single computer
Sh*t. Again typing to fast. Before anybody complains... I wanted to say:
the T3E operating system enables a programmer to see the Beowulf cluster somehow more as a single computer
And even then I don't know if this is correct English...;-)
This seems to be the most interesting part about this article.
If I get all this right, the T3E operating system enables a programmer to be seen somehow more as a single computer (with less (no?) load balancing to do in the program itself and such). If I do get this right, and it's really done to a certain point, this would be really fascinating.
Does anyone know more about, for example, how T3E works (preferrably in simple terms:), or if there's already some open-source project going on to do something similar?
Teasing is natural selection. It's always been around. In fact, I bet a sociologist could argue that there's less brutality now than 100 years ago.
Possible. I think, some time after the Columbine Incident I read an article that stated that American kids already shot each other in school as early as in the 1920s. They even said that, statistically, it wouldn't happen more often today than it happened fifty years ago.
So, this is a good question: what has changed?
I personally think it's the media coverage that is different today. What was only worth a big newspaper article in local press back in the 1950s, nowadays becomes CNNs main feature for a whole week.
I don't really know if this is a good thing, since, again and again I only see a BIG discussion arising in the US, all kinds of nearly innocent stuff (like videogames) being blamed, but the only really obvious measure of switching to European-style gun-control simply isn't taken.
Why isn't anybody wondering why such things simply don't happen over here?
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Governments all over the world are doing random security legislation since six years now.
If we say that it is open to interpretation because it only has some nice stories, then what parts do we follow and what parts are just there as example?
:)
You're right, that's a problem. But, then again: God gave us not only the bible, but also the church and the pope to do the interpretation for us. We're supposed to believe what the pope tells us to believe, and if we don't, we're heretics. It's that easy!
(And yes, that little fact comes straight from scripture: Mt 16, 18-19)
Deep Thought, actually. This supercomputer calculated that very number, as the answor to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Earth, Deep Thought's successor, was pretty close to calculating the question, without which the answer obviously doesn't make very much sense - but as we all know, it was destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.
More Information here.
Nobody seems to have noticed this paragraph of the Article: So, everytime they detected it it started at 1420 MHz and then started shifting? How could asignal from 1000 Lightyears away react in such a way? Do you think the aliens restart the signal every time we are looking?
No, sorry, everyone. This looks pretty much. like a malfunction of the telescope in Arecibo.
Not being a native English speaker, could someone clear this up for me? How do you pronounce Phoebe?
Since it's not named after the character from the TV Series "Friends", but after an old greek goddess, it is completely irrelevant how the america-centric Slashdot crowd pronounces it. I'm from Germany, we say "Föbe", with Umlaut, but only the Gods know what the old Greek said. Or maybe a classical philologist.
In any case, the english pronounciation "Fee-Bee" is most probably totally wrong.
I doubt this will happen. Mac OS, formerly System 7, goes back to the days of the Lisa... that is a lot of code that Apple has tried and invested in, why would they throw it out? I expect a major updating of the Mac OS, splitting it to 2(Client / Server) OSes that all use a similar GUI.
I just don't see Jobs throwing out Mac OS, and moving to NextStep (or BeOS, which is just as possible an alternative). It wouldn't make a lot of sense.
Reading through the comments i find lots of statements along the line of "The music industry again doesn't get it" or so, but few seem to realize what all this is really about.
As far as I understand it, it's not only the greedy music managers that are keeping the iTMS Europe from opening. It's basically a structural difference between (continental) European author's rights and copyright in the USA.
The difference is quite obvious. If you have the right to copy some book, or painting, or piece of music or whatever, you can simply give it away. It's not bound to some special person. If I buy the copyright of some work of art it's as good as if I were the artist myself (at least such contracts are possible under the copyright sort of law).
In the concept of author's right, you can't sell any rights. You can allow someone to publish your work, or copy it, or whatever you could think of, but you always keep your author's right, because you are the author, and there is no amount of money in the world that could make someone else the author.
As a consequence this means that, when a new method of publishing emerges (like the internet), the record company has to come back to the artist and ask him, if he would kindly allow the use of this new method now, too - simply because "the internet" isn't mentioned in the old contracts and the company never had the possibility to simply buy "all rights". (It should be possible to have a contract that allows all forms of publishing, but I think that is pretty unusal).
So, I think the managers do know by now that there's a lot of money to make with the iTMS, and they'd be more than happy to make it possible, but the real problem is to get thousands of artists to sign new contracts.
But, then again, im am (happy) not (to be) a lawyer, and I could be wrong.
I bet we could. Wouldn't be the fastest connection, maybe...
But try to imagine this: Since almost all electricity cables in the wall of your rooms, or even the house (and maybe even the neighbours house and big parts of the rest of the world) are connected:
You have a computer, connected to the "electricity-net". Now you decide to buy a scanner. You arrive at home with your freshly bought scanner and just plug it somewhere into your wall, et voilà, you can scan.
Only problem are the big transformer you need for the mice...
You troll might even be right with some of your statements. But, please, go and look for a thread that actually is about Linux, will you?
Just make sure it isn't heavy on math...
I disagree. Try to get a book that is really, really heavy on math. Because, in my experience, the only thing you might understand in quantum mechanics is the math. Doesn't matter if you're a fourth-grader or a physics professor.
Books that try to explain that stuff without giving the mathematical background tend to only give you that nasty feeling of believe.
Ha...! All the same. They got an MBA and think that they know everything about the world.
It's a problem of all those business studies at the Universities themselves. You aren't teached how to work together with people, you are teached to see all your employees as a part of the problem, not the solution.
An example: One day, I visited a business studies class in my University in Munich, just to have a try.
What they were actually told in this class was that there existed a formula to determine the ideal (read: minimum) number of employees in a given firm. The variables were along the line of "how much is sold" and "how much do we spend", also being the only ones.
MBA-Students are taking this stuff for serious and assume that it's "scientific" somehow. IMHO, it's time that people who know that they aren't doing theoretical physics take over management. Maybe Psychologians, or Historians, Linguists, Archeologoists, or god-knows-what.
If such a person would take a three day course about economy, they'd be much, much better qualiefied to lead a business than all these dumb-asses from the MBA-faction - if only because they'd in any given case judge the situation as a whole (and know that they're not doing hard science) and not try to reduce everything to a silly formula.
...making life harder for Microsoft and making Microsoft better for that.
Hey, who the fuck wants M$ to be better? We want them to DIE!!!
Okay, dustpuppy, now stop trying to be (+1 Funny), but really... what Cringely says is not true. There aren't enough Apple-fans to buy Apple-branded hardware just because of the name. I mean, even I thought of buying a clone when they were avalable, it just wasn't the right time, because I didn't have the need or the money.
hopefully someone might turn up with a URL.
I don't know if this is what you were talking about, but try the Wayback Machine entry here.
Even some of the links are working...
I don't understand why and how this case can have any influence to the world outside the UK.
I mean, okay, there are those international agreements about patents, and most likely British Telecom's (British) patent will be covered by them, BUT...
If a British court finds that BT really DID invent hyperlinks... so what?
Anyone outside Great Britain would refuse to pay anything to them, bring the case to their courts, and maybe have BT's patent disapproved. Okay, so now you have to pay for a hyperlink if you are in the UK, but, for example, not in Germany (and this is not fantasy - being German, I can't imagine a german court that would follow the British judgement. If in doubt, German judges tend to legalize whatever is useful to the German economy. Since almost every company anywhere uses hyperlinks, you can imagine what'd happen)
As a British citizen with a website, I'd just go to Germany and host my Website - with hyperlinks - from here.
Can anyone tell me where the problem is?
Look at spammimic.com. If I'm the only one left who sends such messages, I'll be doomed.
and the entire atmosphere look like LA on a bad day, i know most of europe is already like this...been there, saw it. it's depressing to stand in a beautiful garden in the mountians and look down over barcelona, and barely be able to make out the cathedreal being built there : (
Well... FWIW, Barcelona is, considering the degree of latitude, comparable to Crescent City (very close to the Canadian Border). LA, on the other hand, compares to Tripolis, Libya. Decide yourself where the weather should be better...
No more banner ads for me !! (including slashdot)
br> So, how do you think Slashdot, as a free site even for cowards as anonymous as you, earns the money to keep itself running?
To be honest: I hate this attitude. "Everything on the Internet should be free, but I don't want't to see any advertising."
My advice: If you really want to use some piece of shit like WebWasher, at least send a monthly cheque to any site you want to stay up.
By the way: Your post is even off the topic of this already-off-topic thread. WebWasher has nothing to do with privacy but was originally developed only as a tool to avoid the relatively high prices for online-time in Germany. No one needs too much creativity to spy you out even if you have installed it.
The fact that the more anal-retentive want to dictate precisely how things should look is irrelevant
Well, it seems to me that you never had to work in this business. Good for you. But most of the guys doing HTML for money out there only have the choice of "abusing" it or becoming replaced by some other guy.
And don't tell me to learn C++ or some other "real" stuff. As a student that can only work part-time, I find it *far* more relaxing to do HTML than real programming, which is harder because you always reach your deadline with some crap that won't satisfy yourself - but it's released with a version number and you can't change anything unless you deliver a patch to all customers.
If I have to annoy people like you this way - well such is life...
You can't tell if an image is 1x1 until you download it.
;-)
That was my first thought, too. I think, the only reason why the size is encoded in so many of the 1x1 GIFs is that "Web Designers" today don't know a single tag anymore and only jerk around with Dreamweaver and such stuff
Another problem. Things like Mac OS X are slow on some systems because of their lack of 3D-Graphics-Cards. The processor has to do all the transluency and stuff, there. If you've got a cheap, 3D-accelerated card, your CPU nearly doesn't do any work on the GUI.
So, any self-respecting gamer won't notice any difference on his MacOS X-system.
Last year more than six billion individual messages were sent between mobile phones in Britain.
...considering the legal situation in the UK, I would bet the MI5 has a nice searchable database of all those messages. This would be real world literature. And it'd propably even be easier to notify the winners... - by mail, snail mail, or, let's say, via their credit card bills.
the T3E operating system enables a programmer to be seen somehow more as a single computer
;-)
Sh*t. Again typing to fast. Before anybody complains... I wanted to say: the T3E operating system enables a programmer to see the Beowulf cluster somehow more as a single computer
And even then I don't know if this is correct English...
This seems to be the most interesting part about this article.
:), or if there's already some open-source project going on to do something similar?
If I get all this right, the T3E operating system enables a programmer to be seen somehow more as a single computer (with less (no?) load balancing to do in the program itself and such). If I do get this right, and it's really done to a certain point, this would be really fascinating.
Does anyone know more about, for example, how T3E works (preferrably in simple terms
Teasing is natural selection. It's always been around. In fact, I bet a sociologist could argue that there's less brutality now than 100 years ago.
Possible. I think, some time after the Columbine Incident I read an article that stated that American kids already shot each other in school as early as in the 1920s. They even said that, statistically, it wouldn't happen more often today than it happened fifty years ago.
So, this is a good question:
what has changed?
I personally think it's the media coverage that is different today. What was only worth a big newspaper article in local press back in the 1950s, nowadays becomes CNNs main feature for a whole week.
I don't really know if this is a good thing, since, again and again I only see a BIG discussion arising in the US, all kinds of nearly innocent stuff (like videogames) being blamed, but the only really obvious measure of switching to European-style gun-control simply isn't taken.
Why isn't anybody wondering why such things simply don't happen over here?
Girls are good at doing routine tasks. It has been scientifically shown that they have a higher boredom threshhold.
:)
Sounds very interesting. Do you have a link or something to this study? I would really like to show it to my girlfriend