Gedankenexperiment ? Is that something like watching at the blinkenlights? No, it's watching at die Blinkenlichten, silly!... Uhm. I wonder how many people outside Slashdot would understand this exchange:o)
Microsoft has announced plans to pre-install an ad-laden version of Works on some manufacturers' PCs
Lemme guess... Perhaps that offer will be done to the manufacturers that were "thinking about/already intalling" Open Office for free in their naked PCs ?
They have backup radar systems, and if not working, they can send flights to other controllers. With GPS you have a single point of failure that blacks out all controllers at the same time, leaving them with more traffic that can be controlled with the radar backup.
There's still some contention about where the funding will come from.
I hope there's also some contention about what will happen when those closer-together planes are left without GPS due to a war in the Gulf or some technical glitch, and the radar backup cannot keep up with the added traffic (if it could, what'd be the point?)
Good! Now let's make two incompatible standards out of it, start a formats war, and sell the same old films to the same old people again, in both formats if possible.
If Safari can obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken IE's position and give standards-based browsers more leverage with developers.
That is, supposing it gets the 10% market share from IE, and not from Firefox, for example.
1. Buy violent, cruel and unusual games 2. Advertise them in EBay for double the marked price 3. Admit those false moustaches as proof of age 4. Profit!
That without taking P2P networks into account. I'm not sure if the EU bureaucrats are aware of the difficulties of controlling the distribution of digital content in the Internet era. They should talk to the RIAA before wasting their time.
Interesting. Never gave much thought to that question. I suppose that, in my view of things, the best possible course would be to teach History more like Literature. You should teach the "History according to Gibson" one day, the next teach the same historic passage according to other source. In fact, you shouldn't "teach" it at all, but give books to read to the students, and let them draw their own conclusions. That way it would be clear that History is basically a kind of story-telling, based on some facts, many assumptions, and lots of bias. The topic should be re-branded "Comparative History" (That already exists in Universities, but make it the only way of teaching it), and make the students try to ascertain what are most likely facts and what not.
Not that it's going to happen, we like too much to impose our view of things on our next generation. We like to tell them that we are the descendants of heroes, not of bandits. And they like to be told that, too. You never go far trying to go against strong inclinations of the rest of the people.
I'm not an expert in WW2 history. What you say might be true. But your post just adds to my argument of history as an emotional issue rather than a record of facts.
I heard that the Iliad wasn't written by Homer, but by a Greek fellow of the same name:o)
Probably somebody named Julius Caesar lived. But the idea we have of him is a construction of the partial facts that have survived. And the _opinion_ that we have is even more biased. Do you feel that Julius was a "positive" or "negative" figure. He was a military dictator, but would you put it on the same mental place with Musharraf? His manner of death makes us somehow pity him, but it's because we deplore magnicides in general or because of the dramatical gifts of a certain (again British) bard?
Of course "facts" happen. You can tape them. But the idea of History in the minds of people is not a collection of facts, anymore than a man thinks about his son like a really impressive hunk of cells. History has a feeling of purpose, of good and bad, of punishment and revenge, of justice, of tidal forces. That is, of a lot of concepts with no semantic value at all, and wholly unrelated to the idea of facts. That's what I mean when I say that there is no objective history.
Let's be real. The "history" we learn is nothing more than the history we like to learn. That's always been so, and UK teachers just adapt to new circumstances with new pupils that won't like the old history. There are many facts that are either ignored or twisted to fit the needs of the political whim of the moment.
The Nazis were defeated mainly by the USSR, not by the USA, even if that's not what you learn. The Japanese _were_ defeated by the USA, but the way of doing it, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of civilians in an atomic inferno is presented as rather the right thing to do, or, at the very least, as a great technical achievement. The holocaust is much remembered, and special laws passed to forbid the denial of the fact, but other much bigger killings go as footnotes in history books. Japanese don't teach about "comfort" women. The paper of England in the slave trade is usually hushed in the classrooms. Spain is indignant when Ben-Laden speaks about it being part of Al-Andalus, because in its history books, it's defined as a re-conquering, even if the people that re-conquered it had nothing to do with the people that lost it in the first place. France prefers not to speak too much about torture in Alger. Israelis will tell you that it's all right if they took the land from Palestinian people after WW2, because it "belonged" to them, somehow. I doubt they would return the land to some previous inhabitants of it, if the situation ever came up.
And so on. There is not such thing as "objective" history, and those teachers are just recognizing it. After all, we must remember that George Orwell, who came up with the idea of automatic history rewriting, was British.
It's not because of prior art. And definitely it's not because it's obvious. It's invalid because it infinges on my patent on parts of memory used not to store data, but to store the address of another place in memory. I call this invention "iPointer", and fear that many many big software companies are infringing.
And I suppose that state representative is getting a salary for employing her time in such a productive way.
Well, at least it keeps her out of the streets, I guess.
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reduce the amount of lunar dust
Previously astronauts were men, which are all pigs, as is well known. Now the solution is obvious. Send a woman to every moon mission and she certainly won't tolerate dust, moon or other kind, to accumulate in the living quarters, solving the problem. I can already hear her... "Commander! If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times. CLEAN YOUR FEET before coming in!"
Just...let's hope they don't try to open the windows when dusting.
Casinos use their vast banks of security cameras to hunt cheating gamblers
...meaning anybody that manages to win more than a couple of times. You know, once is happenstance, two is coincidence, three is getting your legs broken.
"Why" is always a personal question. Each person has its own reasons to do as he/she does. All that we do in our lives is futile since we are doomed to die. You choose a path, and act as if it had meaning for you, even if you know that all paths end in the same place.
So if you can find enough people that want to use their lives in such an adventure, there is no "Why" to ask. They will do it. The only problem, of course, is finding that people. You don't have a lot to offer, really. So a real pressure will be needed if such a thing is ever to become reality. In the meantime it's fun to speculate. Or at least, I find it so:o)
Yes, you are right, once you accept that the accounting principle applies, then the value charged has to be something not symbolical, or fraud could be argued. That part of my argument is invalid. But I still think that it's just excuses, they like the opportunity to charge for something that people was used to get free, and use the accounting practices to explain it.
The troll mod ??? must be some kind of error, either click error or comprehension error:o)
That's about the most lame excuse I've ever heard. What's with Microsoft updates? They also "complete" the product. What about free updates of all kind?
And even if they believe their own propaganda, why don't charge one dollar, or even one cent? The accounting principle wouldn't be broken.
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Gedankenexperiment ? Is that something like watching at the blinkenlights? ... :o)
No, it's watching at die Blinkenlichten, silly!
Uhm. I wonder how many people outside Slashdot would understand this exchange
Is that something like watching at the blinkenlights?
Microsoft has announced plans to pre-install an ad-laden version of Works on some manufacturers' PCs
Lemme guess... Perhaps that offer will be done to the manufacturers that were "thinking about/already intalling" Open Office for free in their naked PCs ?
They have backup radar systems, and if not working, they can send flights to other controllers. With GPS you have a single point of failure that blacks out all controllers at the same time, leaving them with more traffic that can be controlled with the radar backup.
There's still some contention about where the funding will come from.
I hope there's also some contention about what will happen when those closer-together planes are left without GPS due to a war in the Gulf or some technical glitch, and the radar backup cannot keep up with the added traffic (if it could, what'd be the point?)
Good! Now let's make two incompatible standards out of it, start a formats war, and sell the same old films to the same old people again, in both formats if possible.
If your startup is counting on a copycat service to emerge for Amazon S3 disaster recovery, you might want to start thinking about a Plan C
Only if you limit yourself to services provided by countries where software patents are upheld. Fortunately that's not a global situation (yet).
If Safari can obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken IE's position and give standards-based browsers more leverage with developers.
That is, supposing it gets the 10% market share from IE, and not from Firefox, for example.
1. Buy violent, cruel and unusual games
2. Advertise them in EBay for double the marked price
3. Admit those false moustaches as proof of age
4. Profit!
That without taking P2P networks into account. I'm not sure if the EU bureaucrats are aware of the difficulties of controlling the distribution of digital content in the Internet era. They should talk to the RIAA before wasting their time.
Interesting. Never gave much thought to that question. I suppose that, in my view of things, the best possible course would be to teach History more like Literature. You should teach the "History according to Gibson" one day, the next teach the same historic passage according to other source. In fact, you shouldn't "teach" it at all, but give books to read to the students, and let them draw their own conclusions. That way it would be clear that History is basically a kind of story-telling, based on some facts, many assumptions, and lots of bias. The topic should be re-branded "Comparative History" (That already exists in Universities, but make it the only way of teaching it), and make the students try to ascertain what are most likely facts and what not.
Not that it's going to happen, we like too much to impose our view of things on our next generation. We like to tell them that we are the descendants of heroes, not of bandits. And they like to be told that, too. You never go far trying to go against strong inclinations of the rest of the people.
I'm not an expert in WW2 history. What you say might be true. But your post just adds to my argument of history as an emotional issue rather than a record of facts.
Julius Caesar did live
:o)
I heard that the Iliad wasn't written by Homer, but by a Greek fellow of the same name
Probably somebody named Julius Caesar lived. But the idea we have of him is a construction of the partial facts that have survived. And the _opinion_ that we have is even more biased. Do you feel that Julius was a "positive" or "negative" figure. He was a military dictator, but would you put it on the same mental place with Musharraf? His manner of death makes us somehow pity him, but it's because we deplore magnicides in general or because of the dramatical gifts of a certain (again British) bard?
Of course "facts" happen. You can tape them. But the idea of History in the minds of people is not a collection of facts, anymore than a man thinks about his son like a really impressive hunk of cells. History has a feeling of purpose, of good and bad, of punishment and revenge, of justice, of tidal forces. That is, of a lot of concepts with no semantic value at all, and wholly unrelated to the idea of facts. That's what I mean when I say that there is no objective history.
Let's be real. The "history" we learn is nothing more than the history we like to learn. That's always been so, and UK teachers just adapt to new circumstances with new pupils that won't like the old history. There are many facts that are either ignored or twisted to fit the needs of the political whim of the moment.
The Nazis were defeated mainly by the USSR, not by the USA, even if that's not what you learn. The Japanese _were_ defeated by the USA, but the way of doing it, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of civilians in an atomic inferno is presented as rather the right thing to do, or, at the very least, as a great technical achievement. The holocaust is much remembered, and special laws passed to forbid the denial of the fact, but other much bigger killings go as footnotes in history books. Japanese don't teach about "comfort" women. The paper of England in the slave trade is usually hushed in the classrooms. Spain is indignant when Ben-Laden speaks about it being part of Al-Andalus, because in its history books, it's defined as a re-conquering, even if the people that re-conquered it had nothing to do with the people that lost it in the first place. France prefers not to speak too much about torture in Alger. Israelis will tell you that it's all right if they took the land from Palestinian people after WW2, because it "belonged" to them, somehow. I doubt they would return the land to some previous inhabitants of it, if the situation ever came up.
And so on. There is not such thing as "objective" history, and those teachers are just recognizing it. After all, we must remember that George Orwell, who came up with the idea of automatic history rewriting, was British.
It's not because of prior art. And definitely it's not because it's obvious. It's invalid because it infinges on my patent on parts of memory used not to store data, but to store the address of another place in memory. I call this invention "iPointer", and fear that many many big software companies are infringing.
And I suppose that state representative is getting a salary for employing her time in such a productive way.
Well, at least it keeps her out of the streets, I guess.
reduce the amount of lunar dust
Previously astronauts were men, which are all pigs, as is well known. Now the solution is obvious. Send a woman to every moon mission and she certainly won't tolerate dust, moon or other kind, to accumulate in the living quarters, solving the problem. I can already hear her... "Commander! If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times. CLEAN YOUR FEET before coming in!"
Just...let's hope they don't try to open the windows when dusting.
who said the film will 'embrace and respect' Trek canon, but will also 'chart its own course.'
Resuming, it'll 'embrace and extend'. I just hope the warp drive keeps compatibility with earlier versions.
Casinos use their vast banks of security cameras to hunt cheating gamblers
...meaning anybody that manages to win more than a couple of times. You know, once is happenstance, two is coincidence, three is getting your legs broken.
"Why" is always a personal question. Each person has its own reasons to do as he/she does. All that we do in our lives is futile since we are doomed to die. You choose a path, and act as if it had meaning for you, even if you know that all paths end in the same place.
:o)
So if you can find enough people that want to use their lives in such an adventure, there is no "Why" to ask. They will do it. The only problem, of course, is finding that people. You don't have a lot to offer, really. So a real pressure will be needed if such a thing is ever to become reality. In the meantime it's fun to speculate. Or at least, I find it so
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To know what's written there.
If they haven't banned SCO from selling Linux, I don't know how they can consider banning Novell.
Some contest sponsors provide a check to cover taxes, but that income is also taxable.
It's a kind of infinite recursive descent to RUIN!
Yes, you are right, once you accept that the accounting principle applies, then the value charged has to be something not symbolical, or fraud could be argued. That part of my argument is invalid. But I still think that it's just excuses, they like the opportunity to charge for something that people was used to get free, and use the accounting practices to explain it.
:o)
The troll mod ??? must be some kind of error, either click error or comprehension error
That's about the most lame excuse I've ever heard. What's with Microsoft updates? They also "complete" the product. What about free updates of all kind?
And even if they believe their own propaganda, why don't charge one dollar, or even one cent? The accounting principle wouldn't be broken.
...and is published under the BSD license.
-...You keep using that license. I do not think it means what you think it means.