Throughout history war has been one of, if not the most efficient, conduit for the export of culture. Japan imported American culture after WWII. Japanese culture was and remains strong having been developed as an island culture.
How close are we to developing a value system which would see war waged wherein the combatants maintain economic ties. There are many costs to war but one of the foremost costs is loss of economic infrastructure. Weren't there business relations between the Allies and Germany during WWII?
BBC News has an article which speaks a bit more to Quantum crytography.
"Quantum cryptography might provide very secure forms of electronic encryption, because the process of eavesdropping on an electronic message would introduce errors in the message, garbling it."
"This would allow you to exchange a key on a public channel, but whereas any classical system can be broken by an eavesdropper, in quantum cryptography you would always find out if someone was looking at your message," Professor Zubairy told BBC News Online."
Granted he should have had the foresight and planning in place to deal with foreseeable contingencies, but the spirit of adventures like Francis Chichester, Richard Halliburton, Richard Burton and others is a staple of our lore. Maybe the world has grown to small to make allowances.
"His mastery over all bodily passions is constantly stressed. He seldom drank wine, but when he did, he could out-drink anybody; no one had ever seen him drunk."
B. Russell on Socrates from 'History of Western Philosophy'
The article didn't speak to any redundancy gains that come with the cluster. Nor did it speak to cost comparison. This looks like the beginning of a major direction in future development.
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Research, knowledge and learning are co-evolutionary endeavours requiring persons capable of sending and deciphering symbols. Proprietory interferrence has no place in the process and proprietory interlopers are late comers to a process that began with the development of speech.
A strange but perhaps helpful analogy might be the railroads. The paths the railways followed were those travelled by those who came before the railways but the capital investment necessary to lay the track and get the trains rolling required huge outlays of private capital. To compensate the capital investment much land and resources was given to the railways. Now with the new technologies the proprietory moguls are trying to make a case that knowledge can't be dissiminated without similar out lays of capital to that necessary to underwrite the railways. And that the outlay entitles them to ownership of the goods and services that use the infrastructure and technology. This is akin to the railways being given ownership of all the goods and services the railway brought to developing nations. This amounts to the old adage of putting the cart before the horse. For knowledge and research to thrive it must have free reign and if the new technology is to carry the fruit of new research then it must be underwritten by government or non-proprietory means.
Imagine if you will... individuals trained to so control their body odour that they can produce on demand odours triggering fear, love, hate, submission, domination... the boardroom would never be the same and perfume would be antiquated. Join the Army become a B.O. warrior.
The premise was used in a scifi story... sorry I can't recall the book but basically a smartbomb was let loose to track the target by genetically-determined odortype... I don't think perfume can adequately cover the primary body odour.
...information is a co-evolutionary endeavour. We manufacture information as an artifact to impart a message be it plans to construct a further artifact or simply to impart the message. But the effort requires a sender and a receiver. It is co-evolutionary not proprietory. Going back to Marshall McLuhan, and the idea that the medium is the message, in DRM and proprietory schemes to control information, the proprietorship becomes the dominant message and the information, culture, what have you becomes merely the vehicle for commerce and attempted monopoly. Culture, history, knowledge do not spring from one mind they are siphoned by individuals from the well spring of all of recorded information and the tools to use that information.
I used DRM not in its strict current sense but more as a pointer to the ideology being driven by proprietory concerns. I wasn't as clear as I might have been and I point this out only to mitigate against your argument not in an attempt to vitiate it. For that matter the DomesDay book was most certainly driven by proprietory concerns! But I still hold culture, history and knowledge must be the concern of institutions whose interest is the safeguarding and widest possible dissemination of knowledge. I believe the Muslim warriors who took Alexandria burned the books to heat their bath waters.
, which is so annoying that it finally drives Bones over the edge and he deconstructs Spock's famous ears with a poorly-adjusted laser scalpel? Well? ISN'T IT???
Almost but what Bones really does is activate the micro detonator he surreptiously implanted in Spock's brain stem when he reconnected Spock's brain after Bones and Kirk got it back from the Amazonian babes who stole it.
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Procrastinators cramming for exams and late term papers may have the right idea.
Throughout history war has been one of, if not the most efficient, conduit for the export of culture. Japan imported American culture after WWII. Japanese culture was and remains strong having been developed as an island culture.
Trolls will rush to this technology, exploiting it for endless ways to phrase anal sex and slashdot bashing.
all those unemployed coders...
Vancouver rules for location. As a Canadian city it has the best beer. Having the largest Chinatown in North America it has great chinese food.
Do you means Dave Cutler is no longer with MS?
who says..."as easy as if they were molding clay with their bare hands" it's easy?
So who from MS has been detailed to review this thread in detail?
or not
How close are we to developing a value system which would see war waged wherein the combatants maintain economic ties. There are many costs to war but one of the foremost costs is loss of economic infrastructure. Weren't there business relations between the Allies and Germany during WWII?
BBC News has an article which speaks a bit more to Quantum crytography.
"Quantum cryptography might provide very secure forms of electronic encryption, because the process of eavesdropping on an electronic message would introduce errors in the message, garbling it."
"This would allow you to exchange a key on a public channel, but whereas any classical system can be broken by an eavesdropper, in quantum cryptography you would always find out if someone was looking at your message," Professor Zubairy told BBC News Online."
Granted he should have had the foresight and planning in place to deal with foreseeable contingencies, but the spirit of adventures like Francis Chichester, Richard Halliburton, Richard Burton and others is a staple of our lore. Maybe the world has grown to small to make allowances.
"His mastery over all bodily passions is constantly stressed. He seldom drank wine, but when he did, he could out-drink anybody; no one had ever seen him drunk."
B. Russell on Socrates from 'History of Western Philosophy'
The article didn't speak to any redundancy gains that come with the cluster. Nor did it speak to cost comparison. This looks like the beginning of a major direction in future development.
A strange but perhaps helpful analogy might be the railroads. The paths the railways followed were those travelled by those who came before the railways but the capital investment necessary to lay the track and get the trains rolling required huge outlays of private capital. To compensate the capital investment much land and resources was given to the railways. Now with the new technologies the proprietory moguls are trying to make a case that knowledge can't be dissiminated without similar out lays of capital to that necessary to underwrite the railways. And that the outlay entitles them to ownership of the goods and services that use the infrastructure and technology. This is akin to the railways being given ownership of all the goods and services the railway brought to developing nations. This amounts to the old adage of putting the cart before the horse. For knowledge and research to thrive it must have free reign and if the new technology is to carry the fruit of new research then it must be underwritten by government or non-proprietory means.
...discrete... indiscrete packets? Would Schrodenger's cat be let out of the bag?
no doubt you're right but I think it was reused in a W. Gibson novel or another cyberpunk writter.
Imagine if you will... individuals trained to so control their body odour that they can produce on demand odours triggering fear, love, hate, submission, domination... the boardroom would never be the same and perfume would be antiquated. Join the Army become a B.O. warrior.
The premise was used in a scifi story... sorry I can't recall the book but basically a smartbomb was let loose to track the target by genetically-determined odortype... I don't think perfume can adequately cover the primary body odour.
...information is a co-evolutionary endeavour. We manufacture information as an artifact to impart a message be it plans to construct a further artifact or simply to impart the message. But the effort requires a sender and a receiver. It is co-evolutionary not proprietory. Going back to Marshall McLuhan, and the idea that the medium is the message, in DRM and proprietory schemes to control information, the proprietorship becomes the dominant message and the information, culture, what have you becomes merely the vehicle for commerce and attempted monopoly. Culture, history, knowledge do not spring from one mind they are siphoned by individuals from the well spring of all of recorded information and the tools to use that information.
I used DRM not in its strict current sense but more as a pointer to the ideology being driven by proprietory concerns. I wasn't as clear as I might have been and I point this out only to mitigate against your argument not in an attempt to vitiate it. For that matter the DomesDay book was most certainly driven by proprietory concerns! But I still hold culture, history and knowledge must be the concern of institutions whose interest is the safeguarding and widest possible dissemination of knowledge. I believe the Muslim warriors who took Alexandria burned the books to heat their bath waters.
how badly DRM driven by capitalist proprietory concerns conflicts so inimically with culture, history and knowledge.
downloads a new kernel into you.
, which is so annoying that it finally drives Bones over the edge and he deconstructs Spock's famous ears with a poorly-adjusted laser scalpel? Well? ISN'T IT???
Almost but what Bones really does is activate the micro detonator he surreptiously implanted in Spock's brain stem when he reconnected Spock's brain after Bones and Kirk got it back from the Amazonian babes who stole it.
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