IF eToys argument is "hey, do what you like, but can you keep the stuff that's age-inappropriate off the public pages", then I don't see the problem. Anyone capable of setting up a web page is more than capable of setting up an.htaccess file, and anyone capable of thought is capable of deciding if something is "age-inappropriate".
The problem is that what's "age-inappropriate" isn't a simple decision. The US is very prissy about nudity. Europe isn't. Things which are totally accepted in Europe (Such as nude beaches, or nudity on television) are not accepted in the US. Go to a mediterrian resourt beach, and you will see topless women. Walk along the beach, and you'll probably end up in the nude section, and see naked people.
Look at movies certifications around the world, and you will find very wide variations between difference countries. A single film can be considered acceptable for 7 year olds in France, but not acceptable for 17 year olds in the US.
Airships, even those using hydrogen, actually had a safer record (in terms of % deaths per accident) than airplanes do.
I'm not aware of any airship accident which killed all on board. The Hindenburg had 97 people on board, 36 of who died. R101 (The other famous airship accident) had 54 people on board of who 48 died, however many airship accidents results in no injuries or deaths, for example the R33 accident of April 16 1925. The disadvantages of hydrogen are more than compensated for by the advatantages of having a basically stable platform.
I'd say that airships had no worse a record than similar airplanes of the age, and a modern helium powered airship has the potential to be significantly safer than a modern aircraft.
Actually DDT affects the shells of many birds, for example Perigine falcon, Raptor s and Brown Pelican. Birds of prey are the most likely to have sufficent DDT in their bodies, as slow degrading chemicals accumulate as they go up the food chain, but any bird can suffer from the syndrome.
Also DDT is an estrogenic drug - it can mimic the effects of female sex hormones in males. Estrogenics cause many problems, including falling sperm counts in humans.
Also the Hindenberg was truely just an accident, not a screwup.
If you want a screwup air disaster, then the winner has to the 747 piloted by Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, who decided to take off on a fog covered runway without launch clearance and without waiting for another 747 to clear the runway.
This accident is still the classical case of how mismanagement in the cockpit, and sloppy procedures, will result in disaster.
This is a general misconception that the Time "Person of the Year" is for the best person of the year. This isn't true. the POTY is the person who made the biggest influence on the news of the year. In 1938 that was Hitler, in 1939, Stalin, in 1980, Ayatullah Khomeini. None of these are people I'd want to emulate, yet undoutably had great influence on the news.
Similarly, there is no doubt at all that Jeff Bezos & Amazon has had a tremendous influence on the news this year. Every news program mentions shopping on the web, there have been stories about Malls panicing, and for the first time, there is apparently enough money being spent on the web to make taxing it a subject of discussion.
Bezos' achievements may or may not be great. Personally I think it's too soon to judge. However there is no doubt at all that they have been the source of much news over the last year.
Viruses not the earliest forms of life, they are thought to be later developments. You see, viruses cannot reproduce on their own, they need the existing reproduction mechanisms in cells, which would not of course exist in the early days.
Of course, by some peoples definition of life, viruses aren't alive. They don't consume food or excrete and they don't have any senses, both of which are common parts of definitions of life.
Actually, there were many packages available as source long before either RMS or ESR got well known.
If you want to name anyone as the 'original' source distibuter in Unix, it's got to be Dennis Ritchie, who posted off lots of dec tapes labed 'Love Dennis'. This was in the mid 70's, a full decade before RMS created the FSF & started on GNU.
The day that iCraveTV.com was launched, CITY TV (Independant station here in Toronto, channel 57 in area code 416) gave it a review & a recommendation on their breakfast show.
It's hard for me to imagine what new senses we could create.
I can imagine extending our existing senses to ranges that they cannot currently handle, for example infrared vision, or to hear the intensity of the magnetic field, or anything similar to that, but creating a totally new sense? I can't imagine it
Even just being able to see large objects would be a marked improvement over total blindness.
I have several friends who are legally blind, one who has eyesight to this level can get around town with only a cane to alert him to trip hazards, and easily do things like pick up a dropped pillow without having to fumble for it.
Even just having the ability to tell darkness from light could be worthwile, as it could be used to tell which way you are orientated in a room, by detecting where the windows are.
I think they tend to ignore the possibilities of security holes in advance.
I don't think it takes a security expert to realize that giving anyone on the internet access to your system is a bad idea, yet Outlook does this, and this is how the melissa virus spread.
It's (relativly) easy to fix a bug in a well designed program, it's almost impossible to fix bugs in a badly designed program, and Microsoft products have had a consistant pattern of being poorly thought out.
I think you have too look at why terrorism occurs in various parts of the world, and compare the circumstances to the USA.
There is no substantial movement anywhere within the US for independence. This is the cause of some of the terrorism related to Northern Ireland, in Southern Spain, and the Middle East.
There is also no engrained religious conflicts, the cause of some of the terrorism in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and India.
Most importantly, there isn't a history of these conflicts going on for generations. Indeed, the act of emigration tends to cause people to concentrate on their similarities instead of their differences, causing the formation of communities from 'the old country', sharing their experiences as they become acustomed to their new nation.
Given this, the US does not have a low level of terrorism due to any action by it's government, but due to it's internal sociopolitical makeup.
The profit we were paid lost us money over OUR costs to press each CD (our profit was about $.45 per CD, had we sold them all at that rate. But since we didn't we lost lots of money on the CDs we pressed in anticipation)
I'm trying to work out if you were conned on the price of pressing, or you were selling your CD's incredibly low.
Pressing even a modest amount of CD's shouldn't cost more than $1, the availablity of cheap CD-ROM's has forced the price down.
The city, state, and federal government are perfectly within their rights to force these protests to act reasonably (e.g., not blocking all traffic and trade in the city)--these laws are just and moral.
One problem I've got is that the cops seem to be overreacting, and innocent people are getting treated as rioters.
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Unless someone moderates you down :-)
The problem is that what's "age-inappropriate" isn't a simple decision. The US is very prissy about nudity. Europe isn't. Things which are totally accepted in Europe (Such as nude beaches, or nudity on television) are not accepted in the US. Go to a mediterrian resourt beach, and you will see topless women. Walk along the beach, and you'll probably end up in the nude section, and see naked people.
Look at movies certifications around the world, and you will find very wide variations between difference countries. A single film can be considered acceptable for 7 year olds in France, but not acceptable for 17 year olds in the US.
I'm not aware of any airship accident which killed all on board. The Hindenburg had 97 people on board, 36 of who died. R101 (The other famous airship accident) had 54 people on board of who 48 died, however many airship accidents results in no injuries or deaths, for example the R33 accident of April 16 1925. The disadvantages of hydrogen are more than compensated for by the advatantages of having a basically stable platform.
I'd say that airships had no worse a record than similar airplanes of the age, and a modern helium powered airship has the potential to be significantly safer than a modern aircraft.
Oh yes, I wasn't trying to imply that DDT was the only estrogenic compound, just that it was one of them.
I bought 2 big bags of hamster food.
Also DDT is an estrogenic drug - it can mimic the effects of female sex hormones in males. Estrogenics cause many problems, including falling sperm counts in humans.
If you want a screwup air disaster, then the winner has to the 747 piloted by Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, who decided to take off on a fog covered runway without launch clearance and without waiting for another 747 to clear the runway.
This accident is still the classical case of how mismanagement in the cockpit, and sloppy procedures, will result in disaster.
Winamp (For windows) and mpg123 (for *ix) both have support for streaming urls.
Am I the only one who read this as "Gates on Fire"?
Similarly, there is no doubt at all that Jeff Bezos & Amazon has had a tremendous influence on the news this year. Every news program mentions shopping on the web, there have been stories about Malls panicing, and for the first time, there is apparently enough money being spent on the web to make taxing it a subject of discussion.
Bezos' achievements may or may not be great. Personally I think it's too soon to judge. However there is no doubt at all that they have been the source of much news over the last year.
Of course, by some peoples definition of life, viruses aren't alive. They don't consume food or excrete and they don't have any senses, both of which are common parts of definitions of life.
If you want to name anyone as the 'original' source distibuter in Unix, it's got to be Dennis Ritchie, who posted off lots of dec tapes labed 'Love Dennis'. This was in the mid 70's, a full decade before RMS created the FSF & started on GNU.
He was a really nice guy, and he told quite a few interesting stories.
What would be interesting would be to link up to a machine translation (such as babelfish), and then finally text to speech.
You can also knock off $7 if you don't want ethernet cables.
Python has it's loops defined by indentation. If you loose the indentation for any reason, then the program is destroyed.
The day that iCraveTV.com was launched, CITY TV (Independant station here in Toronto, channel 57 in area code 416) gave it a review & a recommendation on their breakfast show.
I can imagine extending our existing senses to ranges that they cannot currently handle, for example infrared vision, or to hear the intensity of the magnetic field, or anything similar to that, but creating a totally new sense? I can't imagine it
I have several friends who are legally blind, one who has eyesight to this level can get around town with only a cane to alert him to trip hazards, and easily do things like pick up a dropped pillow without having to fumble for it.
Even just having the ability to tell darkness from light could be worthwile, as it could be used to tell which way you are orientated in a room, by detecting where the windows are.
I don't think it takes a security expert to realize that giving anyone on the internet access to your system is a bad idea, yet Outlook does this, and this is how the melissa virus spread.
It's (relativly) easy to fix a bug in a well designed program, it's almost impossible to fix bugs in a badly designed program, and Microsoft products have had a consistant pattern of being poorly thought out.
You don't have to have a publically posted email address or webpage.
There is no substantial movement anywhere within the US for independence. This is the cause of some of the terrorism related to Northern Ireland, in Southern Spain, and the Middle East.
There is also no engrained religious conflicts, the cause of some of the terrorism in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and India.
Most importantly, there isn't a history of these conflicts going on for generations. Indeed, the act of emigration tends to cause people to concentrate on their similarities instead of their differences, causing the formation of communities from 'the old country', sharing their experiences as they become acustomed to their new nation.
Given this, the US does not have a low level of terrorism due to any action by it's government, but due to it's internal sociopolitical makeup.
I'm trying to work out if you were conned on the price of pressing, or you were selling your CD's incredibly low.
Pressing even a modest amount of CD's shouldn't cost more than $1, the availablity of cheap CD-ROM's has forced the price down.
One problem I've got is that the cops seem to be overreacting, and innocent people are getting treated as rioters.