That's not the real reason, mate. The real reason people hate the US is that they're rich ansd powerful. Hypocrital and criminal regimes are a dime a dozen (mostly much more hypocritical and criminal) but you can't get more powerful than the US, and that hurts.
Thanks for the warning. When I buy my next house I'll make sure to put in aircon units that works as heat pumps as well. In case the gas supply fails and electric power stays up.
I'm sort of hoping the Russians will do something like this soon. Nothing like a few days without heat to increase public support for nuclear energy.
So I must be the only person who consistently skips all ads? Is there something wrong with me or with the rest of the world. Or - perhaps - is this just another example of wishful thinking like when illegal mp3 downloads actually boosted sales...
So encrypting random data leads to less random looking (we're talking appeareances here) data than encrypting non-random data? DO you have any links to back that up because I don't buy it.
Or perhaps the 4 people that moded him interesting could explain...;)
Get a 9300 or a 9500. The 9500 has a considerably better keyboard but it's a bigger phone. The 9300 is very pocketable. They're probably relatively cheap now, because their successor (the E90) is almost ready. The E90 is somewhat bigger than the 9300 but smaller than the 9500. It's main benefits are multimedia and UMTS.
All of them have excellent keyboard compared to other phones and they still work like a decent phone as well (not like pda like windows smartphone lot).
I have 4 Squeezebox III players all over the house. They can be synchronized. In fact the living room and kitchen players are permanently synchronized. Whenever I turn on the kitchen SB it starts playing what the living room SB is playing.
It would be good news if Google used a proper open synchronization protocol like SyncML. Then alternative servers using the same protocol could be used instead of Google. But that's not really in Google's interest, is it?
FYI there are lots of smartphones that support SyncML, in fact anything by Nokia or Sony Ericsson running Symbian OS will do. A good Open Source server and desktop client is needed. I use http://www.mobical.net/ for synchronizing (over the air) with my Nokia 9300 and that works great. But mobical is only free as in beer and the Nokia is not free at all... The standard is, though...
A widely supported open protocol is the way to beat the MS calendaring stuff, not just moving to another proprietary protocol.
Flac is great because of the license, freely available tools and because my digital audio players ( 4 SqueezeBox network players at home and an iRiver H140 with rockbox on the road) support it natively. Tag support is included.
The great thing about any lossless format (as long as you have the uncompression tool) is that you may at any time choose to convert to any other format without loss. I regularly convert Monkey audio downloads to Flac without loss.
That's the real problem with MP3 library's you can never move to a different format without losing extra quality (unless you move to a lossless format which is - of course - totally pointless).
Many people maintain a separate mp3 tree, which they can use on any portable players where sound quality is not that important. Tools exist to automate this:
These days you can choose to have kids via IVF combined with Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnostics. That way you can make sure you don't pass it on to your kids. Or don't have kids at all, of course.
Also, there is a promising new technology called RNA Interference that may be used to stop the defective genes from expressing themselves one day.
Since I have a little baby boy, I've given this some thought. When we're really young and helpless we see our parents as creatures who know everything, are able to do everything and are responsible for everything.
When my little boy has a tooth ache he looks at me to find relief. When he's done something bad he looks at me for 'punishment'. When he's done something good he looks at me for appreciation and reward. Thanks to the IP camera in his room and the baby monitor I know when he wakes up and needs help.
This omnipresent and omnipotent being around us when we are small is our first encounter with - what is then - a simple world. Please the 'god' and all will be well, offend him and you will 'suffer'. Of course, his tooth ache is not caused by me and I can't really help him get rid of it.
Religion is just a way of continuing this simple image of the world into the rest of your life. It's a psychological relief because, no matter how badly you are treated, your Father knows and will compensate you in good time (the after life). It's no coincidence that god is portrayed as 'the father'.
Of course, religion is also a wonderful way of reinforcing social rules aand laws and forcing bonds within groups. That's where instutional religion comes from.
X.
PS: Don't take this punishing talk too literally. He just gets cuddled, really. I'm a benevolent deity (for now).
The point is that North America peaked in Natural Gas production in about Jan 2001. I suspect the world may be peaking in oil production and may already be past peak. We do have coal available and we do have nuclear. But most houses don't have a coal furnace anymore.
If we start building the IRF reactor system which was designed by Argonne Labs (and shut down by clinton's administration in 1994!) then we have over 60,000 years of uranium supply on hand already mined... this for a fleet of about 110 reactors. North American can produce 100% of its power from nuclear - but we need about 1200 reactors to do it. We havn't started to build any. Any new reactors are years away.
I agree that nuclear is the way to go to reduce CO2 and preserve our lifestyle and economies, but the Argonne reactor type is actually called IFR 'Integral Fast Reactor'. Read more about it here:
In todays 'climate' (no pun intended) that project should be revived immediately.
Our whole electricity usage could be converted to nuclear, our heating could be converted to electric. That would cover about 2/3 of our CO2 output (numbers for the UK). Serious attention to 'plugin hybrids' ( http://www.calcars.org/vehicles.html ) could convert a lot of our consumer car miles to electric as well. Where are we at? 80% reduction already? The LA smog won't be the same...
You don't. You use his connection when your ISP happens to be down and when your new laptop comes in you use it to ssh to your server so you can copy & paste your own 63 char WPA key so you don't have to type it all. It's really handy having such neighbours.
Actually I have 6 access points in my range (apart from my own 2) and all but one have encryption enabled, most of them WEP. The 'open' one's SSID is 'default', that was a bit of a giveaway. I guess I'm probably in a relatively smart neighbourhood.
I did that over 15 years ago in a program and I remember thinking that real cryptographers would be laughing at me. Anyway, the software was very unlikkely to ever be the target of an attack so it was mostly spielerei. Nice to read this, though...:)
No, but apparently the incidency among AC's is rather high...
According to the money flow metric you espouse, you are more valuable than about 200 africans. That's wrong. Very very wrong.
That depends on the Africans in question. Some of them are actually richer than me. In any case wrong has nothing to do with it. It's the only way things appear to work. Systems based on fairness have been tried many times but they always turned out even worse than good old capitalism. However great your ideals, you are responsible for the effects if things turn out badly.
Perhaps, once you get out of puberty, you will reach the same conclusion. It requires an open mind and a healthy interest in the facts. I think it's a wonderful idea for people to try to create free or low cost medicines, but let's not try to break a system that has given us unparalleled health and technology, shall we?
Comparing a drug that gives an old fart a boner to a drug that can stop the spread of a deadly disease is wrong. Very wrong.
It wasn't my idea to compare the two.
Grow some compassion.
In sensible people compassion is governed by ratio.
The university people in the article could have chosen a better path by starting a company and using their ideologically limited profits to develope more medicines. Bill Gates may or may not be a rat, I'm pretty much convinced that he has done more to fight malaria than you and me put together.
Clearly false. An effective, cheap vaccine against HIV, say, would be far more valuable than all the Viagra in the world.
More valuable by whose standard? How did most of these people get HIV in the first place? Because at some point they valued having sex higher than the perceived risk of getting HIV. Apparently, people value having sex a lot. That's not surprising, evolution would suggest procreation is as important as self preservation. Therefore a drug that helps people having better/more sex may very well be valued more than a vaccine that lowers the perceived risk of getting HIV depending on who you ask.
Obviously a vaccine against HIV would help everyone having more/better sex too, so I guess it's not such a very good example. My point is that it's very difficult to make these value decisions for other people. For me the value of lighting a cigarette is very negative. I never smoked. Other people value it so much that they're willing to risk their lives for it.
The money flow is just an indication of the underlying value system.
It's not meant to be xenophobic. As long as there is money to be made from spam, people will be sending it. The world is full of thiefs and robbers. As much as I hate spam, violent crime is much worse IMHO.
This is the reason I buy Dell laptops. No sending in or waiting 5 business days. If it breaks, there's a repairman on my doorstep tomorrow. The fee is reasonable. I need my laptop working.
I didn't mean that Taiwanese are spammers. The article mentions whole parts of Asia being cut off because of this quake. It's no secret that a lot of spam originates in Asia, if that's still true today with the botnets and all.
Hmm, weird. My manager hired me *because* I'm better than he is (not at managing, BTW).
In my experience, the people who get fired because they're more competent only think they are more competent or - at any rate - are so blinded by their own delusions of grandeur that they're very hard to work with. Firing may be the best medicine in these cases.
Geniuses are wonderful, but if you can't work with them, they're a liability.
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That's not the real reason, mate. The real reason people hate the US is that they're rich ansd powerful. Hypocrital and criminal regimes are a dime a dozen (mostly much more hypocritical and criminal) but you can't get more powerful than the US, and that hurts.
X. (not American)
Thanks for the warning. When I buy my next house I'll make sure to put in aircon units that works as heat pumps as well. In case the gas supply fails and electric power stays up.
I'm sort of hoping the Russians will do something like this soon. Nothing like a few days without heat to increase public support for nuclear energy.
X.
So I must be the only person who consistently skips all ads? Is there something wrong with me or with the rest of the world. Or - perhaps - is this just another example of wishful thinking like when illegal mp3 downloads actually boosted sales...
;)
I haven't bought a CD since...
X.
So encrypting random data leads to less random looking (we're talking appeareances here) data than encrypting non-random data? DO you have any links to back that up because I don't buy it.
;)
Or perhaps the 4 people that moded him interesting could explain...
X.
You make a good point. The 9300 & 9500 lack vibra alert.
The E90 has one, but it's going to be quite expensive.
Carrying is not a problem (depending on what you're wearing)
X.
Get a 9300 or a 9500. The 9500 has a considerably better keyboard but it's a bigger phone. The 9300 is very pocketable. They're probably relatively cheap now, because their successor (the E90) is almost ready. The E90 is somewhat bigger than the 9300 but smaller than the 9500. It's main benefits are multimedia and UMTS.
All of them have excellent keyboard compared to other phones and they still work like a decent phone as well (not like pda like windows smartphone lot).
Regards,
Peter
I have 4 Squeezebox III players all over the house. They can be synchronized. In fact the living room and kitchen players are permanently synchronized. Whenever I turn on the kitchen SB it starts playing what the living room SB is playing.
X.
Try again. In the seventeenth century, little Holland was *the* economic super power of the world.
X.
I use a PC at work.
And another one at home, well even two sometimes.
And a smart phone equipped with a browser.
So I inflate web usage statistics with 100 to 300%?
And then there are people sharing the same PC/account deflating the stats...
All of us who host websites know how unreliable statistics are. Nothing new there...
X.
It would be good news if Google used a proper open synchronization protocol like SyncML. Then alternative servers using the same protocol could be used instead of Google. But that's not really in Google's interest, is it?
FYI there are lots of smartphones that support SyncML, in fact anything by Nokia or Sony Ericsson running Symbian OS will do. A good Open Source server and desktop client is needed. I use http://www.mobical.net/ for synchronizing (over the air) with my Nokia 9300 and that works great. But mobical is only free as in beer and the Nokia is not free at all... The standard is, though...
A widely supported open protocol is the way to beat the MS calendaring stuff, not just moving to another proprietary protocol.
X.
My ISP, xs4all has no caps at all on its DSL lines, no fair use policy either.
;)
I pay 70 EURO for 20 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up (I'd rather have a different ratio).
Of course you have live in Holland
X.
May I suggest you use OpenVPN (VPN over TCP port 80/443) instead?
Much more flexible...
X.
Flac is great because of the license, freely available tools and because my digital audio players ( 4 SqueezeBox network players at home and an iRiver H140 with rockbox on the road) support it natively. Tag support is included.
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The great thing about any lossless format (as long as you have the uncompression tool) is that you may at any time choose to convert to any other format without loss. I regularly convert Monkey audio downloads to Flac without loss.
That's the real problem with MP3 library's you can never move to a different format without losing extra quality (unless you move to a lossless format which is - of course - totally pointless).
Many people maintain a separate mp3 tree, which they can use on any portable players where sound quality is not that important. Tools exist to automate this:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t
X.
These days you can choose to have kids via IVF combined with Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnostics. That way you can make sure you don't pass it on to your kids. Or don't have kids at all, of course.
t ic_diagnosis
Also, there is a promising new technology called RNA Interference that may be used to stop the defective genes from expressing themselves one day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_gene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_interference
X.
Since I have a little baby boy, I've given this some thought. When we're really young and helpless we see our parents as creatures who know everything, are able to do everything and are responsible for everything.
When my little boy has a tooth ache he looks at me to find relief. When he's done something bad he looks at me for 'punishment'. When he's done something good he looks at me for appreciation and reward. Thanks to the IP camera in his room and the baby monitor I know when he wakes up and needs help.
This omnipresent and omnipotent being around us when we are small is our first encounter with - what is then - a simple world. Please the 'god' and all will be well, offend him and you will 'suffer'. Of course, his tooth ache is not caused by me and I can't really help him get rid of it.
Religion is just a way of continuing this simple image of the world into the rest of your life. It's a psychological relief because, no matter how badly you are treated, your Father knows and will compensate you in good time (the after life). It's no coincidence that god is portrayed as 'the father'.
Of course, religion is also a wonderful way of reinforcing social rules aand laws and forcing bonds within groups. That's where instutional religion comes from.
X.
PS: Don't take this punishing talk too literally. He just gets cuddled, really. I'm a benevolent deity (for now).
I agree that nuclear is the way to go to reduce CO2 and preserve our lifestyle and economies, but the Argonne reactor type is actually called IFR 'Integral Fast Reactor'. Read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reacto
In todays 'climate' (no pun intended) that project should be revived immediately.
Our whole electricity usage could be converted to nuclear, our heating could be converted to electric. That would cover about 2/3 of our CO2 output (numbers for the UK). Serious attention to 'plugin hybrids' ( http://www.calcars.org/vehicles.html ) could convert a lot of our consumer car miles to electric as well. Where are we at? 80% reduction already? The LA smog won't be the same...
X.
You don't. You use his connection when your ISP happens to be down and when your new laptop comes in you use it to ssh to your server so you can copy & paste your own 63 char WPA key so you don't have to type it all. It's really handy having such neighbours.
Actually I have 6 access points in my range (apart from my own 2) and all but one have encryption enabled, most of them WEP. The 'open' one's SSID is 'default', that was a bit of a giveaway. I guess I'm probably in a relatively smart neighbourhood.
X.
You're kidding me ;)
:)
I did that over 15 years ago in a program and I remember thinking that real cryptographers would be laughing at me. Anyway, the software was very unlikkely to ever be the target of an attack so it was mostly spielerei. Nice to read this, though...
X.
You're autistic, right?
No, but apparently the incidency among AC's is rather high...
According to the money flow metric you espouse, you are more valuable than about 200 africans. That's wrong. Very very wrong.
That depends on the Africans in question. Some of them are actually richer than me. In any case wrong has nothing to do with it. It's the only way things appear to work. Systems based on fairness have been tried many times but they always turned out even worse than good old capitalism. However great your ideals, you are responsible for the effects if things turn out badly.
Perhaps, once you get out of puberty, you will reach the same conclusion. It requires an open mind and a healthy interest in the facts. I think it's a wonderful idea for people to try to create free or low cost medicines, but let's not try to break a system that has given us unparalleled health and technology, shall we?
Comparing a drug that gives an old fart a boner to a drug that can stop the spread of a deadly disease is wrong. Very wrong.
It wasn't my idea to compare the two.
Grow some compassion.
In sensible people compassion is governed by ratio.
The university people in the article could have chosen a better path by starting a company and using their ideologically limited profits to develope more medicines. Bill Gates may or may not be a rat, I'm pretty much convinced that he has done more to fight malaria than you and me put together.
X.
Clearly false. An effective, cheap vaccine against HIV, say, would be far more valuable than all the Viagra in the world.
More valuable by whose standard? How did most of these people get HIV in the first place? Because at some point they valued having sex higher than the perceived risk of getting HIV. Apparently, people value having sex a lot. That's not surprising, evolution would suggest procreation is as important as self preservation. Therefore a drug that helps people having better/more sex may very well be valued more than a vaccine that lowers the perceived risk of getting HIV depending on who you ask.
Obviously a vaccine against HIV would help everyone having more/better sex too, so I guess it's not such a very good example. My point is that it's very difficult to make these value decisions for other people. For me the value of lighting a cigarette is very negative. I never smoked. Other people value it so much that they're willing to risk their lives for it.
The money flow is just an indication of the underlying value system.
We're not that rational, really...
X.
It's not meant to be xenophobic. As long as there is money to be made from spam, people will be sending it. The world is full of thiefs and robbers. As much as I hate spam, violent crime is much worse IMHO.
X. (not an American)
This is the reason I buy Dell laptops. No sending in or waiting 5 business days. If it breaks, there's a repairman on my doorstep tomorrow. The fee is reasonable. I need my laptop working.
X.
I didn't mean that Taiwanese are spammers. The article mentions whole parts of Asia being cut off because of this quake. It's no secret that a lot of spam originates in Asia, if that's still true today with the botnets and all.
X.
what the effect on the incoming spam will be...
Hmm, weird. My manager hired me *because* I'm better than he is (not at managing, BTW).
In my experience, the people who get fired because they're more competent only think they are more competent or - at any rate - are so blinded by their own delusions of grandeur that they're very hard to work with. Firing may be the best medicine in these cases.
Geniuses are wonderful, but if you can't work with them, they're a liability.
X.