INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big" time. Infinity is so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. Douglas Adams
When you have some spare time, try dividing infinity by infinity, or something to that effect, and you'll find that the probability actually does arrive at 1 at some point... And just for fun, the probability that an event HAS happened (in the past) is ONLY 1 or 0, but never something in between.
Ah, well the point of it is simple. A rocket normally requires a LOT of lift of energy precisely because it needs to lug tons and tons of fuel up with it as it moves a long. By dropping those fuel-pounds, or at least some of them, you can carry a lot more stuff... More stuff into space is a Good Thing.
Fox had better hope if it wins that it never used any public domain works in any of it's creations... Once word gets out that you can post-copyright pulic works and collect damages, people all over the world will be looking to copyight everything that they can even margially claim owndership of and bleed these big media corporations dry.
The basis used by the RIAA for calculating damages in all these cases is fundamentally absurd. They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
You do have to give them credit for stopping bfore infinity. Since each of teh shared files is technically getting copied into memory buffers, swapped to disk, copied multiple time sin packet form across teh internet's routers, they could easily say that each of these virtual copies is the same thing as the virtual copies that are actually being shared out, making 98B something closer to 98 quadrillion.
I'm serious. I'd love to do telecommute work. I am a very good programmer, and am even better when working from home, but I don't know where to find a full-time telecommute position. Are there websites dedicated to these kinds of jobs? Do you have to be a contractor or can you get full salaried positions? I'm really curious about this.
If so, the RIAA is claiming that it and its members would have made up about 99% of the U.S. economy had this one person not pirated that music.
Um, not even close... the current US GDP is something liek 10 trillion... so they would be claiming that the RIAA's "potential" is actually closer to 99.999% of the US economy instead of merely 99%. I think it technically means that the RIAA actually has the potential to make slightly more money than exists in the world at this moment.
For every copy of a song that someone downloaded frm this guy, it was copied at least 4-5 times in the router buffers between his computer and the downloader. And then there are the numbers of times it was copied in local memory and swapped to disk... if making a copy of music is stealing, then 100 trillion is not rearly close enough... Just think of all the numbers of times PI has songs recorded in it's digits? Every man woman and child who uses circles and spheres (cones too) owes the RIAA big time...
...if you don't get to look at the list, how do you know it's not being abused? How do you know that they are all child porn sites, and not, for example, pro-choice advocate sites, or whatever the reviewer decides is against his personal beliefs?
If I was in charge of the list, and I knew that it would never be seen by anyone but me and my cronies, then I've got a really big stick to wave around the heads of those people I don't agree with. Child porn is bad, but the potential to lose some bit of freedom is worse. Eventually those kids grow up and either adjust or they don't, but lost freedoms are usually gone forever and they affect everybody in the country. There is no bigger superpower than us that can come and bail us out if our govt becomes a totolitarian regime, so we have to defend our liberty at all cost while we have the chance.
I used to say "if you;ve done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide".
I hear that often, but my question in response is simply, "If I've done nothing wrong, why do you have to watch me?"
Remember folks, in this country, you are innocent until they can prove you guilty. It's not up to you to prove that you live a squaky clean life, it's up to them to prove that you don't. By saying that you have nothing to fear from losing your privacy becuase you're not guilty is presuming guilt on people before the evidence is collected. It's saying, "I don't have a reason to suspect you... yet. But I'll find something eventually, I just know it, so I'll keep looking."
If there is no evidence to point me out as a possible suspect, then why do I need to be watched?
It means "Please Can you LOAD some more LETTERs?" The printer has printed all the letters that it has available, it doesn't even have enough to write out the full error message. Either put more letters in it or try printing numbers.
What is life?
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I think the reason why Venus sounds like such an incredibly bad place to find life is that a lot of us consider "life" to be humans and ducks and such. What is the core of life? Life is just a very complex machine for converting stuff to energy and then using that energy to do stuff. Venus has tons and tons of energy just hanging around. Life on Venus wouldn't need to eat, it could just sit there and absorb all the 800 degree goodness in little bio-capacitors. If it did eat, it wouldn't have to spend any time creating digestive juices, it could just open it's mouth when it rained. For us, Venus would suck, but for life adapted to Venus, it would be paradise.
If your neighbor across the street has his floodlight on, and you needed to read your book, is it ethical to open your blinds and use thier light?
On the flip side, if you are trying to get to sleep at night, is it ethical for them to leave thier floodlights on all night?
The wireless that they have on is not only coming into your house, but also reducing YOUR capacity to set up your own wireless. If you had 3-4 neighbors close around you all on different channels, you might not be able to set up a reasonable network in your own house.
If thier wireless is going to be coming into your house and take up your own personal RF bands in your own walls, then not only is it ethical to use it, but it's also UNETHICAL for them to not allow you to use it.
Everyone has been using the car analogy where if I left my car with the keys running, is it right to take it... Well, I have a better analogy that you should consider. If I have boxes I packed up from college, and I just decide to store then in some random guy down the street's living room, is it somehow unethical for him to open them up and look inside? Can I bitch and moan when he watches the blockbuster videos that I packed in there (He didn't pay the license fee after all!)?
If you think it's wrong to access a neighbor's wireless from your own house, please email me your address, I need a place to put my stuff...
Would you similarly consider it acceptable for someone to swindle a child out of her allowance money simply because he has more life experience?
That's loaded becuase it uses children and swindling... How about this one... Is it acceptable, in our society, to buy someone's patent for vastly less than it's worth becuase they don't know the real value of it (perfect example may be Bill Gates and CPM)?
But more to teh point of wireless. It's not like he has to leave his house to access the other AP. If someone is leavign his things in your house, how is it acceptable that you are not allowed to touch it? Can I store my extra boxes stuff over at your place? No, I don't even need to ask... I'll just go put them there and call you unethical if you look inside them.
Remember the chatter that the other AP is sending it less BW for you, especially if you want to use the same channel. They are intruding into your home and limiting your own wireless access ability. The REAL question here should be "Is it ethical to set up a WAP and NOT let your neighbors in?"
Ah, but if you leave the keys in your car parked in MY living room, I am going to assume that that means you want to share it with me. If you don't protect your wireless and it's RFing it's way into MY house, then it's a gift to me!
Instead of some central "Post Office" body that you pay, the money should go directly to the recipient of the message. People would actually WANT spam.
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INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big" time. Infinity is so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Douglas Adams
When you have some spare time, try dividing infinity by infinity, or something to that effect, and you'll find that the probability actually does arrive at 1 at some point... And just for fun, the probability that an event HAS happened (in the past) is ONLY 1 or 0, but never something in between.
That one is easy, fresh popcorn for the onlookers!
Ah, well the point of it is simple. A rocket normally requires a LOT of lift of energy precisely because it needs to lug tons and tons of fuel up with it as it moves a long. By dropping those fuel-pounds, or at least some of them, you can carry a lot more stuff... More stuff into space is a Good Thing.
Fox had better hope if it wins that it never used any public domain works in any of it's creations... Once word gets out that you can post-copyright pulic works and collect damages, people all over the world will be looking to copyight everything that they can even margially claim owndership of and bleed these big media corporations dry.
Ack ... so many ... jokes ... methane ... pellet form ... must ... hold back ... countless ... bad jokes...
They were so close... but they failed to use ritz crackers as polls and guys in sheets as the ghosts.. now THAT would have been fun to watch.
The basis used by the RIAA for calculating damages in all these cases is fundamentally absurd. They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
You do have to give them credit for stopping bfore infinity. Since each of teh shared files is technically getting copied into memory buffers, swapped to disk, copied multiple time sin packet form across teh internet's routers, they could easily say that each of these virtual copies is the same thing as the virtual copies that are actually being shared out, making 98B something closer to 98 quadrillion.
I've had no end of problems with all sorts of linksys wireless hardware. Just FYI.
I'm serious. I'd love to do telecommute work. I am a very good programmer, and am even better when working from home, but I don't know where to find a full-time telecommute position. Are there websites dedicated to these kinds of jobs? Do you have to be a contractor or can you get full salaried positions? I'm really curious about this.
If so, the RIAA is claiming that it and its members would have made up about 99% of the U.S. economy had this one person not pirated that music.
Um, not even close... the current US GDP is something liek 10 trillion... so they would be claiming that the RIAA's "potential" is actually closer to 99.999% of the US economy instead of merely 99%. I think it technically means that the RIAA actually has the potential to make slightly more money than exists in the world at this moment.
For every copy of a song that someone downloaded frm this guy, it was copied at least 4-5 times in the router buffers between his computer and the downloader. And then there are the numbers of times it was copied in local memory and swapped to disk... if making a copy of music is stealing, then 100 trillion is not rearly close enough... Just think of all the numbers of times PI has songs recorded in it's digits? Every man woman and child who uses circles and spheres (cones too) owes the RIAA big time...
...if you don't get to look at the list, how do you know it's not being abused? How do you know that they are all child porn sites, and not, for example, pro-choice advocate sites, or whatever the reviewer decides is against his personal beliefs?
If I was in charge of the list, and I knew that it would never be seen by anyone but me and my cronies, then I've got a really big stick to wave around the heads of those people I don't agree with. Child porn is bad, but the potential to lose some bit of freedom is worse. Eventually those kids grow up and either adjust or they don't, but lost freedoms are usually gone forever and they affect everybody in the country. There is no bigger superpower than us that can come and bail us out if our govt becomes a totolitarian regime, so we have to defend our liberty at all cost while we have the chance.
I used to say "if you;ve done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide".
I hear that often, but my question in response is simply, "If I've done nothing wrong, why do you have to watch me?"
Remember folks, in this country, you are innocent until they can prove you guilty. It's not up to you to prove that you live a squaky clean life, it's up to them to prove that you don't. By saying that you have nothing to fear from losing your privacy becuase you're not guilty is presuming guilt on people before the evidence is collected. It's saying, "I don't have a reason to suspect you... yet. But I'll find something eventually, I just know it, so I'll keep looking."
If there is no evidence to point me out as a possible suspect, then why do I need to be watched?
Go look for other "look and feel" packages like this one...
Sure, the cancer doesn't survive the blast... but neither do you.
So, one more and we have : HYPE! Exactly how marketing works.
It means "Please Can you LOAD some more LETTERs?" The printer has printed all the letters that it has available, it doesn't even have enough to write out the full error message. Either put more letters in it or try printing numbers.
I think the reason why Venus sounds like such an incredibly bad place to find life is that a lot of us consider "life" to be humans and ducks and such. What is the core of life? Life is just a very complex machine for converting stuff to energy and then using that energy to do stuff. Venus has tons and tons of energy just hanging around. Life on Venus wouldn't need to eat, it could just sit there and absorb all the 800 degree goodness in little bio-capacitors. If it did eat, it wouldn't have to spend any time creating digestive juices, it could just open it's mouth when it rained. For us, Venus would suck, but for life adapted to Venus, it would be paradise.
This relatively new approach contrasts with traditional, preventitive security that has been sucseptible to numerous attacks.
New approach to handling viruses? My company has left Windows running on thier machines for years... *rimshot*
If your neighbor across the street has his floodlight on, and you needed to read your book, is it ethical to open your blinds and use thier light?
On the flip side, if you are trying to get to sleep at night, is it ethical for them to leave thier floodlights on all night?
The wireless that they have on is not only coming into your house, but also reducing YOUR capacity to set up your own wireless. If you had 3-4 neighbors close around you all on different channels, you might not be able to set up a reasonable network in your own house.
If thier wireless is going to be coming into your house and take up your own personal RF bands in your own walls, then not only is it ethical to use it, but it's also UNETHICAL for them to not allow you to use it.
Everyone has been using the car analogy where if I left my car with the keys running, is it right to take it... Well, I have a better analogy that you should consider. If I have boxes I packed up from college, and I just decide to store then in some random guy down the street's living room, is it somehow unethical for him to open them up and look inside? Can I bitch and moan when he watches the blockbuster videos that I packed in there (He didn't pay the license fee after all!)?
If you think it's wrong to access a neighbor's wireless from your own house, please email me your address, I need a place to put my stuff...
Would you similarly consider it acceptable for someone to swindle a child out of her allowance money simply because he has more life experience?
That's loaded becuase it uses children and swindling... How about this one... Is it acceptable, in our society, to buy someone's patent for vastly less than it's worth becuase they don't know the real value of it (perfect example may be Bill Gates and CPM)?
But more to teh point of wireless. It's not like he has to leave his house to access the other AP. If someone is leavign his things in your house, how is it acceptable that you are not allowed to touch it? Can I store my extra boxes stuff over at your place? No, I don't even need to ask... I'll just go put them there and call you unethical if you look inside them.
Remember the chatter that the other AP is sending it less BW for you, especially if you want to use the same channel. They are intruding into your home and limiting your own wireless access ability. The REAL question here should be "Is it ethical to set up a WAP and NOT let your neighbors in?"
Ah, but if you leave the keys in your car parked in MY living room, I am going to assume that that means you want to share it with me. If you don't protect your wireless and it's RFing it's way into MY house, then it's a gift to me!
...only now they call the dots "powerups" and come in 32bit color...
It would be trivial to add an embedded key to every copy that goes out, then you can trace the exact guy hwo is giving them out!
Instead of some central "Post Office" body that you pay, the money should go directly to the recipient of the message. People would actually WANT spam.