The constitution also doesn't say anything about the state funding universities. If there were no public schools, I couldn't get a higher education, and neither could a whole lot of other people. Are you going to tell me that we should all just resign ourselves to a life of burger-slinging because we can't affort forty grand a year?
(Never mind that the increased earning power the graduates have pay the state back tenfold at the least. Investing in education is a good thing. It makes sense. It's good for the people.)
Well, yes, the testing requirements are rather draconian. But then again, does anyone remember thalidomide? It was rushed through approval in Europe, but the only victims in the US were those involved in the initial safety trials. (This was mostly due to the efforts of the FDA chief at the time.)
There's a reason that drug approval is so expensive here. It's not something you'd want to cut corners on.
But there's a hell of a lot of cases of food poisoning,
Wow, that's an impressive claim for something over which there's really no public outcry. Could you provide a link or a reference about this supposed epidemic of wacky foreigners poisoning our little Lebensborn?
This is an actual explanation of the rules and practices of XP, not just a page full of buzzwords. It seems to center around extensive testing and customer feedback.
We're sort of saying the same things. I'll let it rest at that.
Science does not explain "why" everything happens. We know, for instance, that matter has a property called "mass", and everything with "mass" has a force called "gravity" acting on it, but we don't really know how it works. Some laws are empirical, meaning that they describe the world, and are correct in that way... but they don't come with an explanation.
I really hope you're trying to take a page from Sokal here.
To humor you: the "for every reaction b" clause implies that there are an infinite number of reactions. However, unlike the original statement "for every action a", this refers to a specific instance---every reaction to a particular action---rather than the entire space of possible samples.
For example, I make the assertion that "all priests have a blue corpse in their backyard". Using your logic, you can't disprove that, because you can't examine every possible corpse in a given priest's backyard for blueness.
Mind you, if it's not free and open, nobody will use it.
Yeah, 'cause no one ever uses things like the increasingly obfuscated MSWord formats. 'Cause they're not free and open. I can't remember the last time some idiot sent me a proprietary Word-format document. Nope. Never happens.
Wouldn't it be conceptually easy to map an AIM name, say, HotSw33tie, to the ID HotSw33tie@aol.com, and the MSN Messenger name GatezRox to GatezRox@msn.com and so on? Since AOL and MSN both use a big centralized server, wouldn't this just require a simple extension of AOL's servers to interact with the full Jabber-style IM world? They could still retain compatibility for people using older AIM clients, anyway, but those people wouldn't be able to talk to MSN/ICQ/Jabber folks.
And does this whole setup mean that I can run my own IM host? As in, I can be BadAssBob@bobshost.com? No external service necessary? I can IM WimpAssFred@wimpybox.com just like that, no centralized server necessary? Just like email?
Wouldn't it be sweet if they mailed them on CD-RWs? I could always use some extra CD-RWs, even if they all said "AOL IS MY ASS-MASTER" on them. They get advertising, I get free media. Everyone wins!
What's the difference? Aren't they just filesystem layouts? Why would one be more suited to streaming playback than the other? Isn't the difference like FAT vs ext2---the actual file data stored is exactly the same?
There already exists an integerized version of the Ogg Vorbis codec that should run just fine on the StrongARM-200MHz. Should work practically out-of-the box, as long as someone makes an interface. Heck, someone could just add an input plugin to the MP3 Player, if it was designed right.
Fanfic is borderline-legal, but is almost always written by the most hardcore fans of the (show|books|comics)---no creator is going to alienate their biggest fans. Legal action has only been undertaken when the fic's author sought to profit from their use of the copyrighted universe---in this way, all fic works must be de facto free. Nifty, eh?
See The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek and so on for examples.
Actually, I'll start you off with my favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic. (Sex and violence the way it should be!) Read [skin]. Googling for "fanfic" and the name of your favorite series should produce good results. Most of it is dreck, but there's a lot of good stuff in there too.
Well, you might want to start by changing "grammar, spelling, and style" to "grammar, spelling and style" to conform to the official AP article-writing style.
(I worked at a newspaper; there were posters everywhere reminding us not to add that comma.)
If it is, they're a pack of fools. Any real tech-savvy person would laugh and point at HP for trying to sell them a crippled PC for twice what a normal one would cost.
I suspect that they're aiming for early-adopter types---those who don't care about what the technology is or does, but just want it because it's shiny and expensive. I suspect, especially with the economy tanking, that this is a much smaller market than HP thinks it is.
The problem with Phynd is that it uses SMB (Windows) file shares. There's absolutely no connection between getting and sharing---remember, what made all the P2P apps work was that by downloading, you also (usually) uploaded.
I'm also at UConn, and I've seen the problems with Phynd... people leech like crazy and don't share. This leads to heavily loaded servers (especially when ten people think it's a good idea to try to directly play AVIs off of a remote machine) who say "fuck it" and stop sharing.
A localized P2P tool (properly configured GnucleusLAN, for instance) wouldn't run into these problems. I'm trying to set up an on-campus gnutella network. Drop me an email if you're interested.
Yeah, but if they had the DVD, why wouldn't they be watching that?
However, if they'd had them on VHS tapes, because they'd (legally) taped them off reruns, then I for one would rather archive them on my local fileserver and load them onto the little beastie to play them back more conveniently.
I mean, both are possible; the second one just seems more likely---and a really good use for these devices. Market! Market!
Umm. Unless you have a really nice TV, it's only displaying 352x240 NTSC or 352x288 PAL. The quality is the same as a VHS tape---if there's "pixelization", the reviewer probably means the blocking artifacts that DivX has at too-low bitrates.
Isn't this the definition of an abuse of monopoly power? Where a select few giant companies conspire to keep the market from functioning at full efficiency in order to squeak out a few more billion bucks?
I wonder if there are any smoking gun memos, like the ones from the cigarette companies describing their plans to market smoking to kids. Only this time, the smoking-gun memos would actually surprise some people.
Shit, now that I think about it, it would solve nothing and just create a gargantuan windfall for a select few elites in the lawyer class. This is depressing---is there any way we the people can win?
You know, that may be the best idea I've heard for this in a long, long time. There exists plenty of science which is good for people but bad for business---cheap launch technology, vaccines, that sort of thing. A bounty system would make it good for business.
Of course, you'd run into nightmarish problems with fraud and deception---with that much money on the line, it not only becomes profitable to research, it becomes profitable to cheat. You'd need an honorable, impartial judge (or panel thereof) to test the supposed cures.
All it takes is one crazy millionaire to get the ball rolling and set up this foundation. Any takers?
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Dude, the real sexual tension in TOS was between Kirk and Spock. Oh, yeah. Hot Vulcan man-love.
No, really. Kirk and Spock were gay.
(Yes, I know the difference between the show and reality. I'm talking about the characters.)
--grendel drago
Agreed. Tentacles are fuckin' hot.
--grendel drago
The constitution also doesn't say anything about the state funding universities. If there were no public schools, I couldn't get a higher education, and neither could a whole lot of other people. Are you going to tell me that we should all just resign ourselves to a life of burger-slinging because we can't affort forty grand a year?
(Never mind that the increased earning power the graduates have pay the state back tenfold at the least. Investing in education is a good thing. It makes sense. It's good for the people.)
--grendel drago
Well, yes, the testing requirements are rather draconian. But then again, does anyone remember thalidomide? It was rushed through approval in Europe, but the only victims in the US were those involved in the initial safety trials. (This was mostly due to the efforts of the FDA chief at the time.)
There's a reason that drug approval is so expensive here. It's not something you'd want to cut corners on.
--grendel drago
But there's a hell of a lot of cases of food poisoning,
Wow, that's an impressive claim for something over which there's really no public outcry. Could you provide a link or a reference about this supposed epidemic of wacky foreigners poisoning our little Lebensborn?
--grendel drago
This is an actual explanation of the rules and practices of XP, not just a page full of buzzwords. It seems to center around extensive testing and customer feedback.
--grendel drago
That's quite an impressive claim you make there. Do you have a reference to back that up?
--grendel drago
We're sort of saying the same things. I'll let it rest at that.
Science does not explain "why" everything happens. We know, for instance, that matter has a property called "mass", and everything with "mass" has a force called "gravity" acting on it, but we don't really know how it works. Some laws are empirical, meaning that they describe the world, and are correct in that way... but they don't come with an explanation.
--grendel drago
I really hope you're trying to take a page from Sokal here.
To humor you: the "for every reaction b" clause implies that there are an infinite number of reactions. However, unlike the original statement "for every action a", this refers to a specific instance---every reaction to a particular action---rather than the entire space of possible samples.
For example, I make the assertion that "all priests have a blue corpse in their backyard". Using your logic, you can't disprove that, because you can't examine every possible corpse in a given priest's backyard for blueness.
--grendel drago.
Mind you, if it's not free and open, nobody will use it.
Yeah, 'cause no one ever uses things like the increasingly obfuscated MSWord formats. 'Cause they're not free and open. I can't remember the last time some idiot sent me a proprietary Word-format document. Nope. Never happens.
--grendel drago
Wouldn't it be conceptually easy to map an AIM name, say, HotSw33tie, to the ID HotSw33tie@aol.com, and the MSN Messenger name GatezRox to GatezRox@msn.com and so on? Since AOL and MSN both use a big centralized server, wouldn't this just require a simple extension of AOL's servers to interact with the full Jabber-style IM world? They could still retain compatibility for people using older AIM clients, anyway, but those people wouldn't be able to talk to MSN/ICQ/Jabber folks.
And does this whole setup mean that I can run my own IM host? As in, I can be BadAssBob@bobshost.com? No external service necessary? I can IM WimpAssFred@wimpybox.com just like that, no centralized server necessary? Just like email?
Oh... oh my pants!
--grendel drago
Wouldn't it be sweet if they mailed them on CD-RWs? I could always use some extra CD-RWs, even if they all said "AOL IS MY ASS-MASTER" on them. They get advertising, I get free media. Everyone wins!
--grendel drago
What's the difference? Aren't they just filesystem layouts? Why would one be more suited to streaming playback than the other? Isn't the difference like FAT vs ext2---the actual file data stored is exactly the same?
--grendel drago
What the hell are you talking about? A random sampling of NFOs on iSONews shows quite a few releases using VBR MP3 soundtracks.
Why on earth would AVIs require a CBR audio stream? Where did you get this idea? I'm really, really curious, here.
--grendel drago
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200202/012 5.html
There already exists an integerized version of the Ogg Vorbis codec that should run just fine on the StrongARM-200MHz. Should work practically out-of-the box, as long as someone makes an interface. Heck, someone could just add an input plugin to the MP3 Player, if it was designed right.
--grendel drago
Fanfic is borderline-legal, but is almost always written by the most hardcore fans of the (show|books|comics)---no creator is going to alienate their biggest fans. Legal action has only been undertaken when the fic's author sought to profit from their use of the copyrighted universe---in this way, all fic works must be de facto free. Nifty, eh?
See The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek and so on for examples.
Actually, I'll start you off with my favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic. (Sex and violence the way it should be!) Read [skin]. Googling for "fanfic" and the name of your favorite series should produce good results. Most of it is dreck, but there's a lot of good stuff in there too.
--grendel drago
Well, you might want to start by changing "grammar, spelling, and style" to "grammar, spelling and style" to conform to the official AP article-writing style.
(I worked at a newspaper; there were posters everywhere reminding us not to add that comma.)
--grendel drago
If it is, they're a pack of fools. Any real tech-savvy person would laugh and point at HP for trying to sell them a crippled PC for twice what a normal one would cost.
I suspect that they're aiming for early-adopter types---those who don't care about what the technology is or does, but just want it because it's shiny and expensive. I suspect, especially with the economy tanking, that this is a much smaller market than HP thinks it is.
--grendel drago
The problem with Phynd is that it uses SMB (Windows) file shares. There's absolutely no connection between getting and sharing---remember, what made all the P2P apps work was that by downloading, you also (usually) uploaded.
I'm also at UConn, and I've seen the problems with Phynd... people leech like crazy and don't share. This leads to heavily loaded servers (especially when ten people think it's a good idea to try to directly play AVIs off of a remote machine) who say "fuck it" and stop sharing.
A localized P2P tool (properly configured GnucleusLAN, for instance) wouldn't run into these problems. I'm trying to set up an on-campus gnutella network. Drop me an email if you're interested.
--grendel drago
Yeah, but if they had the DVD, why wouldn't they be watching that?
However, if they'd had them on VHS tapes, because they'd (legally) taped them off reruns, then I for one would rather archive them on my local fileserver and load them onto the little beastie to play them back more conveniently.
I mean, both are possible; the second one just seems more likely---and a really good use for these devices. Market! Market!
--grendel drago
Umm. Unless you have a really nice TV, it's only displaying 352x240 NTSC or 352x288 PAL. The quality is the same as a VHS tape---if there's "pixelization", the reviewer probably means the blocking artifacts that DivX has at too-low bitrates.
--grendel drago
And whose chip has the highest floating point?
Umm. It appears to be the "hp workstation zx6000 (1000 MHz, Itanium 2)", which isn't an x86 machine.
Tycho: Did you eat a lot of paint as a child?
Gabe: You mean wall candy?
Isn't this the definition of an abuse of monopoly power? Where a select few giant companies conspire to keep the market from functioning at full efficiency in order to squeak out a few more billion bucks?
I wonder if there are any smoking gun memos, like the ones from the cigarette companies describing their plans to market smoking to kids. Only this time, the smoking-gun memos would actually surprise some people.
Shit, now that I think about it, it would solve nothing and just create a gargantuan windfall for a select few elites in the lawyer class. This is depressing---is there any way we the people can win?
--grendel drago
You know, that may be the best idea I've heard for this in a long, long time. There exists plenty of science which is good for people but bad for business---cheap launch technology, vaccines, that sort of thing. A bounty system would make it good for business.
Of course, you'd run into nightmarish problems with fraud and deception---with that much money on the line, it not only becomes profitable to research, it becomes profitable to cheat. You'd need an honorable, impartial judge (or panel thereof) to test the supposed cures.
All it takes is one crazy millionaire to get the ball rolling and set up this foundation. Any takers?
--grendel drago