They knew from the start that persistent users could remove the DRM by burning and re-ripping anyway, so I'm not surprised they didn't put lots of energy into hampering more complex exploits.
Or move to a civilised country that actually manages to recognise the well-being of its citizens as a higher priority than the "right to not have health coverage".
It just annoys me that if governments hadn't got so greedy with the UMTS licenses and grabbed all the money that should have gone into deployment, we'd probably be even further ahead, maybe even ahead of japan too.
Let's just hope they've learned something for the next time round: tax them _after_ the money is made, don't cripple things by charging it all upfront, while everyone else catches up.
A good example of the is the Bubonic Plague which is believes to have mellowed itself since the black plague.
No, that's a bad example because the bubonic plague is now incerasingly believed to have had nothing to do with the Black Death.
But your overall point about virulence is valid.
Not that it actually helps a lot: millions dead quickly before this occurs, or over "mellowed oyt" pathogens causing the same or greater amounts of death and suffering only slower and at a more sustainable rate are still pretty "bad" in my book.
It's not like we should stop fighting virulent deiseases thinking it will take care of itself and might even be a good thing.
One of the nice things about the British system of measurement (which pretty nearly only the Americans use officially, though with a few changes) is that the units are exactly the sort of thing you often want about one of.
Exactly. Just like 10 is the ideal base number for counting, since we need to divide or multiply by 10 all the time.
Are you sure you're not reversing cause and effect here?
I don't see how adding a hologram to the system helps.
That's becasuse you didn't read the article.
The sensing isn't done optically, it's works by a chemical reactionwnith a polymer. Only the readout is optical: holographic effects enable a direct path from molecule-scale chemically induced displacements into clearly visible display, without electronics and stuff in between.
It's not usually all that hard to get people to "admit" that they'd like more funding.
disclaimer: that was not meant as a rant, I work in science myself. But "more research is needed" is a running joke in the community. It doesn't detrect from the work, but every publication on the planet includes it, and every serious reader treats it as a mere formality and silently ignores it.
Another good one which differs more from the steamed ones more than you'd think:
Heat butter or olive oil or a mixture in a thick-bottomed pan, and chop carrots into wheels (or whatever size pieces you want), adding them into the fat as you go along. Let them fry a little in the fat whole you chop some onion coarsely, and add that too. Let fry a little more. Then add some green peas.
The frying is just to cut cooking time, btw; you can dump it all in at once, but it will need to cook lonmger.
Add only a little water (ebough to keep the bottom moist and from burning for a while, but you should nowhere near enough to see it initially). Season with salt, pepper, and optional herbs of choice.
Cover and cook gently for at least 20 minutes. Sounds dead boring, but is a really nice side-dish.
I don't see the horror in it. I can accept the external deterministic realities and still accept that our subjective experiences occur within that, and that they are important too. In fact they are all that really matter, since the very concept of meaning itself only exists within subjective experience.
The horror only appear if you update everything else, but keep the old assumption that importance, value, meaning etc. has to be imposed from outside (i.e. from some sort of god, since value, inetntion, meaning etc. are attributes of sentience). So it really only aplies to people who don't dare to properly let got of the god thing, but kinda feel that they should. Big surprise that's not a a very satisfactory position to be in. But if you do it properly and take _all_ the consequences, you're end up back fairly close to where you were, but without the guilt.
I love this in America... whatever you do don't reward the Great Performers, that's unfair because it makes me feel bad.
First of all, the parent didn't actually argue sypathy with the losers, it was a pragmatic argument about the net effect of such systems. There is some quite thorough research to show that the negative effects of bonus systems etc. can and often do more than offset the extra effort extracted (it may be possible to employ rewards well, but it is certainly not automatic). This may be less of a problem in this case though, since the stated goal was to attact startup-types, not to make your average office guy work harder. But ignoring the possibility as a matter of principle would be naïve and silly.
Secondly: Umm, what planet do you live on, where democratic countries that spread the rewards less than America does are easy to find?
You also, like many who argue laissez-faire capitalism, seem not to understand the concept of "degree". You make like it's either "winner takes all" or the straw man of not rewarding anything. I do understand the argument that if there is no reward people won't put in their best. I don't believe it's always quite that simple, but yeah, some dangling perks certainly can motivate at least some types of people. But sometimes it seems like you guys want me to believe that if the greatest realistic prospect was the get "just" a few thousand times richer than your neighbour, rather than, say, a billion times richer, everyone would just slack off all day. If you subscribe to that for even one second, you should be reminded in no uncertain terms that you are clearly working from conclusions and backwards, and not the other way around.
As an agnostic and a humanist, I feel nobody has the right to chastise other's for their beliefs. That goes for everyone,
Oh goody. I hope that applies equally to the poeple who go around professing that I and people like me shall be made to endure eternal torture for not worshipping their imaginary friend, and that this is fair and well-deserved. I've said some bad things about various believers through the years, but nothing even coming close that stuff.
Well read it again. Most of those rules are completely insane. You may of course choose to accept them as orders without alloting their internal logic or lack thereof any relevance. But if they all, in and of themselves, actually make complete sense to you, then you my friend, are insane too.
You must totally be kidding. Are you saying they hadn't discovered menstruation yet? and still had laws concering it? And contagious diseases involving genital hemmoraging were a likely problem to encounter?
Don't say "historical context" when you really mean "compulsive lame-ass and ad-hoc rationalisation that defeats its own purpouse by effectively making your position unfalsifiable".
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They knew from the start that persistent users could remove the DRM by burning and re-ripping anyway, so I'm not surprised they didn't put lots of energy into hampering more complex exploits.
For him moving? no.
For public healthcare? I do, and I do so gladly. Like most of the civilised world.
Or move to a civilised country that actually manages to recognise the well-being of its citizens as a higher priority than the "right to not have health coverage".
I also love how they call someone and the caller says "hello?".
In general Europeans jumped to wireless faster because they were disatisfied with their landline service
This is complete and utter bullshit. I dare you to back it up.
in the long run I believe the US approach is better
Yeah? Well I believe the opposite, so there!Gee, this is a fun and constructive way of arguing, isn't it?
Standardization has short term advantages, but in the long term it is more important to promote technological development.
You make it sound like there is some kind of mutual exclusion there. Well, you try to, at least.
It just annoys me that if governments hadn't got so greedy with the UMTS licenses and grabbed all the money that should have gone into deployment, we'd probably be even further ahead, maybe even ahead of japan too.
Let's just hope they've learned something for the next time round: tax them _after_ the money is made, don't cripple things by charging it all upfront, while everyone else catches up.
It's good to see an interesting, pretty original idea in the personal organiser market which hasn't originated in Japan
Doesn't the PSP have a similar touchstrip?
A good example of the is the Bubonic Plague which is believes to have mellowed itself since the black plague.
No, that's a bad example because the bubonic plague is now incerasingly believed to have had nothing to do with the Black Death.
But your overall point about virulence is valid.
Not that it actually helps a lot: millions dead quickly before this occurs, or over "mellowed oyt" pathogens causing the same or greater amounts of death and suffering only slower and at a more sustainable rate are still pretty "bad" in my book.
It's not like we should stop fighting virulent deiseases thinking it will take care of itself and might even be a good thing.
One of the nice things about the British system of measurement (which pretty nearly only the Americans use officially, though with a few changes) is that the units are exactly the sort of thing you often want about one of.
Exactly. Just like 10 is the ideal base number for counting, since we need to divide or multiply by 10 all the time.
Are you sure you're not reversing cause and effect here?
-in which way porn will be the first business to make money out of this.
I don't see how adding a hologram to the system helps.
That's becasuse you didn't read the article.
The sensing isn't done optically, it's works by a chemical reactionwnith a polymer. Only the readout is optical: holographic effects enable a direct path from molecule-scale chemically induced displacements into clearly visible display, without electronics and stuff in between.
Go google "INFOSOC" for a bit.
While they admit further research is needed,
It's not usually all that hard to get people to "admit" that they'd like more funding.
disclaimer: that was not meant as a rant, I work in science myself. But "more research is needed" is a running joke in the community. It doesn't detrect from the work, but every publication on the planet includes it, and every serious reader treats it as a mere formality and silently ignores it.
Is there some reason why self-assembled quantum dots might be more [...] easily mass produced
There's a dead giveaway right there in your question, if you look hard enough...
Do Slashdot readers know of any mechanical implementations of a truly Universal Turing Machine?
No, but I have an infinite tape lying around in my shed, so if you know how to do the logic stuff, we can team up.
This is yet again another proof that political institutions have been thoroughly subverted by the bourgeois
What do you mean subverted? The EU was built by the bourgois, dammit.
Another good one which differs more from the steamed ones more than you'd think:
Heat butter or olive oil or a mixture in a thick-bottomed pan, and chop carrots into wheels (or whatever size pieces you want), adding them into the fat as you go along.
Let them fry a little in the fat whole you chop some onion coarsely, and add that too. Let fry a little more. Then add some green peas.
The frying is just to cut cooking time, btw; you can dump it all in at once, but it will need to cook lonmger.
Add only a little water (ebough to keep the bottom moist and from burning for a while, but you should nowhere near enough to see it initially). Season with salt, pepper, and optional herbs of choice.
Cover and cook gently for at least 20 minutes. Sounds dead boring, but is a really nice side-dish.
You mean to say Artists Against 419, after finally capturing Dr. Mugu Marauder, are now releasing him?
I don't see the horror in it. I can accept the external deterministic realities and still accept that our subjective experiences occur within that, and that they are important too. In fact they are all that really matter, since the very concept of meaning itself only exists within subjective experience.
The horror only appear if you update everything else, but keep the old assumption that importance, value, meaning etc. has to be imposed from outside (i.e. from some sort of god, since value, inetntion, meaning etc. are attributes of sentience). So it really only aplies to people who don't dare to properly let got of the god thing, but kinda feel that they should. Big surprise that's not a a very satisfactory position to be in. But if you do it properly and take _all_ the consequences, you're end up back fairly close to where you were, but without the guilt.
I love this in America... whatever you do don't reward the Great Performers, that's unfair because it makes me feel bad.
First of all, the parent didn't actually argue sypathy with the losers, it was a pragmatic argument about the net effect of such systems. There is some quite thorough research to show that the negative effects of bonus systems etc. can and often do more than offset the extra effort extracted (it may be possible to employ rewards well, but it is certainly not automatic). This may be less of a problem in this case though, since the stated goal was to attact startup-types, not to make your average office guy work harder. But ignoring the possibility as a matter of principle would be naïve and silly.
Secondly: Umm, what planet do you live on, where democratic countries that spread the rewards less than America does are easy to find?
You also, like many who argue laissez-faire capitalism, seem not to understand the concept of "degree". You make like it's either "winner takes all" or the straw man of not rewarding anything. I do understand the argument that if there is no reward people won't put in their best. I don't believe it's always quite that simple, but yeah, some dangling perks certainly can motivate at least some types of people. But sometimes it seems like you guys want me to believe that if the greatest realistic prospect was the get "just" a few thousand times richer than your neighbour, rather than, say, a billion times richer, everyone would just slack off all day. If you subscribe to that for even one second, you should be reminded in no uncertain terms that you are clearly working from conclusions and backwards, and not the other way around.
Then we will finally have some free time to get on with learning grammer.
As an agnostic and a humanist, I feel nobody has the right to chastise other's for their beliefs. That goes for everyone,
Oh goody. I hope that applies equally to the poeple who go around professing that I and people like me shall be made to endure eternal torture for not worshipping their imaginary friend, and that this is fair and well-deserved. I've said some bad things about various believers through the years, but nothing even coming close that stuff.
Well read it again. Most of those rules are completely insane. You may of course choose to accept them as orders without alloting their internal logic or lack thereof any relevance. But if they all, in and of themselves, actually make complete sense to you, then you my friend, are insane too.
You must totally be kidding. Are you saying they hadn't discovered menstruation yet? and still had laws concering it? And contagious diseases involving genital hemmoraging were a likely problem to encounter?
Don't say "historical context" when you really mean "compulsive lame-ass and ad-hoc rationalisation that defeats its own purpouse by effectively making your position unfalsifiable".
Its sweet but does it ahve a point?
Hey, wait a minute... You're no nerd!
People, we have an impostor, get him!