My HS AP English teacher must have been way ahead of the curve. She instituted an automatic -10% penalty for "egregious" use of the english language. And there was no cap at 0% - as she put it, "yes, you can do so badly on a essay that I will take points off of your previous essays." One poor kid in the grade below me lost 40% in a single sentence (there's just something about using 'a' as a verb) - omg is was the funniest thing I ever saw.
In Eldred v. Ashcroft, his first argument before the Supreme Court -- and only his second appearance before any court, in any venue
Quite frankly, that scares the bejesus out of me. He's been teaching law for years now, and is one of the most respected lawyers of his generation, but he's only been in court twice. Um, I find that a little frightening. Kinda like a computer scientist who doesn't know how to operate a keyboard.
Does anyone else see something wrong with that?
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Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside.
I just lost a western dig drive earlier this year. Thank GOD I managed to save most of the data off of it before it went. But still, aren't they legally responsible if they put out a shoddy product? What if you are a cooperation and lose data because of harddrive failure. (Generally, midrange buisness that can't afford regular backups will be hit hardest by this) - do you have a case?
What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system? Let's say I want to do NES, Sega, SNES, and maybe one or two of the 'lesser console'. Better yet, why not have a cdrom drive so you can fit a thousand of those old games onto a single media. What would be the issues holding this back?
The next generation of person will support Familial Multithreading (TM). Important family and GF matters will be automatically time-managed to prevent conflicts. Advanced memory management will also prevent those awkward moments when she comes up and says "Do you know what today is?..."
1) It's a basic idea in engineering that when you are dealing with something abstract (and these are so small that they qualify), then you have to relate it to something familiar. 2) (To quote from Billy Madison) what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Simple. Because in the past, you could wait and honestly expect a work (movies, books, et al) to become public domain in a resonable (1 1/2 -3 decade) timespan, and which point it would be available for next to free. With current copyright laws, I'll be pushing 100 by the time today's new works become public domain, assuming no more extensions. There's something seriously wrong with that.
Now I don't want to start a B5 vs Star Trek flamewar (quite frankly, I like them both a lot), but one thing B5 did better was the story arcs - you did have to watch many of the episodes to see what was going on, and it was very hard to break into the series otherwise. DS9 did this as well starting around the 4th season, but to a more limited extent. Enterprise seems to have moved back to the TOS/TNG model (mostly).
Worse than lack of moderation would be giving too much power to moderators. If you want, a nice techinical solution would to set it up so that most moderators can only use their points on comments with a score in the 0-2 (inclusive) range. As it is now, once you hit 3 or especially 4, you are very likely to hit 5. The rest of the moderators have to use their points in the 3-5 range.
I've seen this comment before re:napster, but it's just a appropriate as ever:
Napster is like some poor 4-legged woodland creature that's been hit by a truck - it's crippled, howling in pain, and just a shell of what it used to be. There's blood all over the ground. Someone please put it out of its misery.
When I read articles like this, a quote from Alpha Centauri (the video game) comes to mind:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. Commissioner Pravin Lal "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
And every one of these articles I see reinforces that belief.
Large numbers of TLDs won't break the internet in the technical way that p2p DNS server would, but they would cause problems none-the-less. I mean, I think it goes without saying that people are very used to the major TLDs -.com,.net, and.org. To a much smaller extent, they accept the nation-specific ones (.uk,.it,.fr,.cn, etc), and might even accept the newer ones (.biz,.name, et al). But once you start throwing in large numbers of arbitrary ones (.opensource,.pizzaplace,.auctions,.computers,.lawncare, etc) then you are bound to create problems, because when you advertise, people not only have to remember your address but your TLD as well.
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My HS AP English teacher must have been way ahead of the curve. She instituted an automatic -10% penalty for "egregious" use of the english language. And there was no cap at 0% - as she put it, "yes, you can do so badly on a essay that I will take points off of your previous essays." One poor kid in the grade below me lost 40% in a single sentence (there's just something about using 'a' as a verb) - omg is was the funniest thing I ever saw.
In Eldred v. Ashcroft, his first argument before the Supreme Court -- and only his second appearance before any court, in any venue
Quite frankly, that scares the bejesus out of me. He's been teaching law for years now, and is one of the most respected lawyers of his generation, but he's only been in court twice. Um, I find that a little frightening. Kinda like a computer scientist who doesn't know how to operate a keyboard.
Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside.
Something about that just sounds so illegal.
I just lost a western dig drive earlier this year. Thank GOD I managed to save most of the data off of it before it went. But still, aren't they legally responsible if they put out a shoddy product? What if you are a cooperation and lose data because of harddrive failure. (Generally, midrange buisness that can't afford regular backups will be hit hardest by this) - do you have a case?
What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system? Let's say I want to do NES, Sega, SNES, and maybe one or two of the 'lesser console'. Better yet, why not have a cdrom drive so you can fit a thousand of those old games onto a single media. What would be the issues holding this back?
I'm actually kinda sorry I used up my last mod point smacking down some trollers. I wish I could have used it to mod you up.
The next generation of person will support Familial Multithreading (TM). Important family and GF matters will be automatically time-managed to prevent conflicts. Advanced memory management will also prevent those awkward moments when she comes up and says "Do you know what today is?..."
1) It's a basic idea in engineering that when you are dealing with something abstract (and these are so small that they qualify), then you have to relate it to something familiar.
2) (To quote from Billy Madison)
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
"So small that they power the palm pilot used by the angel dancing on the head of a pin?"
IIRC, a human hair is .25 mm in diameter. (.25 thousanths of a meter) The transistors are 10 nanometers (billionths of a meter)
(.25*10^-3)/(10*10^-9)=25,000 transistors would fit into the diameter of a human hair.
They do deserve credit as they best distro linux can muster for the desktop.
(I know this will prolly get modded down as troll, or because I put this warning beforehand, +5 funny, but what the hell, I have karma to burn)
Someone on slashdot talking about physics and accidentally making the freudian slip of stiff for stuff. Do I sense a corrolation?
Simple. Because in the past, you could wait and honestly expect a work (movies, books, et al) to become public domain in a resonable (1 1/2 -3 decade) timespan, and which point it would be available for next to free. With current copyright laws, I'll be pushing 100 by the time today's new works become public domain, assuming no more extensions. There's something seriously wrong with that.
Now I don't want to start a B5 vs Star Trek flamewar (quite frankly, I like them both a lot), but one thing B5 did better was the story arcs - you did have to watch many of the episodes to see what was going on, and it was very hard to break into the series otherwise. DS9 did this as well starting around the 4th season, but to a more limited extent. Enterprise seems to have moved back to the TOS/TNG model (mostly).
Worse than lack of moderation would be giving too much power to moderators. If you want, a nice techinical solution would to set it up so that most moderators can only use their points on comments with a score in the 0-2 (inclusive) range. As it is now, once you hit 3 or especially 4, you are very likely to hit 5. The rest of the moderators have to use their points in the 3-5 range.
Not to be a troll or disrepectful or anything, but that comment is hella-funny.
I've seen this comment before re:napster, but it's just a appropriate as ever:
Napster is like some poor 4-legged woodland creature that's been hit by a truck - it's crippled, howling in pain, and just a shell of what it used to be. There's blood all over the ground. Someone please put it out of its misery.
It might be easier if we switched from 60Hz to something around 20kHz.
You want to overclock the power lines?
Miniaturizing transformers is really expensive - having those devices come with smaller transformer would noticably add to the price of the device.
Bayonet Navy connector (originally
designed for military system applications during World War II)
When you can't argue the facts, just nitpick the source...
When I read articles like this, a quote from Alpha Centauri (the video game) comes to mind:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
And every one of these articles I see reinforces that belief.
As if a hundred sysadmins were cried out in great pain, and were suddenly silenced.
Please see my response to a sibling to your comment
Large numbers of TLDs won't break the internet in the technical way that p2p DNS server would, but they would cause problems none-the-less. I mean, I think it goes without saying that people are very used to the major TLDs - .com, .net, and .org. To a much smaller extent, they accept the nation-specific ones (.uk, .it, .fr, .cn, etc), and might even accept the newer ones (.biz, .name, et al). But once you start throwing in large numbers of arbitrary ones (.opensource, .pizzaplace, .auctions, .computers, .lawncare, etc) then you are bound to create problems, because when you advertise, people not only have to remember your address but your TLD as well.