It's too bad these positions will, most definitely, be filled by military personnel. This would be a fun job to have for sure.
It's also a shame that we wont be able to read about their missions. I would assume all of this work will be highly classified.
actually, after reading the artcle, perhaps his dickheadery caused him to be left out of the prize; leaving it to Luc's team. let that be a lesson to dickheads everywhere: "you're risking yoiur Nobel there jerk!"
"And the Band Played On" was the title of a movie about the CDC tracking the first breakouts of AIDS in San Francisco and then all around the world. Alan Alda played one of the virologists that just got this nod. He played the American who was out to screw the French lab that was onto the same discovery that this was a hantavirus. Very interesting story with TONS of stars including a "young" Ian McKellen.
I really wanted to mod you Overrated, but I'll reply instead.
You find TED nauseous and fake, because they're not doing anything about American farm subsidies? That's what I 'got' as the point of your post. You'd rather see these inovations (if not pure "inventions") buried in a closet somewhere until the corn lobby disappears? I really don't understand what you're bitching about at all. You come off as a troll that somehow worded your post well enough to get modded up.
Please explain what TED is supposed to do about US import/export policy. Please explain why you think there isn't room for evolutionary technological advances that can improve the lives of billions of people until we get our own governmental policies 'fixed.'
If you can't do that, then please do stfu.
So, you're saying, in other words:
Good-bye bus, and good ridence, we're much better off with personal transport?
You're a buffoon.
You go on to say:
Tents will replace campers.
People will chose comfort and peace of mind over cost and aggravation any day of the week.
Um... How is a tent more comfortable, and how does it offer peace of mind over a camper?
OK, maybe the buffoon comment was out of line; but so is your thinking.
I really think LED will be the future of lighting in most situations. It's a long-lasting, mercury-free lightsource that can be targeted to any frequency. We are already seeing them used in Grow Light applications and other such things all the time. I think it will be a great day when we start seeing LED light installations just about everywhere we are using traditional lights today.
Why cannot I use services, which you make freely available to me?
If I use my computer in a coffee shop, every time I turn it on, I should make sure
I don't accidentally connect to your wireless router?
For the same reason I can't walk into your unlocked house and take a piss?
Yeah, except that this house is broadcasting over radio that your house is unlocked and you are free to come in and use my services (take a piss).
So, uh, yeah... other than that your analogy makes sense.
"Sacred cow" has a specific religious connotation. It's a "Sacred cow"... get it?
Now, don't worry, I "have my own cross to bear", so I wont attempt any other religious expression tie-ins.
I'm sure plenty of folks here can pick-up the slack if need be.
You religiously insensitive clod! (clod being an old buddhist term for asshat)
So what happens when Google Images shows your Flickr pics as search results with ads on the page? That's commercial use isn't it?
Lordy, but that's a tired old argument. You don't work for the print media by any chance? Look at my account and ask that again, fool. "Tired old argument?" CC's only been around a couple years there buddy. So I suppose you have an answer for me? What exactly does constitute commercial use? Can you answer if any of my examples constitute commercial use? Do ALL of them? What did you bring to the argument besides an attempt at belittling me?
So back to my original question... How do you determine what is commercial use? What if I use a picture you put under CC non-commercial, non-derivative on my "free" website promoting my specific distro of Linux, which I give away for free? What if I gave it away for free but called it Verizon Linux and just used it as promotion for my cellular network?
Tired old argument my fat arse.
When I take photos, I put them on Flickr under a CC license but I use the no commercial use clause. This simplifies matters because, given that it's not for money, there's far less implications for somebody using my images. So what happens when Google Images shows your Flickr pics as search results with ads on the page? That's commercial use isn't it? I didn't read this article, but I read (what I think is) the first part that brought this up. What defines commercial use? What if Johnson & Johnson put your picture on a free brochure about baby shampoo? What if the same company used it for a free AIDS test brochure? What if a non-profit used it for the same brochure? What's commercial use?
Apple could, along with AT&T, dominate the enterprise cellular market with the iPhone, if they'd just do one thing:
Add iPhone Enterprise Server to OS X Server. I've been saying it since the iPhone came out. The only reason BlackBerry is such a huge player is because of BES. The Bbs themselves are OK, but the iPhone blows them away. Give the iPhone a simple address book app that can query the iPES and phone, email, IM and status are all available on a corporate-wide level.
It wouldn't be that difficult to code something like that up; the people at RIM have pretty much proven they're not the rocket scientists people originally gave them credit for. Apple is poised to take-on that market, if not just completely take it OVER!
So, c'mon Apple, show us your corporate quality. You'll not regret it.
I had a 3D0 (or was it 3DO) version of Alone in the Dark in 1993 or so. I was workin at a goth club in Chicago at the time and we'd regularly have parties where all the goths would play and watch Alone in the Dark... If we weren't watching Twin Peaks:)
Seriously frightening game, and one of the best I've ever played.
My only complaint would be that it was too short.
The idea of anarchy is that you can do what you like so long as you are not denying others of their freedom.
Wha? I thought that was libertarianism. Nah, It's Wiccan.
En et harm none, do what ye will...
Except the question wasn't what word processor or editor is bug free...
What magical office software do you use that is apparently 100% bug free? I'd consider Latex office software. If you don't consider it such, what is it?
I've not tried 7.04 yet, but I have Xubuntu (the XFCE version) running just dandy on a 200MHz, 96MB RAM Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS. It does take a bit(39-60 seconds) to launch some apps, OO.o and Firefox specifically; but once launched they work just fine. Installation could have been smoother, but again, this is some pretty old hardware.
I use it as a second web terminal on the coffee table when someone (wife, step-daughter) is on the main PC. If I were you I'd wait for the Feisty version of Xubuntu.
If the University thinks being hacked is wrong, then why do they think hacking someone else is right? Two wrongs don't make a right. The hacker is a criminal, and the University (employee that did the hacking) is a criminal. It's that simple. Scenario:
You are at the mall and some psycho starts shooting everyone in sight with an AK-47. You work in the mall as an armed guard. If the mall thinks being shot at and killed is wrong, then why do they think shooting someone else is right? Two wrongs don't make a right. The shooter is a criminal, and the mall security guard is a criminal. It's that simple.
Slackware didn't invent the idea of Linux distributions. IIRC, Yggdrasil was out before Slackware was, but Slackware was based on Softlanding Linux Systems(SLS). Yggdrasil was the first one I remember trying out, and it was a pain in the neck; but it was a distro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Would you rather they do like everyone else and just say $1.29USD==£1.29?
Everyone here she be applauding Apple for at least one part of the announcement. It seems everyone instead has decided to bitch about at least one part of the announcement.
Welcome to Slashrock...
Out in the street, they call it murder...
Maybe you should read every single one of the OLPC discussions here on/..
You know, the one's where some asshat spews-off about how food is what will help the starving. You're right! Food will help the starving, as well as clean water will help those without. However, if you HAD actually read any of those discussions you would see your argument brought-up and destroyed every single time. These are not for children/communities where fresh water is a problem. The OLPC is designed for people who are beyond that problem and are facing educational issues, NOT starving.
If you can't be bothered to read the article, at least read the summary.
they're A-students, never been accused of plagiarism, and they formally copyrighted their papers prior to their submission to Turnitin. So they apparently did "register their papers."
Of course there are going to be police at protests. Blending in with the crowd just makes it easier to take care of things if an incident occurs. Is this supposed to be surprising, scandalous, conspiratorial? Because it's not. It's perfectly logical to anyone with a lick of sense. This is from the second link of the GP:
The officers hoist protest signs. They hold flowers with mourners. They ride in bicycle events. At the vigil for the cyclist, an officer in biking gear wore a button that said, "I am a shameless agitator." She also carried a camera and videotaped the roughly 15 people present.
Beyond collecting information, some of the undercover officers or their associates are seen on the tape having influence on events. At a demonstration last year during the Republican National Convention, the sham arrest of a man secretly working with the police led to a bruising confrontation between officers in riot gear and bystanders. Perfectly logical? Really?
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It's too bad these positions will, most definitely, be filled by military personnel. This would be a fun job to have for sure.
It's also a shame that we wont be able to read about their missions. I would assume all of this work will be highly classified.
actually, after reading the artcle, perhaps his dickheadery caused him to be left out of the prize; leaving it to Luc's team. let that be a lesson to dickheads everywhere: "you're risking yoiur Nobel there jerk!"
"And the Band Played On" was the title of a movie about the CDC tracking the first breakouts of AIDS in San Francisco and then all around the world. Alan Alda played one of the virologists that just got this nod. He played the American who was out to screw the French lab that was onto the same discovery that this was a hantavirus. Very interesting story with TONS of stars including a "young" Ian McKellen.
If you don't like the boundaries of what's considered acceptable behavior, behave exceptionally and let the boundaries catch up.
That's the kind of thinking that proves hope for humanity.
So thanks again!
I really wanted to mod you Overrated, but I'll reply instead.
You find TED nauseous and fake, because they're not doing anything about American farm subsidies? That's what I 'got' as the point of your post. You'd rather see these inovations (if not pure "inventions") buried in a closet somewhere until the corn lobby disappears? I really don't understand what you're bitching about at all. You come off as a troll that somehow worded your post well enough to get modded up.
Please explain what TED is supposed to do about US import/export policy. Please explain why you think there isn't room for evolutionary technological advances that can improve the lives of billions of people until we get our own governmental policies 'fixed.'
If you can't do that, then please do stfu.
You're a buffoon.
You go on to say:
Tents will replace campers. People will chose comfort and peace of mind over cost and aggravation any day of the week.
Um... How is a tent more comfortable, and how does it offer peace of mind over a camper?
OK, maybe the buffoon comment was out of line; but so is your thinking.
OMG, I cringed and chuckled to the point that my wife had to ask what was up... That is so sick and wrong, and SO FUCKING FUNNY. +1 Sick and Twisted
I really think LED will be the future of lighting in most situations. It's a long-lasting, mercury-free lightsource that can be targeted to any frequency. We are already seeing them used in Grow Light applications and other such things all the time. I think it will be a great day when we start seeing LED light installations just about everywhere we are using traditional lights today.
For the same reason I can't walk into your unlocked house and take a piss?
Yeah, except that this house is broadcasting over radio that your house is unlocked and you are free to come in and use my services (take a piss).
So, uh, yeah... other than that your analogy makes sense.
"Sacred cow" has a specific religious connotation. It's a "Sacred cow"... get it? Now, don't worry, I "have my own cross to bear", so I wont attempt any other religious expression tie-ins. I'm sure plenty of folks here can pick-up the slack if need be. You religiously insensitive clod! (clod being an old buddhist term for asshat)
So back to my original question... How do you determine what is commercial use? What if I use a picture you put under CC non-commercial, non-derivative on my "free" website promoting my specific distro of Linux, which I give away for free? What if I gave it away for free but called it Verizon Linux and just used it as promotion for my cellular network?
Tired old argument my fat arse.
Apple could, along with AT&T, dominate the enterprise cellular market with the iPhone, if they'd just do one thing:
Add iPhone Enterprise Server to OS X Server. I've been saying it since the iPhone came out. The only reason BlackBerry is such a huge player is because of BES. The Bbs themselves are OK, but the iPhone blows them away. Give the iPhone a simple address book app that can query the iPES and phone, email, IM and status are all available on a corporate-wide level.
It wouldn't be that difficult to code something like that up; the people at RIM have pretty much proven they're not the rocket scientists people originally gave them credit for. Apple is poised to take-on that market, if not just completely take it OVER!
So, c'mon Apple, show us your corporate quality. You'll not regret it.
I had a 3D0 (or was it 3DO) version of Alone in the Dark in 1993 or so. I was workin at a goth club in Chicago at the time and we'd regularly have parties where all the goths would play and watch Alone in the Dark... If we weren't watching Twin Peaks :)
Seriously frightening game, and one of the best I've ever played.
My only complaint would be that it was too short.
I haven't commented in months.. :)
But THAT'S funny!
Please mod as such
En et harm none, do what ye will...
Damn, wasted mod points now, but i gotta reply to this with the first hit off google for "scharffen berger hershey":2 005/07/26/BUGM6DTAOM1.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/
The skinny: Hershey bought them in 2005.
What magical office software do you use that is apparently 100% bug free? I'd consider Latex office software. If you don't consider it such, what is it?
I've not tried 7.04 yet, but I have Xubuntu (the XFCE version) running just dandy on a 200MHz, 96MB RAM Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS. It does take a bit(39-60 seconds) to launch some apps, OO.o and Firefox specifically; but once launched they work just fine. Installation could have been smoother, but again, this is some pretty old hardware. I use it as a second web terminal on the coffee table when someone (wife, step-daughter) is on the main PC. If I were you I'd wait for the Feisty version of Xubuntu.
You are at the mall and some psycho starts shooting everyone in sight with an AK-47. You work in the mall as an armed guard. If the mall thinks being shot at and killed is wrong, then why do they think shooting someone else is right? Two wrongs don't make a right. The shooter is a criminal, and the mall security guard is a criminal. It's that simple.
Slackware didn't invent the idea of Linux distributions. IIRC, Yggdrasil was out before Slackware was, but Slackware was based on Softlanding Linux Systems(SLS). Yggdrasil was the first one I remember trying out, and it was a pain in the neck; but it was a distro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Would you rather they do like everyone else and just say $1.29USD==£1.29? Everyone here she be applauding Apple for at least one part of the announcement. It seems everyone instead has decided to bitch about at least one part of the announcement. Welcome to Slashrock... Out in the street, they call it murder...
Maybe you should read every single one of the OLPC discussions here on /..
You know, the one's where some asshat spews-off about how food is what will help the starving. You're right! Food will help the starving, as well as clean water will help those without. However, if you HAD actually read any of those discussions you would see your argument brought-up and destroyed every single time. These are not for children/communities where fresh water is a problem. The OLPC is designed for people who are beyond that problem and are facing educational issues, NOT starving.