largely inaccessible to those who live in foreign countries without easy access to Internet (those who would probably best be served by having Bible access)
WTF!!!!!
Please qualify that statement. Best served by bible access?? sheesh!
when was the last time a paper was published in NS? NS is effectively a jobs notice board with a populist science news digest bolted on the front.
I know of almost no decent universities who wouldn't gladly provide bandwidth for publishing papers. Bandwidth is seldom the issue - normally its the ownership of the IP belonging to the Uni (your employer) that stumbles this.
If your colleagues are bypassing this legal step by dumping on Kazaa instead of the more natural uni / dept website it is no more legit than sharing MP3s!
You could almost beleive he had some actual knowledge of the subject - rather than just having stumbled about an article on BBC news that mentions linux or gamers or how all geeks are gay that he hadn't seen posted on/.
I read this this morning on the BBC and immediately booked a weekend in Paris for myself and my beloved - hey its summer, the flights were under 200 sterling return and I cant wait to see her fall on her arse as we get on this thing!
I'm just hoping they dont stop you taking skateboards onto this thing!
How many/.ers have a cleaner? I'm thinking of getting one because I'm sick of the endless bloody domestic chores you mention. I'd happily work an extra hour a week for 3 or 4 hours of quality cleaning and laundering!
I doubt that this is absolutely the case. In the recent Eurovision song contest the UK got zero points in a vote of european nations. The song was crap, it was performed in an out of tune, hyperactive frenzy by a pair of market tinkers from Liverpool. That aside - the recent stance of the UK in relation to the Gulf has REALLY pissed off most of Europe, both politicians and regular chaps in the street.
Next year the UK will get mediocre votes as always - but the recent events meant that even Israel got more than us!!! Thats just because Israel behaves like a murderous shit all the time - the UK is more of a part time hobbiest war monger. Every one hates inconsistencies.
The biggest driver of mass produced wine is exactly the opposite of whats happening here. Grow bad / inconsistent grapes due to bad watering / pruning and you get unreliable wine.
What happens to unreliable wine? It gets blended with all the other unreliable wine from the region and sold as 'Californian Red' or 'Chilean Merlot'.
This is aiming to produce a saleable quantity of consistently good wine - not mass production. This is ambitious wine making - in that he aims to produce GOOD wine - not just wine.
Even in the three years between my own transit through honours Chemistry and a friends the extent of material being covered changed significantly. He studied much of our 4th year material in 3rd year (some in 2nd) and dropped a large part of the earlier syllabus and went straight to the 'meaty' end of the subject.
This was driven partly by a change in teaching staff - more lecturers under 40 - and partly by a more industry led focus on outcomes. No longer was the key objective of the department to create a dozen good PhD candidates - it was to create a hundred employable scientists.
He bitched about some topics being harder than others just as we did.
When it comes to subjects such as GM crops, certain deseases, anything scientific that hits the general public it instantly becomes more understandable through example. Most of my headaches from my final year came from getting to grips with the principles and production of ceramics like those used on the shuttle. Tell a non-chemist about your ceramics at the time and they'd say "what - like plates and jugs?" tell it now and you at least get recognition of the existance of high performance ceramics - and usually some interest.
So yes - there are better ways to explain things - but also theres the context of the learning. If the dopey one in Friends actually covered some physics instead of whining about his lesbian wife I reckon we'd have a much greater chance of the next 30 years producing insights of the calibre and impact of Einsteins simply through that background knowledge giving a more fertile ground for educators to ply their trade.
This is why law is such a pain in the ass. People see things differently - I agree with your motives of 'use laws sensibly'. But I see government as MY tool, not the other way round. An example:
Most people think barrymore tourism is wrong. They think its okay for barrymore to shag guys - to go abroad to shag guys - to go to the fucking MOON to shag guys - we dont care much if he shags dolphins - but not kids. Thats bad. Thats bad enough that the UK has to take action to prevent it wherver it happens because he's one of ours - and we dont want the UK making the world a bad place to be for anyone.
If the UK government said (as they did for many years) 'its up to the local authorities' - the people get pissed and demand a better approach - we want a barrymore law. So one is put in place. Same thing with football hooliganism.
What we dont have is compulsory ID / drivers licence rules because the politicians are telling US that we should have them - not the other way around.
We, and the US, have laws against exporting things. On the whole the US laws are defensive - i.e. they wont sell anything that could be 'pointed back'. A reasonable number of UK laws are more altuistic - to do with environmental impacts on foreign territories.
Cross border laws are necessary - they can suck! - but they're necessary and dont imply a nation bending over for their governing bodies - quite the opposite in most cases.
The most recent and popular of these laws is there to stop the 'Barrymore' effect where wealthy UK citizens go to asian countries to shag underage boys.
Locally the governments are too keen on the tourist buck to do anything about it, and the cost of trial and detention would be too great. But the impact on the perception of the UK, not to mention the victims themselves, is damaging.
Similarly football violence is in line for a similar law. If I and 20 of my mates go to Turkey specifically to kick some ass we can be arrested at Heathrow on our return.
To my mind these two examples are 'good law'.
There is no implication that going to amsterdam to smoke some dope or shoot an automatic weapon is breaking UK law. And such a suggestion would, I think, never get very far in the UK at least.
There are UK laws specifically making UK citizens who commit criminal acts abroad responsible under UK law. i.e. enjoy dodgy recreational pursuits while on holiday, come back and go to jail.
That you are actually committing the crime against another country while IN your own country certainly puts you under your local jurisdiction.
This law would protect the world from Aussie spam more than it would protect Australia from the worlds spam!
(Note, this just broke the law that states: number of !s proportional to ludicrousityness of the statementing (translated into English (Dubya) for international appeal!!!)
In my opinion and experience this is exactly wrong. This is what the lazy techie wants of a manager - NOT what a customer wants of a company.
I want to have direct access to the guy doing the job - I want direct access to the knowledge and expertise - not some half assed (or even full assed) regurgitation. You always get the best quality from the source.
Too many techies use the 'Im a techie!!! I cant communicate!' getout. Quality of service, AND job satisfaction can only be boosted by getting more direct contact with users / customers.
And yes, this WILL mean dealing with jerks sometimes - but if you answer their problems you enjoy the fact the call you LESS.
Trust me - its fun!
A good manager is a great thing - most managers are just a waste of time and an insulator against innovation, quality and progress
10 years from now, we won't need held desk guy telling people how to turn on and off their pc, because the population will know how.
We are unfortunate enough to have a phone number 1 digit out from a major TV rental shop. On a regular basis we get the following call:
"my tv broke down" "you've got the wrong number dear - you need to dial 012 - not 013" "no - not my phone my tv - it broke - its just fuzzy" "nothing to do with us, you need to phone 012, not 013! - is it plugged in?" "is what plugged in - who are you???"
People are stupid - they need support - dont foget that - theres money to be made out of it!!!
50 days, no - lets be honest FIVE days of something like Big Brother is enough for anyone - 500 days would be a fatal dose, surely!
Just so long as there isnt a hot tub, and there are no women you'd like to see nekkid we'd be safe from having to view! But just one chick in there and you know we'd all be streaming this 24/7 until it came under the Real Gold Pass (or whatever they call it this week) around about day 480.
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largely inaccessible to those who live in foreign countries without easy access to Internet (those who would probably best be served by having Bible access)
WTF!!!!!
Please qualify that statement. Best served by bible access?? sheesh!
At first I was like, huh?
But what were you actually?
"With sufficiently cheap energy, we can ... give everyone on Earth at least the standard of living the US had in the 1950s; "
We could do that now - but Dubbya spends 100 times more money killing foreigners than helping them.
Sweet!
when was the last time a paper was published in NS? NS is effectively a jobs notice board with a populist science news digest bolted on the front.
I know of almost no decent universities who wouldn't gladly provide bandwidth for publishing papers. Bandwidth is seldom the issue - normally its the ownership of the IP belonging to the Uni (your employer) that stumbles this.
If your colleagues are bypassing this legal step by dumping on Kazaa instead of the more natural uni / dept website it is no more legit than sharing MP3s!
nope - 7AM launch unless weather buggers things up. So yeah - I bet the bastards launch at night
You could almost beleive he had some actual knowledge of the subject - rather than just having stumbled about an article on BBC news that mentions linux or gamers or how all geeks are gay that he hadn't seen posted on /.
Your lucky enough not to live in Scotland then! You southerners and your cheap flights!!! Dont get me started!!!!!
I read this this morning on the BBC and immediately booked a weekend in Paris for myself and my beloved - hey its summer, the flights were under 200 sterling return and I cant wait to see her fall on her arse as we get on this thing!
I'm just hoping they dont stop you taking skateboards onto this thing!
Off topic warning! Mod me to hell!
/.ers have a cleaner? I'm thinking of getting one because I'm sick of the endless bloody domestic chores you mention. I'd happily work an extra hour a week for 3 or 4 hours of quality cleaning and laundering!
How many
The guitar gods may be arthritic old duffers now - but they are still touring... recreating them in Java seems a little premature!
I doubt that this is absolutely the case. In the recent Eurovision song contest the UK got zero points in a vote of european nations. The song was crap, it was performed in an out of tune, hyperactive frenzy by a pair of market tinkers from Liverpool. That aside - the recent stance of the UK in relation to the Gulf has REALLY pissed off most of Europe, both politicians and regular chaps in the street.
Next year the UK will get mediocre votes as always - but the recent events meant that even Israel got more than us!!! Thats just because Israel behaves like a murderous shit all the time - the UK is more of a part time hobbiest war monger. Every one hates inconsistencies.
INSIGHTFUL!!!!!
The biggest driver of mass produced wine is exactly the opposite of whats happening here. Grow bad / inconsistent grapes due to bad watering / pruning and you get unreliable wine.
What happens to unreliable wine? It gets blended with all the other unreliable wine from the region and sold as 'Californian Red' or 'Chilean Merlot'.
This is aiming to produce a saleable quantity of consistently good wine - not mass production. This is ambitious wine making - in that he aims to produce GOOD wine - not just wine.
I assume you dont drink a lot of the stuff!
Even in the three years between my own transit through honours Chemistry and a friends the extent of material being covered changed significantly. He studied much of our 4th year material in 3rd year (some in 2nd) and dropped a large part of the earlier syllabus and went straight to the 'meaty' end of the subject.
This was driven partly by a change in teaching staff - more lecturers under 40 - and partly by a more industry led focus on outcomes. No longer was the key objective of the department to create a dozen good PhD candidates - it was to create a hundred employable scientists.
He bitched about some topics being harder than others just as we did.
When it comes to subjects such as GM crops, certain deseases, anything scientific that hits the general public it instantly becomes more understandable through example. Most of my headaches from my final year came from getting to grips with the principles and production of ceramics like those used on the shuttle. Tell a non-chemist about your ceramics at the time and they'd say "what - like plates and jugs?" tell it now and you at least get recognition of the existance of high performance ceramics - and usually some interest.
So yes - there are better ways to explain things - but also theres the context of the learning. If the dopey one in Friends actually covered some physics instead of whining about his lesbian wife I reckon we'd have a much greater chance of the next 30 years producing insights of the calibre and impact of Einsteins simply through that background knowledge giving a more fertile ground for educators to ply their trade.
no _shit_!
ho ho ho - toilet joke _number two_, oops - was that the _turd_? I could _dump_ untold numbers of these on _slash_ dot. How _pish_!
I have an old laptop 1GHz PIII running on my stack of Amp / CD / VCR etc... feeding into both the amp direct and the VCR. It works just fine.
To listen to internet radio or MP3s in my kitchen I open a couple of doors and turn up the volume. Wireless technology at its best.
Or perhaps an accessory for those 'feminine hygiene' items you get in supermarkets!
Kinda like hairnet.
This is why law is such a pain in the ass. People see things differently - I agree with your motives of 'use laws sensibly'. But I see government as MY tool, not the other way round. An example:
Most people think barrymore tourism is wrong. They think its okay for barrymore to shag guys - to go abroad to shag guys - to go to the fucking MOON to shag guys - we dont care much if he shags dolphins - but not kids. Thats bad. Thats bad enough that the UK has to take action to prevent it wherver it happens because he's one of ours - and we dont want the UK making the world a bad place to be for anyone.
If the UK government said (as they did for many years) 'its up to the local authorities' - the people get pissed and demand a better approach - we want a barrymore law. So one is put in place. Same thing with football hooliganism.
What we dont have is compulsory ID / drivers licence rules because the politicians are telling US that we should have them - not the other way around.
We, and the US, have laws against exporting things. On the whole the US laws are defensive - i.e. they wont sell anything that could be 'pointed back'. A reasonable number of UK laws are more altuistic - to do with environmental impacts on foreign territories.
Cross border laws are necessary - they can suck! - but they're necessary and dont imply a nation bending over for their governing bodies - quite the opposite in most cases.
The most recent and popular of these laws is there to stop the 'Barrymore' effect where wealthy UK citizens go to asian countries to shag underage boys.
Locally the governments are too keen on the tourist buck to do anything about it, and the cost of trial and detention would be too great. But the impact on the perception of the UK, not to mention the victims themselves, is damaging.
Similarly football violence is in line for a similar law. If I and 20 of my mates go to Turkey specifically to kick some ass we can be arrested at Heathrow on our return.
To my mind these two examples are 'good law'.
There is no implication that going to amsterdam to smoke some dope or shoot an automatic weapon is breaking UK law. And such a suggestion would, I think, never get very far in the UK at least.
Yes. It depends on the law, but yes.
There are UK laws specifically making UK citizens who commit criminal acts abroad responsible under UK law. i.e. enjoy dodgy recreational pursuits while on holiday, come back and go to jail.
That you are actually committing the crime against another country while IN your own country certainly puts you under your local jurisdiction.
This law would protect the world from Aussie spam more than it would protect Australia from the worlds spam!
Of course it wont fail!!! its a LAW!!!!!
(Note, this just broke the law that states: number of !s proportional to ludicrousityness of the statementing (translated into English (Dubya) for international appeal!!!)
In my opinion and experience this is exactly wrong. This is what the lazy techie wants of a manager - NOT what a customer wants of a company.
I want to have direct access to the guy doing the job - I want direct access to the knowledge and expertise - not some half assed (or even full assed) regurgitation. You always get the best quality from the source.
Too many techies use the 'Im a techie!!! I cant communicate!' getout. Quality of service, AND job satisfaction can only be boosted by getting more direct contact with users / customers.
And yes, this WILL mean dealing with jerks sometimes - but if you answer their problems you enjoy the fact the call you LESS.
Trust me - its fun!
A good manager is a great thing - most managers are just a waste of time and an insulator against innovation, quality and progress
10 years from now, we won't need held desk guy telling people how to turn on and off their pc, because the population will know how.
We are unfortunate enough to have a phone number 1 digit out from a major TV rental shop. On a regular basis we get the following call:
"my tv broke down"
"you've got the wrong number dear - you need to dial 012 - not 013"
"no - not my phone my tv - it broke - its just fuzzy"
"nothing to do with us, you need to phone 012, not 013! - is it plugged in?"
"is what plugged in - who are you???"
People are stupid - they need support - dont foget that - theres money to be made out of it!!!
(Sounds like a good reality TV show to me.)"
50 days, no - lets be honest FIVE days of something like Big Brother is enough for anyone - 500 days would be a fatal dose, surely!
Just so long as there isnt a hot tub, and there are no women you'd like to see nekkid we'd be safe from having to view! But just one chick in there and you know we'd all be streaming this 24/7 until it came under the Real Gold Pass (or whatever they call it this week) around about day 480.
dont forget the hot chicks!! why do you think all the nerds and dorks are here!!! ...
Oh... right... no... you were right first time!
Professor Griffiths said: "There is an image that people who play online games excessively are nerdy and geeky... This is not the case."
Says the beardy nerdy geek guy with nothing better to do of an evening that play on his computer!