Isn't iRobot the company that got the Big DoD Contract to make battlebots? Are we about to see the use of Militarized Hamsters in combat? Will our heroic soldiers be replaced by Rodent Guided Missiles?
I was going to ask the same thing. In WWII the military had a pigeon-guided bomb where the bird was trained to peck at an image on a CRT and the bomb would center on that pecking. Seemed impossibly Rube Golburg but it was supposed to have worked. Never was deployed in combat. They had another one where tiny incendiary charges were attached to bats. The idea was that bombers would fly over Japan with these bat bombs at the ready.
Back in the days of the opium wars, the chinese had a plan to catapult flaming monkeys onto british boats, in the hope that the panicking simians would run into the powder reserves and blow up the ship.
Actually, I think writers should be able to get paid for their work, just as others do... work, as in labor. And only paid once.
And I suppose that the printers should be paid just once too, no matter how many copies they produce?
You wouldn't be saying that they deserve to make money for ever and ever over the work of others, without giving the creator of that work their cut, would you?
Anecdotes can be verified, witnesses can be tracked, corroborations can be obtained.
That anecdotes are able to be embellished, or even completely fabricated while not being falsifiable is just such an indication that it does not qualify as scientific data
Scientific data can be embellished and even completely falsified, you paradoxical twit.
It sounds to me like this concept has a lot more potential uses. There are likely many other types of plastic where the same protection chemicals were used. While this probably won't help anyone dealing with plastics exposed to other environmental hazards (like dashboards which fade out under too much sunlight), it may prove useful in restoring other items.
I just checked out youtube HD, and it seems about the same. The netflix looked better to me... but i couldn't do an apples to apples comparison (ie. find the exact same video).
Thanks for checking. There's lot of factors that can influence a streaming vids quality, "about the same" is about as good a comparison as anyone could get.
but speaking of youtube, i find that many many videos are "no longer available". It's become way way less useful. Also, if the videos are no longer available, why don't they remove the links so you don't try to watch the video?!? epic fail.
Oh, verily! They should at the very least put the links in red or something, so that you'll know before loading the page if it's a dead link or not!
So the relevant question to you would be: Why not?
They're influencing the economy in a scientifically sound way. That was part of all those promises Obama made, to bring science back. Your economy will go much better if people use reason, rather than irrational beliefs, to heal.
No, anecdote implies that the information is second-hand, can not be verified, and is therefore unreliable.
Actual scientific data is first-hand and verifiable.
No, it does not imply that.
An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places.
People may embellish anecdotes, and they may falsify data, but it is not implied that all data is falsified and all anecdotes are embellished.
The thing is, this is one use of DRM that I think I might be able to live with: when you're renting content. Most of the things that I believe make DRM inherently unacceptable come from someone else trying to exercise control over something that I purchased and "own".
It seems to me like there is some misguided ideal in the US of an extremely tech savvy Japan. That the Japanese are far advanced technology wise, and if they don't like something, well it must be no good. Well, not really.
Yes, really. I've been there: It's the not-so-distant future... TODAY!
Their cell phone offerings make what we have in north America look like retro junk, and their toilets make you feel like you're an astronaut (or like you're having a shit in a row boat, depending on your choice of "traditional" vs "western" toilets).
Just to clarify, you agree with the GP's statement that a single post on Slashdot is applicable to and proves a stereotype regarding "most" (i.e., more than 50%) Americans?
No, I agree with the GP that this single post is but one of a seemingly infinite iteration of the same.
Someone has decided to ignore the fact that it is a depressingly familiar sight. That someone has got brain rot, they need to air out their skull a bit, get the mold out.
Anytime a politician is found dead from autoerotic asphyxiation in a gimp suit with a dildo up their urethra, it is always a "family values" politician.
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Isn't iRobot the company that got the Big DoD Contract to make battlebots? Are we about to see the use of Militarized Hamsters in combat? Will our heroic soldiers be replaced by Rodent Guided Missiles?
I was going to ask the same thing. In WWII the military had a pigeon-guided bomb where the bird was trained to peck at an image on a CRT and the bomb would center on that pecking. Seemed impossibly Rube Golburg but it was supposed to have worked. Never was deployed in combat. They had another one where tiny incendiary charges were attached to bats. The idea was that bombers would fly over Japan with these bat bombs at the ready.
Back in the days of the opium wars, the chinese had a plan to catapult flaming monkeys onto british boats, in the hope that the panicking simians would run into the powder reserves and blow up the ship.
Actually, I think writers should be able to get paid for their work, just as others do... work, as in labor. And only paid once.
And I suppose that the printers should be paid just once too, no matter how many copies they produce?
You wouldn't be saying that they deserve to make money for ever and ever over the work of others, without giving the creator of that work their cut, would you?
what credible threats to the life and liberty of the UK citizenry could possibly justify this?
Heads it's terrorists, tails it's pedophiles.
The British public support this measure and others like it every single morning when they buy sensationalist, right wing papers
Manufacturing Consent
They only stopped embedding youtube videos on the whitehouse gov site
THANK YOU!
Stupid misleading headlines and summaries... grrr
Wise choice.
I never understood why they would choose YouTube over other Internet "channels".
According to Alexa, youTube is the third most popular website in the whole wide world.
Not the third viedo content delivery website. The third most visited site overall.
Reach is what they were after.
It implies that it is second-hand
No, it does not.
It really, really doesn't.
cannot be verified, and is therefore unreliable.
Anecdotes can be verified, witnesses can be tracked, corroborations can be obtained.
That anecdotes are able to be embellished, or even completely fabricated while not being falsifiable is just such an indication that it does not qualify as scientific data
Scientific data can be embellished and even completely falsified, you paradoxical twit.
It sounds to me like this concept has a lot more potential uses. There are likely many other types of plastic where the same protection chemicals were used. While this probably won't help anyone dealing with plastics exposed to other environmental hazards (like dashboards which fade out under too much sunlight), it may prove useful in restoring other items.
What other items can you think of?
Used dildos?
I just checked out youtube HD, and it seems about the same.
The netflix looked better to me... but i couldn't do an apples to apples comparison (ie. find the exact same video).
Thanks for checking.
There's lot of factors that can influence a streaming vids quality, "about the same" is about as good a comparison as anyone could get.
but speaking of youtube, i find that many many videos are "no longer available". It's become way way less useful. Also, if the videos are no longer available, why don't they remove the links so you don't try to watch the video?!? epic fail.
Oh, verily! They should at the very least put the links in red or something, so that you'll know before loading the page if it's a dead link or not!
The only "imperative" imposed by the courts is that "reasonable care" be applied? Why is that so terrible?
Because they keep using the word "reason" in court, but scientist do not think it means what the juries think it means.
You're right about that not being the relevant question. The relevant question is:
Why is this included in an ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN?
Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and taxation to influence the economy. When the government decides on the goods and services it purchases, the transfer payments it distributes, or the taxes it collects, it is engaging in fiscal policy.
So the relevant question to you would be: Why not?
They're influencing the economy in a scientifically sound way. That was part of all those promises Obama made, to bring science back. Your economy will go much better if people use reason, rather than irrational beliefs, to heal.
No, anecdote implies that the information is second-hand, can not be verified, and is therefore unreliable.
Actual scientific data is first-hand and verifiable.
No, it does not imply that.
An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places.
People may embellish anecdotes, and they may falsify data, but it is not implied that all data is falsified and all anecdotes are embellished.
a jury agreed--despite the lack of evidence
Why lawyers hate science?
I am a mac user, so i only saw the silverlight version. But the video quality is way better than youtube.
Is it better than youTube's recent HD option?
The thing is, this is one use of DRM that I think I might be able to live with: when you're renting content. Most of the things that I believe make DRM inherently unacceptable come from someone else trying to exercise control over something that I purchased and "own".
No one wants to lose to option to own. The process of taking your computer from you is slow and incremental.
A helicopter (one) that costs as much as (one) Boeing 747!
Wow...
Aircrafts are not sold by weight, you know.
the features are so hard to use, that noone ever uses them.
And that's why Apple gets away with higher prices for similar devices: Their interfaces are polished and shiny and functional.
There were MP3 players before the iPod, but none that worked so elegantly.
It seems to me like there is some misguided ideal in the US of an extremely tech savvy Japan. That the Japanese are far advanced technology wise, and if they don't like something, well it must be no good. Well, not really.
Yes, really.
I've been there: It's the not-so-distant future... TODAY!
Their cell phone offerings make what we have in north America look like retro junk, and their toilets make you feel like you're an astronaut (or like you're having a shit in a row boat, depending on your choice of "traditional" vs "western" toilets).
By and large, it is easy to bring goods into the USA because the USA has a tradition of a generally free trading country.
[Citation needed]
Just to clarify, you agree with the GP's statement that a single post on Slashdot is applicable to and proves a stereotype regarding "most" (i.e., more than 50%) Americans?
No, I agree with the GP that this single post is but one of a seemingly infinite iteration of the same.
Someone has decided to ignore the fact that it is a depressingly familiar sight. That someone has got brain rot, they need to air out their skull a bit, get the mold out.
some of the early popes had mistresses.
Anytime a politician is found dead from autoerotic asphyxiation in a gimp suit with a dildo up their urethra, it is always a "family values" politician.
Was this some kind of self-deprecating meta-ironic remark, or did you really extrapolate to all Americans
Yes, he clearly extrapolated that "ALL Americans [x.]"
Not that "a depressingly large number of Americans [x.]", that couldn't be possibly what he meant.
How many US citizens know what the capital of Florida is?
had to look up the answer. I'm not from the US and do not live there.
It's Tallahassee. ;-)
Didn't have to look it up; Learned it from Animaniacs
We see statistics coming out of America like 92% of Americans believe in a God. This speaks volumes.
I believe in God you twit.
No you don't, if you did, you'd turn the other cheek instead of shooting back an insult.
Unless you believe in Thor or something, you weren't very specific on which of the thousands and thousands of gods you believe.
Yes I am stupid
Glad we got that sorted out.