just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway.
Yes, there should be laws protecting the common people on the internet from abuses by large corporations like RIAA backer and rootkit maker Sony, "trusted computing" Microsoft, and anyone else who buys judges and politicians or wants to take rights away from people in an underhanded way via the internet.
The amber preserved the microbes with exquisite detail, including internal features like the nuclei.
I was raised to believe that "nuclei" were by definition a feature of eukaryotic cells, and not prokaryotes. I would like to know more about these obviously parasitic eukaryotic termite bowel infesting organisms...
But then what are we going to do when Windows 7 limits us to only having 3 windows at a time (because 3 windows should be more than enough for anybody)?
and likely plays havoc with global models of climate change
But I thought the discussion was over, and there was no argument against climate change. All scientists agree on global warming. End of story.
Of course really smart people will see all of these shenanigans as a way for the politicians to prepare the world for "carbon taxes", "carbon rationing" etc. Not being satisfied with a fair percentage of our incomes AND a chunk of every single transaction (sales/VAT, etc), the governments need to screw even MORE money out of the people. Carbon taxes are where the future is at. What better mantra to get the sheep braying than "OR THE WORLD WILL END".
The amount of CO2 in the world is fixed. There is not more C02 in the world than there was several billion years ago. The oil came from somewhere, idiots. God didn't magically place it underground. It was once in the atmosphere. So it goes back into the atmosphere - big deal. Some species will die. Others will benefit. END OF STORY.
now that I'm nearing the end of getting my PhD, it amazes me how science is done. And not in a good way. If you have not read the PhD Comic, you should, its funny because its (sadly) true.
All arguments of "a medical doctorate is not a "real" doctorate" aside - you should try med school if you want to see how far the definition of ass-kissi- er, science, is stretched.
the use of the term 'Big Brother' in both the title and throughout the book is erroneous. Big Brother has its roots in George Orwell's novel 1984 and refers to an omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government. The term has been misappropriated to describe everything from legitimate crime-fighting, to surveillance cameras, to corporate e-mail and network usage monitoring. Localities that deploy CCTV cameras in public thoroughfares in the hope of combating crime are in no way indicative of the oppressive control of Orwell's Big Brother.
WTF? Since when does a book review need a disclaimer? This alone indicates how paranoid people are about "Big Brother". I guess the submitter will be spending a little time at the Ministry of Love.
Heh, I remember the arcane process involved in trying to get Falcon 3 (the biggest memory hog I remember) to run - especially the add-ons (FA/18 and Mig 29). There was a magic order you had to load your drivers into high memory to get that extra few kb - and have 620k free in order to play.
What a shame about Spectrum Holobyte and also Microprose. They both made some fantastic games. Yet when they were "acquired" by Hasbro everything stopped. I wonder when people will learn that megacorps are NOT a good thing. From GM and Chrysler to Citibank to certain communication companies - time and again we're shown that eventually a corporation reaches a size where innovation and creativity are stifled, and preference is given to greed and bureaucratic idiocy. "Too big to succeed" is much more accurate than "too big to fail".
Microprose innovated more in a single year than Atari has ever since it acquired "Microprose" from Hasbro. Oh well, hooray for DOSBox.../rant
You make an important distinction in definition. However I still find it hard to believe that "nature" has any relationship with base 10. There's nothing special about the number 10, other than the fact that we have 10 digits on our hands. I don't understand how, for example, "Benford's law" fails to account for the numbers A through F (since I personally prefer base 16), and where exactly those numbers fit in that distribution plot.
Since numbers themselves don't mean anything at all. They are just abstract tokens we manipulate in a standardized manner in order to try to understand the world around us. Just like a bit doesn't care if it's in a silicon ram chip, flash memory, a "hole" in a reflective surface on a DVD, a vacuum tube or a bead on an abacus. In itself it's meaningless.
To assume that the distribution of numbers means anything at all outside the fact that we humans measure things in "units", start counting from zero and the first digit is the number "one", and we usually try to use a unit that is close to the threshold of detection for our equipment is contemplation of the navel to the, well, first degree.
The government is leasing some space in the mall so now they own the mall.
No but I would gather there's one of those "Management reserves the right to refuse admission" signs hanging on or near all the doors into the mall. If you are asked to leave the mall and refuse, don't complain when you get busted for trespassing. This has nothing to do with government. A protest against "Banana Republic" would yield the same result. Oh, the parking is mall property too. You're welcome to go wave your signs on the public street though, so long as you have a permit from the municipality.
This sound very interesting. Maybe there are business opportunities with Aliens. What do you think they would be ready to buy from us?
Knowing us humans, we will probably be able to supply what they crave most: PORN. The interstellar DVD trade will flourish, with constant streaming of jellyfish polyps budding off, jellyfish polyps turning into medusae and for those real sickos, jellyfish catching and eating fish.
Or it might tell us that there's life on the surface of Titan...
Certainly not life as we know it. I can just imagine what would happen to all those algae once they manage to produce enough oxygen to - well let's say that's one world with the potential to eventually "go out with a bang". Hopefully for them any life there would use a different oxidizer...
Little known fact : that's actually how right hand gloves are made. Turns out that using a fourth spatial dimension is cheaper than machinery to build both types of gloves.
That "fourth spatial dimension" actually being kids in sweatshops in China and Malaysia?
To cool a PC for 90 minutes requires 250 liters of liquid helium inside a aluminum vat the "size of a VW Beetle,"
Once again the "technical" journalism community reminds us of that indispensable unit of volume measurement, the Volkswagen Beetle. As a purist, however, I must ask if that is in "new" Beetles or "old" Beetles.
Policemen eat food, and so do criminals! In a shocking discovery today we learned that a completely ambivalent object such as food could be used for good and for evil. Some fringe elements speculate that food in fact has no innate bias towards good or evil, and in fact does not exert any influence over the person that uses it apart from keeping them alive. But we all know that since it's rumored that TERRORISTS (tm) have been known to occasionally eat, food is obviously evil and should be banned. The fact that law enforcement officers have been spotted eating once in a while (especially in the vicinity of doughnut shops) should not allow us to forget about this lurking evil we call food. In fact, the world would be a better place if it were banned entirely.
Warning! If you are sarcasm impaired, the above paragraph may cause you to become angry. Breathe slowly and try to relax. If you cannot relax after a few minutes, you might need professional help. Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but it is wit nonetheless.
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just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway.
Yes, there should be laws protecting the common people on the internet from abuses by large corporations like RIAA backer and rootkit maker Sony, "trusted computing" Microsoft, and anyone else who buys judges and politicians or wants to take rights away from people in an underhanded way via the internet.
Humorous take fails to be humorous.
When is the right time
To parody a commercial from the 80's for all the gray hairs out there....
"we will fork no wine, before it's time..."
The amber preserved the microbes with exquisite detail, including internal features like the nuclei.
I was raised to believe that "nuclei" were by definition a feature of eukaryotic cells, and not prokaryotes. I would like to know more about these obviously parasitic eukaryotic termite bowel infesting organisms...
But then what are we going to do when Windows 7 limits us to only having 3 windows at a time (because 3 windows should be more than enough for anybody)?
and likely plays havoc with global models of climate change
But I thought the discussion was over, and there was no argument against climate change. All scientists agree on global warming. End of story.
Of course really smart people will see all of these shenanigans as a way for the politicians to prepare the world for "carbon taxes", "carbon rationing" etc. Not being satisfied with a fair percentage of our incomes AND a chunk of every single transaction (sales/VAT, etc), the governments need to screw even MORE money out of the people. Carbon taxes are where the future is at. What better mantra to get the sheep braying than "OR THE WORLD WILL END".
The amount of CO2 in the world is fixed. There is not more C02 in the world than there was several billion years ago. The oil came from somewhere, idiots. God didn't magically place it underground. It was once in the atmosphere. So it goes back into the atmosphere - big deal. Some species will die. Others will benefit. END OF STORY.
now that I'm nearing the end of getting my PhD, it amazes me how science is done. And not in a good way. If you have not read the PhD Comic, you should, its funny because its (sadly) true.
All arguments of "a medical doctorate is not a "real" doctorate" aside - you should try med school if you want to see how far the definition of ass-kissi- er, science, is stretched.
the use of the term 'Big Brother' in both the title and throughout the book is erroneous. Big Brother has its roots in George Orwell's novel 1984 and refers to an omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government. The term has been misappropriated to describe everything from legitimate crime-fighting, to surveillance cameras, to corporate e-mail and network usage monitoring. Localities that deploy CCTV cameras in public thoroughfares in the hope of combating crime are in no way indicative of the oppressive control of Orwell's Big Brother.
WTF? Since when does a book review need a disclaimer? This alone indicates how paranoid people are about "Big Brother". I guess the submitter will be spending a little time at the Ministry of Love.
Heh, I remember the arcane process involved in trying to get Falcon 3 (the biggest memory hog I remember) to run - especially the add-ons (FA/18 and Mig 29). There was a magic order you had to load your drivers into high memory to get that extra few kb - and have 620k free in order to play.
What a shame about Spectrum Holobyte and also Microprose. They both made some fantastic games. Yet when they were "acquired" by Hasbro everything stopped. I wonder when people will learn that megacorps are NOT a good thing. From GM and Chrysler to Citibank to certain communication companies - time and again we're shown that eventually a corporation reaches a size where innovation and creativity are stifled, and preference is given to greed and bureaucratic idiocy. "Too big to succeed" is much more accurate than "too big to fail".
Microprose innovated more in a single year than Atari has ever since it acquired "Microprose" from Hasbro. Oh well, hooray for DOSBox... /rant
You make an important distinction in definition. However I still find it hard to believe that "nature" has any relationship with base 10. There's nothing special about the number 10, other than the fact that we have 10 digits on our hands. I don't understand how, for example, "Benford's law" fails to account for the numbers A through F (since I personally prefer base 16), and where exactly those numbers fit in that distribution plot.
Since numbers themselves don't mean anything at all. They are just abstract tokens we manipulate in a standardized manner in order to try to understand the world around us. Just like a bit doesn't care if it's in a silicon ram chip, flash memory, a "hole" in a reflective surface on a DVD, a vacuum tube or a bead on an abacus. In itself it's meaningless.
To assume that the distribution of numbers means anything at all outside the fact that we humans measure things in "units", start counting from zero and the first digit is the number "one", and we usually try to use a unit that is close to the threshold of detection for our equipment is contemplation of the navel to the, well, first degree.
but where would this idea leave free software coders?
From the same header:
licensing should guarantee consumers the same basic rights as when they purchase a good
When you obtain "FREE" software, you do not "PURCHASE" anything. The damages obviously do not apply - in a sane world.
The Chinese interpretation of copyright is "you have the right to copy"...
Samuel Johnson quotes: Flamebait. Only on Slashdot.
The government is leasing some space in the mall so now they own the mall.
No but I would gather there's one of those "Management reserves the right to refuse admission" signs hanging on or near all the doors into the mall. If you are asked to leave the mall and refuse, don't complain when you get busted for trespassing. This has nothing to do with government. A protest against "Banana Republic" would yield the same result. Oh, the parking is mall property too. You're welcome to go wave your signs on the public street though, so long as you have a permit from the municipality.
Well you know what they say: Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I must be pretty old. I remember when you could only multiply by using a loop and adding to the register the necessary amount of times.
Yeah, I'd certainly play "A Week in Hajullaf"!
It's pretty terrible that we as a nation are this scared by such events.
Yes, everyone knows that the real threat is from Mooninites attempting to blow up highway overpasses around Boston...
This sound very interesting. Maybe there are business opportunities with Aliens. What do you think they would be ready to buy from us?
Knowing us humans, we will probably be able to supply what they crave most: PORN. The interstellar DVD trade will flourish, with constant streaming of jellyfish polyps budding off, jellyfish polyps turning into medusae and for those real sickos, jellyfish catching and eating fish.
Hey I don't ask questions, I just sell it.
One more trek concept brought to real-life, yay!
Isn't science fun? In the meantime the religious crazies are still waiting on Jesus.... 2000+ years and counting... tick tock tick tock
Or it might tell us that there's life on the surface of Titan...
Certainly not life as we know it. I can just imagine what would happen to all those algae once they manage to produce enough oxygen to - well let's say that's one world with the potential to eventually "go out with a bang". Hopefully for them any life there would use a different oxidizer...
Little known fact : that's actually how right hand gloves are made. Turns out that using a fourth spatial dimension is cheaper than machinery to build both types of gloves.
That "fourth spatial dimension" actually being kids in sweatshops in China and Malaysia?
From TFA:
To cool a PC for 90 minutes requires 250 liters of liquid helium inside a aluminum vat the "size of a VW Beetle,"
Once again the "technical" journalism community reminds us of that indispensable unit of volume measurement, the Volkswagen Beetle. As a purist, however, I must ask if that is in "new" Beetles or "old" Beetles.
Policemen eat food, and so do criminals! In a shocking discovery today we learned that a completely ambivalent object such as food could be used for good and for evil. Some fringe elements speculate that food in fact has no innate bias towards good or evil, and in fact does not exert any influence over the person that uses it apart from keeping them alive. But we all know that since it's rumored that TERRORISTS (tm) have been known to occasionally eat, food is obviously evil and should be banned. The fact that law enforcement officers have been spotted eating once in a while (especially in the vicinity of doughnut shops) should not allow us to forget about this lurking evil we call food. In fact, the world would be a better place if it were banned entirely.
Warning! If you are sarcasm impaired, the above paragraph may cause you to become angry. Breathe slowly and try to relax. If you cannot relax after a few minutes, you might need professional help. Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but it is wit nonetheless.