Well now we're just arguing the meaning of the word "faith". From dictionary.com,
2) Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
But that doesn't really get us anywhere - a lot of people could argue that their belief in God isn't "faith" because their belief rests on "material evidence" or "logical proof".
The point is that one man's "common sense" is another man's "faith", so to have a truly objective definition, we'd have to say that any set of beliefs involves "faith". This, unfortunately, includes the belief that there is no river of chocolate milk on the moon.
That *is* a belief though. It's completely dismissed the possibility that somewhere - either on this world or some distant planet - someone has genetically engineered a "1000 foot tall purple gorrilla". You've taken a definite position, rather than sitting on the fence and admitting that you really have no proof that there is no gorrilla (which is what faith is all about)
How many differently-polarized light streams can be put through a single fibre before they can't be differentiated? Would it be technically possible to have hundreds, with a single "control" signal to let the receiver know where all of the other signals are relative to each other?
MS-DOS -> Windows :
Single-process text -> interacting-multi-process gui
Pretty big leap of paradigm, that one. I figure the only way we'll get that kind of leap again is to introduce robots. Instead of clicking on a cell, inputting a number, and having the computer use a formula in another cell to complete a calculation, you'd tell the robot "Take care of that payroll spreadsheet I've been meaning to do".
"Oh, and while you're at it, call over a few of your buddies and take over the world for me?" *PiewPiew! (lasers)*
Yay Robots!
CCTV's in this context wouldn't be manned. There would be far too many to man them effectively. Ideally, there'd be a search warrant or something similar associated with the viewing of these tapes, and they could only be used in a court setting. In other words, it would be a very unlikely situation to cause someone to inadvertently expose their homosexuality. No more likely than a friend who doesn't know walking up that street.
I have a friend who went t o Britain for an exchange. During his last month there, he was assaulted on the street and beaten within an inch of his life. He couldn't even eat solid foods for weeks in the hospital. The cameras in the intersection where he was beaten helped to catch the criminals who did this - otherwise, there may have been no way to find them.
While I agree that we have to proceed cautiously, remember that public is public, and if you do something there, you have no expectation of privacy.
From what I understand, that's comparable to looking through the glasses at the light coming through the lenses. But the image on the lenses would be comparable to something written on the window in marker - see-through, but visible. It's harder for an individual eye to focus on something that close.
That wouldn't change the fact that you'd have to focus your eyes a whole lot closer...try putting your hand right in front of your face and focusing on it with just one eye. Hopefully these things contain some way to change the focal point.
The OS's mentioned here are people who *want* to write from scratch. They want an OS to their own specifications. For mainstream OS's, Unix-style has seemed to work very well, and has been used as a base for numerous OS's.
Do rational explanations by a few educated people have much effect on the opinions of lawmakers, or is the only way to get heard to form a large coalition to lobby for changes?
...which would make sense since those companies need to make money somehow.
This has been said in other threads, but...why? Why do these companies need to make money if they're not good enough to hack it in today's world? They make money distributing music through CDs. If it's not working, it's time to change your business model or get out.
In the push for online music we must not impoverish the artists who produce it.
You won't - at least not with bands who perform live. My own band, Siòbhan enjoys some small amount of success as a local band, and for every $ profit we make on CD sales, we make $5-$10 on the shows. Making the music more available only increases distribution, and, in turn, increases popularity. The music industry is in the business of selling CDs, not promoting artists, so it's understandable that they'd prefer not to have free music, but a lot of smaller artists realize that the best thing to do is sell CDs dirt cheap and get the distribution. That's my (less-than-professional) opinion, anyway.
Too quickly/too slowly isn't quite modem speed, it's more along the lines of bandwidth hogs, although there's no good analogy I can think of right now.
But crackers don't destroy the path, they just block it. A bomb destroys lives, and the infrastructure takes a long time to recover. Unless someone's somehow damaged hardware like this, I'd say it's more akin to piling up a bunch of garbage on the road. A crime - but no terrorist act.
How about people who block roads to protest various activities? Are they terrorists? I'm not saying that acts that could be considered "terrorism" can't be perpetrated purely in cyberspace (taking out the NYSE, banks, whatever), but it's hardly fair to lump those in with the people who figuratively put up a few illegal roadblocks.
Not true. I am a firm believer in science, and a non-believer in (other?) religion. However, science is firmly based on one belief that has no proof, and cannot be proven through scientific means, and that is that things are reproducible. "If a match and lighter fluid create flame one day, they will create it the next." How do we know this is true? Because it's happened before. Science "based on observation" is also based on the faith that things that happened yesterday will work tomorrow.
Latelatelate for a reaction - I'm pretty sure no one will ever read this (if they do, reply as an AC - just so I know:-) But there's a good point here. I always viewed 7 just as an obvious sexappeal thing, but now I'm rethinking. She *was* capable, and had a commanding presence. As the parent says, the sex appeal didn't hurt - and was probably planned - but perhaps it *wasn't* the only reason...She had something Janeway always lacked, and if she'd originally been cast as captain, I don't know that the first few seasons would have sucked as much (never liked Janeway that much)
Just an exercise in cost-justification :
How much money does MS have to shell out every day to have people watch all these auctions?
Now, how much money are they actualy losing due to piracy, due to these auctions? I don't mean "losing" as they define it (1000 units sold = 1000 units we didn't sell), but actually losing. What kind of money-making scheme *is* this? It doesn't make sense to me.
That doesn't work with a few facts from Voyager. They can go warp 9. If that means they move at 10^9C, then they'd have no trouble getting across the galaxy (100 000 light years). About 8 hours, actually.
And, of course, the episode where they go Warp 10, which causes Tom Paris to be at all points in the universe at once. It's gotta be a more complex equation than just exponential, with the term 1/(10 - Warp). I think it's a measure of space compression or something like that, which would explain using the term "warp" in the first place. It would also explain warp values over 10. It's space expansion instead of compression at that point (of course, it doesn't explain it being any *faster* than warp:-)
nonono - I mean that they took away the ridges, or suppressed them. It was a stupid fashion thing they did for whatever reason, and now they're all embarrassed about it.
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Well now we're just arguing the meaning of the word "faith". From dictionary.com,
2) Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
But that doesn't really get us anywhere - a lot of people could argue that their belief in God isn't "faith" because their belief rests on "material evidence" or "logical proof".
The point is that one man's "common sense" is another man's "faith", so to have a truly objective definition, we'd have to say that any set of beliefs involves "faith". This, unfortunately, includes the belief that there is no river of chocolate milk on the moon.
That *is* a belief though. It's completely dismissed the possibility that somewhere - either on this world or some distant planet - someone has genetically engineered a "1000 foot tall purple gorrilla". You've taken a definite position, rather than sitting on the fence and admitting that you really have no proof that there is no gorrilla (which is what faith is all about)
How many differently-polarized light streams can be put through a single fibre before they can't be differentiated? Would it be technically possible to have hundreds, with a single "control" signal to let the receiver know where all of the other signals are relative to each other?
Any ideas what products may result from this eventually, or is it currently just a "neat thing involving lasers"?
MS-DOS -> Windows :
Single-process text -> interacting-multi-process gui
Pretty big leap of paradigm, that one. I figure the only way we'll get that kind of leap again is to introduce robots. Instead of clicking on a cell, inputting a number, and having the computer use a formula in another cell to complete a calculation, you'd tell the robot "Take care of that payroll spreadsheet I've been meaning to do".
"Oh, and while you're at it, call over a few of your buddies and take over the world for me?" *PiewPiew! (lasers)*
Yay Robots!
Non whatsoever, I'm afraid.
CCTV's in this context wouldn't be manned. There would be far too many to man them effectively. Ideally, there'd be a search warrant or something similar associated with the viewing of these tapes, and they could only be used in a court setting. In other words, it would be a very unlikely situation to cause someone to inadvertently expose their homosexuality. No more likely than a friend who doesn't know walking up that street.
I have a friend who went t o Britain for an exchange. During his last month there, he was assaulted on the street and beaten within an inch of his life. He couldn't even eat solid foods for weeks in the hospital. The cameras in the intersection where he was beaten helped to catch the criminals who did this - otherwise, there may have been no way to find them.
While I agree that we have to proceed cautiously, remember that public is public, and if you do something there, you have no expectation of privacy.
From what I understand, that's comparable to looking through the glasses at the light coming through the lenses. But the image on the lenses would be comparable to something written on the window in marker - see-through, but visible. It's harder for an individual eye to focus on something that close.
That wouldn't change the fact that you'd have to focus your eyes a whole lot closer...try putting your hand right in front of your face and focusing on it with just one eye. Hopefully these things contain some way to change the focal point.
The OS's mentioned here are people who *want* to write from scratch. They want an OS to their own specifications. For mainstream OS's, Unix-style has seemed to work very well, and has been used as a base for numerous OS's.
Do rational explanations by a few educated people have much effect on the opinions of lawmakers, or is the only way to get heard to form a large coalition to lobby for changes?
LOL - reply to my own before someone else does. What I *meant* was basic knowledge of spelling, grammar, and good form.
And I previewed it this time.
...which would make sense since those companies need to make money somehow.
This has been said in other threads, but...why? Why do these companies need to make money if they're not good enough to hack it in today's world? They make money distributing music through CDs. If it's not working, it's time to change your business model or get out.
In the push for online music we must not impoverish the artists who produce it.
You won't - at least not with bands who perform live. My own band, Siòbhan enjoys some small amount of success as a local band, and for every $ profit we make on CD sales, we make $5-$10 on the shows. Making the music more available only increases distribution, and, in turn, increases popularity. The music industry is in the business of selling CDs, not promoting artists, so it's understandable that they'd prefer not to have free music, but a lot of smaller artists realize that the best thing to do is sell CDs dirt cheap and get the distribution. That's my (less-than-professional) opinion, anyway.
Could people suggest some good indie websites where I can get MP3s at a reasonable speed?
Too quickly/too slowly isn't quite modem speed, it's more along the lines of bandwidth hogs, although there's no good analogy I can think of right now.
But crackers don't destroy the path, they just block it. A bomb destroys lives, and the infrastructure takes a long time to recover. Unless someone's somehow damaged hardware like this, I'd say it's more akin to piling up a bunch of garbage on the road. A crime - but no terrorist act.
How about people who block roads to protest various activities? Are they terrorists? I'm not saying that acts that could be considered "terrorism" can't be perpetrated purely in cyberspace (taking out the NYSE, banks, whatever), but it's hardly fair to lump those in with the people who figuratively put up a few illegal roadblocks.
I think he mean "play back while using my computer as usual". Can't do that.
Not true. I am a firm believer in science, and a non-believer in (other?) religion. However, science is firmly based on one belief that has no proof, and cannot be proven through scientific means, and that is that things are reproducible. "If a match and lighter fluid create flame one day, they will create it the next." How do we know this is true? Because it's happened before. Science "based on observation" is also based on the faith that things that happened yesterday will work tomorrow.
If they have artificial gravity, I'm pretty sure they have inertial dampeners - it's the same technology, IIRC
Latelatelate for a reaction - I'm pretty sure no one will ever read this (if they do, reply as an AC - just so I know :-) But there's a good point here. I always viewed 7 just as an obvious sexappeal thing, but now I'm rethinking. She *was* capable, and had a commanding presence. As the parent says, the sex appeal didn't hurt - and was probably planned - but perhaps it *wasn't* the only reason...She had something Janeway always lacked, and if she'd originally been cast as captain, I don't know that the first few seasons would have sucked as much (never liked Janeway that much)
Just an exercise in cost-justification :
How much money does MS have to shell out every day to have people watch all these auctions?
Now, how much money are they actualy losing due to piracy, due to these auctions? I don't mean "losing" as they define it (1000 units sold = 1000 units we didn't sell), but actually losing. What kind of money-making scheme *is* this? It doesn't make sense to me.
That doesn't work with a few facts from Voyager. They can go warp 9. If that means they move at 10^9C, then they'd have no trouble getting across the galaxy (100 000 light years). About 8 hours, actually.
:-)
And, of course, the episode where they go Warp 10, which causes Tom Paris to be at all points in the universe at once. It's gotta be a more complex equation than just exponential, with the term 1/(10 - Warp). I think it's a measure of space compression or something like that, which would explain using the term "warp" in the first place. It would also explain warp values over 10. It's space expansion instead of compression at that point (of course, it doesn't explain it being any *faster* than warp
This isn't ST1 : The Phantom Menace here - I'm hoping they won't try to introduce every character from Kirk to Tom Paris in the first season.
Darth made R2 - right...
Sorry, slightly new here, and missed the bitchfest about that piece of crap.
nonono - I mean that they took away the ridges, or suppressed them. It was a stupid fashion thing they did for whatever reason, and now they're all embarrassed about it.