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"I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat. Want five more? Come buy the boxed set. Frankly, I'm all for this method of distribution, as I barely watch 'regular' TV anymore."
And how many shows can you name whose pilots were complete crap, but only came into their own as a series a season or two later? Here is yet another person claiming to be the pulse of America when America still has a huge population of TV viewers, just because he doesn't watch a lot. Clue: It's not about you and your habits. Do you honestly think we'd even have a Serenity movie if people only caught the pilot, download the rest online? Maybe a bad example because the pilot was actually good, but I still doubt it.
Frankly, Roger, I think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot with that mentality.
Now I know anything to do with space and the words "global warming" tend to induce a frontal lobotomy in many Sladot readers, but there are people actually taking this seriously??? Come on, there's gotta be something left in that cavernous skull to realize this has got to be one massive joke. I mean, somebody seriously misplaced the foot icon here.
Look at it this way... You've got $6 trillion to $500 trillion dollars burning a hole in your "save the earth" pocket. Dontcha think that maybe, just maybe you could put that money to better use by throwing it at something that doesn't require lobbing multiton roman candles into orbit? I mean $500 trillion. You honestly can't think of an industry or two here on the ground you could revolutionize overnight, let alone in the time it'd take to assemble THIS project?
Speaking of that, what sort of time frame are we talking? Any mention of such is amazingly absent. And we haven't EVEN gotten into the fact that the scientific community is still deeply divided on the exact cause of global warrming. Everything from man's impact to the natural warming and cooling cycles of the earth come into play. Hell, there are even published scientifc reports that say the Sun is hotter than previously measured. We still don't have a conclusive clue and these people want to throw a reflective tarp over a portion of the earth. What is the damn environmental impact of THAT? What happens to the plant and animal life UNDER it? Not as much heat or sun, that's for sure. Draw your own conclusions.
I'm sorry, but this is a prime example of what happens when people who think they're smart smoke crack. They find implausible and extrodinairy ways to waste our money.
"the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government."
Sorry, but I'm gonna call bullshit on this one. "Open up"? You do realize what we're referencing here, right? Word documents? Spreadsheets? Text? It's not as if you need a proprietary reader to use them anymore in the first place. For all intents and purposes, these items are open, or close enough not to matter. So what "proprietary formats are we actually talking about?.pdf is a proprietary format. Gonna get rid of that too? And even then one has to ask why they are being used in the first place?
Somebody else earlier on mentioned that this action will also promote competition. Again, we're seriously wading it it because whatever "mystery proprietary format" they're using now got that position for some reason, most likely because there WAS compeition and it didn't stack up to what they decided to go with and are using now. Or their is some decent amount of governemntal corruption in our righteous tale of open source, your choice. But don't even kid yourself; Outright removing a competitor is not promoting compeition. That's somebodies political cudgel at work. because if there really is something better out there, you can name it and replace what you have, not exile a company on the moral high grounds of open source just because it's not open source. it's a justification and an excuse, nothing more.
Sorry, this entire thing reeks of a political blugeon and if they're willing to exile MS, it can work the opposite way too for open source. Keep that in mind as you put MS to the fire.
"Who would buy 828 feet worth of books, for nearly $8,000, that would take 20 years to read at the rate of one title per week?"
Probably not just a who, but several of them. I guess I can see one person ordering all this for his or her personal library, but I'm bettering it's probably geared more toward organizations and such.
The Discovery channel already does this crap. "What would evolution be like in 40,000 years on Earth?" or "How we Explored a new world in the future". Honestly, it's nausiating enough that we don't need NASA throwring in as well.
I guess you can call it a win that you've been able to build a computer that can out calculate the human brain. Of course, then you have to calculate the combined manpower, resources and support it took to accomplish that feat.
Brute force calculations are a computers specialty. That's what they're primarily built to function as. Polygons. Spread sheets. Folding@home. All nothing but tools to perform brute force calculations. like chess. Calculate every permutaion and come up with the most efficient response. There is no real overriding strategy. No personal style of play. No attempt to fathom what your opponent is actually trying to do given his playing style. How many millions did it cost again? For something that can only outcalculate a human? 2/3rds of the time? Sometimes less?
Sure, I guess you can claim a win. But then, I have something that can out calculate me too.
" "What we're seeing is the clockwork of the solar system," Young said."...Which is what we see 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. But thanks for pointing out the obvious. I'm still trying to decide who is responsible for this innane conversation, that Young guy or the person asking him to expound on the alignment.
" And while star-gazers will be able to obscure all three planets simply by holding their outstretched thumb to the sky, Young reminds them appearances can be deceiving.
"In reality, the planets are millions of kilometres apart," he said. "They only appear close in the sky because of our perspective. Saturn is actually over a billion kilometres behind Mercury."
Oh thank God. I thought they were all going to crash into one another, showering the earth with deadily meteors or something. THANK YOU for thet reminder, Mr. Young.
'Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do.'"...much like the art of breaking an entering a home residence and rifling though the owners belongings. Just to show you can do it.
Please, stop trying to justify hacking in this manner. It displays mental bankruptsy and severe denial unbecoming of anybody claiming to have half a brain in their skull.
Signed?! LOL! Nothing like throwing up a red flag that you're not only doing something you KNOW you shouldn't be doing, but letting the teacher know that you're looking for his ass to get nailed if it hits the fan, not yours.
I mean come on... The instant a student asks you to sign ANYTHING, loud sirens with piercing wails and flashing red lights oughta be going off in your head...Not for the fact that he's doing something wrong, but you'll be the one taking the inevitable fall.
Now this is just a sad justification and can easily be turned the other way-- If it had been organized crime that started hacking, the governement would probably take it more seriously than it is now, with laws and penalties to match. The tools would have been developed anyway, so it's really a non-issue.
Besides. Hackers have been doing serious damage from day one. Besides just breaking into networks for "curiosity sake" they've been planting worms, trojans, trolling entire credit card data bases, commiting DDoS attacts, etc etc. No, not all of them, but enough to make the OPs point a ridiculous one to even attempt to justify.
You bring up a good point and you're right. Quite a few people never turn off their PCs, probably because they don't want to have to wait for it to boot again. In fact, that trend alone has allowed something like folding@home to succeed-- If you're not going to turn it off, might as well put it to use.
But consoles are different, probably because just leaving them on doesn't really accomplish anything useful for 90% of the people. They boot nearly instantaneously and will have to load the media from scratch anyway, regardless of whether you leave it on or off. It's like there's no point to do so. Unless I missed a clue somewhere, i can't EVER remember walking into ANYBODIES room to find the console just left on, unless it was purely by accident. It's just not the trend and stuff like Seti and folding can't easily piggyback off something that isn't already an ingrained habit. Not a lot of people are going to change just so they can use their system.
"With all that horsepower in a machine that is used for only a fraction of a day, we should offer gamers a chance to put these unused resources to good use."
Now the Captain is wondering how many of us actually leave our consoles on when not in use? Show of hands... Now! Hmmm, not too many. Now how many of you would actually like to pay extra in electric bills to do it? Ouch. Even less. And finally, how many are going to mod their PS3 and actually downloard the app to make it happen? That leaves just about... Nobody.
"They argue that cookies -- small files that Web sites use to identify users and to serve up targeted ads -- don't deserve their bad reputation and shouldn't be lumped together with such Web scourges as spyware and viruses...As a default setting, Microsoft's Internet Explorer blocks some "third-party" cookies, which can be used by advertising companies to track users across multiple sites."
Oh, I couldn't POSSIBLY see where that bad reputation could have come from! Now they are right... They do have good uses. But trying to totally gloss over the fact that they can and will be abused conjures distrust of the highest order.
And hey, if we're all so honest and all, why aren't you: A) Asking me before collecting my information B) Compensating me for my information I mean, you have nothing to fear since we know you're all so honest and upright and that cookies can never be abused by you, right? RIGHT???
In Soviet Russia YOU become your own Grandfather!...No, that can't be right. Um, your grandfather becomes YOU! Um... Uh... You become your Grandfathers grandson?
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"I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat. Want five more? Come buy the boxed set. Frankly, I'm all for this method of distribution, as I barely watch 'regular' TV anymore."
And how many shows can you name whose pilots were complete crap, but only came into their own as a series a season or two later? Here is yet another person claiming to be the pulse of America when America still has a huge population of TV viewers, just because he doesn't watch a lot. Clue: It's not about you and your habits. Do you honestly think we'd even have a Serenity movie if people only caught the pilot, download the rest online? Maybe a bad example because the pilot was actually good, but I still doubt it.
Frankly, Roger, I think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot with that mentality.
"What about that interlocking ring of spaceships being an interlocking ring of solar panels?"
I'd imagine because it'd be turned to swiss cheese by the end ot the year.
Now I know anything to do with space and the words "global warming" tend to induce a frontal lobotomy in many Sladot readers, but there are people actually taking this seriously??? Come on, there's gotta be something left in that cavernous skull to realize this has got to be one massive joke. I mean, somebody seriously misplaced the foot icon here.
Look at it this way... You've got $6 trillion to $500 trillion dollars burning a hole in your "save the earth" pocket. Dontcha think that maybe, just maybe you could put that money to better use by throwing it at something that doesn't require lobbing multiton roman candles into orbit? I mean $500 trillion . You honestly can't think of an industry or two here on the ground you could revolutionize overnight, let alone in the time it'd take to assemble THIS project?
Speaking of that, what sort of time frame are we talking? Any mention of such is amazingly absent. And we haven't EVEN gotten into the fact that the scientific community is still deeply divided on the exact cause of global warrming. Everything from man's impact to the natural warming and cooling cycles of the earth come into play. Hell, there are even published scientifc reports that say the Sun is hotter than previously measured. We still don't have a conclusive clue and these people want to throw a reflective tarp over a portion of the earth. What is the damn environmental impact of THAT? What happens to the plant and animal life UNDER it? Not as much heat or sun, that's for sure. Draw your own conclusions.
I'm sorry, but this is a prime example of what happens when people who think they're smart smoke crack. They find implausible and extrodinairy ways to waste our money.
"the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government."
.pdf is a proprietary format. Gonna get rid of that too? And even then one has to ask why they are being used in the first place?
Sorry, but I'm gonna call bullshit on this one. "Open up"? You do realize what we're referencing here, right? Word documents? Spreadsheets? Text? It's not as if you need a proprietary reader to use them anymore in the first place. For all intents and purposes, these items are open, or close enough not to matter. So what "proprietary formats are we actually talking about?
Somebody else earlier on mentioned that this action will also promote competition. Again, we're seriously wading it it because whatever "mystery proprietary format" they're using now got that position for some reason, most likely because there WAS compeition and it didn't stack up to what they decided to go with and are using now. Or their is some decent amount of governemntal corruption in our righteous tale of open source, your choice. But don't even kid yourself; Outright removing a competitor is not promoting compeition. That's somebodies political cudgel at work. because if there really is something better out there, you can name it and replace what you have, not exile a company on the moral high grounds of open source just because it's not open source. it's a justification and an excuse, nothing more.
Sorry, this entire thing reeks of a political blugeon and if they're willing to exile MS, it can work the opposite way too for open source. Keep that in mind as you put MS to the fire.
Ah, the pitfalls of being an anal typo bitch always come back to haunt you :D
"Who would buy 828 feet worth of books, for nearly $8,000, that would take 20 years to read at the rate of one title per week?"
Probably not just a who, but several of them. I guess I can see one person ordering all this for his or her personal library, but I'm bettering it's probably geared more toward organizations and such.
The Discovery channel already does this crap. "What would evolution be like in 40,000 years on Earth?" or "How we Explored a new world in the future". Honestly, it's nausiating enough that we don't need NASA throwring in as well.
"It should be available this summer for about 10,000 euros (about $12K)."
Torrent, please ^.^
"The KS City Star reports George Lucas (of the "It's not about the money" fame) has opened a new headquarters"
And I have a pretty good idea of it's exact location.
I suggest cardboard punchcards. With the right care, those will be in your archive for years to come and have virtual no chance of failure.
I guess you can call it a win that you've been able to build a computer that can out calculate the human brain. Of course, then you have to calculate the combined manpower, resources and support it took to accomplish that feat.
Brute force calculations are a computers specialty. That's what they're primarily built to function as. Polygons. Spread sheets. Folding@home. All nothing but tools to perform brute force calculations. like chess. Calculate every permutaion and come up with the most efficient response. There is no real overriding strategy. No personal style of play. No attempt to fathom what your opponent is actually trying to do given his playing style. How many millions did it cost again? For something that can only outcalculate a human? 2/3rds of the time? Sometimes less?
Sure, I guess you can claim a win. But then, I have something that can out calculate me too.
I play Battlefield 2 on it.
" "What we're seeing is the clockwork of the solar system," Young said." ...Which is what we see 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. But thanks for pointing out the obvious. I'm still trying to decide who is responsible for this innane conversation, that Young guy or the person asking him to expound on the alignment.
" And while star-gazers will be able to obscure all three planets simply by holding their outstretched thumb to the sky, Young reminds them appearances can be deceiving.
"In reality, the planets are millions of kilometres apart," he said. "They only appear close in the sky because of our perspective. Saturn is actually over a billion kilometres behind Mercury."
Oh thank God. I thought they were all going to crash into one another, showering the earth with deadily meteors or something. THANK YOU for thet reminder, Mr. Young.
'Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do.'" ...much like the art of breaking an entering a home residence and rifling though the owners belongings. Just to show you can do it.
Please, stop trying to justify hacking in this manner. It displays mental bankruptsy and severe denial unbecoming of anybody claiming to have half a brain in their skull.
Step 1: look at the moon near the horizon
Step 2: now, block out the horizon and all other objects with your hands, and look at the moon
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Also works with the sun!
Signed?! LOL! Nothing like throwing up a red flag that you're not only doing something you KNOW you shouldn't be doing, but letting the teacher know that you're looking for his ass to get nailed if it hits the fan, not yours.
I mean come on... The instant a student asks you to sign ANYTHING, loud sirens with piercing wails and flashing red lights oughta be going off in your head...Not for the fact that he's doing something wrong, but you'll be the one taking the inevitable fall.
Dammit, where is a mod point when you need it ROFLMAO
Now this is just a sad justification and can easily be turned the other way-- If it had been organized crime that started hacking, the governement would probably take it more seriously than it is now, with laws and penalties to match. The tools would have been developed anyway, so it's really a non-issue.
Besides. Hackers have been doing serious damage from day one. Besides just breaking into networks for "curiosity sake" they've been planting worms, trojans, trolling entire credit card data bases, commiting DDoS attacts, etc etc. No, not all of them, but enough to make the OPs point a ridiculous one to even attempt to justify.
You bring up a good point and you're right. Quite a few people never turn off their PCs, probably because they don't want to have to wait for it to boot again. In fact, that trend alone has allowed something like folding@home to succeed-- If you're not going to turn it off, might as well put it to use.
But consoles are different, probably because just leaving them on doesn't really accomplish anything useful for 90% of the people. They boot nearly instantaneously and will have to load the media from scratch anyway, regardless of whether you leave it on or off. It's like there's no point to do so. Unless I missed a clue somewhere, i can't EVER remember walking into ANYBODIES room to find the console just left on, unless it was purely by accident. It's just not the trend and stuff like Seti and folding can't easily piggyback off something that isn't already an ingrained habit. Not a lot of people are going to change just so they can use their system.
That's no torrent! It's a... Oh, nevermind >:(
"With all that horsepower in a machine that is used for only a fraction of a day, we should offer gamers a chance to put these unused resources to good use."
Now the Captain is wondering how many of us actually leave our consoles on when not in use? Show of hands... Now! Hmmm, not too many. Now how many of you would actually like to pay extra in electric bills to do it? Ouch. Even less. And finally, how many are going to mod their PS3 and actually downloard the app to make it happen? That leaves just about... Nobody.
"They argue that cookies -- small files that Web sites use to identify users and to serve up targeted ads -- don't deserve their bad reputation and shouldn't be lumped together with such Web scourges as spyware and viruses...As a default setting, Microsoft's Internet Explorer blocks some "third-party" cookies, which can be used by advertising companies to track users across multiple sites."
Oh, I couldn't POSSIBLY see where that bad reputation could have come from! Now they are right... They do have good uses. But trying to totally gloss over the fact that they can and will be abused conjures distrust of the highest order.
And hey, if we're all so honest and all, why aren't you:
A) Asking me before collecting my information
B) Compensating me for my information
I mean, you have nothing to fear since we know you're all so honest and upright and that cookies can never be abused by you, right? RIGHT???
PR spin weenies...
HA! True enough. Even says so. :p
In Soviet Russia YOU become your own Grandfather! ...No, that can't be right. Um, your grandfather becomes YOU! Um... Uh... You become your Grandfathers grandson?
Dammit, I hate time travel!