The generation of young people who are currently ruining spelling and grammar rules are children of the comic book generation, if not grandchildren. Slangs develop for a reason, but this reason must be with the communication of other people. A better explanation of forming slangs is the increasing disconnection between the older generation and younger generation. The disconnect stems from many things including broken families, fewer job opporutities for teenagers, and the increasing age of professionalism. Some people simply decide that the extra wait is not worthwhile, and adolecents work to communicate with their undereducated peers. You see this phenomenon in some of the most prominent hobbies, such as car repair/performance modification, and in video game console repair/modification.
Sometimes parents need to understand that they give their children advice, AND an environment. The child may listen to advice, but will not be able to avoid paying attention to their environment. The environment in this case has nothing to do with comic books however.
A anti-libertarian who is paranoid? say it isn't so! Google's messing with advertising makes them look bad, but think about their other options. If Google went straight to advertising only, everyone would just assume they were as bad as doubleclick. I cant think of one advertiser that is legitamite, and at least when google puts adds off their own site it doesn't seem to cloud things.
Google only makes money by advertising at the moment, and they cant hardly give it up. They certianly cannot go to all advertising, everyone would just blacklist their networks.
This slashdot article is actually a dupe from January; They even link the same article. Anyway, someone posted the Microsoft knowlegebase article with the registry fix in the earlier article thread
Of course this has been discussed before, but I think it's important to set the record straight for the DHS. Sony did indeed have malicious intentions by providing software that fought the fair use rights of a user, and their intentions are further malicious by the fact that they hid their software.
The rootkit problem only came because Sony was acting maliciously (sp?) in the first place.
I'm not an expert on Biology, and I can't point out which of "Lucy"'s bones are human/non-human. Scientific discoveries are subject to peer review, but peer review takes time. ERV-insertion sounds quite interesting, but it certainly doesn't fit with the empirical method.
I didn't make a post to start an argument, so I won't be bothered if you dislike my reply. My disbelief of evolution stems mostly from problems with foundational arguments that are required for evolutionary logic to have any meaning. I have no reason to believe that C14 dating would be accurate to validate million-year old bones; try asking a biology or anthropology teacher for a real discussion of radioactive dating... they are more disturbed than willing to help.
If you had conclusive evidence that common radioactive dating methods used by the biological community were inaccurate, you would reason that any discovery of a transitional species was nonsense. On the same token, the lack of evidence at least causes questions.
The example that comes to my mind is that of the discovery of "Lucy".
I joined the International Afar Research Expedition in 1972, and it was two years later that I discovered Lucy. I was 31 years old then, had just finished my Ph.D., and was absolutely bullheaded about finding something.
Johanson discovered an Australopithecus afarensis from the bones that he found, because he was trying to build one. From the article linked, you can read further down that some of the bones were found "up a slope" from where he found the original hominid bone. It's quite likely that instead of discovering a complete (complete enough for forensic study) transitional hominid skeleton, Johanson instead found a skeleton of an ape, and a few human bones. This simply because he was itching to find something he learned had to be there from his 15-20 years of evolutionary thought brainwashing.
This doesn't prove that Lucy isn't real, but I think the discovery fits well with the assertion you are questioning.
explain how this is different from other sciences that are taught in public schools, such as physics and chemistry?
Physics and Chemistry are both much much more easily tested (at least for the core ideas that highschoolers and undergraduates are taught). Mainstream Physics certainly has its problems, most of which involve limiting reality to less than it really is, which is disappointing, but generally not as problematic as assuming more than there is. The real difference is that with Physics and Chemistry there is an easy way of performing experiments. Evolutionary theory lies outside of empirical science, simply because experimentation is not possible; At the rate that Evolution is thought to progress, proving a macro-evolution species to species change would take at least several hundred thousand years, more likely a few million.
Copyright law, as well as patent law, and trademark law are all opt-out. If you have something you care about, you are forced to protect it yourself. Fair use does allow for copying the whole work, its called "backup copy"; Google is simply not allowed to distribute this copy as a whole to anyone. Of course when google scans books from a library, they are skewing the issue slightly, but they are still completely legal.
In short Google shoudn't get any special exemptions. You are unaware of your own fair use rights. This is clearly an us-vs-them problem, and google is on the side of freedom. What are you afraid of?
You make an excellent point, I hadn't completely thought through the problem, and your suggestion certainly has a large impact. Although social programs may tax the rich in some way to punish them for their cuelty, these programs hardly ever actually help the problem they are trying to address. Most of the problem with SSI is that the federal government has "borrowed" for "surplus" SSI to pay for other programs. Of course, there never was any surplus, and now we have a huge deficit of what SSI has, and what SSI will be responsible to pay. Another social problem that fails is welfare. Welfare allows non working people to collect money from the government, however once that injured or lazy individual gets a job, welfare cuts their pay. Its a very unfortunate circumstance, where the recipeint is encouraged not to move on with their life, but instead keep on being lazy. Of course none of the people affected by this problem were ever really capable of being responsible, hard workers, but they would certainly not be as big a drain if there was no welfare system.
The problem with social programs is that they are opt-in. Money could still be spent on the poor by using taxes more productively, such as building better sports related parks (realize, most of these parks are used by the lower-middle class as things are now). Theres always something to throw money at, the problem is finding a just cause. Most of our contry has road systems that are overloaded, and in disrepair, we could spend more federal income tax on roads, and spend less gas tax on roads. The current tax system is not fair, and is not efficient. It would be trivial to make the tax system more efficient simply by cutting totally unproductive programs.
I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the stats used in that report were consistant. 13 Billion in 1966 would is certainly worth more than 16 Billion even in 2001; I'm thinking more like 50 Billion?
The problem is that NASA is viewed as a prestige part of the US government. We waste much greater amounts of money every year on welfare, and other social spending programs. These programs seem to be justified even when all they produce is MORE social problems. If we expect NASA to produce a product there will have to be changes; changes like opening information to the public, things that will show an average american that research is worthwhile.
I'm sure we're all delighted that you enjoy your 40oz variety of drugs (what do you get in 40oz anyway?) You didn't argue anything coherent about why the existance of God would not deter the destruction of the earth. Here's one for you: God will destroy the earth when he's good and ready, not a moment sooner.
I got the Head First Java book, which was written in a similar, mind-numbing manner. It really isn't helpful, but its good for a laugh. Amazon tends to rate these books very highly, but I'd reccomend one that takes a more seriuos look; you dont need a book full of dumb analogies to understand html/css.
Well, it would certainly be a better model for driving content to users. The thing is, nobody said that the p2p service would follow traditional (usd) $20/album costs. It is indeed very possible that a p2p service would help the music industry, and without the record label costs, this might even be good for independent artists. Like many things, implementation will decide if this move is good, bad, successful, or unsuccessful.
This article clearly states that he bought the item within a small period of time before he tried to use it on linux. Odds are it doesn't even work on half windows versions, yet this uneducated, lazy kid thinks someone else will do all the work of writing drivers for all the usb (why?) wireless adapters out there.
Think about the problem here. If the trend of smart people disregarding their obvious responsibility continues, we will see truely chaotic problems; People will buy lawnmower sparkplugs for their bmw's! Stock racing teams will start using stock tires (what a novel concept!) to avoid problems in case it starts raining at daytona 500! Pilots everywhere will fly to the wrong airport because they forgot to check their flight maps. The Fire Department will leave their hq without any hoses!
Somewhere someone has to take responsibility, and believe it or not, that somebody isn't "anyone but me."
You just decribed two individuals, then decided that one of them was a genius because he was more like edison. Edison was not a genius, he had good business skills, he happend on the right _filament_ for a light bulb, and he tried to power the united states with DC power because he was too unscrupulus to pay Tesla for his work. It that's genius, surely Ken Lay has edison beat through and through.
Azures doesn't take "half" your ram because it is java based. It uses large amounts of ram to provide the fastest possible download speed. Remember, that number you see includes caches; if your system needed that memory it would be recycled for other processes.
Its important to realize the true meaning of "lagest shareholder" in this case, the largest shareholder doesn't even own 10% of the company, and he's not on the board of directors. Steve will not be able to do anything important from that position. Lets hope he work his way up, so I can watch only mildly boring disney movies with my younger siblings.
That analogy would work well for a firewall. I'd liken antivirus more to the police. Antivirus doesn't stop crime, it just cleans up the mess. Of course with a discussion of this volume, the main problem is with windows machines where (especially in the case of virii) the problem is already on the system, it just has to be unleashed. This makes the crime more complicated, it's more of a sabotage (in cooperation with microsoft) than a hit and run (to borrow terms from driving).
This discussion doesn't address the incompetent userbase. All you have to do to spread a windows exploit is email your dumb user friends telling them "you might have a virus, use this program to fix it". Viral hoaxes can be a very serious problem.
Bellsouth is of course an opportunisitc, greedy company. They have been lowering rates for DSL sevice in the past few months, and it's my idea that they are doing this to get more users. By extorting content providers they are not actually getting 2 slices of the cake, they're just sneakily getting a higer price than they advertise. Of course this is bad for more technically minded users (who wouldn't think of using "content providers" to get lousy drm infested files), plenty more dumb users buying high bandwidth content.
It seems ironic to me that bellsouth is attacking content providers. This can only mean more traffic for their newsgroup servers, which are actually decent.
People like to be free, they might not know what DRM is, but they will still want to copy a single track off their cd so they can play it at the skating rink, a wedding, or a graduation (basically anywhere your disc is likely to get lost/broken) The fact that they wont be able to do so will bother these ignorant masses quite a lot. The responsibility of informing these people lies on the tech-saviour (whoever circumvents the DRM, and gives them a copy).
I liken this problem to speeding. Everyone speeds sometimes, and some have no regard whatsoever for speed limits; most of these people have little driving skill, and less vehicle repair/performance experience. Some will even go as far as removing a speed limiter even though they don't fully understand what it is.
DRM will probably be the same way soon. It may take different technical forms, but the basic idea is very simple, and understanding the idea is unimportant to disliking it.
That's not unreasonable, but more likely apple will start with their own conventional phone first. Once people get used to apple taking its share in the market they will trust their "revolutionary new technology" better. I've never liked Apple's business/marketing practice, but compared to even the best cellular companies Apple is a 10/10.
Just because you didn't have to click the delete checkbox by each and every spam doesn't mean they are not an irritation. Every piece of spam that goes to your account (inbox or spam) is a load on the server, of course that's google/yahoo's problem now. Don't underestimate the power of entropy, and remember there is a tiny chance legitimate emails are being filtered.
I built a system for under half that price 2 months ago, and it's more powerful, more upgradable, and my case is even cooler. That widescreen is going to be real useful with half the graphics power of my AMD64 system.:)
AFAIK, the only law against region free devices involves disabling region protection. The DMCA protects against breaking encryption systems, but it does not dictate what devices need what systems.
Well as my op stated, I don't suspect a conspiracy. Simply the weight this man pushes with no data to back his claims is what is really influential. The bottom line is 1: what he said is very unoriginal, 2: it is not validated by his "research", and 3: there is significant reason it will not happen (intel).
He probably still wont get caught for running his mouth however, simply because AMD is a booming business, and Dell needs AMD more than vice-versa.
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The generation of young people who are currently ruining spelling and grammar rules are children of the comic book generation, if not grandchildren. Slangs develop for a reason, but this reason must be with the communication of other people. A better explanation of forming slangs is the increasing disconnection between the older generation and younger generation. The disconnect stems from many things including broken families, fewer job opporutities for teenagers, and the increasing age of professionalism. Some people simply decide that the extra wait is not worthwhile, and adolecents work to communicate with their undereducated peers. You see this phenomenon in some of the most prominent hobbies, such as car repair/performance modification, and in video game console repair/modification.
Sometimes parents need to understand that they give their children advice, AND an environment. The child may listen to advice, but will not be able to avoid paying attention to their environment. The environment in this case has nothing to do with comic books however.
A anti-libertarian who is paranoid? say it isn't so! Google's messing with advertising makes them look bad, but think about their other options. If Google went straight to advertising only, everyone would just assume they were as bad as doubleclick. I cant think of one advertiser that is legitamite, and at least when google puts adds off their own site it doesn't seem to cloud things.
Google only makes money by advertising at the moment, and they cant hardly give it up. They certianly cannot go to all advertising, everyone would just blacklist their networks.
This slashdot article is actually a dupe from January; They even link the same article. Anyway, someone posted the Microsoft knowlegebase article with the registry fix in the earlier article thread
Of course this has been discussed before, but I think it's important to set the record straight for the DHS. Sony did indeed have malicious intentions by providing software that fought the fair use rights of a user, and their intentions are further malicious by the fact that they hid their software.
The rootkit problem only came because Sony was acting maliciously (sp?) in the first place.
I'm not an expert on Biology, and I can't point out which of "Lucy"'s bones are human/non-human.
Scientific discoveries are subject to peer review, but peer review takes time.
ERV-insertion sounds quite interesting, but it certainly doesn't fit with the empirical method.
I didn't make a post to start an argument, so I won't be bothered if you dislike my reply. My disbelief of evolution stems mostly from problems with foundational arguments that are required for evolutionary logic to have any meaning. I have no reason to believe that C14 dating would be accurate to validate million-year old bones; try asking a biology or anthropology teacher for a real discussion of radioactive dating... they are more disturbed than willing to help.
If you had conclusive evidence that common radioactive dating methods used by the biological community were inaccurate, you would reason that any discovery of a transitional species was nonsense. On the same token, the lack of evidence at least causes questions.
Johanson discovered an Australopithecus afarensis from the bones that he found, because he was trying to build one. From the article linked, you can read further down that some of the bones were found "up a slope" from where he found the original hominid bone. It's quite likely that instead of discovering a complete (complete enough for forensic study) transitional hominid skeleton, Johanson instead found a skeleton of an ape, and a few human bones. This simply because he was itching to find something he learned had to be there from his 15-20 years of evolutionary thought brainwashing.
This doesn't prove that Lucy isn't real, but I think the discovery fits well with the assertion you are questioning.
Physics and Chemistry are both much much more easily tested (at least for the core ideas that highschoolers and undergraduates are taught). Mainstream Physics certainly has its problems, most of which involve limiting reality to less than it really is, which is disappointing, but generally not as problematic as assuming more than there is. The real difference is that with Physics and Chemistry there is an easy way of performing experiments. Evolutionary theory lies outside of empirical science, simply because experimentation is not possible; At the rate that Evolution is thought to progress, proving a macro-evolution species to species change would take at least several hundred thousand years, more likely a few million.
Copyright law, as well as patent law, and trademark law are all opt-out. If you have something you care about, you are forced to protect it yourself. Fair use does allow for copying the whole work, its called "backup copy"; Google is simply not allowed to distribute this copy as a whole to anyone. Of course when google scans books from a library, they are skewing the issue slightly, but they are still completely legal.
In short Google shoudn't get any special exemptions. You are unaware of your own fair use rights. This is clearly an us-vs-them problem, and google is on the side of freedom. What are you afraid of?
You make an excellent point, I hadn't completely thought through the problem, and your suggestion certainly has a large impact. Although social programs may tax the rich in some way to punish them for their cuelty, these programs hardly ever actually help the problem they are trying to address. Most of the problem with SSI is that the federal government has "borrowed" for "surplus" SSI to pay for other programs. Of course, there never was any surplus, and now we have a huge deficit of what SSI has, and what SSI will be responsible to pay. Another social problem that fails is welfare. Welfare allows non working people to collect money from the government, however once that injured or lazy individual gets a job, welfare cuts their pay. Its a very unfortunate circumstance, where the recipeint is encouraged not to move on with their life, but instead keep on being lazy. Of course none of the people affected by this problem were ever really capable of being responsible, hard workers, but they would certainly not be as big a drain if there was no welfare system.
The problem with social programs is that they are opt-in. Money could still be spent on the poor by using taxes more productively, such as building better sports related parks (realize, most of these parks are used by the lower-middle class as things are now). Theres always something to throw money at, the problem is finding a just cause. Most of our contry has road systems that are overloaded, and in disrepair, we could spend more federal income tax on roads, and spend less gas tax on roads. The current tax system is not fair, and is not efficient. It would be trivial to make the tax system more efficient simply by cutting totally unproductive programs.
I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the stats used in that report were consistant. 13 Billion in 1966 would is certainly worth more than 16 Billion even in 2001; I'm thinking more like 50 Billion?
The problem is that NASA is viewed as a prestige part of the US government. We waste much greater amounts of money every year on welfare, and other social spending programs. These programs seem to be justified even when all they produce is MORE social problems. If we expect NASA to produce a product there will have to be changes; changes like opening information to the public, things that will show an average american that research is worthwhile.
The claims for those speeds in wireless are just plain wrong. If we get lucky IBM will double current performance at reasonable distances.
I'm sure we're all delighted that you enjoy your 40oz variety of drugs (what do you get in 40oz anyway?) You didn't argue anything coherent about why the existance of God would not deter the destruction of the earth. Here's one for you: God will destroy the earth when he's good and ready, not a moment sooner.
I got the Head First Java book, which was written in a similar, mind-numbing manner. It really isn't helpful, but its good for a laugh. Amazon tends to rate these books very highly, but I'd reccomend one that takes a more seriuos look; you dont need a book full of dumb analogies to understand html/css.
Well, it would certainly be a better model for driving content to users. The thing is, nobody said that the p2p service would follow traditional (usd) $20/album costs. It is indeed very possible that a p2p service would help the music industry, and without the record label costs, this might even be good for independent artists. Like many things, implementation will decide if this move is good, bad, successful, or unsuccessful.
This article clearly states that he bought the item within a small period of time before he tried to use it on linux. Odds are it doesn't even work on half windows versions, yet this uneducated, lazy kid thinks someone else will do all the work of writing drivers for all the usb (why?) wireless adapters out there.
Think about the problem here. If the trend of smart people disregarding their obvious responsibility continues, we will see truely chaotic problems; People will buy lawnmower sparkplugs for their bmw's! Stock racing teams will start using stock tires (what a novel concept!) to avoid problems in case it starts raining at daytona 500! Pilots everywhere will fly to the wrong airport because they forgot to check their flight maps. The Fire Department will leave their hq without any hoses!
Somewhere someone has to take responsibility, and believe it or not, that somebody isn't "anyone but me."
You just decribed two individuals, then decided that one of them was a genius because he was more like edison. Edison was not a genius, he had good business skills, he happend on the right _filament_ for a light bulb, and he tried to power the united states with DC power because he was too unscrupulus to pay Tesla for his work. It that's genius, surely Ken Lay has edison beat through and through.
Azures doesn't take "half" your ram because it is java based. It uses large amounts of ram to provide the fastest possible download speed. Remember, that number you see includes caches; if your system needed that memory it would be recycled for other processes.
Its important to realize the true meaning of "lagest shareholder" in this case, the largest shareholder doesn't even own 10% of the company, and he's not on the board of directors. Steve will not be able to do anything important from that position. Lets hope he work his way up, so I can watch only mildly boring disney movies with my younger siblings.
That analogy would work well for a firewall. I'd liken antivirus more to the police. Antivirus doesn't stop crime, it just cleans up the mess. Of course with a discussion of this volume, the main problem is with windows machines where (especially in the case of virii) the problem is already on the system, it just has to be unleashed. This makes the crime more complicated, it's more of a sabotage (in cooperation with microsoft) than a hit and run (to borrow terms from driving).
This discussion doesn't address the incompetent userbase. All you have to do to spread a windows exploit is email your dumb user friends telling them "you might have a virus, use this program to fix it". Viral hoaxes can be a very serious problem.
Bellsouth is of course an opportunisitc, greedy company. They have been lowering rates for DSL sevice in the past few months, and it's my idea that they are doing this to get more users. By extorting content providers they are not actually getting 2 slices of the cake, they're just sneakily getting a higer price than they advertise. Of course this is bad for more technically minded users (who wouldn't think of using "content providers" to get lousy drm infested files), plenty more dumb users buying high bandwidth content.
It seems ironic to me that bellsouth is attacking content providers. This can only mean more traffic for their newsgroup servers, which are actually decent.
People like to be free, they might not know what DRM is, but they will still want to copy a single track off their cd so they can play it at the skating rink, a wedding, or a graduation (basically anywhere your disc is likely to get lost/broken) The fact that they wont be able to do so will bother these ignorant masses quite a lot. The responsibility of informing these people lies on the tech-saviour (whoever circumvents the DRM, and gives them a copy).
I liken this problem to speeding. Everyone speeds sometimes, and some have no regard whatsoever for speed limits; most of these people have little driving skill, and less vehicle repair/performance experience. Some will even go as far as removing a speed limiter even though they don't fully understand what it is.
DRM will probably be the same way soon. It may take different technical forms, but the basic idea is very simple, and understanding the idea is unimportant to disliking it.
That's not unreasonable, but more likely apple will start with their own conventional phone first. Once people get used to apple taking its share in the market they will trust their "revolutionary new technology" better. I've never liked Apple's business/marketing practice, but compared to even the best cellular companies Apple is a 10/10.
Just because you didn't have to click the delete checkbox by each and every spam doesn't mean they are not an irritation. Every piece of spam that goes to your account (inbox or spam) is a load on the server, of course that's google/yahoo's problem now. Don't underestimate the power of entropy, and remember there is a tiny chance legitimate emails are being filtered.
I built a system for under half that price 2 months ago, and it's more powerful, more upgradable, and my case is even cooler. That widescreen is going to be real useful with half the graphics power of my AMD64 system. :)
AFAIK, the only law against region free devices involves disabling region protection. The DMCA protects against breaking encryption systems, but it does not dictate what devices need what systems.
Well as my op stated, I don't suspect a conspiracy. Simply the weight this man pushes with no data to back his claims is what is really influential. The bottom line is 1: what he said is very unoriginal, 2: it is not validated by his "research", and 3: there is significant reason it will not happen (intel).
He probably still wont get caught for running his mouth however, simply because AMD is a booming business, and Dell needs AMD more than vice-versa.