Oh yeah, let's spend our money on a space elevator. The world's longest carbon nanotubes are what, half a centimeter in length right now? That means only 62,000 miles -.5 cm to go!
Trying to install from a Limited Account in Windows brings up a dialog "highly recommended that you install as Administrator."
There is no longer a way to disable the Quality Feedback Agent under custom install.
Firefox Update is small and non-obvious. Windows really lets me know when there is a patch for IE out. I can trust IE to keep itself patched on Grandma's system -- but not Firefox.
Oh, I'd do it one better. I take the code of Windows XP running on some virtual machine software. I'd write a routine that goes through binaries and replaces simple code with equivalent routines: conceptually, replacing 2+2 with 2+1+1 type things. It would run slower than mollases, but it would technically fulfill the requirements.
The ability to remember to repeat back long strings of digits is actually highly correlated with measures of general intelligence. What is even more correlated with general intelligence, however, is the ability to repeat them backwards.
The Flynn Effect actually shows that intelligence has beening rising ~2 IQ points a decade since 1900. Some recent data suggests that this may have petered out beginning in the 1980s though.
It remains an open question as to the cause. It's far too fast to be genetic. A combination of better childhood nutrition and lower disease burden may explain most of it. There has been some suggestion that the Flynn Effect is mainly concentrated on the lower-half of the Bell Curve, but this is contested.
Do you really think it's the responsibility of ordinary people to stop criminals?
That statement confuses me. Where did it come from? Did you mean to reply to someone else?
Bush was right when he said that "results are not acceptable" with regard to regaining law and order.
Exactly. I think that the National Guard should have been sent in earlier to maintain order. The people in charge have gone on record that they were too worried about "another Kent State" to do it. Yeah, maybe they would have had to shoot some people, but they would have maintained order, which would have saved lives in aggregate. One major problem was that officials were nice and PC: they assumed that a city of poor Blacks after a disaster would behave the same as Whites after a disaster. They were wrong. In this instance their PC beliefs killed people.
You seem a little clueless. The John Doe Subpoenas were to get their records from the ISPs in the first place so that they find what name went with what IP.
"Andersen states categorically that neither she nor anyone in her household has ever downloaded 'illegal' digital files."
And yet...
When I first got my computer set up almost three years ago, I had a friend set it up for me since I did not know how to do it. She had put Kaaza Lite on there and told me what it was...
I find that the most likely explanation is that pirated music was shared from this woman's computer. The RIAA is perfectly justified in going after her for it.
"Ah yes, those naughty blacks, looting while the nice white people "found" food in shops"
Still repeating that stupid loot vs. find hoax? AFP != AP, you know. Please find the white version of black police officers looting the local Walmart of color TVs after a natural disaster and get back to me. Looting, rape, murder, and mayham is not normal behavior after a natural disaster. Gretna started turning people away after looting began and one fire had already been started. Sorry, but if you're going to shit where you sit, I'm not going to let you inside my house.
Yes, I do realize that I could have ordered the book from Amazon. And then waited for it to come in the mail. Free download from Gutenberg was a lot nicer.
When I first learned how to use a computer -- a C128 -- I read the User's Manual. From that I learned BASIC and the command LOAD "*" 8,1.
A while later, I learned DOS. There wasn't much to that. The commands dir, copy, and typing the filename were all it took. From the manuals of a couple of games, I learned about freeing memory. After that I picked up Windows 95 as a teenager. Everything was simple and obvious and I never had to look up anything.
In college I tried Linux for the first time. Even the simplest tasks took loads of man page reading and net surfing to learn about. It was hell. Even now, having worked for a while as a Unix Administrator, the hell is still there, always lurking over my shoulder.
Saying "packages like Ubuntu and Mandriva are light years about Windows as far as ease of use" just communicates to me that you are an insane person who has somehow snuck past the orderlies who normally guard your rubber room, and is cladestinely posting to Slashdot, gibbering madly and drooling on the keyboard all the while.
Yeah, damn Microsoft for making software that just works without forcing the user to read the manual or learn anything.
The fact is that half the population has a sub-100 IQ. Those people will never grasp Linux in its current form. The solution is certainly not telling them to go and learn something -- they went through years of schooling without managing that. The solution is making software that an idiot can use and making software that an idiot can't break. Microsoft has done the first of these. Linux fails at both.
His is a very serene and contented brand of fatalism. He talks about New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina and insists that the same thing will happen in Tokyo. There are a lot of water-gates in the city, and the river runs past his home. He smiles and taps ash from his cigarette. There are too many people in the world, he says, and too many wrong turns along the way. At the age of 64, he gives the impression that the planet is doomed but he'll soon be leaving it, and not a minute too soon.
"Personally I am very pessimistic," Miyazaki says. "But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making."
What is the paticular wackiness of Japanese animators in respect to Tokyo? I know that a couple atom bombs will give anybody a complex, but this is just silly. And once I compare the behavior of post-Katrina Black Americans to post-Kobe Japanese, I really don't think that the Japanese have nearly as much to worry about in the "making natural disasters worse" category.
I have recently started reading a lot of ebooks on my Kyocera 7135 PDA/phone. The first was Burton's Vikram and the Vampire*, which I couldn't find in a print copy. I used iSilo as the reader. It turns out to be a wonderful way to read books. I now do maybe 50% of my reading on the Kyocera. I never thought I would find myself saying this, but I actually prefer it to paper.
*Great story, by the way. King Vikramiditya (Vikram for short) is tasked to carry a vampire a certain distance. Every time he speaks, the vampire goes back to its tree and he has to start again. So the meat of the book is a dozen or so stories told by the vampire in order to get Vikram to react by saying something out loud.
Sorry, confused you with the original thread poster. None of your points in the above post are rational. It's not about stopping piracy. Nobody is trying to stop piracy. It's about reducing piracy, which you point out can be done and is being done.
You were unrealistic first. Lowering prices to compete with piracy is a fool's game that cannot be won. The only way to fight back is by doing what the RIAA is doing. Use legal methods to keep piracy from getting into the mainstream. Sow fear and uncertainty about piracy by going after the big abusers and assorted small fry. Attempt to recoup losses through lawsuits where possible. Teach the public that that piracy is immoral and hurts content producers.
I live off of royalties from the comic books I write. I see you standing by the photocopy machine with my latest comicbook. Blam! One down. Then I go after your friends. I may need a back hoe instead of a shovel.
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Oh yeah, let's spend our money on a space elevator. The world's longest carbon nanotubes are what, half a centimeter in length right now? That means only 62,000 miles - .5 cm to go!
Oh, I'd do it one better. I take the code of Windows XP running on some virtual machine software. I'd write a routine that goes through binaries and replaces simple code with equivalent routines: conceptually, replacing 2+2 with 2+1+1 type things. It would run slower than mollases, but it would technically fulfill the requirements.
Looks like all of Blogspot is down. Clearly, it's a Microsoft plot.
Security is a process and a state. Evidence: qmail versus sendmail.
The ability to remember to repeat back long strings of digits is actually highly correlated with measures of general intelligence. What is even more correlated with general intelligence, however, is the ability to repeat them backwards.
The Flynn Effect actually shows that intelligence has beening rising ~2 IQ points a decade since 1900. Some recent data suggests that this may have petered out beginning in the 1980s though.
It remains an open question as to the cause. It's far too fast to be genetic. A combination of better childhood nutrition and lower disease burden may explain most of it. There has been some suggestion that the Flynn Effect is mainly concentrated on the lower-half of the Bell Curve, but this is contested.
You seem a little clueless. The John Doe Subpoenas were to get their records from the ISPs in the first place so that they find what name went with what IP.
If they have competent techies working for them (and they do), they've got more than enough evidence on the people they decide to go after.
This isn't a murder charge. Standards of evidence are somewhat relaxed.
She does not say when she deleted it. And the fact that the RIAA has records of her IP address uploading music makes me rather skeptical.
Too bad that it's the uploading and not the downloading that is actually illegal.
"Ah yes, those naughty blacks, looting while the nice white people "found" food in shops"
Still repeating that stupid loot vs. find hoax? AFP != AP, you know. Please find the white version of black police officers looting the local Walmart of color TVs after a natural disaster and get back to me. Looting, rape, murder, and mayham is not normal behavior after a natural disaster. Gretna started turning people away after looting began and one fire had already been started. Sorry, but if you're going to shit where you sit, I'm not going to let you inside my house.
Yes, I do realize that I could have ordered the book from Amazon. And then waited for it to come in the mail. Free download from Gutenberg was a lot nicer.
When I first learned how to use a computer -- a C128 -- I read the User's Manual. From that I learned BASIC and the command LOAD "*" 8,1.
A while later, I learned DOS. There wasn't much to that. The commands dir, copy, and typing the filename were all it took. From the manuals of a couple of games, I learned about freeing memory. After that I picked up Windows 95 as a teenager. Everything was simple and obvious and I never had to look up anything.
In college I tried Linux for the first time. Even the simplest tasks took loads of man page reading and net surfing to learn about. It was hell. Even now, having worked for a while as a Unix Administrator, the hell is still there, always lurking over my shoulder.
Saying "packages like Ubuntu and Mandriva are light years about Windows as far as ease of use" just communicates to me that you are an insane person who has somehow snuck past the orderlies who normally guard your rubber room, and is cladestinely posting to Slashdot, gibbering madly and drooling on the keyboard all the while.
Yeah, damn Microsoft for making software that just works without forcing the user to read the manual or learn anything.
The fact is that half the population has a sub-100 IQ. Those people will never grasp Linux in its current form. The solution is certainly not telling them to go and learn something -- they went through years of schooling without managing that. The solution is making software that an idiot can use and making software that an idiot can't break. Microsoft has done the first of these. Linux fails at both.
I have recently started reading a lot of ebooks on my Kyocera 7135 PDA/phone. The first was Burton's Vikram and the Vampire*, which I couldn't find in a print copy. I used iSilo as the reader. It turns out to be a wonderful way to read books. I now do maybe 50% of my reading on the Kyocera. I never thought I would find myself saying this, but I actually prefer it to paper.
*Great story, by the way. King Vikramiditya (Vikram for short) is tasked to carry a vampire a certain distance. Every time he speaks, the vampire goes back to its tree and he has to start again. So the meat of the book is a dozen or so stories told by the vampire in order to get Vikram to react by saying something out loud.
"we had several former staff members revolt against the entire P2P community as a whole"
Yeah, that's a really believable line. The site has obviously been hijacked.
If it were about stopping piracy, that would be a rational reply. It's not, and it's not.
Sorry, confused you with the original thread poster. None of your points in the above post are rational. It's not about stopping piracy. Nobody is trying to stop piracy. It's about reducing piracy, which you point out can be done and is being done.
You were unrealistic first. Lowering prices to compete with piracy is a fool's game that cannot be won. The only way to fight back is by doing what the RIAA is doing. Use legal methods to keep piracy from getting into the mainstream. Sow fear and uncertainty about piracy by going after the big abusers and assorted small fry. Attempt to recoup losses through lawsuits where possible. Teach the public that that piracy is immoral and hurts content producers.
How do you combat that with a shotgun?
I live off of royalties from the comic books I write. I see you standing by the photocopy machine with my latest comicbook. Blam! One down. Then I go after your friends. I may need a back hoe instead of a shovel.