Ok, whoever gets this in M2 -- it is most definitely on topic. My original post (the grandparent) pointed out a TROLL so that moderators and users could beware. Unless we're given unlimited mod points, that's the only way we can help/. when we've used all of our mod points.
Seriously mods (of which I am one,) use your head.
One interesting thing about your point is that this device could assist lucid dreaming. In fact, the Lucidity Institute that you link to sells a similar device called the NovaDreamer. The NovaDreamer detects REM sleep, then uses flashing lights to hopefully introduce dream signs into your dream. At $138 USD, this device is much cheaper than the NovaDreamer, which costs $395 USD.
I've been experimenting with a home-brew solution (a web page that flashes and talks at random intervals throughout the night,) but I've had very limited success with it.
While we're on the topic, I wrote a very long piece about Lucid Dreaming in 1996 -- many people have put it on their own sites
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I 100% understand what you're saying, but you're reinforcing my point. The Niue registrar does "stuff" with its money. "Stuff" which that PDF points out well. However, if you want to support Niue relief effort directly (as opposed to possibly, only through excess,) then I'd imagine there are other far more effective ways to do it.
I read the several linked articles, and visited the.NU Registrar. I don't see anywhere that suggests buying a.NU domain would in any way help relief efforts.
It sounds like that request might be misguided philanthropy. If you want to help the people of Niue, I'd imagine some sort of direct financial contribution might be more effective.
Your solution is actually one that already exists. It's called a "spamvertized" address.
There are many DNS-based Realtime Blackhole Lists that return a special code if the address has been advertized in spam. For an example, see this site.
You make a good point, but I think you (and others) might be polarizing the issue more than necessary.
I can imagine this being implemented as a restriction of options rather than prescriptive flight path. As you mention, pilots already deal with a myriad of decision factors, and this would act as another. If you need to put your 747 into an Immelmann or Split-S, just make sure you're not doing it into a mountain -- because the computer won't let you. The computer won't dictate what you have to do, just what you can't.
We see these restrictions all around us. Water drums near highway barriers. Curbs on sidewalks. Large rocks surrounding bridge supports. Pilots are just beginning to benefit from the fact that these influences can be virtual.
Right now one of the things it is lacking that it really needs is handwritting recognition, which they say will be in the next release.
Did I tell you I'm just about to submit my perpetual motion machine to manufacturing? Motion will be in the next release, though.
But seriously... I hope they're talking about the "next release" as in "the version that will go onto the tablet when it ships." A Tablet Pc is just an expensive doodle pad without the handwriting recognition.
You've got a good point, but at the same time you're also illustrating mine:)
I'm not saying at all that any given document format sucks. What I'm saying is that XML starts to become a poor framework once the format grows powerful enough. A cool XPath query isn't really that cool when you still have to unpack the binary blob it returns! Bundles sound like a good document format, as do many of the other binary-based formats.
Don't get me wrong -- I am fully behind XML document formats, and quite enjoy the standardization that XML has brought to data interchange. I just think that any sufficiently powerful XML-based document format will end up working around XML for certain things, not with it.
I've been thinking about the XML document format problem, and I don't think there will ever be a "pure and beautiful implementation" that will ever be perfect.
As the capabilities of the document format grow, people gain the ability to embed images, arbitrary objects, graphs, etc. Much of this can be written in a self-describing style (ie: plain text XML nodes,) but there comes a point where the developers have to simply hack XML and embed some nasty CDATA kludge.
Just looking at the embedded image problem alone -- static SVG is a great, pure-XML image format. Unfortunately, it will never have the power to describe the full set of images that you could create in a binary format.
It's not showing up in preview for me, so here is the text: http://counters.honesty.com/cgi-bin/honesty-counte r.cgi?df=2959568251&hidden=0&site=0&type=0&border= 1&style=default
I went on a kick awhile back on how to make Anaglyphs from 2D photos in Photoshop. If you're mildly handy with the computer, you should have no problem:)
like the old adage "ask a million girls for a date and no matter how ugly you are, you'll probably get a few takers"
This is an old adage? Where have I been all this time???? Not busy enough, I'd guess!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to design a highly-parallizable distributed date-asking beowulf cluster algorithm to statistically guarantee me the bottom feeders I would otherwise have missed!
I've got to disagree with you. We don't pay utility companies in micropayments, we pay them a rate for their service.
We're not buying a one minute conversation from our phone company -- we're buying a rate that covers an entire conversation. The cost of an entire conversation is where we make our value judgement.
We're not buying 1 kWH of electricty from our electric company -- we're buying a rate that covers our entire month of TV watching, etc. The cost of the entire month is where we make our value judgement.
Shirky makes good points -- I think the real problem with micropayments is that you have to counteract the momentum of a closed wallet.
People are frugal -- especially online. I pay for the occaisonal shareware, and I subscribe to the occaisonal service. Like Shirky mentions, I can easily determine the value of spending $20 to support a software author I like. When I see enough value, I open my wallet.
When it comes to $0.25 for a comic strip, though, we have no point of reference when it comes to value. We're buying something of "fractional" value; 1/365th of a yearly subscription, or 1/2 a laugh, for example. Is a comic really worth 5 cents a frame? If I'm doing it for moral reasons -- to support the author -- will he even notice the $0.25? What exactly is a good deal for $0.25, anyhow?
When it comes to something buying something with such fractional value, it's simply not worth consumers' time to make that buying the decision. It's definitely not enough to counteract the momentum of a closed wallet.
Wow, you sure put a lot of effort into that reply. It must burn you to know that Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd had the gall to blatantly plagiarise it and copyright it, no less.
Thanks for finding that one! The discussion is much better without the trolls and lamers. I don't share their enthusiasm for 486 computers w/ 128 mb of RAM though:)
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I don't know what you just said, but you're hired!
Ok, whoever gets this in M2 -- it is most definitely on topic. My original post (the grandparent) pointed out a TROLL so that moderators and users could beware. Unless we're given unlimited mod points, that's the only way we can help /. when we've used all of our mod points.
Seriously mods (of which I am one,) use your head.
... as mentioned on Kuro5hin
One interesting thing about your point is that this device could assist lucid dreaming. In fact, the Lucidity Institute that you link to sells a similar device called the NovaDreamer. The NovaDreamer detects REM sleep, then uses flashing lights to hopefully introduce dream signs into your dream. At $138 USD, this device is much cheaper than the NovaDreamer, which costs $395 USD.
I've been experimenting with a home-brew solution (a web page that flashes and talks at random intervals throughout the night,) but I've had very limited success with it.
While we're on the topic, I wrote a very long piece about Lucid Dreaming in 1996 -- many people have put it on their own sites
Not that anybody should trust redirect URLs, but let me warn you:
Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)
I 100% understand what you're saying, but you're reinforcing my point. The Niue registrar does "stuff" with its money. "Stuff" which that PDF points out well. However, if you want to support Niue relief effort directly (as opposed to possibly, only through excess,) then I'd imagine there are other far more effective ways to do it.
I read the several linked articles, and visited the .NU Registrar. I don't see anywhere that suggests buying a .NU domain would in any way help relief efforts.
It sounds like that request might be misguided philanthropy. If you want to help the people of Niue, I'd imagine some sort of direct financial contribution might be more effective.
Taken directly from here
Fucker.
Your solution is actually one that already exists. It's called a "spamvertized" address.
There are many DNS-based Realtime Blackhole Lists that return a special code if the address has been advertized in spam. For an example, see this site.
You make a good point, but I think you (and others) might be polarizing the issue more than necessary.
I can imagine this being implemented as a restriction of options rather than prescriptive flight path. As you mention, pilots already deal with a myriad of decision factors, and this would act as another. If you need to put your 747 into an Immelmann or Split-S, just make sure you're not doing it into a mountain -- because the computer won't let you. The computer won't dictate what you have to do, just what you can't.
We see these restrictions all around us. Water drums near highway barriers. Curbs on sidewalks. Large rocks surrounding bridge supports. Pilots are just beginning to benefit from the fact that these influences can be virtual.
When will this industry ever learn?
g _d isplay.php?pic=h_wild2-comet_02.jpg&cap=<script>al ert('Dirty XSS Balls')</script>
http://space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/im
(Don't forget to delete the spaces)
Damn.
I'm glad you said something, because you saved me the time :)
I don't know how bigotry and flamebait adds up to "Insightful."
That reminded me of a web page I saw once, which took a lot of Googling to find.
In some perverse sort of way, this .NET web page using x86 assembler is beautiful :)
Right now one of the things it is lacking that it really needs is handwritting recognition, which they say will be in the next release.
Did I tell you I'm just about to submit my perpetual motion machine to manufacturing? Motion will be in the next release, though.
But seriously... I hope they're talking about the "next release" as in "the version that will go onto the tablet when it ships." A Tablet Pc is just an expensive doodle pad without the handwriting recognition.
You've got a good point, but at the same time you're also illustrating mine :)
I'm not saying at all that any given document format sucks. What I'm saying is that XML starts to become a poor framework once the format grows powerful enough. A cool XPath query isn't really that cool when you still have to unpack the binary blob it returns! Bundles sound like a good document format, as do many of the other binary-based formats.
Don't get me wrong -- I am fully behind XML document formats, and quite enjoy the standardization that XML has brought to data interchange. I just think that any sufficiently powerful XML-based document format will end up working around XML for certain things, not with it.
I've been thinking about the XML document format problem, and I don't think there will ever be a "pure and beautiful implementation" that will ever be perfect.
As the capabilities of the document format grow, people gain the ability to embed images, arbitrary objects, graphs, etc. Much of this can be written in a self-describing style (ie: plain text XML nodes,) but there comes a point where the developers have to simply hack XML and embed some nasty CDATA kludge.
Just looking at the embedded image problem alone -- static SVG is a great, pure-XML image format. Unfortunately, it will never have the power to describe the full set of images that you could create in a binary format.
Here is the direct link. Much faster to watch!
It's not showing up in preview for me, so here is the text: http://counters.honesty.com/cgi-bin/honesty-counte r.cgi?df=2959568251&hidden=0&site=0&type=0&border= 1&style=default
I went on a kick awhile back on how to make Anaglyphs from 2D photos in Photoshop. If you're mildly handy with the computer, you should have no problem :)
like the old adage "ask a million girls for a date and no matter how ugly you are, you'll probably get a few takers"
This is an old adage? Where have I been all this time???? Not busy enough, I'd guess!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to design a highly-parallizable distributed date-asking beowulf cluster algorithm to statistically guarantee me the bottom feeders I would otherwise have missed!
I've got to disagree with you. We don't pay utility companies in micropayments, we pay them a rate for their service.
We're not buying a one minute conversation from our phone company -- we're buying a rate that covers an entire conversation. The cost of an entire conversation is where we make our value judgement.
We're not buying 1 kWH of electricty from our electric company -- we're buying a rate that covers our entire month of TV watching, etc. The cost of the entire month is where we make our value judgement.
Shirky makes good points -- I think the real problem with micropayments is that you have to counteract the momentum of a closed wallet.
People are frugal -- especially online. I pay for the occaisonal shareware, and I subscribe to the occaisonal service. Like Shirky mentions, I can easily determine the value of spending $20 to support a software author I like. When I see enough value, I open my wallet.
When it comes to $0.25 for a comic strip, though, we have no point of reference when it comes to value. We're buying something of "fractional" value; 1/365th of a yearly subscription, or 1/2 a laugh, for example. Is a comic really worth 5 cents a frame? If I'm doing it for moral reasons -- to support the author -- will he even notice the $0.25? What exactly is a good deal for $0.25, anyhow?
When it comes to something buying something with such fractional value, it's simply not worth consumers' time to make that buying the decision. It's definitely not enough to counteract the momentum of a closed wallet.
Kids these days just don't seem to realize that my internet is just as powerful as theirs ;)
If they find something to plagiarize from Google, searching for nearly any unique phrase will find it just as quickly.
Wow, you sure put a lot of effort into that reply. It must burn you to know that Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd had the gall to blatantly plagiarise it and copyright it, no less.
Thanks for finding that one! The discussion is much better without the trolls and lamers. I don't share their enthusiasm for 486 computers w/ 128 mb of RAM though :)