You can't really say "the Church", especially during that period and come down firmly as either causing/maintaing the Dark Ages for maintaining information that allowed the Renaissance. It was both, really. During the Dark Ages, the Church, in the form on monks, certainly did preserve and maintain many books and information that certainly would have been lost. That information was also strictly restricted to the clergy, to the point where anyone desiring an education pretty much had to join the Church. The Church also (in the form of it's bishops, cardinals, and other officials) went to great lengths to prevent the spread of "improper" information. For example, literacy in anyone except nobles or churchmen was frowned on and viewed with great suspicion. Bibles were only printed in Latin, the better to keep thier contents under the control of the clergy.
1984, as well as Animal Farm, has been banned in several school libraries (no links handy, sorry) for being subversive or unamerican or some other damn thing.
The list of banned books gets kinda outrageous, actually. Your local libary likely has a copy, unless it's been removed for reasons of national security.
I just looked at a bunch of my CDs, and most of them actually don't have the CD trademark on them - it's on all my blank CDs and most of my games, however. As for who actually owns the trademark, I'm pretty sure it's Sony, so...
Have you seen what Carrie Fisher looks like these days? She's lived those 20 years pretty damn hard.
I'm actually really curious how espidoes 7/8/9 would relate to "Official" paper fiction such as the Timoth Zahn books (which, AFAIK, are considered canon)
The fact that it was inspected at the point of delivery should be clear case for a negligence suit, waiver or no. Theres NO reason they should suffer that kind of damage. A bare PC box shouldn't be damaged like that, much less one packed.
Yeah, they sucked, but it sounds like when you rattled the cage they picked up thier pants and started caring - not quite like UPS, where you can SHOW them a box with TIRE MARKS on it, and all they'll say is that it was improperly packed. Or worse yet, that it IS thier fault, but tough shit.
Okay, you don't have that policy. Why the hell not? If something says "signature required", why would you ignore that? In my mind, dropping a box that clearly states that it needs to be signed for on a porch would put you and UPS at a clear legal liability for ANY theft or damage. If there's a signed waiver on the door or something, thats another issue. On a side note, UPS web site says there was a delivery attempt today, but theres no note or any other indication - and no way for me to find out where the package is now. Great stuff.
If it's anonymous, how you going to get the medics to the right person? Get on the PA and announce "Someone here has a dangerously high heartrate. If you feel like you're about to die, please see a medic immediatly"?
Isn't this pretty much what the Windows registry is supposed to be, minus all the worthless bloaty crap that gets stored there by ill-behaved applications? A central, OS managed place for applications to keep thier configuration info?
I can't stand N'Sync or any of the boy bands, but don't think for a minute that what they do isn't work - it's not work as we know it, but it's gruelling - and much more so for a small band thats not made it big yet. Also, marketing and promoting your own music via your own website takes knowledge and skill thats totally different from musical ability, and therefore isn't to be expected of an artist. So they hire some people to market and promote them... and thats what recording companies are.
actually, in your model, the label LOSES money - they're out the loan, and, as you said, theres no way the band can pay it back. This is the common case and one of the reasons why it takes so much luck and/or connections to make it big in music.
How many people reset thier clocks, then do it again an hour later because they've forgetten they did it already?
God, I love the way my computer fixes that for me:P
I doubt that any skilled surgeon would want a scalpel that moves in his hand, even slightly - one of the things that makes a good surgeon is an incredible precision and delicacy of touch, and having a tool that twitches in your hands would be the surgical equivilent of that damn paperclip. It might work for telepresence, but not to second guess the surgeon - instead, it should attempt to simulate actual cutting so that a surgeons already-trained reflexes can be used.
That's very nice if you happen to be a well-payed MBA studying economics from your high-rise office. Doesn't help the blue collar worker with a family who doesn't have a job all of a sudden.
I'm innately distrustful of economic theory - it's always seemed like a con to me.
You forgot, just who the hell are these top 1000 web sites anyway? Do we really want to advance the social model of "new market opens, several companies do well, successful companies then form coalition to control market and restrict entry?" What about the fact that if these top 1000 web sites all started charging, they would quickly STOP being the top 1000 web sites?
This would have the usefull benefit that if you went to a site, realized it was the wrong site, and left, you wouldn't be charged. You'd only be charged for sites you frequent.
I still can't see any way for this to work without a complete re-working of HTTP, however. And probably HTML as well. Hell, it'd even be hard to track specific users - you'd have to submit page requests with IP numbers, those IP numbers would have to be sent to the ISP, the ISP would have to refrence the IP number and timestamp with thier access logs...
Salon has both news and porn. (Hint: Check the sex section. Notice all the articles about underage hookers. Notice that most of these articles are Salon Premium content...)
And within moments, there would be hacked proxy clients that make your page requests look like spiders, thus meaning that any skript kiddie pays the reduced spider cost....
From a technical point of view, how do you tell the difference between a GET that was fired because the user clicked on a link and one that was fired because Javascript told the browser to do so? Or better yet, because Javascript fired off an onClick() event?
This sounds more like PHB requirement - "Oh, and it needs to have ponies. People like ponies."
I suppose I should have made myself more clear for the braindead among us. Jail sentences do not reduce crime, by any signifigant amount, because WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED, most former convicts then continue to commit crimes. An alternative would be life or death sentences, and it's true that getting rid of parole, early release, and any jail sentence less than 30 years probably WOULD reduce crime, but you don't hear a whole lot of arguments in that case. Most criminals who serve time are repeat offenders. If jail time reduced crime, then the opposite would be true.
I'm wondering what exactly you think bombing Afghanistan will do to make your daughter any safer, other than in the pedantic sense that every person who is killed is one less person that might someday be a terrorist, by which argument we may as well nuke china and india and take out the bulk of the world population right there.
You'd think that just maybe that would be an incentive to USE the distributed network itself to distribute your digitally signed app in order to cut costs.
Maybe I'm just really, really stupid, but how exactly are you supposed to distribute the client for this network over the network it supports to people who don't have the client? Seems rather like a chicken and egg problem.
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You can't really say "the Church", especially during that period and come down firmly as either causing/maintaing the Dark Ages for maintaining information that allowed the Renaissance. It was both, really. During the Dark Ages, the Church, in the form on monks, certainly did preserve and maintain many books and information that certainly would have been lost. That information was also strictly restricted to the clergy, to the point where anyone desiring an education pretty much had to join the Church. The Church also (in the form of it's bishops, cardinals, and other officials) went to great lengths to prevent the spread of "improper" information. For example, literacy in anyone except nobles or churchmen was frowned on and viewed with great suspicion. Bibles were only printed in Latin, the better to keep thier contents under the control of the clergy.
1984, as well as Animal Farm, has been banned in several school libraries (no links handy, sorry) for being subversive or unamerican or some other damn thing.
The list of banned books gets kinda outrageous, actually. Your local libary likely has a copy, unless it's been removed for reasons of national security.
I just looked at a bunch of my CDs, and most of them actually don't have the CD trademark on them - it's on all my blank CDs and most of my games, however. As for who actually owns the trademark, I'm pretty sure it's Sony, so...
Have you seen what Carrie Fisher looks like these days? She's lived those 20 years pretty damn hard.
I'm actually really curious how espidoes 7/8/9 would relate to "Official" paper fiction such as the Timoth Zahn books (which, AFAIK, are considered canon)
The fact that it was inspected at the point of delivery should be clear case for a negligence suit, waiver or no. Theres NO reason they should suffer that kind of damage. A bare PC box shouldn't be damaged like that, much less one packed.
Yeah, they sucked, but it sounds like when you rattled the cage they picked up thier pants and started caring - not quite like UPS, where you can SHOW them a box with TIRE MARKS on it, and all they'll say is that it was improperly packed. Or worse yet, that it IS thier fault, but tough shit.
Okay, you don't have that policy. Why the hell not? If something says "signature required", why would you ignore that? In my mind, dropping a box that clearly states that it needs to be signed for on a porch would put you and UPS at a clear legal liability for ANY theft or damage. If there's a signed waiver on the door or something, thats another issue. On a side note, UPS web site says there was a delivery attempt today, but theres no note or any other indication - and no way for me to find out where the package is now. Great stuff.
300db would quite likely kill you, because the shockwave from a sound that loud would pulverise your bones and explode your heart.
If it's anonymous, how you going to get the medics to the right person? Get on the PA and announce "Someone here has a dangerously high heartrate. If you feel like you're about to die, please see a medic immediatly"?
Isn't this pretty much what the Windows registry is supposed to be, minus all the worthless bloaty crap that gets stored there by ill-behaved applications? A central, OS managed place for applications to keep thier configuration info?
I can't stand N'Sync or any of the boy bands, but don't think for a minute that what they do isn't work - it's not work as we know it, but it's gruelling - and much more so for a small band thats not made it big yet. Also, marketing and promoting your own music via your own website takes knowledge and skill thats totally different from musical ability, and therefore isn't to be expected of an artist. So they hire some people to market and promote them... and thats what recording companies are.
actually, in your model, the label LOSES money - they're out the loan, and, as you said, theres no way the band can pay it back. This is the common case and one of the reasons why it takes so much luck and/or connections to make it big in music.
How many people reset thier clocks, then do it again an hour later because they've forgetten they did it already? :P
God, I love the way my computer fixes that for me
I doubt that any skilled surgeon would want a scalpel that moves in his hand, even slightly - one of the things that makes a good surgeon is an incredible precision and delicacy of touch, and having a tool that twitches in your hands would be the surgical equivilent of that damn paperclip. It might work for telepresence, but not to second guess the surgeon - instead, it should attempt to simulate actual cutting so that a surgeons already-trained reflexes can be used.
Hell, I work in the US, and am far from the highest tax bracket, and a full third of my paycheck disappears before I even see it.
That's very nice if you happen to be a well-payed MBA studying economics from your high-rise office. Doesn't help the blue collar worker with a family who doesn't have a job all of a sudden.
I'm innately distrustful of economic theory - it's always seemed like a con to me.
You forgot, just who the hell are these top 1000 web sites anyway? Do we really want to advance the social model of "new market opens, several companies do well, successful companies then form coalition to control market and restrict entry?" What about the fact that if these top 1000 web sites all started charging, they would quickly STOP being the top 1000 web sites?
This would have the usefull benefit that if you went to a site, realized it was the wrong site, and left, you wouldn't be charged. You'd only be charged for sites you frequent.
I still can't see any way for this to work without a complete re-working of HTTP, however. And probably HTML as well. Hell, it'd even be hard to track specific users - you'd have to submit page requests with IP numbers, those IP numbers would have to be sent to the ISP, the ISP would have to refrence the IP number and timestamp with thier access logs...
Salon has both news and porn. (Hint: Check the sex section. Notice all the articles about underage hookers. Notice that most of these articles are Salon Premium content...)
And within moments, there would be hacked proxy clients that make your page requests look like spiders, thus meaning that any skript kiddie pays the reduced spider cost....
From a technical point of view, how do you tell the difference between a GET that was fired because the user clicked on a link and one that was fired because Javascript told the browser to do so? Or better yet, because Javascript fired off an onClick() event?
This sounds more like PHB requirement - "Oh, and it needs to have ponies. People like ponies."
I believe he used the term legal person for exactly that reason - a corporation is legally a "person"
I suppose I should have made myself more clear for the braindead among us. Jail sentences do not reduce crime, by any signifigant amount, because WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED, most former convicts then continue to commit crimes. An alternative would be life or death sentences, and it's true that getting rid of parole, early release, and any jail sentence less than 30 years probably WOULD reduce crime, but you don't hear a whole lot of arguments in that case. Most criminals who serve time are repeat offenders. If jail time reduced crime, then the opposite would be true.
I'm wondering what exactly you think bombing Afghanistan will do to make your daughter any safer, other than in the pedantic sense that every person who is killed is one less person that might someday be a terrorist, by which argument we may as well nuke china and india and take out the bulk of the world population right there.
You'd think that just maybe that would be an incentive to USE the distributed network itself to distribute your digitally signed app in order to cut costs.
Maybe I'm just really, really stupid, but how exactly are you supposed to distribute the client for this network over the network it supports to people who don't have the client? Seems rather like a chicken and egg problem.