the process would be easier with better mobo manuals. I've had the majority of difficulties stemming from insufficient documentation of the motherboard. Sometimes we non-engineers find a pile of engineering acronyms less-than-useful. This looks like a good service.
yeah, that is what i meant. Thanks for clarifying for these people. If spam is illegal in general, it'll be a misdemeanor. If only a special class of violations are illegal, the penalties can be harsher, etc. I suppose I should have realized that some people need it spelled out for them. I just need to avoid those kinds of people by filtering out score 0 comments.
Now's my turn, i guess, to feel like the lotr fans felt before the release. Nervous that it'll be too compressed, miscast, etc.
I think the problem here is, these stories are epic, and a 2-hr movie almost can't be. At the same time, breaking it up into 3 or more installments is fraught with danger.
Also, so much of the humor in THGTTG is the language and syntax in the writing, much of which would be hard to translate into film--hence the BBC's inclusion of many of these passages in the form of narration.
In conclusion, I guess the most important thing is, we'll all get to see a new interpretation of the material. It could be good, or it could fail, but if it fails, we've lost nothing. And if it succeeds, that's great.
Someone came up with this idea recently, and I like it, so I've been repeating it. Instead of illegalizing spam, which i would love if it worked, but it won't, require spammers to indicate the nature of the email--anonymous, commercial, with a word or such in the subject line, which can then be filtered by individual recipients according to their desires. It would not be as free-speech-limiting as banning spam, and spam would die out due to ineffectiveness once most everyone filtered it.
are we reaching a period of stable equilibrium where (the vast majority of) people use email, browse the web, edit docs, with no real pressure for more power?
visioneers have been making analogies between networks and other systems for years, and lately, the internet has started to feel like an ecosystem, with predators, outbreaks, and the like.
my general rule is to buy tech at least 1 or 2 yrs after it hits the market. Since I'm a student, I don't have money for cutting-edge, but I get last-year's cutting edge for half price, the initial bugs have been worked out (somewhat), and I can avoid what's been massively rejected. It depends on a) how fast the turnover is for the particular tech B) how much disposable income you have c) intangible factors like status and style, and how important that is to you.
People will say, 'just filter your email', or, 'just get this spam blocker'. And some of those work fairly well, but evil spam still slips through, because the spam mutates. Since this is similar to the virus problem, spam filter companies should have the program download spam definition updates weekly, to increase effectiveness. Like a Norton AntiSpam.
Email addresses are sold to spammers. Spam becomes a kind of distributed harrassment. It's not an unreasonable burden to require spammers to indicate the nature of the email, with a word or such in the subject line, which can then be filtered by individual recipients according to their desires. It would not be as free-speech-limiting as banning spam, and spam would die out due to ineffectiveness once most everyone filtered it. Wonderful as it would be to need no regulation on the internet, when I get 20 valuable emails a day, and 40 evil spam ones, an effective solution is necessary.
This is a terrible and stupid idea. If millions of people claim my atheism causes them dismay, I'll receive the death penalty or life imprisonment. Life is not worth living without rights.
wouldn't it be great if there was also an API? then there could be display clients on your machine, and you could interact with your online buddies as if, say, you were at a bar, e.g. Neal Stephenson's Metaverse. How cool is that.
as long as people will buy buggy software for new features, the money will go to engineering features first, reliability later. That won't likely change, because it would require people to have different priorities. Such is life with the free market: imperfect, but apparently superior to other methods.
I suppose it would make a cheap nerd house. perfect if you're the kind of guy who supposes that women are turned on by Darth Vader t-shirts. Not awfully practical, though. If you want a house in the middle of nowhere, find a 500-resident ghost town, in, say, South Dakota, where they go for $6k. Think about it--a vacation home on a grad student's salary.:-)
of people, so it's easy to imagine, in the future, the argument on the senate floor, "Since basically everybody uses Trusted Computers, why not just make untrustworthy computers illegal? they'only empower terrorists/drug dealers/kiddie porners/etc..."
And to most people, it makes total sense then to ban those anonymous, crime-friendly pc's. I suppose the silver lining is, we could at least free ourselves of spammers. So it's a tough call;-)
i go to slashdot all the time, i really enjoy it. But every once in a while, the rulers of slashdot waste my time with some confused article about some new 'beyond physics' scam. If I wanted to see claims about perpetual motion, or unlimited energy, or how the moon landings were faked, I would go somewhere else. Slashdot is a high-quality info source, but it could be a little higher by eliminating this sort of crap.
Is this topic true? It is WAY true. I was at the mall today and a woman on the phone very nearly walked straight into me. At 6', and in broad daylight, i wasn't exactly blending in to the background, but she got about a foot away from ramming me before clumsily veering off. This avgerage, perfectly intelligent woman was turned into a veering idiot by a cellphone, somehow. Very weird.
biopolymers like this are really going to be big, have huge applications. soon they will be easy meniscus replacements for knees, and artificial livers built on polymer foams will be awesome.
AI constructs may evolve from things like this, but they'll need a home on the internet, in order to have lifetimes long enough to become really sentient. humans require years to become intellectually complex, from preexisting instructions worked out over millions of years. When these constructs have a semi-stable environment, modification, and competition, it should be just a matter of time....
And if the eClothes followed familiar interface trends, the Mac clothes would look cute and stylish, the Windows clothes would look functional, and the Linux clothes would look like they were designed by 15-yr olds with poor color sense. But the clothes of some linux-wearers with the perverse command line fetish would be black, with a little bit of white.
what would make w.a.c's happen is if the fiber tech did the cooling, powered by a small battery somewhere. then you could have something of an adjustable--temp jacket. assuming you can find a satisfactory way to dump the waste heat.
Here's what would happen. The initial temp difference would power a generator, which would power internal cooling of you. this would decrease the temperature gradient through the clothing layer, decreasing the efficiency of the AC. but remember, the gadget is preventing heat from radiating away from you quickly, increasing your temp slightly. in the end, you'd not be able to get enough energy to cool down appreciably, and that energy would be from food, which is more expensive than duracells.
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the process would be easier with better mobo manuals. I've had the majority of difficulties stemming from insufficient documentation of the motherboard. Sometimes we non-engineers find a pile of engineering acronyms less-than-useful. This looks like a good service.
yeah, that is what i meant. Thanks for clarifying for these people. If spam is illegal in general, it'll be a misdemeanor. If only a special class of violations are illegal, the penalties can be harsher, etc. I suppose I should have realized that some people need it spelled out for them. I just need to avoid those kinds of people by filtering out score 0 comments.
I think the problem here is, these stories are epic, and a 2-hr movie almost can't be. At the same time, breaking it up into 3 or more installments is fraught with danger.
Also, so much of the humor in THGTTG is the language and syntax in the writing, much of which would be hard to translate into film--hence the BBC's inclusion of many of these passages in the form of narration.
In conclusion, I guess the most important thing is, we'll all get to see a new interpretation of the material. It could be good, or it could fail, but if it fails, we've lost nothing. And if it succeeds, that's great.
Someone came up with this idea recently, and I like it, so I've been repeating it. Instead of illegalizing spam, which i would love if it worked, but it won't, require spammers to indicate the nature of the email--anonymous, commercial, with a word or such in the subject line, which can then be filtered by individual recipients according to their desires. It would not be as free-speech-limiting as banning spam, and spam would die out due to ineffectiveness once most everyone filtered it.
what level of prison is it? max? min?
are we reaching a period of stable equilibrium where (the vast majority of) people use email, browse the web, edit docs, with no real pressure for more power?
visioneers have been making analogies between networks and other systems for years, and lately, the internet has started to feel like an ecosystem, with predators, outbreaks, and the like.
my general rule is to buy tech at least 1 or 2 yrs after it hits the market. Since I'm a student, I don't have money for cutting-edge, but I get last-year's cutting edge for half price, the initial bugs have been worked out (somewhat), and I can avoid what's been massively rejected. It depends on a) how fast the turnover is for the particular tech B) how much disposable income you have c) intangible factors like status and style, and how important that is to you.
People will say, 'just filter your email', or, 'just get this spam blocker'. And some of those work fairly well, but evil spam still slips through, because the spam mutates. Since this is similar to the virus problem, spam filter companies should have the program download spam definition updates weekly, to increase effectiveness. Like a Norton AntiSpam.
Email addresses are sold to spammers. Spam becomes a kind of distributed harrassment. It's not an unreasonable burden to require spammers to indicate the nature of the email, with a word or such in the subject line, which can then be filtered by individual recipients according to their desires. It would not be as free-speech-limiting as banning spam, and spam would die out due to ineffectiveness once most everyone filtered it. Wonderful as it would be to need no regulation on the internet, when I get 20 valuable emails a day, and 40 evil spam ones, an effective solution is necessary.
This is a terrible and stupid idea. If millions of people claim my atheism causes them dismay, I'll receive the death penalty or life imprisonment. Life is not worth living without rights.
wouldn't it be great if there was also an API? then there could be display clients on your machine, and you could interact with your online buddies as if, say, you were at a bar, e.g. Neal Stephenson's Metaverse. How cool is that.
as long as people will buy buggy software for new features, the money will go to engineering features first, reliability later. That won't likely change, because it would require people to have different priorities. Such is life with the free market: imperfect, but apparently superior to other methods.
I suppose it would make a cheap nerd house. perfect if you're the kind of guy who supposes that women are turned on by Darth Vader t-shirts. Not awfully practical, though. If you want a house in the middle of nowhere, find a 500-resident ghost town, in, say, South Dakota, where they go for $6k. Think about it--a vacation home on a grad student's salary. :-)
And to most people, it makes total sense then to ban those anonymous, crime-friendly pc's. I suppose the silver lining is, we could at least free ourselves of spammers. So it's a tough call ;-)
i go to slashdot all the time, i really enjoy it. But every once in a while, the rulers of slashdot waste my time with some confused article about some new 'beyond physics' scam. If I wanted to see claims about perpetual motion, or unlimited energy, or how the moon landings were faked, I would go somewhere else. Slashdot is a high-quality info source, but it could be a little higher by eliminating this sort of crap.
though i'm generally opposed to the death penalty, i wouldn't mind if it were only applied to spammers and virus-releasers.
if this works, linux enthusiasts will no doubt have to find new ways for linux to look amateurish.
Is this topic true? It is WAY true. I was at the mall today and a woman on the phone very nearly walked straight into me. At 6', and in broad daylight, i wasn't exactly blending in to the background, but she got about a foot away from ramming me before clumsily veering off. This avgerage, perfectly intelligent woman was turned into a veering idiot by a cellphone, somehow. Very weird.
Better living through chemistry, man.
kill this story, please. It's crap. Nothing of value there, scientifically.
AI constructs may evolve from things like this, but they'll need a home on the internet, in order to have lifetimes long enough to become really sentient. humans require years to become intellectually complex, from preexisting instructions worked out over millions of years. When these constructs have a semi-stable environment, modification, and competition, it should be just a matter of time....
And if the eClothes followed familiar interface trends, the Mac clothes would look cute and stylish, the Windows clothes would look functional, and the Linux clothes would look like they were designed by 15-yr olds with poor color sense. But the clothes of some linux-wearers with the perverse command line fetish would be black, with a little bit of white.
what would make w.a.c's happen is if the fiber tech did the cooling, powered by a small battery somewhere. then you could have something of an adjustable--temp jacket. assuming you can find a satisfactory way to dump the waste heat.
Here's what would happen. The initial temp difference would power a generator, which would power internal cooling of you. this would decrease the temperature gradient through the clothing layer, decreasing the efficiency of the AC. but remember, the gadget is preventing heat from radiating away from you quickly, increasing your temp slightly. in the end, you'd not be able to get enough energy to cool down appreciably, and that energy would be from food, which is more expensive than duracells.