That's just a side effect of the series of tubes' design, which dealt with very unreliable tubes. I mean, it's not a truck, which can be relied upon to run every day. Internets I send sometimes don't even reach people for a day or two, without the nukular war.
Am I the only one that read the means of presentation as a hilarious attack on a university policy of blocking bittorrent? Given that adding 470MB doesn't really add any usable information to a discussion about spam filters over a piece of text, and all.
Your college doesn't like bandwidth-efficient delivery? Flood them with a Slashdot effect on a 500mb file, an extra $500 in bandwidth charges, and maybe they'll change their tune.
We have a class war going on, and the middle class + poor are losing - and my political philosophy is taking note that our society has less and less actual capitalism, just semblences created by rich people buying legislation. Permanent artificial monopolies are everywhere - originally only encompassing a decade or so after invention + creation in the form of trademark + copyright, now extended to virtually every sector of the economy, regulated through and through, bending to (and bending) the rule of law.
I think in the major recession brewing for sometime in the next five years as a result of current account, budget, and trade deficits (the one where the rest of the world decides that the US and its credit-whore economy isn't a good choice for an anchor currency), European-style socialism, and anti-corporate sentiment in general, is gonna take a big step forward in the US.
Highend game engines are already at a point where 3-4gb can be a major improvement on 2gb. Battlefield 2 was one of the first that showed a difference, and Oblivion's outdoor scenes are really begging for at least 2gb.
As with every other technological yardstick of computers, entertainment is driving the platform, not "desktop programs," for which the technology of a decade ago was adequate.
They're filing civil lawsuits, which are a different legal category than crimes here in the US. One key: Civil law goes on preponderence (51% convinced = hold the defendant liable), so a mere 'reasonable doubt' that you were using your computer is not a defense. They just have to convince a judge that you probably were, rather than proving it.
5% of 100 million is 5 million. The nature of the mainstream media presents an ever-narrowing number of people that provide actual insight into current events in the mainstream media. Niche topics have always been incredibly limited in the MSM, confined to expensive quarterlies and trade magazines.
The blogosphere solves all this, and broadens the journalistic community that the average media-savvy person experiences in their life from maybe 5 key policy makers, 50 public faces, and 500 writers, to a peer-linking meritocratic network in the hundreds of thousands with public feedback. This exposes them to the words of hundreds of individuals in an hour of following heavily networked blogs, untainted by any mandatory viewpoints that a hierarchical organizational and ownership structure imposes - and it provides an ideal community for narrower topics to be covered in more breadth than they ever have before.
The point made in the summary is a fallacy - 100 blogs covering news COULD revolutionize journalism. That wouldn't be diminished by 10 million other blogs covering what color the belly button lint of their favorite bands is.
As for diaries and journals - I know people who keep the dead tree form that will compulsively rush off to write in them. Having an audience of a hundred people reading them regularly has a non-surprising effect on the person's interest in them.
Yes, having a blog is like owning a camera - but that doesn't mean that cameras didn't revolutionize the picture-conveying industry.
CSI's actually been remarkably good in this regard, the episodes that I've seen at least.
No "Zoom in... now enhance.... now zoom in some more" to the reflection of the brand of cigarette your killer was smoking off of the window of the ISS.
What got me was that they're actually making the basic version not with poor users in mind, but with non-users in mind. They think that they can draw people with a cheap version in that wouldn't protest if we took away something as basic as MULTITASKING. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050910-5298 .html " First up, there's Starter Edition, which like XP Starter Edition, is a crippled (and lame) product aimed at the two-thirds world. It will limit users to three concurrent applications, and provide only basic TCP/IP networking, and won't be suitable for most games. The next step up is Home Basic Edition, which is really the sibling to today's Windows XP Home. However, as the name suggests, there's also Home Premium Edition, and this is where we start to split features like hairs and create a gaggle of products. HPE will build on the the Basic Edition by adding, most notably, the next-generation of Media Center capabilities, including support for HDTV, DVD authoring, and even DVD ripping backed up (of course) by Windows DRM. For non-corporate types, this is probably going to be the OS that most people use. It's similar to XP Pro in power, but with all of the added bells and whistles for entertainment. Well, most of them.
Windows Vista Professional Edition won't occupy the same spot that XP Pro occupies today, because this time it's truly aimed at businesses. It won't feature the MCE functionality that Home Premium Edition has, but it begins to provide the kind of functionality you'd expect in a business environment, such as support for non-Microsoft networking protocols and Domain support. But don't expect too many businesses to necessarily turn to PE. Microsoft is also planning both a Small Business Edition and an Enterprise Edition, which build upon pro by adding (seemingly minor) features aimed at appealing to each market. SBE, for instance, includes a networked backup solution, while EE will include things like Virtual PC integration, and the ability to encrypt an entire volume of information.
Last but not least, there's Ultimate Edition. Hey, I'm just glad that they didn't call it Extreme Edition. I'll leave it to Paul Thurrott, who has all of the details, to explain (and promote) this beast:
The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC, optimized for the individual. Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is a superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Pro Edition, so it includes all of the features of both of those product versions, plus adds Game Performance Tweaker with integrated gaming experiences, a Podcast creation utility (under consideration, may be cut from product), and online "Club" services (exclusive access to music, movies, services and preferred customer care) and other offerings (also under consideration, may be cut from product). Microsoft is still investigating how to position its most impressive Windows release yet, and is looking into offering Ultimate Edition owners such services as extended A1 subscriptions, free music downloads, free movie downloads, Online Spotlight and entertainment software, preferred product support, and custom themes. There is nothing like Vista Ultimate Edition today. This version is aimed at high-end PC users and technology influencers, gamers, digital media enthusiasts, and students. "
An easy way to accomplish spectacular feats of self-engineering.
Also an easy way to end the world in the grey-goo method.
Read Micheal Chrichton's Prey - I'm sure there are better books out there about the topic, but I can't think of any off the topic of my head, and at least it gets across the point that evolution into macro-organisms is impossible to control totally on something nanoscale - though it may be in the designers' interest.
Grey Goo is the new Nuclear Annihilation, and I'm of the opinion that it's far more likely to wipe out the entire human race, rather than most of the population. It has its problems (see Jaron Lanier for a dissent), but given self-evolution of a low enough codestructure, combined with unknown biological elements, they may be possible to overcome.
We already have a means of getting Spoken Word into the visual spectrum - it's called Written Word. Are the deaf unable to read? Why not just take a speech recognition program, and put the words on the screen, rather than translating them to sign language? Evem the deaf-blind have mechanized Braille, which I'm sure is more comfortable reading quickly than a robotic hand (at high speed, known as a 'The Mangler').
You can let it decay in a reasonably safe place - just like the fuel was doing before we dug it out of the ground.
The radiation hazard is inversely proportional to the half life - the isotopes that last for a million years are harmless compared to the ones that last seconds.
I was horrified by this point when reading a 2002 SciAm article about Jackson Pollock - apparently someone's developed a program to "read the fractal dimensions" of a given image, and written it so that most of Pollock's paintings have a very high number.
They made a fuss over how pollock wasn't using randomly chosen paint paths, as everyone thought, but was choosing careful fractal patterns. This was then used to determine if another of Pollock's paintings was authentic or not.
My call of complete bullshit stands after reading the research paper:
You can tweak the variables however you want, and with such a small sample (known pollock paintings vs known fakes)set it's not hard to create a "successful" program.
ID is not a belief. It's a tool put forth because of the particular secular rules in place in the US government, in order to try and remove evolution from school textbooks - so that children can get their education on the origin of life from the church. Fundamentalists don't believe in it, they regard it as a useful hypothetical in the fight against science itself.
Minority market share adaptibility is usually greater than majority market share adaptability, the extreme being an entrenched monopoly.
IE, of COURSE Apple makes iTunes work on windows PCs, it increases their audience by 20x, whereas Microsoft making WMP work on macs increase their audience by 5%.
Slashdot Mirror
That's just a side effect of the series of tubes' design, which dealt with very unreliable tubes. I mean, it's not a truck, which can be relied upon to run every day. Internets I send sometimes don't even reach people for a day or two, without the nukular war.
Cops of any age have the problem of being frequent visitors to the firing range.
Am I the only one that read the means of presentation as a hilarious attack on a university policy of blocking bittorrent? Given that adding 470MB doesn't really add any usable information to a discussion about spam filters over a piece of text, and all.
Your college doesn't like bandwidth-efficient delivery? Flood them with a Slashdot effect on a 500mb file, an extra $500 in bandwidth charges, and maybe they'll change their tune.
It may be you getting older, it may be things getting worse.
The majority of society havn't seen a real wage increase in 35 years, as the economy continues growing, productivity grows, and the top quintile sees its share rise and rise.
We have a class war going on, and the middle class + poor are losing - and my political philosophy is taking note that our society has less and less actual capitalism, just semblences created by rich people buying legislation. Permanent artificial monopolies are everywhere - originally only encompassing a decade or so after invention + creation in the form of trademark + copyright, now extended to virtually every sector of the economy, regulated through and through, bending to (and bending) the rule of law.
I think in the major recession brewing for sometime in the next five years as a result of current account, budget, and trade deficits (the one where the rest of the world decides that the US and its credit-whore economy isn't a good choice for an anchor currency), European-style socialism, and anti-corporate sentiment in general, is gonna take a big step forward in the US.
Highend game engines are already at a point where 3-4gb can be a major improvement on 2gb. Battlefield 2 was one of the first that showed a difference, and Oblivion's outdoor scenes are really begging for at least 2gb.
As with every other technological yardstick of computers, entertainment is driving the platform, not "desktop programs," for which the technology of a decade ago was adequate.
They're filing civil lawsuits, which are a different legal category than crimes here in the US. One key: Civil law goes on preponderence (51% convinced = hold the defendant liable), so a mere 'reasonable doubt' that you were using your computer is not a defense. They just have to convince a judge that you probably were, rather than proving it.
5% of 100 million is 5 million. The nature of the mainstream media presents an ever-narrowing number of people that provide actual insight into current events in the mainstream media. Niche topics have always been incredibly limited in the MSM, confined to expensive quarterlies and trade magazines.
The blogosphere solves all this, and broadens the journalistic community that the average media-savvy person experiences in their life from maybe 5 key policy makers, 50 public faces, and 500 writers, to a peer-linking meritocratic network in the hundreds of thousands with public feedback. This exposes them to the words of hundreds of individuals in an hour of following heavily networked blogs, untainted by any mandatory viewpoints that a hierarchical organizational and ownership structure imposes - and it provides an ideal community for narrower topics to be covered in more breadth than they ever have before.
The point made in the summary is a fallacy - 100 blogs covering news COULD revolutionize journalism. That wouldn't be diminished by 10 million other blogs covering what color the belly button lint of their favorite bands is.
As for diaries and journals - I know people who keep the dead tree form that will compulsively rush off to write in them. Having an audience of a hundred people reading them regularly has a non-surprising effect on the person's interest in them.
Yes, having a blog is like owning a camera - but that doesn't mean that cameras didn't revolutionize the picture-conveying industry.
I seem to remember a bitchfest in enthusiast circles when Sirius put major restrictions on the S50's recording capabilities, as well.
stupid formatting
No, not really. No more than you can get your bacon mcgriddle in Saudi Arabia.
CSI's actually been remarkably good in this regard, the episodes that I've seen at least.
No "Zoom in... now enhance.... now zoom in some more" to the reflection of the brand of cigarette your killer was smoking off of the window of the ISS.
Mod up, the AC is correct.
What got me was that they're actually making the basic version not with poor users in mind, but with non-users in mind. They think that they can draw people with a cheap version in that wouldn't protest if we took away something as basic as MULTITASKING.8 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050910-529
"
First up, there's Starter Edition, which like XP Starter Edition, is a crippled (and lame) product aimed at the two-thirds world. It will limit users to three concurrent applications, and provide only basic TCP/IP networking, and won't be suitable for most games. The next step up is Home Basic Edition, which is really the sibling to today's Windows XP Home. However, as the name suggests, there's also Home Premium Edition, and this is where we start to split features like hairs and create a gaggle of products. HPE will build on the the Basic Edition by adding, most notably, the next-generation of Media Center capabilities, including support for HDTV, DVD authoring, and even DVD ripping backed up (of course) by Windows DRM. For non-corporate types, this is probably going to be the OS that most people use. It's similar to XP Pro in power, but with all of the added bells and whistles for entertainment. Well, most of them.
Windows Vista Professional Edition won't occupy the same spot that XP Pro occupies today, because this time it's truly aimed at businesses. It won't feature the MCE functionality that Home Premium Edition has, but it begins to provide the kind of functionality you'd expect in a business environment, such as support for non-Microsoft networking protocols and Domain support. But don't expect too many businesses to necessarily turn to PE. Microsoft is also planning both a Small Business Edition and an Enterprise Edition, which build upon pro by adding (seemingly minor) features aimed at appealing to each market. SBE, for instance, includes a networked backup solution, while EE will include things like Virtual PC integration, and the ability to encrypt an entire volume of information.
Last but not least, there's Ultimate Edition. Hey, I'm just glad that they didn't call it Extreme Edition. I'll leave it to Paul Thurrott, who has all of the details, to explain (and promote) this beast:
The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC, optimized for the individual. Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is a superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Pro Edition, so it includes all of the features of both of those product versions, plus adds Game Performance Tweaker with integrated gaming experiences, a Podcast creation utility (under consideration, may be cut from product), and online "Club" services (exclusive access to music, movies, services and preferred customer care) and other offerings (also under consideration, may be cut from product). Microsoft is still investigating how to position its most impressive Windows release yet, and is looking into offering Ultimate Edition owners such services as extended A1 subscriptions, free music downloads, free movie downloads, Online Spotlight and entertainment software, preferred product support, and custom themes. There is nothing like Vista Ultimate Edition today. This version is aimed at high-end PC users and technology influencers, gamers, digital media enthusiasts, and students.
"
Ironically, the partial fix for a localized grey goo outbreak is an EMP pulse or ten caused by nukes detonated in the ionosphere
An easy way to accomplish spectacular feats of self-engineering.
Also an easy way to end the world in the grey-goo method.
Read Micheal Chrichton's Prey - I'm sure there are better books out there about the topic, but I can't think of any off the topic of my head, and at least it gets across the point that evolution into macro-organisms is impossible to control totally on something nanoscale - though it may be in the designers' interest.
Grey Goo is the new Nuclear Annihilation, and I'm of the opinion that it's far more likely to wipe out the entire human race, rather than most of the population. It has its problems (see Jaron Lanier for a dissent), but given self-evolution of a low enough codestructure, combined with unknown biological elements, they may be possible to overcome.
The difference is that unlike the carefully cultured image of Bush for the hypnotized masses, Cheney could actually be realistically impeached.
The solution: put the seat down, so that you have an equal amount of work.
The computer is being programmed with the goal of understanding the user, not some arbitrarily defined 'perfect speech' dialect/accent.
We already have a means of getting Spoken Word into the visual spectrum - it's called Written Word. Are the deaf unable to read? Why not just take a speech recognition program, and put the words on the screen, rather than translating them to sign language? Evem the deaf-blind have mechanized Braille, which I'm sure is more comfortable reading quickly than a robotic hand (at high speed, known as a 'The Mangler').
And while we're at it, since aquatic algae seems to be the best choice possible for biodiesel, ocean > land.
Land.sunny > Land.sunny.arable
You can let it decay in a reasonably safe place - just like the fuel was doing before we dug it out of the ground.
The radiation hazard is inversely proportional to the half life - the isotopes that last for a million years are harmless compared to the ones that last seconds.
I was horrified by this point when reading a 2002 SciAm article about Jackson Pollock - apparently someone's developed a program to "read the fractal dimensions" of a given image, and written it so that most of Pollock's paintings have a very high number.
l orSubmission.pdf
They made a fuss over how pollock wasn't using randomly chosen paint paths, as everyone thought, but was choosing careful fractal patterns. This was then used to determine if another of Pollock's paintings was authentic or not.
My call of complete bullshit stands after reading the research paper:
http://materialscience.uoregon.edu/taylor/art/Tay
You can tweak the variables however you want, and with such a small sample (known pollock paintings vs known fakes)set it's not hard to create a "successful" program.
ID is not a belief. It's a tool put forth because of the particular secular rules in place in the US government, in order to try and remove evolution from school textbooks - so that children can get their education on the origin of life from the church. Fundamentalists don't believe in it, they regard it as a useful hypothetical in the fight against science itself.
Minority market share adaptibility is usually greater than majority market share adaptability, the extreme being an entrenched monopoly.
IE, of COURSE Apple makes iTunes work on windows PCs, it increases their audience by 20x, whereas Microsoft making WMP work on macs increase their audience by 5%.