I was an atheist in high school and I hated having to recite 'under God' in the pledge. In fact, I went silent whenever that part of the pledge came up. I felt like an outcast every time I did it, and considering this was a Southern small-town school, I was worried about anyone wondering why. 'Under God' should be removed or the pledge should not be required at schools. Its easy for the mainstream to say that you can just not recite it because they don't have to feel like a freak.
Who the hell are Numavox Records and Neal Morse? What the hell is the Burning Annie soundtrack and the Kansas Tribute Project?
Am I the only person who hasn't heard of these things?
I'm going to take a little leap here and say that I doubt that anyone will be downloading songs from any of the aforementioned companies, artists, or cd's. In that case, what does this guy have to lose from file sharing and why should we even be asking him questions about it?
My parents bought a dumbass Radio Shack mouse about 2 or 3 years ago that had a horizontal scroll wheel right under the vertical one. I think it has been used a total of 2 times.
Take a look at the images in the patent. After seeing what they've drawn, the idea isn't as impressive as it sounds. It looks like a sheet of glass over a metal keyboard, with the glass showing a hologram of the keys.
What part of the Defense Department implementing IPv6 in a few years and corporations starting to perk up their ears did the article writer not understand?
Shrugs off the world? Corporations haven't upgraded yet cause they haven't needed to. It has nothing to do with saying 'screw you' to the rest of the world.
Once the DoD gets it in, others will follow suit. Nothing this big gets done quickly in this country, especially when there isn't a blaring need.
The artists and music companies have gotten so wrapped up in fighting piracy that they have forgotten to ask themselves *why* people would not want to pay for music...
We all have seen the stereotypical musician on the street playing for donations. In times past, that was the norm; an entertainer would entertain and people would compensate them for it out of the goodness of their hearts (and maybe a bit of social/peer pressure). Have entertainers nowadays gotten so powerful and so full of themselves that they believe that everyone should be *required* to compensate them? If so, why should anyone be required to compensate them? If I'm not entertained, I don't want to pay money.
What artists and companies need to realize is that people *do* compensate them out of the goodness of their hearts. I buy CD's from bands I've known and liked even if I've never heard the CD yet... I do that to support the band. I go to their overpriced concerts where I'm a mile away to stand around and watch them play crappy versions of their CD's (no, not every musician is like that, but a vast majority are). If someone offered me a videotape of their concert, I wouldn't take it over going to see them, even though it would be just about the same thing. That's because I feel like I'm getting something and giving something when I go to a concert.
Basically what I'm getting at is that people would buy CD's to compensate artists if the RIAA and the more vocal artists would lay off. Peer/social pressure can work wonders.
The alien's commander (or whatever it was) told the alien in the ship, right before he shot them, to "Neutralize the invaders for analysis." Crystals generally don't make for good analysis. Plus it looked like a shell covered them.
I thought they were dead until I watched the show a second time.
So I'm sure a lot of that bandwidth is for mp3's, warez, and what not. But what about grad students that use up more than 2 gigs a month for research purposes? I don't go to Cornell thankfully, but I do research on MPEG1 videos over the internet. These are high quality videos which eat up a lot of bandwidth and can easily pull a gig in each experiment that I run (especially since I have streams going for a day or two). Would they be so callous as to charge graduate students doing legitimate research?
Seriously, why would we want fiber in the home? I have a cable modem and I'm perfectly happy with it. I think what would drive something like that is an application that requires it. MP3's, Chatting, Games, always having a connection on, etc... That's what drove the popularity of Cable modems and DSL's. Other than a huge File Sharing Node, why would we want fiber?
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I'm more amazed that no one asked her why she did it...
Do we look down on non-computer people so much that we don't even bother to ask anymore why they do stupid things?
Maybe it tanked because Star Trek is dying out in mainstream culture. We still have Enterprise, which is interesting, and Voyager reruns, but I can't imagine that they get good ratings. Sure the cultists still worship Star Trek, but I imagine most people have become less entralled with it.
If you want to read some good, non-technical articles on quantum computing, search for these (IEEE might have them, but the Xplore site is down right now):
Andrew Glassner, "Quantum Computing, Part 1," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August 2001, pp. 84 - 92.
A. Glassner, "Quantum Computing, Part 2," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, September/October 2001, pp. 86 - 95.
A. Sheane and E. Rieffel, "Beyond Bits: The Future of Quantum Information Processing," Computer, January 2000, pp. 38 - 45.
If you want more of a technical paper, check this out (its still an intro, but not for laymen):
V. Vedral and M. B. Plenio, "Basics of Quantum Computation," quant-ph/9802065, 1998. http://xxx.lanl.gov/format/quant-ph/9802065
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Why do you assume that someone downloads an MP3 of a song would actually buy the CD if they weren't able to get the MP3?
I was an atheist in high school and I hated having to recite 'under God' in the pledge. In fact, I went silent whenever that part of the pledge came up. I felt like an outcast every time I did it, and considering this was a Southern small-town school, I was worried about anyone wondering why. 'Under God' should be removed or the pledge should not be required at schools. Its easy for the mainstream to say that you can just not recite it because they don't have to feel like a freak.
Who the hell are Numavox Records and Neal Morse? What the hell is the Burning Annie soundtrack and the Kansas Tribute Project? Am I the only person who hasn't heard of these things? I'm going to take a little leap here and say that I doubt that anyone will be downloading songs from any of the aforementioned companies, artists, or cd's. In that case, what does this guy have to lose from file sharing and why should we even be asking him questions about it?
The name of the thing sounds familiar.. Xbox, Gamecube, PlayStation XGameStation Wait, no, I don't see anything.
My parents bought a dumbass Radio Shack mouse about 2 or 3 years ago that had a horizontal scroll wheel right under the vertical one. I think it has been used a total of 2 times.
Take a look at the images in the patent. After seeing what they've drawn, the idea isn't as impressive as it sounds. It looks like a sheet of glass over a metal keyboard, with the glass showing a hologram of the keys.
I live my life a benchmark at a time. For those 9 seconds or less, I'm free.
What part of the Defense Department implementing IPv6 in a few years and corporations starting to perk up their ears did the article writer not understand? Shrugs off the world? Corporations haven't upgraded yet cause they haven't needed to. It has nothing to do with saying 'screw you' to the rest of the world. Once the DoD gets it in, others will follow suit. Nothing this big gets done quickly in this country, especially when there isn't a blaring need.
Can't we just have one slashdot post go by without having someone's comment about the US government being modded up to 5?
We all have seen the stereotypical musician on the street playing for donations. In times past, that was the norm; an entertainer would entertain and people would compensate them for it out of the goodness of their hearts (and maybe a bit of social/peer pressure). Have entertainers nowadays gotten so powerful and so full of themselves that they believe that everyone should be *required* to compensate them? If so, why should anyone be required to compensate them? If I'm not entertained, I don't want to pay money.
What artists and companies need to realize is that people *do* compensate them out of the goodness of their hearts. I buy CD's from bands I've known and liked even if I've never heard the CD yet... I do that to support the band. I go to their overpriced concerts where I'm a mile away to stand around and watch them play crappy versions of their CD's (no, not every musician is like that, but a vast majority are). If someone offered me a videotape of their concert, I wouldn't take it over going to see them, even though it would be just about the same thing. That's because I feel like I'm getting something and giving something when I go to a concert.
Basically what I'm getting at is that people would buy CD's to compensate artists if the RIAA and the more vocal artists would lay off. Peer/social pressure can work wonders.
The alien's commander (or whatever it was) told the alien in the ship, right before he shot them, to "Neutralize the invaders for analysis." Crystals generally don't make for good analysis. Plus it looked like a shell covered them. I thought they were dead until I watched the show a second time.
So I'm sure a lot of that bandwidth is for mp3's, warez, and what not. But what about grad students that use up more than 2 gigs a month for research purposes? I don't go to Cornell thankfully, but I do research on MPEG1 videos over the internet. These are high quality videos which eat up a lot of bandwidth and can easily pull a gig in each experiment that I run (especially since I have streams going for a day or two). Would they be so callous as to charge graduate students doing legitimate research?
In Red Alert 2, the Soviets invaded the US. Didn't they blow up the Statue of Liberty?
Seriously, why would we want fiber in the home? I have a cable modem and I'm perfectly happy with it. I think what would drive something like that is an application that requires it. MP3's, Chatting, Games, always having a connection on, etc... That's what drove the popularity of Cable modems and DSL's. Other than a huge File Sharing Node, why would we want fiber?
I'm more amazed that no one asked her why she did it... Do we look down on non-computer people so much that we don't even bother to ask anymore why they do stupid things?
Maybe it tanked because Star Trek is dying out in mainstream culture. We still have Enterprise, which is interesting, and Voyager reruns, but I can't imagine that they get good ratings. Sure the cultists still worship Star Trek, but I imagine most people have become less entralled with it.
You mean this stuff?
l /b loodclotter.asp
http://www.andersons-online.com/firstaid/aeroso
My girlfriend always tells me that size doesn't matter...
You're assuming that people here actually have sex.... with another human being!
Used to cost about $100 or so... Flopped right on its butt as far as I know. Saw like 2 commercials for it and never once saw anyone using it.
Basically it just would just connect to other Cybikos in the area and kids could play games or send little instant messages to each other.
Andrew Glassner, "Quantum Computing, Part 1," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August 2001, pp. 84 - 92.
A. Glassner, "Quantum Computing, Part 2," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, September/October 2001, pp. 86 - 95.
A. Sheane and E. Rieffel, "Beyond Bits: The Future of Quantum Information Processing," Computer, January 2000, pp. 38 - 45.
If you want more of a technical paper, check this out (its still an intro, but not for laymen):
V. Vedral and M. B. Plenio, "Basics of Quantum Computation," quant-ph/9802065, 1998. http://xxx.lanl.gov/format/quant-ph/9802065
As for IBM building the 7 qubit computer, Los Alamos did it a while back...v e/00-041.shtml
http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archi