Just too late as we trip over the peak of oil production...
We are not going to run out of oil. The price of oil will increase and make alternatives feasible. As this occurs the demand for oil will decrease. The rate of consumption will also peak, it just lags production. The question is really when the transition to alternatives will occur and how much pain do we have to feel to get the process started. In short, as we use less oil to go to work and the supermarket, to get food from the farms to the supermarket,... the more we will have for lubrication, plastics, and exotic high speed transportation. Oil prices skyrocket as demand out paces supply, we switch to alternatives, oil prices crash as supply now out paces demand.
Yes, infact I knew someone who use to fly those things and they weren't allowed to fully throttle up. He also said that during normal missions the plane would damage itself when going the faster speeds. Now of course this is all at someones word, so I have no written proof.
I heard the same thing from an SR-71 pilot, the damage was melting the nose and other leading edges. So advances in materials, not necessarily thrust, would presumably allow for greater speeds.
There's no discussion of how long these effects last.
The military considers combat conditioning, decision making and reflexes, to be perishable skills.
The question is, does viewing violent media today make me more likely to go kill people tomorrow.
Probably only if you were willing and able to kill in the first place.
I'm not sure why this is such a mystery. Are military veterans who never saw combat more likely to commit murder? Are combat veterans more likely to commit murder? Surely such training and possibly experience exceeds whatever a video game offers and would define an upper bound on the statistics.
Or what is the effect if the media is interactive in nature?
Then you are being conditioned to respond to stimuli in a certain manner. It's like law enforcement and military training. Repetition to develop a reflex response and muscle memory. The correct stimuli triggers the reflex. As a matter of fact elaborate video games are being used to train troops. The simulation's imagery is projected onto a wall and an individual soldier or squad responds to the situations with realistic but simulated weapons. I believe the Marine Corp has determined that their pilot program has shown positive results, that skills developed in simulation are showing up in the old fashioned in-the-mud training exercises.
So video games can function as training simulators, but what does that mean for the kid at home with his XBox? Well, when a zombie surprises him on the street he will press A A B RightTrigger without thinking about it. A video game can teach and condition you to kill if it is a military grade simulation with replica weapons. Playstation, XBox, Man Hunt, Grand Theft Auto, gamepads are far far from such simulators. They are closer to kids running around the woods with old golf clubs as pretend rifles.
Really? I never thought of High School as vocational.
Historically high school tends to have two tracks, college prep and vocational. Graphics design is on the vocational side. Is the line fuzzy? Yes. Decades ago college bound kids may have taken the typing class, yet the class was designed as a vocational class to prepare kids for the office workplace of the day. Similar story for graphics design, sort of a combination the film club and the old graphics arts shop class.
... If these kids move on to do this professionally, they will likely need and want further training/education which should resolve the practical aspects of your argument.
The kids who attended a high school using old versions of commercial apps will need less training than kids who attended a high school who went open source. They commercially trained will be considered better candidates by employers, their high school will have done a better job fulfilling the vocational mandate.
I am *not* saying that open source should never be used, I am merely saying that it is not always the best choice. It is dependent on the nature and goals of the users.
It's not a vocational school, so don't teach to a vocation.
It is a *high school multimedia course*, so it is vocational. Using standard industry software, even if they are older versions, is the appropriate move in this particular case.
Integrated contact list -- Your contact list in Google Calendar is always in sync with Gmail, so you'll never need to look someone up in Gmail to send an invitation.
Integrated into Gmail -- Gmail recognizes incoming meeting requests and invitations, and helps you RSVP without ever leaving your inbox.
Mobile access -- You can get event reminders, check your calendar and even add new events to your agenda with SMS commands from your mobile phone.
2. insurrection against an existing government, usually one's own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent.... Funny, the partisans in Iraq are rebelling against a foreign occupier, not their own government.
Man, that is an incredibly partisan and misinformed statement. There was an election in Iraq, they have a government, and the officials of that government (leaders and police) are routinely targeted by insurgents. It takes time to train an army and a police force, and the US military is handing over security for regions as quickly as local army and police become proficient enough. Sadly, that is taking place way too slowly. The insurgents make great efforts to interfere with this process, for example bombing lines of people waiting to apply for the police academy. Casualties among the Iraqi officials far exceeds that of US forces. The word "insurgency" fits the current situation quite well.
Being anti-war is fine. It is good to insist that a government explain why soldiers are sent into harms way, many US soldiers feel this right is one of the things that makes the US worth defending. But don't let anti-war zeal blind you to reality. Groupthink and propaganda is not the exclusive domain of the far right, the far left is quite adept at it as well. Denying that there is an insurgency against an elected government suggests that you may want to broaden your sources of information. There are many problems with the war, but if you can't see its true nature you are likely to be blown off and unable to be part of a real solution.
I apologize but the nerd in me has to ask, why not 1.0E-26? Is it some kind of psychological thing that makes the number look significantly smaller, like pricing at (x-1).99 rather than x.00?
To other readers, yes I know that (x-1).99 != x.00. Notice the word "significantly" and note the context of psychology of pricing.
Why are so many people acting as if Hollywood writers are good? Go to your local bookstore and buy some of those compilations of the year's best science fiction short stories. Read the stories. I think these upcoming authors would form a far more valuable talent pool. If you look at some of the older compilations you will notice some short stories that have become movies and the true value of the typical Hollywood writer becomes painfully apparent.
The person reporting the violation is eligible for the reward, it's not tied to position.
If you were involved in the piracy you are not eligible, unless you were specifically ordered to do so by a supervisor. Also the BSA reserves the right to not pay the reward at their sold discretion. IT guys who are responsible for licensing, supposed to remove unlicensed/unapproved software, etc are not going to collect anything, barring orders from a superior. The system is designed so that you can not code yourself a minivan.
"... his clients often suspect that it was the IT guy who just left -- and was responsible for the maintaining the licenses -- who ratted them out for a big BSA reward..."
People responsible for licenses in some manner are not eligible for the reward. IT guys doing this are disgruntled and just trying to "get even".
Keep in mind that small business was not chosen merely because they have fewer resourced available to defend themselves, but they were also the worst offenders. Betting that their size would keep them under the radar of Microsoft, Word Perfect, Lotus, Borland, etc back in the day. I'm not defending the BSA's actions, but their targeting is not entirely devoid of reason.
Am I the only one that can think of a few other places with stable power supply? Seriously, what's the upside to a datacenter in Irkutsk?
BRIC - Brazil Russia India China - are expected to lead growth for the next few decades. Microsoft is getting in early, developing an infrastructure that can participate in this growth.
Also, besides vast natural resources, Russia also has vast human resources. A large highly educated and experienced population that is underemployed and inexpensive. Russia is a destination for hi tech and sophisticated outsourcing. There is an expectation that some higher end software engineering is about to go to Russia as some lower end programming went to India. BTW, India is working very hard to move from the historical low end tasks to higher end engineering services as well.
but for Americans (strangley enough) the term "Siberia" holds a special place for us. As a kid who grew up during the Regan administration everyone would talk about how bad the Soviets were and that if you spoke out against the government you were sent to Siberia... Now these days I'm sure if you asked the average Russian about what he thought of Siberia and he would most likley think of it as a place much like North Dakato in which it was boring... but if you asked an American, he'd conjure up images of Russian guards in great coats
Why in the world would Russian citizens, people who suffered under the soviets and who actually lived under the threat of being sent to Siberia, forget about this dark soviet-era history more quickly than Americans? Also, sending "troublemakers" to Siberia was not a soviet invention, the czars sent a few people east as well. While Russians will be far better informed regarding Siberia's summer beauty than Americans, the dark cold side is embedded pretty deep into their culture.
Sooo - if you're short 2 million dollars, don't look to an place where the budget is bleeding billions?
War time spending is a special circumstance, not regular funding, it is adding to the deficit. When this spending stops it should *not* be spent elsewhere, it should just stop, period. It is not a pool of new money to start dumping into various pork projects. Not that mapping asteroids is pork, but if former Iraq spending becomes permanent and diverted there other former Iraq spending will surely go to pork. It is inevitable *if* Iraq spending gets redirected to things that should be part of the regular budget.
The problem with small government is it can't do anything about big problems. How is a small government going to fight the second world war, put a man on the moon, end the Great Depression, or protect civil rights in the Deep South?
That is a straw man. Real advocates of small government don't believe the federal government should be abolished, and they do believe that national defense and some large issues are properly federal domain and often constitutionally authorized. The real problem is that over time too many things have moved from local control to federal control, directly or indirectly as in the strings attached to federal money. If redistribution is necessary, say from urban to rural, the fed can use block grants to state and county authorities who decide what the local priorities should be.
You are correct, with the assumption that all musicians want to make a huge name for themselves and want lots of money.
No, that is not what I say. Replace "all" with "plenty of". There are plenty of musicians who want the fame and money and in partnership with big money/media they dominate popular music and commercial sales.
However, there are plenty of musicians that do not want to be as big as Radiohead or KISS, nor do they desire the same amount of wealth. This means that the internet model works perfectly fine for them.
The internet model will work about as well as the college tour model. Internet advocates tend to only see half the picture, the reaching the fans half. What they fail to see is the competition half, all the other bands trying to reach the same fans. Instead of competing on the local college circuit bands going the internet route will have to compete globally. Greater reach and greater competition will cancel each other out to a large degree.
distribution? its called the internet. getting your name out there? again, on the internet, if your music doesnt suck, itll get noticed.
That's an article of faith not an established pattern. Look at the one thing that has worked, Apple's iTunes store. Partnered with big media and included DRM, and it became wildly successful. It's nice that they are dropping DRM now.
In reality the internet offers you more access to fans but you also have more competition, they cancel out to a large degree. The band that parters/sells out to big media/PR will dominate regardless of whether distribution is physical or digital. Those that do-it-themselves will be pretty much like the bands on the college circuit.
Gene Simmons remarks are worth as much as Richard Simmons remarks on the subject. Nither one are experts in any way shape or form on the subject.
Gene has mastered the machinery of artist development and promotion, he deeply understands the business. Your statement proves you unqualified for this conversation.
Rants about KISS' artistic talents are useless. Artistic talent is of no value when developing a business model.
Your rant on the promotional machine chewing up artists supports my point. Simmons survived and mastered that machine, therefore he seems better qualified to develop a new business model that supports development of new artists and uses modern distribution.
Your observation that most artists would be struggling at bars and strip malls without the promotional machine is correct. The fact that some artists aspire to more guarantees that the promotional machine will continue and that with high failure rates one successful artist will have to support many unsuccessful ones.
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Just too late as we trip over the peak of oil production...
... the more we will have for lubrication, plastics, and exotic high speed transportation. Oil prices skyrocket as demand out paces supply, we switch to alternatives, oil prices crash as supply now out paces demand.
We are not going to run out of oil. The price of oil will increase and make alternatives feasible. As this occurs the demand for oil will decrease. The rate of consumption will also peak, it just lags production. The question is really when the transition to alternatives will occur and how much pain do we have to feel to get the process started. In short, as we use less oil to go to work and the supermarket, to get food from the farms to the supermarket,
Yes, infact I knew someone who use to fly those things and they weren't allowed to fully throttle up. He also said that during normal missions the plane would damage itself when going the faster speeds. Now of course this is all at someones word, so I have no written proof.
I heard the same thing from an SR-71 pilot, the damage was melting the nose and other leading edges. So advances in materials, not necessarily thrust, would presumably allow for greater speeds.
There's no discussion of how long these effects last.
The military considers combat conditioning, decision making and reflexes, to be perishable skills.
The question is, does viewing violent media today make me more likely to go kill people tomorrow.
Probably only if you were willing and able to kill in the first place.
I'm not sure why this is such a mystery. Are military veterans who never saw combat more likely to commit murder? Are combat veterans more likely to commit murder? Surely such training and possibly experience exceeds whatever a video game offers and would define an upper bound on the statistics.
Or what is the effect if the media is interactive in nature?
Then you are being conditioned to respond to stimuli in a certain manner. It's like law enforcement and military training. Repetition to develop a reflex response and muscle memory. The correct stimuli triggers the reflex. As a matter of fact elaborate video games are being used to train troops. The simulation's imagery is projected onto a wall and an individual soldier or squad responds to the situations with realistic but simulated weapons. I believe the Marine Corp has determined that their pilot program has shown positive results, that skills developed in simulation are showing up in the old fashioned in-the-mud training exercises.
So video games can function as training simulators, but what does that mean for the kid at home with his XBox? Well, when a zombie surprises him on the street he will press A A B RightTrigger without thinking about it. A video game can teach and condition you to kill if it is a military grade simulation with replica weapons. Playstation, XBox, Man Hunt, Grand Theft Auto, gamepads are far far from such simulators. They are closer to kids running around the woods with old golf clubs as pretend rifles.
Really? I never thought of High School as vocational.
... If these kids move on to do this professionally, they will likely need and want further training/education which should resolve the practical aspects of your argument.
Historically high school tends to have two tracks, college prep and vocational. Graphics design is on the vocational side. Is the line fuzzy? Yes. Decades ago college bound kids may have taken the typing class, yet the class was designed as a vocational class to prepare kids for the office workplace of the day. Similar story for graphics design, sort of a combination the film club and the old graphics arts shop class.
The kids who attended a high school using old versions of commercial apps will need less training than kids who attended a high school who went open source. They commercially trained will be considered better candidates by employers, their high school will have done a better job fulfilling the vocational mandate.
I am *not* saying that open source should never be used, I am merely saying that it is not always the best choice. It is dependent on the nature and goals of the users.
It's not a vocational school, so don't teach to a vocation.
It is a *high school multimedia course*, so it is vocational. Using standard industry software, even if they are older versions, is the appropriate move in this particular case.
... leads to Apple & Google creating a quality & service oriented network ...
"join in bidding" means they will be bidding against each other, competing.
Why have we not seen a GMail Appliance?
A snippet from http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/calendar.html:
Integrated contact list -- Your contact list in Google Calendar is always in sync with Gmail, so you'll never need to look someone up in Gmail to send an invitation.
Integrated into Gmail -- Gmail recognizes incoming meeting requests and invitations, and helps you RSVP without ever leaving your inbox.
Mobile access -- You can get event reminders, check your calendar and even add new events to your agenda with SMS commands from your mobile phone.
2. insurrection against an existing government, usually one's own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent. ... Funny, the partisans in Iraq are rebelling against a foreign occupier, not their own government.
Man, that is an incredibly partisan and misinformed statement. There was an election in Iraq, they have a government, and the officials of that government (leaders and police) are routinely targeted by insurgents. It takes time to train an army and a police force, and the US military is handing over security for regions as quickly as local army and police become proficient enough. Sadly, that is taking place way too slowly. The insurgents make great efforts to interfere with this process, for example bombing lines of people waiting to apply for the police academy. Casualties among the Iraqi officials far exceeds that of US forces. The word "insurgency" fits the current situation quite well.
Being anti-war is fine. It is good to insist that a government explain why soldiers are sent into harms way, many US soldiers feel this right is one of the things that makes the US worth defending. But don't let anti-war zeal blind you to reality. Groupthink and propaganda is not the exclusive domain of the far right, the far left is quite adept at it as well. Denying that there is an insurgency against an elected government suggests that you may want to broaden your sources of information. There are many problems with the war, but if you can't see its true nature you are likely to be blown off and unable to be part of a real solution.
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
So we are on a list now? Damn! Can we still fly?
0.1xE-25
I apologize but the nerd in me has to ask, why not 1.0E-26? Is it some kind of psychological thing that makes the number look significantly smaller, like pricing at (x-1).99 rather than x.00?
To other readers, yes I know that (x-1).99 != x.00. Notice the word "significantly" and note the context of psychology of pricing.
A ship moving at a fraction of the speed of light can do a lot of damage to a ship that is stuck at dock or that has just undocked.
No fancy ass rail guns needed either. Just head towards the target, open a hatch, and have the cook dump some trash.
Why are so many people acting as if Hollywood writers are good? Go to your local bookstore and buy some of those compilations of the year's best science fiction short stories. Read the stories. I think these upcoming authors would form a far more valuable talent pool. If you look at some of the older compilations you will notice some short stories that have become movies and the true value of the typical Hollywood writer becomes painfully apparent.
The person reporting the violation is eligible for the reward, it's not tied to position.
If you were involved in the piracy you are not eligible, unless you were specifically ordered to do so by a supervisor. Also the BSA reserves the right to not pay the reward at their sold discretion. IT guys who are responsible for licensing, supposed to remove unlicensed/unapproved software, etc are not going to collect anything, barring orders from a superior. The system is designed so that you can not code yourself a minivan.
"... his clients often suspect that it was the IT guy who just left -- and was responsible for the maintaining the licenses -- who ratted them out for a big BSA reward ..."
People responsible for licenses in some manner are not eligible for the reward. IT guys doing this are disgruntled and just trying to "get even".
Keep in mind that small business was not chosen merely because they have fewer resourced available to defend themselves, but they were also the worst offenders. Betting that their size would keep them under the radar of Microsoft, Word Perfect, Lotus, Borland, etc back in the day. I'm not defending the BSA's actions, but their targeting is not entirely devoid of reason.
The word 'kut' means vagina in dutch. Somehow this seems very appropriate for MS...
:-)
As in nearly everyone likes and uses them?
Is that where Microsoft is sending employees who run Linux at home now?
No, they are sent to Microsoft Research. The destination options are Beijing, India, Cambridge, or Silicon Valley.
Am I the only one that can think of a few other places with stable power supply? Seriously, what's the upside to a datacenter in Irkutsk?
BRIC - Brazil Russia India China - are expected to lead growth for the next few decades. Microsoft is getting in early, developing an infrastructure that can participate in this growth.
Also, besides vast natural resources, Russia also has vast human resources. A large highly educated and experienced population that is underemployed and inexpensive. Russia is a destination for hi tech and sophisticated outsourcing. There is an expectation that some higher end software engineering is about to go to Russia as some lower end programming went to India. BTW, India is working very hard to move from the historical low end tasks to higher end engineering services as well.
but for Americans (strangley enough) the term "Siberia" holds a special place for us. As a kid who grew up during the Regan administration everyone would talk about how bad the Soviets were and that if you spoke out against the government you were sent to Siberia ... Now these days I'm sure if you asked the average Russian about what he thought of Siberia and he would most likley think of it as a place much like North Dakato in which it was boring ... but if you asked an American, he'd conjure up images of Russian guards in great coats
Why in the world would Russian citizens, people who suffered under the soviets and who actually lived under the threat of being sent to Siberia, forget about this dark soviet-era history more quickly than Americans? Also, sending "troublemakers" to Siberia was not a soviet invention, the czars sent a few people east as well. While Russians will be far better informed regarding Siberia's summer beauty than Americans, the dark cold side is embedded pretty deep into their culture.
Sooo - if you're short 2 million dollars, don't look to an place where the budget is bleeding billions?
War time spending is a special circumstance, not regular funding, it is adding to the deficit. When this spending stops it should *not* be spent elsewhere, it should just stop, period. It is not a pool of new money to start dumping into various pork projects. Not that mapping asteroids is pork, but if former Iraq spending becomes permanent and diverted there other former Iraq spending will surely go to pork. It is inevitable *if* Iraq spending gets redirected to things that should be part of the regular budget.
The problem with small government is it can't do anything about big problems. How is a small government going to fight the second world war, put a man on the moon, end the Great Depression, or protect civil rights in the Deep South?
That is a straw man. Real advocates of small government don't believe the federal government should be abolished, and they do believe that national defense and some large issues are properly federal domain and often constitutionally authorized. The real problem is that over time too many things have moved from local control to federal control, directly or indirectly as in the strings attached to federal money. If redistribution is necessary, say from urban to rural, the fed can use block grants to state and county authorities who decide what the local priorities should be.
You are correct, with the assumption that all musicians want to make a huge name for themselves and want lots of money.
No, that is not what I say. Replace "all" with "plenty of". There are plenty of musicians who want the fame and money and in partnership with big money/media they dominate popular music and commercial sales.
However, there are plenty of musicians that do not want to be as big as Radiohead or KISS, nor do they desire the same amount of wealth. This means that the internet model works perfectly fine for them.
The internet model will work about as well as the college tour model. Internet advocates tend to only see half the picture, the reaching the fans half. What they fail to see is the competition half, all the other bands trying to reach the same fans. Instead of competing on the local college circuit bands going the internet route will have to compete globally. Greater reach and greater competition will cancel each other out to a large degree.
distribution? its called the internet. getting your name out there? again, on the internet, if your music doesnt suck, itll get noticed.
That's an article of faith not an established pattern. Look at the one thing that has worked, Apple's iTunes store. Partnered with big media and included DRM, and it became wildly successful. It's nice that they are dropping DRM now.
In reality the internet offers you more access to fans but you also have more competition, they cancel out to a large degree. The band that parters/sells out to big media/PR will dominate regardless of whether distribution is physical or digital. Those that do-it-themselves will be pretty much like the bands on the college circuit.
Gene Simmons remarks are worth as much as Richard Simmons remarks on the subject. Nither one are experts in any way shape or form on the subject.
Gene has mastered the machinery of artist development and promotion, he deeply understands the business. Your statement proves you unqualified for this conversation.
Rants about KISS' artistic talents are useless. Artistic talent is of no value when developing a business model.
Your rant on the promotional machine chewing up artists supports my point. Simmons survived and mastered that machine, therefore he seems better qualified to develop a new business model that supports development of new artists and uses modern distribution.
Your observation that most artists would be struggling at bars and strip malls without the promotional machine is correct. The fact that some artists aspire to more guarantees that the promotional machine will continue and that with high failure rates one successful artist will have to support many unsuccessful ones.