Since you're here: why such a high price-tag? I'd say that it's to prevent kiddies from using it, but I'm curious whether the cost of putting it together would be so high.
I'd say that the Genesis accounts won't change, even in the face of huge scientific changes. What will change is our perception of it.
Just like people today may embrace Science AND God concurrently (and I'm among them) to perceive what the parent-poster described as "days of God", we may get, through science, new understanding and meaning to the words in Genesis.
How are they going to choose between the multitude of different climate-altering theories?
Take just for example the world's temperature: are we going to have another Ice Age or a Hot Age? Just choosing one of them changes drastically the results of such experiment.
The data they are using for such experiment is, I believe, reliable (since it is mostly historical data), but the question here is not which dataset to use as input but rather to which function should this input be applied.
It is a movie a day, including TV movies and re-watching old movies (except when the original CSI is on, that is). I agree it would be close to impossible to watch a new movie each day.
But that's almost all I spend with TV during weekdays. On weekends I tend to watch a bit more, but not much more.
But you have the same problem with pay-per-view. Usually movie pay-per-view is only valid for 24-30hs. And where I live, the fine for not returning a DVD on time is the same price of re-renting it (lower fines are not an option around here).
Unless the businessmodel encompasses something like paying for your bandwidth.
I have broadband at home, but I spend most of my time working in the office. It would be nice to let bittorrent use my connection while I'm not using it and when I get home I'd be able to download, say, 3 films or something.
It reminds me of the old time mp3 FTP file sharing: if someone uploads 1MB, then this account would be able to download 10MB.
Anyway, I usually watch a movie a day. If the monthly subscription is cheaper than a cable, or DirectTV pay-per-view or even renting a movie each day, it would be fine by me to only "own" a movie for 24hs.
While we both agree on your point #1, I think that once enough of the ordinary users start using a different OS, #2 and #3 will be a non-issue.
Suppose most users are using a non-Windows OS for office applications. Do you think that the game industry would let these users out of their market? I doubt.
That's also true concerning hardware vendors. Just look at the myriad of gadgets that exist today for the iPod. And if your base system is basically Intel-based, then the vendors would already be familiar with the architecture.
BUT, I have to admit that it is a long run until enough users are converted to a non-Windows system for this user base to appeal to other industries, and that may be a huge barrier for the conversion.
Hmmm, that's not exectly what I meant. My point was that users are already too confortable to, for instance, Photoshop and moving to Gimp is not on their list because they would have to learn all kinds of new shortcuts and the location of the menus.
Even if the "look" is different, the "feel" should remain the same.
I think we'll never see mass-migration influenced by arguments like those on the article.
People has been saying that security is THE good argument for switching forever, be it Linux, Solaris, BSD or Mac folks, but this has never been a sufficient argument to fuel the switch.
Maybe what we need is not a system with better security and similar software suit. People will only change when we have a system with better security and SAME software suit (or at least one that has similar interface).
Most users are lazy, and they don't want to learn how to use new interfaces.
I'm an OBSD user, have bought some CD's and I think that the quality of the code the developers put out is amazing.
O DO believe that companies like Sun, IBM and Apple should contribute to OpenSSH, just like Red Hat and other Linux vendors. Not because the are required (they are not), but it makes sense to keep the development of this high-quality tool at the fraction of the cost of a full-blown development team.
But calling names won't help advocacy. Really! Please try not to attract more hate against our beloved project, it hurts any effort we do to raise funds from OpenSSH users. It's enough that misc@ scares most newcomers away.
You see,.com is a considerable part of the world commerce, but odly enough one doesn't usually see the WTO getting involved when VeriShittySign is doing it's shenanigans.
I don't want to start all that discussion on taking the net control from the US (I do believe it should be again reconsidered, though.) But maybe the international bodies should start interfering with all this crap ICANN is doing.
I read lots of ebooks on my Palm Tungsten W. At the moment I'm re-reading the complete works of E. A. Poe (first time I read I's too young to perceive all the nuances).
Now, most of my ebooks come from Memoware, a site dedicated to free ebooks (and they have an extensive list of titles).
Plus, they have a store as well, where you can buy titles that are not public domain yet.
I also download free ebooks from the Project Gutenberg from Many Books, a site that converts plain text files from PG to a range of PDA readers' formats.
It could be used for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), for instance, meaning that someone could send you an email and collect information on you, or make you think you're on google, but really be on another site, etc.
The preview pane is what you see before you read the message (when the list of messages is displayed - e.g. your Inbox).
I totally agree with your point. At least, censoring is a little bit "not so evil" than censoring+"revealing journalist ID". (Not really, but I'm trying to make a point against Yahoo! as well)
I'd think that a foreign internet company would have two options when negotiating with the Chinese government: obey to whatever they tell you to do, or have ones sites firewalled off for good.
China is, indeed, an odd place. I thought those billion+ people would have rebeled against their government by now, but I must think that this is not they culture.
But let's focus on our freaking government for a while: Mr. Bush's administration is trying really hard to take away all our freedom and privacy (maybe convert us to the People's -- cough -- Republic of America). And the most interesting thing is that he was already a convicted moron when re-elected. I love this country, I really do, but people: WAKE UP before the next election!
At least Google is trying to fight against handing over their (our?) search logs. According to the articles shown here about this incident, Yahoo! and Microsoft already complied with the demand to give the logs, and I think that such a coward company, that has no guts to fight our government, should not have their products used.
Mike, do you consider the implementation of a more complete control mechanism, that can handle mutability of attributes and ongoing usage, for granting/denying access or usage, like UCON_{ABC}?
A really nice condo (around 120 square-meters, nice resindential area, 3 bedrooms, privative bathroom (suite), social bathroom, et al) can cost from R$50,000 (older buildings) to R$90,000 (newer ones).
The appartments rotate really, really slowly. I happen to live just a 5 minutes car drive of it and I can say that, besides looking a bit funky, it's been there for ages (it took several years for being finished), and it has become sort of a local joke.
And yes, US$300k is A HUGE LOT OF MONEY here in Brazil. It's almost 900k reais, when our minimum wage is around R$300.
I've heard somewhere that fluorescent bulbs has a high UV emission.
Don't really know if it is true, but it would be interesting to know, since we've could be giving ourselves the potencial to develop skin cancer while sitting on the light of these bulbs.
I'm storing my pictures on 3 different hard drives: one where my website is hosted (and where my friends can access my pictures), one on my laptop (since I use it to download the pictures from the camera) and one at my office.
Now I'm burning CD's with the pictures I care most, but I intend to do some DVD's of them all.
Unless all HD and the CD's storing sites are striked at once, or the technology changes in such a way that I cannot access my data anymore, I think I'll be safe (of course, noone but me is taking care of my pictures, so if I die, they'd probably fade -- that's why I'll soon have children, so they can be ubergeeks and take care of daddy's data:-)
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Dave,
Since you're here: why such a high price-tag? I'd say that it's to prevent kiddies from using it, but I'm curious whether the cost of putting it together would be so high.
Anyway, congrats on the good idea.
I'd say that the Genesis accounts won't change, even in the face of huge scientific changes. What will change is our perception of it.
Just like people today may embrace Science AND God concurrently (and I'm among them) to perceive what the parent-poster described as "days of God", we may get, through science, new understanding and meaning to the words in Genesis.
How are they going to choose between the multitude of different climate-altering theories?
Take just for example the world's temperature: are we going to have another Ice Age or a Hot Age? Just choosing one of them changes drastically the results of such experiment.
The data they are using for such experiment is, I believe, reliable (since it is mostly historical data), but the question here is not which dataset to use as input but rather to which function should this input be applied.
It is a movie a day, including TV movies and re-watching old movies (except when the original CSI is on, that is). I agree it would be close to impossible to watch a new movie each day.
But that's almost all I spend with TV during weekdays. On weekends I tend to watch a bit more, but not much more.
But you have the same problem with pay-per-view. Usually movie pay-per-view is only valid for 24-30hs. And where I live, the fine for not returning a DVD on time is the same price of re-renting it (lower fines are not an option around here).
Unless the businessmodel encompasses something like paying for your bandwidth.
I have broadband at home, but I spend most of my time working in the office. It would be nice to let bittorrent use my connection while I'm not using it and when I get home I'd be able to download, say, 3 films or something.
It reminds me of the old time mp3 FTP file sharing: if someone uploads 1MB, then this account would be able to download 10MB.
Anyway, I usually watch a movie a day. If the monthly subscription is cheaper than a cable, or DirectTV pay-per-view or even renting a movie each day, it would be fine by me to only "own" a movie for 24hs.
While we both agree on your point #1, I think that once enough of the ordinary users start using a different OS, #2 and #3 will be a non-issue.
Suppose most users are using a non-Windows OS for office applications. Do you think that the game industry would let these users out of their market? I doubt.
That's also true concerning hardware vendors. Just look at the myriad of gadgets that exist today for the iPod. And if your base system is basically Intel-based, then the vendors would already be familiar with the architecture.
BUT, I have to admit that it is a long run until enough users are converted to a non-Windows system for this user base to appeal to other industries, and that may be a huge barrier for the conversion.
Hmmm, that's not exectly what I meant. My point was that users are already too confortable to, for instance, Photoshop and moving to Gimp is not on their list because they would have to learn all kinds of new shortcuts and the location of the menus.
Even if the "look" is different, the "feel" should remain the same.
True.
I think we'll never see mass-migration influenced by arguments like those on the article.
People has been saying that security is THE good argument for switching forever, be it Linux, Solaris, BSD or Mac folks, but this has never been a sufficient argument to fuel the switch.
Maybe what we need is not a system with better security and similar software suit. People will only change when we have a system with better security and SAME software suit (or at least one that has similar interface).
Most users are lazy, and they don't want to learn how to use new interfaces.
What phone+video communication software do you recommend?
It must run at least on Linux and Windows, and running on OpenBSD would be a plus.
PSTN connection is not a must, but would be nice as well.
So, what is the best software for phone and/or video communication?
I'm an OBSD user, have bought some CD's and I think that the quality of the code the developers put out is amazing.
O DO believe that companies like Sun, IBM and Apple should contribute to OpenSSH, just like Red Hat and other Linux vendors. Not because the are required (they are not), but it makes sense to keep the development of this high-quality tool at the fraction of the cost of a full-blown development team.
But calling names won't help advocacy. Really! Please try not to attract more hate against our beloved project, it hurts any effort we do to raise funds from OpenSSH users. It's enough that misc@ scares most newcomers away.
Agreed!!
.com is a considerable part of the world commerce, but odly enough one doesn't usually see the WTO getting involved when VeriShittySign is doing it's shenanigans.
You see,
I don't want to start all that discussion on taking the net control from the US (I do believe it should be again reconsidered, though.) But maybe the international bodies should start interfering with all this crap ICANN is doing.
I read lots of ebooks on my Palm Tungsten W. At the moment I'm re-reading the complete works of E. A. Poe (first time I read I's too young to perceive all the nuances).
Now, most of my ebooks come from Memoware, a site dedicated to free ebooks (and they have an extensive list of titles).
Plus, they have a store as well, where you can buy titles that are not public domain yet.
I also download free ebooks from the Project Gutenberg from Many Books, a site that converts plain text files from PG to a range of PDA readers' formats.
1) Cut down NASA budgets so that they no longer can afford observing satellites.
2) Without these satellites, we loose great amounts of data on climate.
3) No data = no claims that we are hurting the plant, therefore no need to abide by the Kyoto Protocol or other environment protection treaties.
4) ????(*)
5) Profits.
(*) This step may never lead to step number 5, since there is a good chance that at this point our planet may already be ruined beyond repartation.
It could be used for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), for instance, meaning that someone could send you an email and collect information on you, or make you think you're on google, but really be on another site, etc.
The preview pane is what you see before you read the message (when the list of messages is displayed - e.g. your Inbox).
I totally agree with your point. At least, censoring is a little bit "not so evil" than censoring+"revealing journalist ID". (Not really, but I'm trying to make a point against Yahoo! as well)
I'd think that a foreign internet company would have two options when negotiating with the Chinese government: obey to whatever they tell you to do, or have ones sites firewalled off for good.
China is, indeed, an odd place. I thought those billion+ people would have rebeled against their government by now, but I must think that this is not they culture.
But let's focus on our freaking government for a while: Mr. Bush's administration is trying really hard to take away all our freedom and privacy (maybe convert us to the People's -- cough -- Republic of America). And the most interesting thing is that he was already a convicted moron when re-elected. I love this country, I really do, but people: WAKE UP before the next election!
At least Google is trying to fight against handing over their (our?) search logs. According to the articles shown here about this incident, Yahoo! and Microsoft already complied with the demand to give the logs, and I think that such a coward company, that has no guts to fight our government, should not have their products used.
Mike, do you consider the implementation of a more complete control mechanism, that can handle mutability of attributes and ongoing usage, for granting/denying access or usage, like UCON_{ABC}?
A really nice condo (around 120 square-meters, nice resindential area, 3 bedrooms, privative bathroom (suite), social bathroom, et al) can cost from R$50,000 (older buildings) to R$90,000 (newer ones).
Ecoville is the name of the residential area. Buildings there are supposed to be wider apart from each other and have gardens in between.
The appartments rotate really, really slowly. I happen to live just a 5 minutes car drive of it and I can say that, besides looking a bit funky, it's been there for ages (it took several years for being finished), and it has become sort of a local joke.
And yes, US$300k is A HUGE LOT OF MONEY here in Brazil. It's almost 900k reais, when our minimum wage is around R$300.
I only ask you: to send what and to whom?
I've heard somewhere that fluorescent bulbs has a high UV emission.
Don't really know if it is true, but it would be interesting to know, since we've could be giving ourselves the potencial to develop skin cancer while sitting on the light of these bulbs.
How about SW for PalmOS?
I'm storing my pictures on 3 different hard drives: one where my website is hosted (and where my friends can access my pictures), one on my laptop (since I use it to download the pictures from the camera) and one at my office.
:-)
Now I'm burning CD's with the pictures I care most, but I intend to do some DVD's of them all.
Unless all HD and the CD's storing sites are striked at once, or the technology changes in such a way that I cannot access my data anymore, I think I'll be safe (of course, noone but me is taking care of my pictures, so if I die, they'd probably fade -- that's why I'll soon have children, so they can be ubergeeks and take care of daddy's data