This is exactly the stance I've been hoping the whole music industry takes. I'd love to buy a CD and show my support... except they need a new option when you register:
Furthermore, water cooling projects for the overclockers become more of a reality.
Aren't PowerPC chips basically un-overclockable? From what I understand, something about the chip design makes it either impossible to overclock it, or makes the speed gained from overclocking it negligble.
Rumblecode creator Mat Nelson: "Today, Java is fast, though many people still do not realize it. Computer speed has increased at an amazing rate, JVMs are faster than ever, Java has matured, and we even have hardware-accelerated graphics. Java is ready for the client now, and I hope Robocode can help to prove it."
A year ago, I dropped my monitor (sony e210) a distance of about 2 feet onto a marble floor. It landed on its front-top-right corner, and it still works perfectly!
That's my point. If you're gonna spend $200 for a player w/ 256mb, you really might as well scrape together the extra $100 for 20x the storage. And yes, I know that storage isn't everything, but at the size of a deck of cards, with firewire cable, I'd say that the iPod has all its bases covered. Unless of course the Nex is the size of a wristwatch and comes with a spiffy watch band.
No, but I do know of a case in which a corporation put a yam farmer out of business for selling yams which they had the genetic patent on. The thing was, the yams had been engineered by the farmers the real way, by cross-pollinating and whatnot, and the strain had been in the family for generations. Don't have the specifics on it though.
Yeah, I'd say there's a pretty good chance that Apple doesn't need to feel threatened just yet; maybe it might have something to do with the fact that the Nex IIe costs SIX TIMES MORE!
No, I'm not talking about the jetstreams 30,000 feet in the air--I assume that birds don't even fly that high--I was wondering if there were lower streams (and didn't know what to call them) that might get affected. My point was not that they would get affected, but that we don't know everything and we should at least learn from the dam fiasco.
I'd be less worried about birds smacking into them than their presence screwing up jetstream patterns or something. I don't know much about wind streams, but way back when we started putting dams in rivers we thought it was the greatest thing in the world, and now we have to deal with things like metallic sediments and screwed-up salmon runs. I can't imagine even a huge number of windmills affecting wind patterns to any noticable degree, but it still might not be a bad idea to keep an eye out for weird things like screwy migration patterns, or something.
Fade from black to a row of cubicles, all with Chinese flags pinned on the side. The camera enters one of them to find a Chinese worker at his computer, illuminated by the cold glow of his monitor and a single overhead light bulb.
Worker: [crying out in frustration] "I need to find info on democracy, but Google is blocked! Whatever shall I do?"
A man jumps in from out of nowhere, dressed in black, with a black mask and a long black cape, furling in the wind. He points his rapier to the sky, and calls out:
"Have no fear! I am El Goog! I will find your information, and vanquish your dastardly firewall!"
Yeah, but the finding of the middle ground should be based on what gets the most art to the most people, not trying to satisfy people who want free stuff or more money.
There are also people like me (who may be "content creators" and/or "content consumers" or neither) who believe that the more content that is available to the general public (e.g. current and future "content creators"), the more inspiration they will get, and the richer the whole of society will be.
The aim of copyright law should not be to find some middle ground between the greed of the providers and consumers, but to create an environment that makes as much stuff available to as many people as cheaply as possible, at the same time making sure that content creators are well rewarded for getting into the creation business in the first place.
Automats == people behind the counter...
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...or at least, that's how it is now.
Actually, I think that it's machines like this that will save our society from itself. Right now, we're used to getting a pack of smokes at 3 am. That's not gonna change. To support that, there's a whole workforce out there sitting behind a counter basically wasting their lives away for $5.50 an hour. I look forward to the day when everyone's job that can be replaced by a machine, is. I expect we'll have a lot more people doing meaningful things that benefit our culture. And with a little luck, everyone will have to work less for the same pay.
No, the outside the box thing was referring to the NASA mind-reading bit. See, if you got ESP waves that said "must find old spinster to live with," you'd know the cat was alive.
Lab equipment for studying herpi-podiatry: $68,000
Salaries for scientists and lab assistants: $230,000
Ticket to "Spiderman": $8.50
The fact that this was discovered only after getting the idea from the Spiderman movie: priceless.
Re:not faith, but simple (circular) logic.
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That's my whole point. I don't think God exists, per se. You have the something (matter? or if you like, 1), and the nothing (antimatter? or 0), and the void that came before it, the absence of both something and nothing; and you have God, which is whatever was around when everything was null.
It was my impression that it was widely accepted among scientists that the universe was x years old, and therefore had to spring into existence at some point. But I could be wrong. That the universe simply always existed seems impossible to me. Everything that exists in the world had to be created at some point, out of existing matter: Slashdot, my car, this computer, etc. I can't believe that the universe just exists on it's own anymore than I can believe that no one is responsible for making Slashdot. I define God as the thing that always was, that created the universe, and therefore, is incomprehensible. I can't say that the universe always existed because it itself can be seen, studied and understood. God, being unable to be comprehended, is therefore worthy of worship. I'm not sure if I'm getting my point across or I'm dancing around it. It's a tricky point to make.
Okay, let me try another analogy. I can rip a CD using iTunes and make mp3s from it. But I don't understand the algorithms behind it, I just know which buttons to press. The person who programmed iTunes is at a level of sophistication higher than me, at least in mp3 programming terms. By the same token, we can all go find a woman and make a baby (theoretically; this is Slashdot). But no one knows really how a human is made; no one can put consciousness into lifeless tissue. Except God. Jesus has even done it (or so I believe).
Personally, I belive that to think God is a who is pretty dumb. If I were to try to describe God, I'd say He's a consciousness. Either that, or he is existence. When they say man was created in God's image, I figure that means something more like a disk image, rather than picture. The key point about this image being it's ability to make things for their own sake, not just to use them for something, which is what seperates us from animals (I figure).
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...which could start to explain the egyptian pantheon:)
To answer your first question, yes; but let's back it up even more. Consciousness is, of course, extremely complex system behavior. But how did that system get started? Even if we evolved from microbes, who created the microbes? Did the universe simply always exist? Science says no, right? Then what came before? If there was a big bang, who started it (frankly, I think the big bang is about the most creationist theory ever to come about)? Whoever did, it's who I call God. I guess it might be kinda like saying "whoever pooped in your litter box, that's your cat." I don't need to see your cat to know it exists.
So I guess I should amend my original statement to "whoever created existence, that's God."
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what if two of these folks stand right next to each other??
The article says the range is about 25 millimeters. So they would have to be french kissing with their eyeballs to create this kind of problem. Sounds like a non-issue for all but the extremely kinky.
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"The vogon ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
This illustrates why a movie version will never approach the quality of the written one.
This is exactly the stance I've been hoping the whole music industry takes. I'd love to buy a CD and show my support... except they need a new option when you register:
I bought this CD for-
[ ] the music
[ ] the principle
From the article:
Furthermore, water cooling projects for the overclockers become more of a reality.
Aren't PowerPC chips basically un-overclockable? From what I understand, something about the chip design makes it either impossible to overclock it, or makes the speed gained from overclocking it negligble.
Rumblecode creator Mat Nelson: "Today, Java is fast, though many people still do not realize it. Computer speed has increased at an amazing rate, JVMs are faster than ever, Java has matured, and we even have hardware-accelerated graphics. Java is ready for the client now, and I hope Robocode can help to prove it."
A year ago, I dropped my monitor (sony e210) a distance of about 2 feet onto a marble floor. It landed on its front-top-right corner, and it still works perfectly!
Well, how about the fact that all the prior art's either rotted away or been eaten?
That's my point. If you're gonna spend $200 for a player w/ 256mb, you really might as well scrape together the extra $100 for 20x the storage. And yes, I know that storage isn't everything, but at the size of a deck of cards, with firewire cable, I'd say that the iPod has all its bases covered. Unless of course the Nex is the size of a wristwatch and comes with a spiffy watch band.
No, but I do know of a case in which a corporation put a yam farmer out of business for selling yams which they had the genetic patent on. The thing was, the yams had been engineered by the farmers the real way, by cross-pollinating and whatnot, and the strain had been in the family for generations. Don't have the specifics on it though.
I'm not sure Apple needs to feel threatened by the NexIIe just yet
Um, let's see:
Nex IIe:
Player- $115
5 gigs of storage (ten 512mb cards)- $1800
iPod:
Player w/ 5 gigs of storage- $300
Yeah, I'd say there's a pretty good chance that Apple doesn't need to feel threatened just yet; maybe it might have something to do with the fact that the Nex IIe costs SIX TIMES MORE!
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=848&aid=- 1
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OS X 10.*, 14%
OS 9, 1%
Linux, 32%
I think it's obvious where they got the data from.
No, I'm not talking about the jetstreams 30,000 feet in the air--I assume that birds don't even fly that high--I was wondering if there were lower streams (and didn't know what to call them) that might get affected. My point was not that they would get affected, but that we don't know everything and we should at least learn from the dam fiasco.
I'd be less worried about birds smacking into them than their presence screwing up jetstream patterns or something. I don't know much about wind streams, but way back when we started putting dams in rivers we thought it was the greatest thing in the world, and now we have to deal with things like metallic sediments and screwed-up salmon runs. I can't imagine even a huge number of windmills affecting wind patterns to any noticable degree, but it still might not be a bad idea to keep an eye out for weird things like screwy migration patterns, or something.
...will it sing "Bicycle Built for Two?"
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, I'm half craazy, alll fooor theee looooove oooooof yoooooouuuuuu..."
Fade from black to a row of cubicles, all with Chinese flags pinned on the side. The camera enters one of them to find a Chinese worker at his computer, illuminated by the cold glow of his monitor and a single overhead light bulb.
Worker: [crying out in frustration] "I need to find info on democracy, but Google is blocked! Whatever shall I do?"
A man jumps in from out of nowhere, dressed in black, with a black mask and a long black cape, furling in the wind. He points his rapier to the sky, and calls out:
"Have no fear! I am El Goog! I will find your information, and vanquish your dastardly firewall!"
[cheers in background]
Firewall: "Curses!"
"And now let's all sing hymn #42... "
Yeah, but the finding of the middle ground should be based on what gets the most art to the most people, not trying to satisfy people who want free stuff or more money.
There are also people like me (who may be "content creators" and/or "content consumers" or neither) who believe that the more content that is available to the general public (e.g. current and future "content creators"), the more inspiration they will get, and the richer the whole of society will be.
The aim of copyright law should not be to find some middle ground between the greed of the providers and consumers, but to create an environment that makes as much stuff available to as many people as cheaply as possible, at the same time making sure that content creators are well rewarded for getting into the creation business in the first place.
...or at least, that's how it is now.
Actually, I think that it's machines like this that will save our society from itself. Right now, we're used to getting a pack of smokes at 3 am. That's not gonna change. To support that, there's a whole workforce out there sitting behind a counter basically wasting their lives away for $5.50 an hour. I look forward to the day when everyone's job that can be replaced by a machine, is. I expect we'll have a lot more people doing meaningful things that benefit our culture. And with a little luck, everyone will have to work less for the same pay.
No, the outside the box thing was referring to the NASA mind-reading bit. See, if you got ESP waves that said "must find old spinster to live with," you'd know the cat was alive.
isn't it to the point where "Thinking Outside the Box" is thinking INSIDE the box?
Only if the box is Schroedinger's...
Lab equipment for studying herpi-podiatry: $68,000
Salaries for scientists and lab assistants: $230,000
Ticket to "Spiderman": $8.50
The fact that this was discovered only after getting the idea from the Spiderman movie: priceless.
That's my whole point. I don't think God exists, per se. You have the something (matter? or if you like, 1), and the nothing (antimatter? or 0), and the void that came before it, the absence of both something and nothing; and you have God, which is whatever was around when everything was null.
It was my impression that it was widely accepted among scientists that the universe was x years old, and therefore had to spring into existence at some point. But I could be wrong. That the universe simply always existed seems impossible to me. Everything that exists in the world had to be created at some point, out of existing matter: Slashdot, my car, this computer, etc. I can't believe that the universe just exists on it's own anymore than I can believe that no one is responsible for making Slashdot. I define God as the thing that always was, that created the universe, and therefore, is incomprehensible. I can't say that the universe always existed because it itself can be seen, studied and understood. God, being unable to be comprehended, is therefore worthy of worship. I'm not sure if I'm getting my point across or I'm dancing around it. It's a tricky point to make.
Okay, let me try another analogy. I can rip a CD using iTunes and make mp3s from it. But I don't understand the algorithms behind it, I just know which buttons to press. The person who programmed iTunes is at a level of sophistication higher than me, at least in mp3 programming terms. By the same token, we can all go find a woman and make a baby (theoretically; this is Slashdot). But no one knows really how a human is made; no one can put consciousness into lifeless tissue. Except God. Jesus has even done it (or so I believe).
Personally, I belive that to think God is a who is pretty dumb. If I were to try to describe God, I'd say He's a consciousness. Either that, or he is existence. When they say man was created in God's image, I figure that means something more like a disk image, rather than picture. The key point about this image being it's ability to make things for their own sake, not just to use them for something, which is what seperates us from animals (I figure).
...which could start to explain the egyptian pantheon :)
To answer your first question, yes; but let's back it up even more. Consciousness is, of course, extremely complex system behavior. But how did that system get started? Even if we evolved from microbes, who created the microbes? Did the universe simply always exist? Science says no, right? Then what came before? If there was a big bang, who started it (frankly, I think the big bang is about the most creationist theory ever to come about)? Whoever did, it's who I call God. I guess it might be kinda like saying "whoever pooped in your litter box, that's your cat." I don't need to see your cat to know it exists.
So I guess I should amend my original statement to "whoever created existence, that's God."
Whatever gave me conciousness, that's God.
what if two of these folks stand right next to each other??
The article says the range is about 25 millimeters. So they would have to be french kissing with their eyeballs to create this kind of problem. Sounds like a non-issue for all but the extremely kinky.