Otherwise, I suggest telling spammers to not spam you anymore, and to follow up on that with appropriate legal action if they continue.
Only one problem: locating a spammer is like nailing jello to a tree. How do you plan to trace a spam message to a particular spammer and actually make the opt-out stick? I don't condone violence against these guys, but it wouldn't upset me terribly if their car were crushed by junk mail.
Which, again, is still a choice. If the FCC can censor one then they can censore the other.
No they can't, not now. The FCC may only regulate decency for media that uses the public airwaves. Anything else is an illegal overstepping of their mandate.
That (i.e., the whole market is growing) is what we see happening, though that doesn't mean that MS is actually losing market share: thay may simply be gaining more slowly than before.
At whose expense? If Linux and Unix are both up, and MS is also up, who's down? IBM mainframes?
English class should be teaching me Grammar, styles, poetry, but not how to extract senseless unintended meanings of random ramblings which are only deemed poetry because it seems to have a "hidden meaning" and lots of metaphors. I would never use that in life - the only time I would ever is if I was becoming an english major or something, and even that might be doubtful.
Poetry is all about playing with language, saying things that would get you shot if you said them plainly, getting laid, and just playing.
A basic CORE knowledge can be established in 4 years or less. That includes all the rules of grammar, the basics of math and practical applications in everyday situations, a basics in sciences, a ground foundation in history and HOW IT APPLIES TODAY, a brief introduction to economics and government (not as ridiculoudly verbose as now), as well as brief instruction on common things you need to know to live, such as how to wash clothes and cook simple foods. After that, go right away to "college", but start at a much lower level to be taught only the requisites for your field or group of fields.
Agreed, except that you also need the history of things, so as not to put too much value on the status quo. History specifically should include a grounding in the controversy over historical events rather than presenting everything as agreed upon fact. You also need to learn how to budget using real numbers from a variety of economic levels. That way, you will realize that spending a year's salary on a car is not something you do unless you have 4 years salary saved. There should also be a basic intro into investing so you can learn how to save that 4 years of salary.
Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople.
Actually, Alphas would be the C level managers and leaders, while researchers and top-level intellectual workers would most likely be B with some A at the upper end. Actually leading people and deciding where to go is way harder than building the road to get there.
But yes, SCSI is parallel, yellowstone is lost on the issue.
SCSI as a byte protocol is neither serial nor parallel. There exist serial and parallel versions, but those are physical transport details. You could build a transport composed of 4 serial channels (1 primary + 3 secondary) and it would still be scsi, or at least scsi based.
Science is the pursuit of truth about the physical world.
No, that's religion and philosophy. Science is about the pursuit of understanding and knowledge. Exactly what does a god offer in the way of predicting how things work? Especially one that condemns those who seek to know his mind?
evolutionary dogma...
ID is creationism with a new coat of paint. Come back when you have an actual theory.
It is only through a multi-disciplinary open-mindedness that science can remain pure and truth may be discovered. Now how often do you hear a Christian say that?;-)
Frequently. How often do they live that? The more they shove their Christianity in your face, the less they act it.
it's no secret that the human brain can do maths in real-time with frightening speed. Just walking involves real-time feats of calculus that would choke a calculator.
Just like when you catch a baseball you're actually solving differential equations, not just estimating where the ball will go.
"Example: Aboriginal tribesmen somehow sensed the impending danger of December's tsunami in time to flee to higher ground before the first sign of water."
This is a result of them having lived there for awhile. Their elders told them that, when the water suddenly goes out quickly, it will be coming back with great force. This is probably a result of observing similar things in the past, not some 6th sense.
We know that in our experience, something man-made, such as a car does not just appear, but is the product of intelligent design and purposeful construction, all arising out of a thing we call mind.
Well duh, man made things are made by man.
why is it BELIEVED that even a singe cell 'appeared' out of seemingly nowhere?
It isn't. A single cell is thought to be the product of about 1-2B years of evolution, starting with much simpler organisms.
Indeed, as you say, life could be common in the universe, but why can it not be attributed to a mind that has made it happen in many places.
So aliens are seeding life though the universe? Who made them? When you get down to it, someone has to be the first and, new evidence notwithstanding, it may as well be us.
Why is it so hard to admit that the order and information content of the "natural" world is the product of a mind just as the products of our modern technological world are conceived in the minds of their creators?
That's a religious argument and has no place in science. Specifically, it allows no new understanding or predictions. Save your ID stuff for philosophy.
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Who, exactly, is the target market for the x86 Mini?
The marketing position for the Mini PC is to convert Windows iPod users who are sold on the Apple brand but think even the iMacs are too expensive.
Of course, as was already noted, there are no 64bit Macs, so the contest is pointless.
Last I checked, the G4 (which is in the mini) is 64 bit.
you do have to wonder why they would put one in the mini though. there is no hope of adding an internal firewire device.
Simple: the itnernal firewire port can drive a dock stuck in the top.
Otherwise, I suggest telling spammers to not spam you anymore, and to follow up on that with appropriate legal action if they continue.
Only one problem: locating a spammer is like nailing jello to a tree. How do you plan to trace a spam message to a particular spammer and actually make the opt-out stick? I don't condone violence against these guys, but it wouldn't upset me terribly if their car were crushed by junk mail.
Specifically, prison costs about $25k/year, while the Death penalty costs a couple mil.
MGM v. Grokster is slightly more interesting than Criminal Law.
Well yeah, it's sort of like the lab portion (except for the whole civil thing).
But my newfound loyalty to class attendance [...] will probably trump any desire to hear what the Supreme Court justices have to say on the matter
There will be a criminal law class next semester. The supremes only rule on a given case once.
Because you know, we should allow these kids to get off with a slap on their wrist.
If, by slap on the wrist, you mean life in prison. It's not like we'll knock it down to probation os anything.
Which, again, is still a choice. If the FCC can censor one then they can censore the other.
No they can't, not now. The FCC may only regulate decency for media that uses the public airwaves. Anything else is an illegal overstepping of their mandate.
The article was not about market SHARE which is a fixed number. It was about volumes.
The post i was responding to appeared to be speaking about share, not volume.
That (i.e., the whole market is growing) is what we see happening, though that doesn't mean that MS is actually losing market share: thay may simply be gaining more slowly than before.
At whose expense? If Linux and Unix are both up, and MS is also up, who's down? IBM mainframes?
And that, in turn, means that people who write for the business press are completely incompetent, too.
You're new here, aren't you?
But I somehow wonder if power plants in the midwest would really just close up and start buying their power from the west coast.
Actually, it's just the reverse, thanks to Enron and California's refusal to build new power plants.
One thing to note, my car at the time was equiped with a video recorder next to the odometer.
Sounds cool. Got a link?
they teach kids poor techniques for solving problems (I see a lot of guestimation exercises when my children are more than capable of doing the math).
If they taught guestimation with examples that the kids couldn't get the actual answer for, how would they know how well their guesses were?
English class should be teaching me Grammar, styles, poetry, but not how to extract senseless unintended meanings of random ramblings which are only deemed poetry because it seems to have a "hidden meaning" and lots of metaphors. I would never use that in life - the only time I would ever is if I was becoming an english major or something, and even that might be doubtful.
Poetry is all about playing with language, saying things that would get you shot if you said them plainly, getting laid, and just playing.
A basic CORE knowledge can be established in 4 years or less. That includes all the rules of grammar, the basics of math and practical applications in everyday situations, a basics in sciences, a ground foundation in history and HOW IT APPLIES TODAY, a brief introduction to economics and government (not as ridiculoudly verbose as now), as well as brief instruction on common things you need to know to live, such as how to wash clothes and cook simple foods. After that, go right away to "college", but start at a much lower level to be taught only the requisites for your field or group of fields.
Agreed, except that you also need the history of things, so as not to put too much value on the status quo. History specifically should include a grounding in the controversy over historical events rather than presenting everything as agreed upon fact. You also need to learn how to budget using real numbers from a variety of economic levels. That way, you will realize that spending a year's salary on a car is not something you do unless you have 4 years salary saved. There should also be a basic intro into investing so you can learn how to save that 4 years of salary.
Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople.
Actually, Alphas would be the C level managers and leaders, while researchers and top-level intellectual workers would most likely be B with some A at the upper end. Actually leading people and deciding where to go is way harder than building the road to get there.
But yes, SCSI is parallel, yellowstone is lost on the issue.
SCSI as a byte protocol is neither serial nor parallel. There exist serial and parallel versions, but those are physical transport details. You could build a transport composed of 4 serial channels (1 primary + 3 secondary) and it would still be scsi, or at least scsi based.
Drop by later and I'll give you one of my 32M discards.
Thanks. I was getting tired of arguing with this guy.
Science is the pursuit of truth about the physical world.
No, that's religion and philosophy. Science is about the pursuit of understanding and knowledge. Exactly what does a god offer in the way of predicting how things work? Especially one that condemns those who seek to know his mind?
evolutionary dogma...
ID is creationism with a new coat of paint. Come back when you have an actual theory.
It is only through a multi-disciplinary open-mindedness that science can remain pure and truth may be discovered. Now how often do you hear a Christian say that? ;-)
Frequently. How often do they live that? The more they shove their Christianity in your face, the less they act it.
it's no secret that the human brain can do maths in real-time with frightening speed. Just walking involves real-time feats of calculus that would choke a calculator.
Just like when you catch a baseball you're actually solving differential equations, not just estimating where the ball will go.
From the interviews after the fact where they explained why they evacuated.
"Example: Aboriginal tribesmen somehow sensed the impending danger of December's tsunami in time to flee to higher ground before the first sign of water."
This is a result of them having lived there for awhile. Their elders told them that, when the water suddenly goes out quickly, it will be coming back with great force. This is probably a result of observing similar things in the past, not some 6th sense.
We know that in our experience, something man-made, such as a car does not just appear, but is the product of intelligent design and purposeful construction, all arising out of a thing we call mind.
Well duh, man made things are made by man.
why is it BELIEVED that even a singe cell 'appeared' out of seemingly nowhere?
It isn't. A single cell is thought to be the product of about 1-2B years of evolution, starting with much simpler organisms.
Indeed, as you say, life could be common in the universe, but why can it not be attributed to a mind that has made it happen in many places.
So aliens are seeding life though the universe? Who made them? When you get down to it, someone has to be the first and, new evidence notwithstanding, it may as well be us.
Why is it so hard to admit that the order and information content of the "natural" world is the product of a mind just as the products of our modern technological world are conceived in the minds of their creators?
That's a religious argument and has no place in science. Specifically, it allows no new understanding or predictions. Save your ID stuff for philosophy.
Given our rather limited data on the matter, what makes you think the Drake equation is anything more than a structured guess?