Yes, it's interesting, how decades of cold war and socialist propaganda did nothing, but tough-as-nails capitalism (we borrow you money, so you can buy our crap) brought the US to its knees.
Can't the world become better for once, for a change?
'Colonists and pilgrims seldom set off for the New World with the expectation of a return trip.'
Yes, but they also expected at least to be able to breathe, and find some water and plants/animals to eat at that new place. Also, this are no colonists or pilgrims. They are explorers. The first ones. Not the followers who already know that it's going to be pretty OK there.
I don't think human bodies will ever leave this planet in any relevant quantities. There will be autonomous robots, which carry parts of our minds in them trough their programming anyway. And some day in the future, we will transmit our minds as binary streams to their new bodies (robotic, organic, whatever you like) in other star systems. That would be light-speed travel in stasis then. Not what we think, when we hear those words today. But a pretty great way to travel by any standards! (You could even add extreme error correction, multiple submissions, backups, etc, etc, etc.)
Same here. They are not going to find life, even if it eats them alive!;)
"Oh, look, that sand cave entry ceiling, that never ever can be life, just... i guess... fell down from gravity. Oh, look at that sea of liquid there! Perhaps we will find water the..." *pssshhhhhhh* (scientist astronauts dissolve in digestive fluid, causing gas for the poor alien sand gulper.)
It's as closed-minded as the stuff that they call "aliens" in movies. I bet out there in the real world, you'd be lucky to find something with a head. Let alone limbs, hands, faces with all the typical human senses, etc. I mean most stuff here on earth does not even look like that!
And for the bacteria: Do they need water and oxygen? No! There is stuff out there in the deep seas, that *breathes* uranium, titanium, or many other things! Imagine a bigger lifeform like that. Maybe floating in some non-water substance. And that's only the beginning.
From working with "people" from the media reproduction and musician extortion industry, I can tell you, that that industry is extremely regional.
Global licensing does not really exist. There are czar-like "people" controlling their regions for their company (one of the four), and you have to personally talk to them and kiss their asses, to get anything done in that region. Which usually involves hookers and blow. And I'm not even exaggerating. It was actually expected, at those meetings.
They are both downloads. the only difference that with one, it stays longer on the computer. So the question should be: "How long do you (want to) keep your music?". Which of course is dependent on the music itself.
I listen to Shoutcast radios, for which I happen to have made a StreamRipper extension to decide to only keep what I want to keep, before or after I listened to it. With remote control, and Amarok integration. It's working well for me, but feel free to do with it whatever you like: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/armSR4amarok&listen.stream.tar.bz2 The only rule — apart from the GPL license — is, to tell me when you improved it, or found a bug.:) (There. That is the power of Linux! Have an idea? Let it grow! Let it grow around you. Yeah, that should be the Linux slogan: "Linux: Let your ideas grow!" Or something alike.:)
Here in Cologne, Germany, you can a get 100 Mb/s down and 10 Mb/s up FTTH DSL flat with a phone flat for 35€. With no connection fee, and the first three months are free too. It's because it's their own fiber and network, so they don't have to pay the last mile etc.
I think that density is a major factor for new companies, and as this area here is one of the most dense in the Europe, it seems to work. (They're here since 1994 now.) They are a company that is owned by the city. So you can call it "socialism". I call it a success.:)
Create a new ISP with a *guaranteed* minimum bandwidth! Offer it to *everyone*.
But detail everywhere and exactly, where the money you would have to pay to get it, would go! Everything. Which material, which work, external contractors, taxes, etc. You have that data in your business's database anyway. It's easily automatable. Nearly everything of that ISP would be automated anyway. And client-owned too, in a way.
If you live in the swamp seas of east-ass-hicksville or Gaylord, KS, you will then have the choice to tunnel it trough other ISPs and pay their price, or lay your own wire, and pay that. Therefore an offer would be, to commit to a specific user-defined payment, so as soon as there are enough people to finance the construction that part of the line, it would be built. Other choices would include buying a local ISP, etc.
The brain stores the *differences* of *associations*. And violence is more extreme. So it is a bigger difference. Which means the storing is stronger. Which means you remember it, and everything you associate with at, best.
Or did nobody here understand how brains (or other neural nets) work?? (I see that all the time:/)
There is no either or! That's the very point of Firefox!
You can have it as you like it! I can *right now* put the tabs on top, on the very bottom, on the right or left side, hide them and replace them by a dozen different ways of navigation, etc, etc, etc.
If you are a serious UI designer, and you first priority is not *C*H*O*I*C*E*, then you are a failure at your job and have so stop working *right now*. (Second priority is good *defaults*. But never hard-code stuff!)
Yes, I know *exactly* what I'm talking about!
Sorry for getting angry. But I just can't stand this limited thinking. It's hurting us all!
and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization
...a fixed number of levels means a badly designed program. Or else it would not put any limitations on the number of levels.
Why not just make it go trough the rules recursively like all cascading rule parser? You could even put a configurable limit on it, so it does not crash when coming in contact with infinite levels of rules.
Interesting. I have a drawing like that in my idea book. It's now two years old, and it's better, because the electronics cover only the area of the display, and nothing else. So if you can make them see-trough, you're done. You would have to lay them on top of each other anyway, as soon as you'd cover the whole field of view.
I can also cut a cavity in a lens, glue an LED into it, and put some wires on it. Or make a small non-tranparent integrated circuit, and glue it between two lenses. That's not hard. Everybody can do that, if he has a optical microscope with some micro-tools, and can do his own ICs (I can). Everybody can buy those tools, as long as he has the money.
I wonder it they're beyond the design phase for the *whole* thing, and if I should patent it and put the patent into the public domain.:)
Just put a total of 200 square mile of arrays of mirrors into the deadest deserts and place on earth, let them heat water, drive turbines, and lead the power to us with DC cables. Tadaa: Enough energy for the whole world!
It's easy to build, needs no rare or non-renewable materials, does not destroy any living nature (except if you consider things like salt flats living nature), is relatively cheap in building and maintenance... what more do you need?
If you have to do it in space: The same thing works there too. You just have even more problems getting the power here. But what's the point?
If i ever make big time money, I'll invest half of it in such a power plant, and the other half in an army of soldiers and lobbyists, to protect it from a specific group of greedy bastards.
The "25 or younger" are a myth. The average twitterer is rather old. It's a thing for midlife-crisis type of people. Young people couldn't care less about Twitter. Check it for yourself!
Slashdot Mirror
Let's sing all along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
(There are too many funny comments. I can't decide, so I'll let you do it. ^^)
Not if they are Korean!
Yes, it's interesting, how decades of cold war and socialist propaganda did nothing, but tough-as-nails capitalism (we borrow you money, so you can buy our crap) brought the US to its knees.
Can't the world become better for once, for a change?
Microsoft? FUCK YOU!
Aaahhh, looking on how the US has its hands around EU flight data, I guess we're going back to war then...
"Jahahaaa! Wuunderbaar!"
'Colonists and pilgrims seldom set off for the New World with the expectation of a return trip.'
Yes, but they also expected at least to be able to breathe, and find some water and plants/animals to eat at that new place.
Also, this are no colonists or pilgrims. They are explorers. The first ones. Not the followers who already know that it's going to be pretty OK there.
I don't think human bodies will ever leave this planet in any relevant quantities. There will be autonomous robots, which carry parts of our minds in them trough their programming anyway. And some day in the future, we will transmit our minds as binary streams to their new bodies (robotic, organic, whatever you like) in other star systems.
That would be light-speed travel in stasis then. Not what we think, when we hear those words today. But a pretty great way to travel by any standards! (You could even add extreme error correction, multiple submissions, backups, etc, etc, etc.)
How does your mother become your daughter then?
Even better is the one that my brother has: The "can't get fat" gene!
Con: You get cold easily, e.g. at the beach in the evening.
Pro: You can eat like an animal, and can't get fat! (You simply burn it faster.)
I'd call that a pretty great deal! I'd even let people infect myself with a virus that changes all DNA in my body to this state, if they would do it.
Same here. They are not going to find life, even if it eats them alive! ;)
"Oh, look, that sand cave entry ceiling, that never ever can be life, just... i guess... fell down from gravity. Oh, look at that sea of liquid there! Perhaps we will find water the..." *pssshhhhhhh* (scientist astronauts dissolve in digestive fluid, causing gas for the poor alien sand gulper.)
It's as closed-minded as the stuff that they call "aliens" in movies. I bet out there in the real world, you'd be lucky to find something with a head. Let alone limbs, hands, faces with all the typical human senses, etc. I mean most stuff here on earth does not even look like that!
And for the bacteria: Do they need water and oxygen? No! There is stuff out there in the deep seas, that *breathes* uranium, titanium, or many other things! Imagine a bigger lifeform like that. Maybe floating in some non-water substance. And that's only the beginning.
From working with "people" from the media reproduction and musician extortion industry, I can tell you, that that industry is extremely regional.
Global licensing does not really exist. There are czar-like "people" controlling their regions for their company (one of the four), and you have to personally talk to them and kiss their asses, to get anything done in that region. Which usually involves hookers and blow. And I'm not even exaggerating. It was actually expected, at those meetings.
They are both downloads. the only difference that with one, it stays longer on the computer. So the question should be: "How long do you (want to) keep your music?". Which of course is dependent on the music itself.
I listen to Shoutcast radios, for which I happen to have made a StreamRipper extension to decide to only keep what I want to keep, before or after I listened to it. With remote control, and Amarok integration. It's working well for me, but feel free to do with it whatever you like: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/armSR4amarok&listen.stream.tar.bz2 :) :)
The only rule — apart from the GPL license — is, to tell me when you improved it, or found a bug.
(There. That is the power of Linux! Have an idea? Let it grow! Let it grow around you. Yeah, that should be the Linux slogan: "Linux: Let your ideas grow!" Or something alike.
Once upon a time the string "AT&T" stood for some kind of technical excellence. So, for that matter, did the string "FCC".
[Citation needed]
Here in Cologne, Germany, you can a get 100 Mb/s down and 10 Mb/s up FTTH DSL flat with a phone flat for 35€. With no connection fee, and the first three months are free too.
It's because it's their own fiber and network, so they don't have to pay the last mile etc.
I think that density is a major factor for new companies, and as this area here is one of the most dense in the Europe, it seems to work. (They're here since 1994 now.) :)
They are a company that is owned by the city. So you can call it "socialism". I call it a success.
Create a new ISP with a *guaranteed* minimum bandwidth!
Offer it to *everyone*.
But detail everywhere and exactly, where the money you would have to pay to get it, would go!
Everything. Which material, which work, external contractors, taxes, etc.
You have that data in your business's database anyway. It's easily automatable.
Nearly everything of that ISP would be automated anyway. And client-owned too, in a way.
If you live in the swamp seas of east-ass-hicksville or Gaylord, KS, you will then have the choice to tunnel it trough other ISPs and pay their price, or lay your own wire, and pay that.
Therefore an offer would be, to commit to a specific user-defined payment, so as soon as there are enough people to finance the construction that part of the line, it would be built. Other choices would include buying a local ISP, etc.
And the Nation of the Australian Antarctic Territory does not recognize the USA, Russia, China an... Australia... as countries! :P
Our ill-tempered super-penguins with frickin' lasers will CONQUER THE WORLD! MUHAHAHAHAAAA!
The brain stores the *differences* of *associations*. And violence is more extreme. So it is a bigger difference. Which means the storing is stronger. Which means you remember it, and everything you associate with at, best.
Or did nobody here understand how brains (or other neural nets) work?? (I see that all the time :/)
I'll extend this to: CHOICE before function before form! :)
I'm shocked by the stupidity in this thread!
There is no either or! That's the very point of Firefox!
You can have it as you like it! I can *right now* put the tabs on top, on the very bottom, on the right or left side, hide them and replace them by a dozen different ways of navigation, etc, etc, etc.
If you are a serious UI designer, and you first priority is not *C*H*O*I*C*E*, then you are a failure at your job and have so stop working *right now*.
(Second priority is good *defaults*. But never hard-code stuff!)
Yes, I know *exactly* what I'm talking about!
Sorry for getting angry. But I just can't stand this limited thinking. It's hurting us all!
That thing was better than I expected. But aren't all politicians nowadays headless servers, that just blindly follow orders from their lobby masters?
...it's the start of the "extend" phase of their three step plan. ;)
But you already have that! It's called "TV"!
And I hear it's quite popular too!
and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization
...a fixed number of levels means a badly designed program. Or else it would not put any limitations on the number of levels.
Why not just make it go trough the rules recursively like all cascading rule parser? You could even put a configurable limit on it, so it does not crash when coming in contact with infinite levels of rules.
Interesting. I have a drawing like that in my idea book. It's now two years old, and it's better, because the electronics cover only the area of the display, and nothing else. So if you can make them see-trough, you're done. You would have to lay them on top of each other anyway, as soon as you'd cover the whole field of view.
I can also cut a cavity in a lens, glue an LED into it, and put some wires on it. Or make a small non-tranparent integrated circuit, and glue it between two lenses. That's not hard. Everybody can do that, if he has a optical microscope with some micro-tools, and can do his own ICs (I can). Everybody can buy those tools, as long as he has the money.
I wonder it they're beyond the design phase for the *whole* thing, and if I should patent it and put the patent into the public domain. :)
Allright. I'll start a flash mob to trademark all colors, three-note-"melodies", letters, numbers, and sex positions.
Then they will have to either let me own them, or not let anyone own such things.
(I know, they will just create a double standard, allowing anyone with enough money to do so, and be done with it. Fucking bastards!)
Just put a total of 200 square mile of arrays of mirrors into the deadest deserts and place on earth, let them heat water, drive turbines, and lead the power to us with DC cables. Tadaa: Enough energy for the whole world!
It's easy to build, needs no rare or non-renewable materials, does not destroy any living nature (except if you consider things like salt flats living nature), is relatively cheap in building and maintenance... what more do you need?
If you have to do it in space: The same thing works there too. You just have even more problems getting the power here. But what's the point?
If i ever make big time money, I'll invest half of it in such a power plant, and the other half in an army of soldiers and lobbyists, to protect it from a specific group of greedy bastards.
The "25 or younger" are a myth. The average twitterer is rather old. It's a thing for midlife-crisis type of people. Young people couldn't care less about Twitter. Check it for yourself!