Why not just ask for help ? A lot of countries fairly friendly with U.S. have a good image in the arabic world and could help things out. Laugh of the France all you want, but it has an army of arabic-speaking diplomats and a long experience of the middle east. And I may point out that its opposition to the war has given it a very good image.
Oh, and stop using trigger-happy mercenaries and torture. Some people think that *may* be unpopular.
I suppose if your definition of "victory" is "turn Iraq into America Jr", then no, it's not happening.
Well, I have to concede that Iraq now looks a bit like New Orleans, though...
Indeed. the fact that is reassuring is that there is no invisible harm like with microwaves. Here you will know you use to much energy when bones break...
is it even possible that science can remain apolitical? Has it ever been?
Has it ever be otherwise ? Right now you are talking about a film director and politicians. Science is humankind's tool to find a truth independant of politics, religion and points of view of any form. Politicians and journalists have always talked about science subject, but what they do is politics and journalism, both useful and needed job, but their goal is not to make science. Why do people get so easily confuse ?
And why, oh god, WHY do people think that they can't do science by themselves and rely on some "elite" scientists to have an opinion on something ?
We don't know much about the conservation of laser-color-printed paper, espiecially when you have to keep microscopic informations on it...
It is however a very interesting idea.
That raises the question of how he managed to raise more than one million dollar from gaming ! Doesn't that sound a lot to you or is it just me ? I understand that you could sell items worth tens of hours of play for a price in the order of a monthly subscription, thus managing to get a bit of money... But 1 million ? How did he manage it ? What game was it ?
We can imagine to protect the paper in some way. After all, hard drives have to be stored in a metallic case to work correctly. That brings me to another question : Considering a feasible protection, how long do the data stay on the medium ? How many read errors per Gb ? how many write errors ? That is the real problem with data storage.
Why is nobody commenting about this THIRD BRAIN thing ? This is the first time I hear about it, and the first time I hear about a serious government funded initiative for a brain-machine interface...
The solution write itself, people: The Linux community needs to conduct a comprehensive review of Microsoft's patents.
Well, only the American and Japanese (and maybe Australian ? I don't remember) Linux community can have a problem with software patents, so the solution could also be : change the law in America to be compatible with European law and foster America's software company competition. Maybe we will need a complete review when the world is infected by the software patent madness.
First, I think we can reasonably say that the risk is about patent infrigment here, and not source code copying.
I think all Linux and OSS developers know they are living with a Damocles sword above their head : the FOSS community does not apply patents, implement a lot of trivial-but-patented ideas and, for one, I have been wondering why MS didn't attack Linux yet.
I now have an idealistic answer to this question. I think that most big patent holders also live with another Damocles sword. The value of their companies is (partly) related to the number of patent they own. The current system do not care about the individual value of patent, just about their numbers. I think that this system is deeply flawed but that it just keep on working because most shareholders believe in it. Now imagine the Redmond Behemoth clashing with the FOSS insurgency. Both sides are well known, if not of the mainstream public, at least in the IT field, including IT decision makers. Such a debate would very quickly point the flaws of the system and may even be able to disrupt it. Plus, the FOSS is more able to gain public support, considering that even if you can portray them as "IP thiefs", as we use these IP to create products for everybody, we can easily be seen as Robin Hoodesque thiefs.
Would I be in the skin of a Redmon lawyer or decision maker, I would be VERY careful about this issue.
They may also be kicked around, like soccer balls, a popular sport in 99.9 percent of the world.
In 90 percent of the world, this is also called football..
IANAB also but, from my understanding:
Almost every cell of the human body can reproduce
A cancer is a group of cells reproducing in an abnormal fashion
A stem cell is a cell than can reproduce into a variety of different cells, eventually being able to become any type of human cell
Also I think this discovery is interesting from the point of view of the creation of stem cells for an adult. Stem cells may be used in some kind of treatment in the near future as I understand, but an adult body doesn't contain a lot of easily reachable and useful stem cell. One can imagine that we could induce some sort of easily removable cancers (like a skin cancer), take stem cells from it, remove the tumor, and voila! It would prevent the outcry about the prelevement on embryionic stem cells.
[sarcasm]This of course compensate for the wastes generated by all people upgrading their computer when a new version of windows is out. Surely upgrading to Vista and changing computer is easier than changing a windows setting.[/sarcasm]
Please note that while sarcastic, I am happy that the mass market blindly following the trend help fund the R&D effort to produce the better computer I need to run my computer-vision programs...
[Linux zealotery] You can surf the web, play divx, mp3, program and write emails using Linux on an "old" (maybe 3 years) configuration. They are less powerful but generaly use less power. Needing a PIV 3 GHz Dual Core with 2 Go RAM and a graphic card with more memory than I have in my file server for reading emails and DVDs is the real waste, Microsoft is only somehow compensating for this.[/Linux zealotery]
[mod me insightful] Linux is not produce by a company but by individuals on their free time, we can't give its "green rank". But if we want to compare this network of people to a company like Microsoft you have to consier some things :
People in large companies tend to use more resources than people on their free time, be it paper, power, AC, better computers, etc...
The "Linux network" only has programmers. No marketing department, no administration, no financial department, etc... each one of these producing their own wastes
Linux is often used to "recycle" old PCs into education tools or simple media boxes. Do do that with, say, Win 95, you would have (in theory) to 1) find a licence 2) forget about internet connectivity because of all the nasty stuff Win 95 is vulnerable about 3) forget about recent software, even those which are lightweight.[/mod me insightful]
Would 33% of the money you robbed have been used to charity if you had not robbed it ? If not, you helped (and got rich in the process)
Bill creates a (small) stream of money from big companies to some charities and a bigger one to his bank account. I wouldn't say he earned that money, but the existence of the first stream is a good thing.
As much I would like the "make love not war" idea the editor is suggesting, I need to point out that war is a common way in human history to regenerate the gene pool.
Well, having a way to check AND systematically check all elections results, whoever gets elected, sounds like a good idea. Especially when you need the kind of legitimacy it takes to pretend imposing democracy in other nations.
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That is only a problem for anything connected on Internet...
At my local Pizza Hut, I can see an old DOS interface behind the counter.
After all, that wouldn't be the first president to disobey law ...
Why not just ask for help ? A lot of countries fairly friendly with U.S. have a good image in the arabic world and could help things out. Laugh of the France all you want, but it has an army of arabic-speaking diplomats and a long experience of the middle east. And I may point out that its opposition to the war has given it a very good image.
Oh, and stop using trigger-happy mercenaries and torture. Some people think that *may* be unpopular.
I suppose if your definition of "victory" is "turn Iraq into America Jr", then no, it's not happening.
Well, I have to concede that Iraq now looks a bit like New Orleans, though...
Indeed. the fact that is reassuring is that there is no invisible harm like with microwaves. Here you will know you use to much energy when bones break...
is it even possible that science can remain apolitical? Has it ever been?
Has it ever be otherwise ? Right now you are talking about a film director and politicians. Science is humankind's tool to find a truth independant of politics, religion and points of view of any form. Politicians and journalists have always talked about science subject, but what they do is politics and journalism, both useful and needed job, but their goal is not to make science. Why do people get so easily confuse ?
And why, oh god, WHY do people think that they can't do science by themselves and rely on some "elite" scientists to have an opinion on something ?
We don't know much about the conservation of laser-color-printed paper, espiecially when you have to keep microscopic informations on it...
It is however a very interesting idea.
That raises the question of how he managed to raise more than one million dollar from gaming ! Doesn't that sound a lot to you or is it just me ? I understand that you could sell items worth tens of hours of play for a price in the order of a monthly subscription, thus managing to get a bit of money... But 1 million ? How did he manage it ? What game was it ?
We can imagine to protect the paper in some way. After all, hard drives have to be stored in a metallic case to work correctly. That brings me to another question : Considering a feasible protection, how long do the data stay on the medium ? How many read errors per Gb ? how many write errors ? That is the real problem with data storage.
Knowledge and/or intelligence in a management position is never a bad thing for the organization
Why is nobody commenting about this THIRD BRAIN thing ? This is the first time I hear about it, and the first time I hear about a serious government funded initiative for a brain-machine interface...
The solution write itself, people: The Linux community needs to conduct a comprehensive review of Microsoft's patents.
Well, only the American and Japanese (and maybe Australian ? I don't remember) Linux community can have a problem with software patents, so the solution could also be : change the law in America to be compatible with European law and foster America's software company competition. Maybe we will need a complete review when the world is infected by the software patent madness.
First, I think we can reasonably say that the risk is about patent infrigment here, and not source code copying.
I think all Linux and OSS developers know they are living with a Damocles sword above their head : the FOSS community does not apply patents, implement a lot of trivial-but-patented ideas and, for one, I have been wondering why MS didn't attack Linux yet.
I now have an idealistic answer to this question. I think that most big patent holders also live with another Damocles sword. The value of their companies is (partly) related to the number of patent they own. The current system do not care about the individual value of patent, just about their numbers. I think that this system is deeply flawed but that it just keep on working because most shareholders believe in it. Now imagine the Redmond Behemoth clashing with the FOSS insurgency. Both sides are well known, if not of the mainstream public, at least in the IT field, including IT decision makers. Such a debate would very quickly point the flaws of the system and may even be able to disrupt it. Plus, the FOSS is more able to gain public support, considering that even if you can portray them as "IP thiefs", as we use these IP to create products for everybody, we can easily be seen as Robin Hoodesque thiefs.
Would I be in the skin of a Redmon lawyer or decision maker, I would be VERY careful about this issue.
They may also be kicked around, like soccer balls, a popular sport in 99.9 percent of the world.
In 90 percent of the world, this is also called football..
I still wonder where we can download these documents. Because they are going to be made public right ?
I would be more interesed to see a controller opened. Does it really have a video camera inside ? can we get the specs / reference of it ?
IANAB also but, from my understanding :
Almost every cell of the human body can reproduce
A cancer is a group of cells reproducing in an abnormal fashion
A stem cell is a cell than can reproduce into a variety of different cells, eventually being able to become any type of human cell
Also I think this discovery is interesting from the point of view of the creation of stem cells for an adult. Stem cells may be used in some kind of treatment in the near future as I understand, but an adult body doesn't contain a lot of easily reachable and useful stem cell. One can imagine that we could induce some sort of easily removable cancers (like a skin cancer), take stem cells from it, remove the tumor, and voila! It would prevent the outcry about the prelevement on embryionic stem cells.
Maybe the trouble is that it is far too cheap.
Naga tsu !
... some kind of DARPAnet birthday celebration ?
Please note that while sarcastic, I am happy that the mass market blindly following the trend help fund the R&D effort to produce the better computer I need to run my computer-vision programs...
[Linux zealotery] You can surf the web, play divx, mp3, program and write emails using Linux on an "old" (maybe 3 years) configuration. They are less powerful but generaly use less power. Needing a PIV 3 GHz Dual Core with 2 Go RAM and a graphic card with more memory than I have in my file server for reading emails and DVDs is the real waste, Microsoft is only somehow compensating for this.[/Linux zealotery]
[mod me insightful] Linux is not produce by a company but by individuals on their free time, we can't give its "green rank". But if we want to compare this network of people to a company like Microsoft you have to consier some things :
People in large companies tend to use more resources than people on their free time, be it paper, power, AC, better computers, etc...
The "Linux network" only has programmers. No marketing department, no administration, no financial department, etc... each one of these producing their own wastes
Linux is often used to "recycle" old PCs into education tools or simple media boxes. Do do that with, say, Win 95, you would have (in theory) to 1) find a licence 2) forget about internet connectivity because of all the nasty stuff Win 95 is vulnerable about 3) forget about recent software, even those which are lightweight.[/mod me insightful]
Well, arguably, yes.
Would 33% of the money you robbed have been used to charity if you had not robbed it ? If not, you helped (and got rich in the process)
Bill creates a (small) stream of money from big companies to some charities and a bigger one to his bank account. I wouldn't say he earned that money, but the existence of the first stream is a good thing.
As much I would like the "make love not war" idea the editor is suggesting, I need to point out that war is a common way in human history to regenerate the gene pool.
Well, having a way to check AND systematically check all elections results, whoever gets elected, sounds like a good idea. Especially when you need the kind of legitimacy it takes to pretend imposing democracy in other nations.
Well, what can I say ? I am pleasantly surprised :-)