But I wonder : does it work well as a screen ? From there website it seems that it is okay to draw GUIs but does it have more than 16 colors and a 10 Hz frequency ? I am really interested...
Security aside, is there a good ajax word processor with internationalization support ? I'd like to see a french dictionary, the two I tried were english only...
I usually dislike gun/computer analogies, but hey, got something interesting here. Legally, it is clear that the students are at fault, just as would be a gun shooter. Period.
The justice being done, there remains a big domain : ethics. By selling guns, Colt is being unethical by making the world a less safe place. In the same vein, adware companies make computers vulnerable. Ethically they contribute to the vulnerability of the internet. In computers, however, there is also a background culprit : our beloved firm from Redmond that does to internet something similar as giving us a normal skin where we could have a colosseus-like bulletproof skin.
But, on the sole basis of rights and laws, they have no legal responsability.
FTFA:
"We would be willing to work with a videogame manufacturer to produce a game which shows the emblem in its correct use, as a symbol of protection during armed conflict, and where the player is rewarded for using the emblem correctly. Such a game could reward the player for respecting the rules of war and thereby, help the Red Cross Movement with its work to promote such respect," Meyer continued.
I, for sure would be glad to see a game breaking the violent logic that is the current game logic. "Heck! Can't I negociate with them ? They have a knife, I am an arsenal." "How many more should I kill for them to understand that I am dangerous ?"
... have they smoked again ?
It sounds like a bad Hollywood film line:
(FBI agent) "Look, I have a cutting-edge AI!" Sequence of swirling ideograms making -bzzzz- and -tictictic- sounds
(teenage "hacker") "Woh man! you're good!"
I don't think that it is the.Net part that is important. The most interesting is the "business" part. To see what is the state of the art, not in the laboratory, but in the IT business. If I were to read that book, I won't anticipate to learn new algorithms but maybe to discover that there is a free speech recognition SDK downloadable on microsoft.com (which is true, you can even play Age Of Empires with it)
This is old news.
The act of downloading is considered fair game but the act of uploading without the correct licence is still illegal.
you also have to know that in France there is a "tax on the private copy". When you buy a blank CD or DVD, you pay a tax that goes directly in the SCPP's pocket. The judge recognized that by burning most of the downloaded stuff, this particular person was in fact paying for his stuff and denied his responsability.
BTW, isn't it a last year news ?
On a side note, French parliament is currently examining a law that would legalize a "P2P fee", legalizing 100% of P2P downloadable stuff. Its chances to pass are thin, but there is currently a heated debate (most politician think about the 2007 presidential elections)
Yeah, and churches have difficulty finding funds...
Here are the endgames : making pieces of castles in the sky, trying to find lost Edens, lost heavens. Making Humankind survive a nuclear or bacteriologic war or a giant asteroid crash.
Ok, I MAY need to put off my tin foil hat but hey, today is a good day to make wild conspiracy theories.
[tinfoil mode on]
Don't you find the timing is perfect for a governement to show how bad things can happen if companies continue to be unregulated ? Let the dark specter of an Internet fission haunt a few blogs and watch all the (*sighed*) blogosphere suddently in favor of worldwide internet regulations.
[tinfoil mode off]
The "potential matters" principle is the only one that is consistent across a wide-range of situations.
Sorry but I am really to lazy to take care of all these spermatozoid...
It is not a widely consistent argument. If it were, our moral duty would be to inseminate every pubescent girl and make sure they give birth to twins as frequently as possible.
There are no really consistent line of conduit, though I believe that the "if it can claim rights and obey duties, give it rights" is pretty accurate. But the "asleep" argument counters this one.
The most widely accepted line however is "If it can claim rights and handle a pitchfork, give it rights."
You don't "blog" anything. If it were a verb, I would think it would be intransitive.
They "map" air pollution maybe, "detect" it, "upload" air pollution data if you want.
And if you need to be Buzzword 2.0 compliant, I guess you could say they would be "streaming in realtime updated data in order to integrate them in a web 2.0 database". Yep, let's stick to "map" shall we ?
Well, for sure, we are not random. Maybe a statistical tool can even give figures like "in your condition of education, wealth, geographical position, social status, there is a 83% probability that you will vote republican in the next elections." So what ? you are still free to be part of the 17% part of the statistics. The statistician doesn't care, as long as his studies cover a large enough population.
I get fed up with people saying this. Our data set for planets that can support life is 1. We have no idea what "other" lifeforms can survive. Pretty much everywhere we look on earth we find life.
It is not totally true. In fact we can affirm with a fair degree of certitude that the Moon does not harbor life. If there is life on Mars, it is locked at the bacteria stage (although its multiple 'earth-like' features) and from what we know, Mercury surface looks empty of macroscopical creatures.
So while we have one positive set, we have at least one negative set and several pessimist ones. In fact, it does make sense to believe that a earth-like planet is more suceptible to have life form than a mercury-like planet.
For a Pluto-like, it is too early to say (after all, apart from the pretty pictures, most of the solar planets surfaces are unexplored !) and I tend to be, like you, sort of optimist about the various forms that life can take and evolve into.
I would add that while air-traffic control and nuclear ballistic missile command-and-control are somethings I would like my government to control effectively and efficiently, elections don't need the same degree of control. In fact they require, in order to be democratic, to be out of the government control.
God, what happened to US democracy ? I shouldn't be explaining that...
I do believe (and hope) that most of the photo-manipulators were simply unaware of the journal's guideline. It is in fact a gray area of the scientific publication ethics. For example if I take a phtography of a rock for a geology publication, I am surely allowed to tweak contrasts with photoshop in order to show clearly the structure of the rock. But I suppose that the exact same manipulation would be unethical if I were to hide details that could serve as a counter-example of my thesis. While in doubts, it is probably better to send a photoshop file to the journal, showing all the (hopefully) minor photomanipulations made to the image. If the journal thinks that something is abnormal, one can discuss about it, most of the time a polite conversation can probably solve these issues.
... a news site like slashdot. Not for the dupes, mind you. But for the ability to comment on the news, to hear different opinions from different parts of the world, with a mecanism like slashcode moderation (that works better than nothing, as flawed as it is) able to filter the noise. Would anyone be aware of such a website ?
capitalism should be regarded as a tool, not as the founding principle of a society. Solidarity could be regarded as an example of a founding principle (and is in fact the founding principle of most human societies including USA).
Slashdot Mirror
But I wonder : does it work well as a screen ? From there website it seems that it is okay to draw GUIs but does it have more than 16 colors and a 10 Hz frequency ? I am really interested ...
I think I just saw the future...
We are gamers, aren't we proud of it ?
I disagree that this is the main cause of flame wars!
2nd degree sarcasm since 1981
Security aside, is there a good ajax word processor with internationalization support ? I'd like to see a french dictionary, the two I tried were english only...
I am not aware of a good quadrupede climber.
seconded!
/me handles pitchfork
I usually dislike gun/computer analogies, but hey, got something interesting here. Legally, it is clear that the students are at fault, just as would be a gun shooter. Period.
The justice being done, there remains a big domain : ethics. By selling guns, Colt is being unethical by making the world a less safe place. In the same vein, adware companies make computers vulnerable. Ethically they contribute to the vulnerability of the internet. In computers, however, there is also a background culprit : our beloved firm from Redmond that does to internet something similar as giving us a normal skin where we could have a colosseus-like bulletproof skin.
But, on the sole basis of rights and laws, they have no legal responsability.
That throws the basis of Shadowrun's Matrix! Now get me an excalibur cyberdeck and let's try to hack those fraggin telco companies...
FTFA: "We would be willing to work with a videogame manufacturer to produce a game which shows the emblem in its correct use, as a symbol of protection during armed conflict, and where the player is rewarded for using the emblem correctly. Such a game could reward the player for respecting the rules of war and thereby, help the Red Cross Movement with its work to promote such respect," Meyer continued.
I, for sure would be glad to see a game breaking the violent logic that is the current game logic. "Heck! Can't I negociate with them ? They have a knife, I am an arsenal." "How many more should I kill for them to understand that I am dangerous ?"
... have they smoked again ? :
It sounds like a bad Hollywood film line
(FBI agent) "Look, I have a cutting-edge AI!"
Sequence of swirling ideograms making -bzzzz- and -tictictic- sounds
(teenage "hacker") "Woh man! you're good!"
I don't think that it is the .Net part that is important. The most interesting is the "business" part. To see what is the state of the art, not in the laboratory, but in the IT business. If I were to read that book, I won't anticipate to learn new algorithms but maybe to discover that there is a free speech recognition SDK downloadable on microsoft.com (which is true, you can even play Age Of Empires with it)
This is old news.
The act of downloading is considered fair game but the act of uploading without the correct licence is still illegal.
you also have to know that in France there is a "tax on the private copy". When you buy a blank CD or DVD, you pay a tax that goes directly in the SCPP's pocket. The judge recognized that by burning most of the downloaded stuff, this particular person was in fact paying for his stuff and denied his responsability.
BTW, isn't it a last year news ?
On a side note, French parliament is currently examining a law that would legalize a "P2P fee", legalizing 100% of P2P downloadable stuff. Its chances to pass are thin, but there is currently a heated debate (most politician think about the 2007 presidential elections)
Yeah, and churches have difficulty finding funds...
Here are the endgames : making pieces of castles in the sky, trying to find lost Edens, lost heavens. Making Humankind survive a nuclear or bacteriologic war or a giant asteroid crash.
Mod me troll...
They must be joking. On the contrary, the tool to make them should remain under heavy control and guarded like a nuclear warhead.
I mean, the geek analogy would be to say that you want to give everyone a PHLAK distribution, while our body runs an unpatched Win ME.
The animal realm is still trying to figure how to make a wheel...
Ok, I MAY need to put off my tin foil hat but hey, today is a good day to make wild conspiracy theories.
[tinfoil mode on]
Don't you find the timing is perfect for a governement to show how bad things can happen if companies continue to be unregulated ? Let the dark specter of an Internet fission haunt a few blogs and watch all the (*sighed*) blogosphere suddently in favor of worldwide internet regulations.
[tinfoil mode off]
Or it could be just usual greed...
(humming "Troll hunting, troll hunting, lalala laaa")
The "potential matters" principle is the only one that is consistent across a wide-range of situations.
Sorry but I am really to lazy to take care of all these spermatozoid...
It is not a widely consistent argument. If it were, our moral duty would be to inseminate every pubescent girl and make sure they give birth to twins as frequently as possible.
There are no really consistent line of conduit, though I believe that the "if it can claim rights and obey duties, give it rights" is pretty accurate. But the "asleep" argument counters this one.
The most widely accepted line however is "If it can claim rights and handle a pitchfork, give it rights."
You don't "blog" anything. If it were a verb, I would think it would be intransitive.
They "map" air pollution maybe, "detect" it, "upload" air pollution data if you want.
And if you need to be Buzzword 2.0 compliant, I guess you could say they would be "streaming in realtime updated data in order to integrate them in a web 2.0 database". Yep, let's stick to "map" shall we ?
Well, for sure, we are not random. Maybe a statistical tool can even give figures like "in your condition of education, wealth, geographical position, social status, there is a 83% probability that you will vote republican in the next elections." So what ? you are still free to be part of the 17% part of the statistics. The statistician doesn't care, as long as his studies cover a large enough population.
I get fed up with people saying this. Our data set for planets that can support life is 1. We have no idea what "other" lifeforms can survive. Pretty much everywhere we look on earth we find life.
It is not totally true. In fact we can affirm with a fair degree of certitude that the Moon does not harbor life. If there is life on Mars, it is locked at the bacteria stage (although its multiple 'earth-like' features) and from what we know, Mercury surface looks empty of macroscopical creatures.
So while we have one positive set, we have at least one negative set and several pessimist ones. In fact, it does make sense to believe that a earth-like planet is more suceptible to have life form than a mercury-like planet.
For a Pluto-like, it is too early to say (after all, apart from the pretty pictures, most of the solar planets surfaces are unexplored !) and I tend to be, like you, sort of optimist about the various forms that life can take and evolve into.
I would add that while air-traffic control and nuclear ballistic missile command-and-control are somethings I would like my government to control effectively and efficiently, elections don't need the same degree of control. In fact they require, in order to be democratic, to be out of the government control.
God, what happened to US democracy ? I shouldn't be explaining that...
I do believe (and hope) that most of the photo-manipulators were simply unaware of the journal's guideline. It is in fact a gray area of the scientific publication ethics. For example if I take a phtography of a rock for a geology publication, I am surely allowed to tweak contrasts with photoshop in order to show clearly the structure of the rock. But I suppose that the exact same manipulation would be unethical if I were to hide details that could serve as a counter-example of my thesis. While in doubts, it is probably better to send a photoshop file to the journal, showing all the (hopefully) minor photomanipulations made to the image. If the journal thinks that something is abnormal, one can discuss about it, most of the time a polite conversation can probably solve these issues.
... a news site like slashdot. Not for the dupes, mind you. But for the ability to comment on the news, to hear different opinions from different parts of the world, with a mecanism like slashcode moderation (that works better than nothing, as flawed as it is) able to filter the noise. Would anyone be aware of such a website ?
capitalism should be regarded as a tool, not as the founding principle of a society. Solidarity could be regarded as an example of a founding principle (and is in fact the founding principle of most human societies including USA).