I've been thinking about this. And I don't think it's possible to get the laws overturned. Congress is far too addicted to the media industry's money. So I say that all concerned artists and appreciators of art (and I mean art in the general all-media sense) pick some country - say... oh, Spain, I hear the weather's nice - and move there. We could establish a new world worth living in.
I mean... look at the horrible assinine things that the MPAA and the RIAA are doing, then look at the state of movies and music. Sure there's some good stuff coming out, but compare either to the 60's and 70's and, there just isn't the kind of creativity in the business that there once was. And I don't think that's because there aren't any good ideas left, I just think somewhere someone discovered that shit is easier to sell.
because three weeks pay is more important than a good reference....
no, quit amicably if at all possible.
make up some bullshit reason to leave, or just claim to be "seeking new things," but on the day you walk out, you want your boss to like you, or at least not hate you.
on an earlier article, i predicted the demise of MIPS and similar architectures due to the increasingly prohibitive cost of chip design, and the increasing standardization around intel and intel clusters.
i didn't consider partnerships, if two or more merely giant corporations share the load of development, then there can still be competition for the truly titanic.
anyway, best of luck to them, and here's hoping there will always be a choice.
that would be the *last* step to the end of google.
any high-volume site like google needs revenue to even exist for a day, so there is a natural conflict of interests. i think google has handled this problem better than most.
This seems to be a recurring problem in a number of technology based industries. Once you get to a certain lever of high-tech, only the (very) big boys can even compete.
So here's the question: how do you keep competition alive when an initial investment costs in the billions of dollars. For any company less than Intel sized, a single bad product cycle spells complete doom. That's no kind of market to be in.
Also, wasn't this inevitable. There are a few Beowulf jokes being posted, but that's really what's going on. Increasingly high performance tasks (Google, render farms etc. etc. etc.) are using massive arrays of low-power CPUs. It costs a lot of money to develop big iron chips, and if people aren't buying them then there's no point in investing that much money.
What I'm worried about are the isolated markets that still require massively powerful, low processor number architectures. Not everything splits into nice Distributed.net packages.
I'm too young to have any nostalgia for vinyl other than a sesame street record on a fisher price record player. But recently I've started to like it more and more. There's something to be said for the quaint and inconvenient. Certain albums, especially anything relating to folk or hip hop, just work better on vinyl for some reason.
Also with old recordings, there's something intellectually satisfying about knowing that from the singer's vocal cords, to the sound waves in the air, to the magnetic patterns on tape, to the shape of the groove on the record, to the electric pulse in the speaker, to the sound wave in the air, to your eardrums, there has been a continuous and unbroken *physical* reproduction of the original waveform. Encoding makes the whole thing a little bit artificial.
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Since I don't think we're dealing with an vast evil corporate conspiracy here, I don't think the proper reading of this is "these statements are not true."
Basically they're protecting themselves against crackers. If someone steals the password list, they aren't responsible. I don't think that this means they're going lax on security or forgetting about privacy, it just means that shit happens, and they don't want to be sued.
As to the rest of the changes: this is their perrogative. They don't have to warn you about service changes. And if that fact alone bothers you, you can take your (non-paying) business elsewhere. It's how they use this priviledge that matters, and I don't think that they are going to radically alter their service in an attempt to scam users.
"Wait. Scratch that thought. I just had a vision of a million, unsupervised 14 year old boys in control of armed, remote control helicopters."
Did you ever watch the Robin Williams movie _Toys_? They were basically doing this. The movie, while not being *good* per se, is a pretty interesting watch, if just for the visuals.
And now everything in your life will have the dull aftertaste of anticlimax.
I remember the highpoint of my life. I was watching a movie (I don't remember which one) and I made some wisecrack and... PEOPLE IN THE THEATER ACTUALLY LAUGHED!
This isn't an entirely off argument. After all, other species do impact the ecosystem in negative ways. However we alone are able to know what we are doing, and modify our actions accordingly.
Since we are intelligent, I think we can try to live in a way that creats the "best possible" world. If the best possible world means "as many people as we can possibly fit" to you then that's your opinion.
I prefer as interesting a world as possible. I can go out into the woods or travel to exotic localles and experience something totally different than the McWorld of developed America. While not everyone enjoys the great outdoors and unspoiled wilderness, the option should remain for our grandchildren.
So in short. Every species is a unique and irrecoverable product of evolution. Out of simple scientific curiousity, I would think we would want to keep as many of them around as possible.
Yes, but we are the cause of this destruction in most cases (that is most cases in the past 150 years or so) while artificial preservation might be "unnatural" so is the level of habitat destruction that we have inflicted upon these species. The project is merely making a small attempt at checking the horrible damage that the human species has inflicted upon others.
I personally don't like the idea of a world with only animals that survive due to their ability to exist in urban settings or due to their usefulness to humans.
Though I suppose it would make biology simpler. Instead of so many confusing latin species names, we would only need to know "meatbeast, foodplant, pigeon, and rat"
Well, if the research is in danger, perhaps we could just take the DNA from all of the scientists involved and store them in some sort of bank. Then when society comes to its senses we could clone them and start the project over.
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Yeah for current teenagers, i don't think net use is antisocial at all. Here at school (Columbia University) I don't know one person who doesn't spend tons of time on morpheus/audiogalaxy/snood/and aim, but at the same time people are always out. However, nobody really watches television. Our lounge is usually empty, and less than half of students have TVs in their room.
I think most people have a balance of social/nonsocial time that they would keep regardless of technology. The internet has probably just replaced reading, television, radio, the telephone, snail mail, or whatever people used to do.
And the fact that the heaviest internet users are the most antisocial doesn't indicate that internet use causes antisocial behaviour. It can just as likely (and probably much more likely) mean that antisocial people are likely to be heavy internet users. Correlation does not indicate cause.
Assume the assignments that they're bothering to check are at least decently large ones, and not first day "Hello World" apps. In even a 200+ line program, there are enough different ways to structure a function, phrase an algorithm, manage a sort, etc. etc. that i think it would be doubtful that even in a class of several hundred people, two identically structured programs would emerge.
I don't see how this is news though. Other schools have had similar software for years. I know for a fact that the Columbia University CS department has it, and I'm assuming others do to; it's a fairly obvious measure.
God said it, Euler discovered it. The sig is in reference to my belief that if there *is* evidence for intellegent creation then it is not in complexity, such as the apparent "design" of evolutionary processes in biology, but in the fundamental preposterously beautify simplicity of mathematics and perhaps physics. The fact that those five numbers are so elegantly related simply boggles my mind. I've done a lot of independant study and am now well into a college level math track. I can prove the statement, but I can't hope to understand it.
the first thing i did when i saw that headline was make a quick mental check that it wasn't the first of april
if the results stand up, this could very well be the first major steps in what would easily be one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 21st century: the completion of einstein's dream of a grand unified theory
quantum gravity (when fully understood) will be the last step at showing the four fundamental forces of nature are in fact driven by a unified underlying principal, that on some level, they are the same.
various other people have posted good links for explanations.
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I've been thinking about this. And I don't think it's possible to get the laws overturned. Congress is far too addicted to the media industry's money. So I say that all concerned artists and appreciators of art (and I mean art in the general all-media sense) pick some country - say... oh, Spain, I hear the weather's nice - and move there. We could establish a new world worth living in.
I mean... look at the horrible assinine things that the MPAA and the RIAA are doing, then look at the state of movies and music. Sure there's some good stuff coming out, but compare either to the 60's and 70's and, there just isn't the kind of creativity in the business that there once was. And I don't think that's because there aren't any good ideas left, I just think somewhere someone discovered that shit is easier to sell.
So we should get up and leave.
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The nice thing about this board will be, after purchasing it, you will be teleported out of Best Buy, and your life will completely refill.
There will also be some interesting effects if you daisy chain 8 of them.
because three weeks pay is more important than a good reference....
no, quit amicably if at all possible.
make up some bullshit reason to leave, or just claim to be "seeking new things," but on the day you walk out, you want your boss to like you, or at least not hate you.
i don't always trust the supreme court to decide these types of things, their past record is spotty to say the least
on an earlier article, i predicted the demise of MIPS and similar architectures due to the increasingly prohibitive cost of chip design, and the increasing standardization around intel and intel clusters.
i didn't consider partnerships, if two or more merely giant corporations share the load of development, then there can still be competition for the truly titanic.
anyway, best of luck to them, and here's hoping there will always be a choice.
as opposed to what?
Tomorrow's headline: "Google renounces ads, revenue"
that would be the *last* step to the end of google.
any high-volume site like google needs revenue to even exist for a day, so there is a natural conflict of interests. i think google has handled this problem better than most.
hell, SLASHDOT's ads are more obstructive.
why not? with MPEG-4, you could have an entire TV season on one disk at HDTV quality.
i certainly wouldn't mind that.
and we're not even going into the fine's you'd accumulate if you were to drop a thousand *explosives* over a US city.
This seems to be a recurring problem in a number of technology based industries. Once you get to a certain lever of high-tech, only the (very) big boys can even compete.
So here's the question: how do you keep competition alive when an initial investment costs in the billions of dollars. For any company less than Intel sized, a single bad product cycle spells complete doom. That's no kind of market to be in.
Also, wasn't this inevitable. There are a few Beowulf jokes being posted, but that's really what's going on. Increasingly high performance tasks (Google, render farms etc. etc. etc.) are using massive arrays of low-power CPUs. It costs a lot of money to develop big iron chips, and if people aren't buying them then there's no point in investing that much money.
What I'm worried about are the isolated markets that still require massively powerful, low processor number architectures. Not everything splits into nice Distributed.net packages.
either you have a crappy CRT or you need to adjust your brightness/contrst.
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I'm too young to have any nostalgia for vinyl other than a sesame street record on a fisher price record player. But recently I've started to like it more and more. There's something to be said for the quaint and inconvenient. Certain albums, especially anything relating to folk or hip hop, just work better on vinyl for some reason.
Also with old recordings, there's something intellectually satisfying about knowing that from the singer's vocal cords, to the sound waves in the air, to the magnetic patterns on tape, to the shape of the groove on the record, to the electric pulse in the speaker, to the sound wave in the air, to your eardrums, there has been a continuous and unbroken *physical* reproduction of the original waveform. Encoding makes the whole thing a little bit artificial.
i think that's a problem with the aps and not KDE or Konqueror.
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Since I don't think we're dealing with an vast evil corporate conspiracy here, I don't think the proper reading of this is "these statements are not true."
Basically they're protecting themselves against crackers. If someone steals the password list, they aren't responsible. I don't think that this means they're going lax on security or forgetting about privacy, it just means that shit happens, and they don't want to be sued.
As to the rest of the changes: this is their perrogative. They don't have to warn you about service changes. And if that fact alone bothers you, you can take your (non-paying) business elsewhere. It's how they use this priviledge that matters, and I don't think that they are going to radically alter their service in an attempt to scam users.
"Wait. Scratch that thought. I just had a vision of a million, unsupervised 14 year old boys in control of armed, remote control helicopters."
Did you ever watch the Robin Williams movie _Toys_? They were basically doing this. The movie, while not being *good* per se, is a pretty interesting watch, if just for the visuals.
"I Running Windows"
can someone make a T-Shirt out of that, please?
And now everything in your life will have the dull aftertaste of anticlimax.
I remember the highpoint of my life. I was watching a movie (I don't remember which one) and I made some wisecrack and... PEOPLE IN THE THEATER ACTUALLY LAUGHED!
Nothing can ever live up to that, man... nothing!
This isn't an entirely off argument. After all, other species do impact the ecosystem in negative ways. However we alone are able to know what we are doing, and modify our actions accordingly.
Since we are intelligent, I think we can try to live in a way that creats the "best possible" world. If the best possible world means "as many people as we can possibly fit" to you then that's your opinion.
I prefer as interesting a world as possible. I can go out into the woods or travel to exotic localles and experience something totally different than the McWorld of developed America. While not everyone enjoys the great outdoors and unspoiled wilderness, the option should remain for our grandchildren.
So in short. Every species is a unique and irrecoverable product of evolution. Out of simple scientific curiousity, I would think we would want to keep as many of them around as possible.
Yes, but we are the cause of this destruction in most cases (that is most cases in the past 150 years or so) while artificial preservation might be "unnatural" so is the level of habitat destruction that we have inflicted upon these species. The project is merely making a small attempt at checking the horrible damage that the human species has inflicted upon others.
I personally don't like the idea of a world with only animals that survive due to their ability to exist in urban settings or due to their usefulness to humans.
Though I suppose it would make biology simpler. Instead of so many confusing latin species names, we would only need to know "meatbeast, foodplant, pigeon, and rat"
Well, if the research is in danger, perhaps we could just take the DNA from all of the scientists involved and store them in some sort of bank. Then when society comes to its senses we could clone them and start the project over.
Yeah for current teenagers, i don't think net use is antisocial at all. Here at school (Columbia University) I don't know one person who doesn't spend tons of time on morpheus/audiogalaxy/snood/and aim, but at the same time people are always out. However, nobody really watches television. Our lounge is usually empty, and less than half of students have TVs in their room.
I think most people have a balance of social/nonsocial time that they would keep regardless of technology. The internet has probably just replaced reading, television, radio, the telephone, snail mail, or whatever people used to do.
And the fact that the heaviest internet users are the most antisocial doesn't indicate that internet use causes antisocial behaviour. It can just as likely (and probably much more likely) mean that antisocial people are likely to be heavy internet users. Correlation does not indicate cause.
Anyway, that's just my two cents.
Assume the assignments that they're bothering to check are at least decently large ones, and not first day "Hello World" apps. In even a 200+ line program, there are enough different ways to structure a function, phrase an algorithm, manage a sort, etc. etc. that i think it would be doubtful that even in a class of several hundred people, two identically structured programs would emerge.
I don't see how this is news though. Other schools have had similar software for years. I know for a fact that the Columbia University CS department has it, and I'm assuming others do to; it's a fairly obvious measure.
Above kids heads? Not the kids I know.
Really think back to when you were nine or ten. You'd have loved Zim.
God said it, Euler discovered it. The sig is in reference to my belief that if there *is* evidence for intellegent creation then it is not in complexity, such as the apparent "design" of evolutionary processes in biology, but in the fundamental preposterously beautify simplicity of mathematics and perhaps physics. The fact that those five numbers are so elegantly related simply boggles my mind. I've done a lot of independant study and am now well into a college level math track. I can prove the statement, but I can't hope to understand it.
the first thing i did when i saw that headline was make a quick mental check that it wasn't the first of april
if the results stand up, this could very well be the first major steps in what would easily be one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 21st century: the completion of einstein's dream of a grand unified theory
quantum gravity (when fully understood) will be the last step at showing the four fundamental forces of nature are in fact driven by a unified underlying principal, that on some level, they are the same.
various other people have posted good links for explanations.