That said, I've noticed the net is slowing down at home and at work. Do we have the infrastructure for all of America to be online (and with blazing connections)?
I don't think it's the infrastructure or lack thereof so much as the viri, spyware, spam, pop-ups, pop-unders, and poor configurations and security. We need to do more to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
Google and the InternetWayBackMachine are also violating copyrights by republishing without permission. They are tolerated and even encouraged because much of the internet content is by businesses and these venues are more forms of (free as in beer) advertising, and because much of the remaining content of the web is published with the intentions of being for public consumption and colaborative endevors such as Open Source development and disemination of scientific information.
If you want to go there, you also have to look at what defines a copyrightable work in the first place. A person holds copyright to their journal, just as Lucas hold the copyright to Star Wars. Under what conditions would Lucas be compelled to publish and the journalist not if each supposedly has control over distribution of their works? Remember, the copyright law, for the very most part, is not content biased. The biggest issue I have with recent legislation is that lawmakers are increasingly ignoring the lack of bais toward both content or format when considering copyrights with regard to the Internet.
And the word science is completely contextual as well.. look at how much "science" of today would have been dismissed as "fiction" 100 years ago.
Hardly any. String theory perhaps. Maybe superconductors, although most scientist in 1904 were equiped with the basics to be able to be brought to an understanding about it. Heck, the fabled "fifth state of matter", the bose-einstein condensate was postulated 80 years ago. 550 years ago Da Vinci was drawing helicopters!
The mythology of the Greeks and Romans was in part their science of their day.
*That* was the point of the original poster.
It was a poor point when he made it and it is still a poor point backed with a poor example when you make it.
Looking at the graph with so few words attributed to the 1900's surprised me. Then doing a search on the page of the list of words for "verne" returned no hits, which surprised me even further. I would think that "20,00 Leauges Under the Sea" would be good for at least one word.
My question-- where do you draw the line between "science fiction" and mythology/religion?
By determining the focus and intent of the stories. Those using religion to explain and/or using the explanations to promote religion are clearly not science fiction.
A more general point to ponder is that the key word is "science", not "fiction".
The 30's and 40's is when the science fiction magazines got started, and most of the authors whose works are considered "the classics" of science fiction got their start with those mags.
the ultimate parent poses a not-so-great question to the interviewee.
Unfortunately it got mod'd up because all too many people are under the misconception that withholding publication in a particular format (or in any format, for that matter) is abuse. It's been my observation that people who belive mandated publication of movies and music in whatever format they demand is/should be law would also be the first to cry foul if the same criteria were applied to their personal diaries and journals.
More to the point, does changing the medium in which content is delivered constitute a derivative work and therefore require a seperate copyright license? E.G., ripping a muic track from a CD to play on a computer, copying a track from a vinyl album to a CD or audio cassette to play in a car, etc.
Current copyright law (not DCMA or Patriot Act) gives the copyright holder exclusive rights to derivative works. The question then become is a DVD considered a derivative work?
The $160 mil (canadian) was paid out over 12 years to 6 subcontractors, which averages out to only $2.22 mil per year, per contractor. The DND if it's anything like the US military, probably spends $2 mil a year on printer paper. An amount that small, compared to the entire year's defense budget, would be relatively easy to lose track of.
Personally, I'm waiting for the US DoD to catch-on and high Pricewaterhouse to run the same sort of audit for them.
Get a copy of Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, or something similar. I got a copy of the first edition at Borders for $5, you may find similar on ebay or half.com.
Unless you actually respond to some of those free pr0n or enlargment offers, you'll not get bombed with hundreds of spams a day like the uber net users do.
SCO lawyer: CA licensed our IP. And Chewbacca is a Wookie. Not an Ewok, a Wookie! And CA licensed our IP! Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you have to find IBM guilty, because Chewbacca is a Wookie, and CA licensed our IP.
Too complex. Just use a continuous strip of plastic thats on rollers that gets rotated periodically. As it rotates, pass it through an ionizer to magnetically lift the dust from the plastic, making it ready for the next use.
We live in the kind of world where if the majority of the people in your town don't like your religious beliefs that they feel justified in shooting at you or blowing up your car.
We live in the kind of world where if the country next door decides they don't like your ethnicity, they feel justified in invading your country and killing the lot of you.
We live in the kind of world where if the scientists working for the government feel they aren't paid enough they feel justified in selling nuclear technology to terroritsts.
We live in the kind of world where if the leaders of a country feel they are losing ground at the conference table they feel justified in shooting missles at their neighbor's whose land they covet...
(For those not up on events, the above correlate as follows: 1. Ireland, Israel/Palestine/Lebanon, Iraq, Kashmir, Somolia, Ethiopia 2. Rwanda, the Balkans 3. Pakistan, Russia 4. China)
...machine translation is capable of syntax correction for the target language. Any 10 year old kid with the appropriate tables can do a word-for-word translation. Getting syntax right and accounting for slang and non-standard usage--there's the rub.
Slashdot Mirror
Is this a functionally equivalent substitute for a single desktop or notebook system, or is should this really only be used in a cluster?
Open Source BIOS anyone? Prohibitively expensive? Administratively impossibile? Too geek even for /.?
That said, I've noticed the net is slowing down at home and at work. Do we have the infrastructure for all of America to be online (and with blazing connections)?
I don't think it's the infrastructure or lack thereof so much as the viri, spyware, spam, pop-ups, pop-unders, and poor configurations and security. We need to do more to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
Google and the InternetWayBackMachine are also violating copyrights by republishing without permission. They are tolerated and even encouraged because much of the internet content is by businesses and these venues are more forms of (free as in beer) advertising, and because much of the remaining content of the web is published with the intentions of being for public consumption and colaborative endevors such as Open Source development and disemination of scientific information.
Hey mods, a repost of text of a slashdotted site is not redundant, it's informative
Actually it's a copyright violation and the slashdot editors would do well to delete them as soon as they are posted.
If you want to go there, you also have to look at what defines a copyrightable work in the first place. A person holds copyright to their journal, just as Lucas hold the copyright to Star Wars. Under what conditions would Lucas be compelled to publish and the journalist not if each supposedly has control over distribution of their works? Remember, the copyright law, for the very most part, is not content biased. The biggest issue I have with recent legislation is that lawmakers are increasingly ignoring the lack of bais toward both content or format when considering copyrights with regard to the Internet.
And the word science is completely contextual as well .. look at how much "science" of today would have been dismissed as "fiction" 100 years ago.
Hardly any. String theory perhaps. Maybe superconductors, although most scientist in 1904 were equiped with the basics to be able to be brought to an understanding about it. Heck, the fabled "fifth state of matter", the bose-einstein condensate was postulated 80 years ago. 550 years ago Da Vinci was drawing helicopters!
The mythology of the Greeks and Romans was in part their science of their day. *That* was the point of the original poster.
It was a poor point when he made it and it is still a poor point backed with a poor example when you make it.
Looking at the graph with so few words attributed to the 1900's surprised me. Then doing a search on the page of the list of words for "verne" returned no hits, which surprised me even further. I would think that "20,00 Leauges Under the Sea" would be good for at least one word.
My question-- where do you draw the line between "science fiction" and mythology/religion?
By determining the focus and intent of the stories. Those using religion to explain and/or using the explanations to promote religion are clearly not science fiction.
A more general point to ponder is that the key word is "science", not "fiction".
The 30's and 40's is when the science fiction magazines got started, and most of the authors whose works are considered "the classics" of science fiction got their start with those mags.
the ultimate parent poses a not-so-great question to the interviewee.
Unfortunately it got mod'd up because all too many people are under the misconception that withholding publication in a particular format (or in any format, for that matter) is abuse. It's been my observation that people who belive mandated publication of movies and music in whatever format they demand is/should be law would also be the first to cry foul if the same criteria were applied to their personal diaries and journals.
More to the point, does changing the medium in which content is delivered constitute a derivative work and therefore require a seperate copyright license? E.G., ripping a muic track from a CD to play on a computer, copying a track from a vinyl album to a CD or audio cassette to play in a car, etc.
Current copyright law (not DCMA or Patriot Act) gives the copyright holder exclusive rights to derivative works. The question then become is a DVD considered a derivative work?
The $160 mil (canadian) was paid out over 12 years to 6 subcontractors, which averages out to only $2.22 mil per year, per contractor. The DND if it's anything like the US military, probably spends $2 mil a year on printer paper. An amount that small, compared to the entire year's defense budget, would be relatively easy to lose track of.
Personally, I'm waiting for the US DoD to catch-on and high Pricewaterhouse to run the same sort of audit for them.
Get a copy of Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, or something similar. I got a copy of the first edition at Borders for $5, you may find similar on ebay or half.com.
How do people manage to get this much spam?
Unless you actually respond to some of those free pr0n or enlargment offers, you'll not get bombed with hundreds of spams a day like the uber net users do.
It gets better. Every post pointing out this is a repeat or misleading is getting mod'ed as "overrated". It's sad, really.
SCO lawyer: CA licensed our IP. And Chewbacca is a Wookie. Not an Ewok, a Wookie! And CA licensed our IP! Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you have to find IBM guilty, because Chewbacca is a Wookie, and CA licensed our IP.
The sad part is when you consider how many article submissions were rejected in favor of posting this misleading repeat.
Too complex. Just use a continuous strip of plastic thats on rollers that gets rotated periodically. As it rotates, pass it through an ionizer to magnetically lift the dust from the plastic, making it ready for the next use.
USA != world
We live in the kind of world where if the majority of the people in your town don't like your religious beliefs that they feel justified in shooting at you or blowing up your car.
We live in the kind of world where if the country next door decides they don't like your ethnicity, they feel justified in invading your country and killing the lot of you.
We live in the kind of world where if the scientists working for the government feel they aren't paid enough they feel justified in selling nuclear technology to terroritsts.
We live in the kind of world where if the leaders of a country feel they are losing ground at the conference table they feel justified in shooting missles at their neighbor's whose land they covet...
(For those not up on events, the above correlate as follows: 1. Ireland, Israel/Palestine/Lebanon, Iraq, Kashmir, Somolia, Ethiopia 2. Rwanda, the Balkans 3. Pakistan, Russia 4. China)
...machine translation is capable of syntax correction for the target language. Any 10 year old kid with the appropriate tables can do a word-for-word translation. Getting syntax right and accounting for slang and non-standard usage--there's the rub.
When you brew too long, you are adding mostly acid and yucky taste.
It's been my experience that taste, yucky or otherwise, is simply a matter of taste.
I stand corrected
It appears the good doctor, in touting the Mediteranian diet, has contradicted herself:
goolge translation
Original article in Italian
(a pic of the doc can be seen here)