...but you have to keep in mind that Bluetooth and WiFi were developed for entirely different purposes; Bluetooth was never intended as a wireless computer networking method, just as cable replacement (as in your gfx card to your monitor, your mainboard to your printer, your scanner to your printer).
Know the story about the frog in boiling water? If the water boils slowly enough, the frog doesn't notice, doesn't jump out until it's boiled. The DMCA (and the current law being considered in the EU) might be the same kind of thing.
As far as I'm concerned, parent should be modded +6 Insightful. Not only does he cut right into the heart of the problem, but there's insight into the way the world could be changed if it weren't for people holding us back in a way which is not in line with carefull scientific practices (or even worse, despite them).
But as a politician, it's his job to hold dialogue, change peoples minds, make compromises, understand wtf the issue is and be able to communicate that with other people, inform, motivate, and do all that stuff which one does with the use of that skill we call public speaking. It's his job to be a qualified demogogue...and he isn't a skilled orator at all.
But even then, I know lots of people who aren't skilled orators, but are smart. When they have to speak, there might be lots of ums and ahs, but what comes out is generally intelligent (and intelligable) thought. That's just not the case with GWB.
Also, how else are you going to judge GWB's capabilities? The only side you see is what's on tv. And if you'd've bothered to dig deeper, you'd already know the guy is a complete moron, based on his accomplishments.
Learn some history, will you; the US isn't just up against an "armed agressor"...they're up against the very people they funded and/or put into power in the first place!
I guess what goes around comes around, really. The objection is against the US fscking about with other countries souvereignity without any better cause than "we want power". The alternative is just as simple as "don't do it anymore".
And to go further: any terrorist organisation is just that; an organisation. Not a country. So wtf is up with that "war on terror"? Just like the "war on drugs" (both of which are propaganda driven, the actual facts of the matter being swept under the carpet), even the actual term used is rediculous. Both terrorism and drugs are an ongoing problem for any nation and must be dealt with accordingly. One cannot use a shortterm solution (going to war) for a long term problem. Or at least you can't without misrepresenting the problem, and screwing up your countries finances.
But isn't it ironic that nearly all of the US' foreign problems have come out of sytems (dictatorships etc.) the US itself has funded and put into place?
It does create a nice sense of irony over the whole thing.
Ah...well pointed out...I was thinking a bit EUcentric for a moment there:) Hmmm...makes you wonder if the JFK files will get copyrighted by the government so they can hold on to them longer:)
The funny thing is, it could just be a case of good, accurate reporting:)
Hell, the sentiment expressed in the statement is just so wrong to start off with, the gramatical errors just compound the air of stupidity exuded by this Neil Turkewitz.
Well, it's not that strange: some piece of copyrighted material falls into the public domain every day in every year. It's just that these are some wellknown pieces that will do so at different times this year:)
Nop...the US has been presuring the rest of the world to fall in line with their copyright restrictions. Thank god they've failed:)
As for me, I'm so damned happy about this: I love Callas, and the great jazz and blues bands/songs. They also make great 'film' music, very atmospheric/moody. Now I can put them under my homemade 3d movies totaly without fear of being asked uncomfortable questions about payment whenever or wherever I show them of.
And what to think of actual good filmmakers, who couldn't secure the rights to that piece they wanted to have under that certain scene in their movie...now they have a few more options. This is a good thing:)
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You make a good number of points here. But I'd say there is plenty of combat experience which includes interaction with computers with which to train/simulate combat experience with a computer.
For example computers have been in aircraft since at least Vietnam. Then there's the computers which infantary soldiers have had since at least Somalia (that's the one I picked up on from the Discovery channel...certain units had backpacks with camera's and more usefull stuff), and who knows if there haven't been earlier instances.
Computers have been going into battle for a long time; I'd say there's plenty of data to implement certain systems. I wouldn't want a computer to calm me down in combat either though.
All I'd need are some 'danger' sunglasses: whenever I'm in danger, they'd turn black to make me feel safe:)
Re:Why is this being "dignified" by Slashdot?
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"Wow...someone on/. who almost knows his dead languages. I'm nearly impressed."
That's almost what I put down. But then I realised that no, no-one does give a fuck about where their country is headed. Pithy comments is what they prefer to put down, instead of doing something about what's going on.
I have to admit though, it is very nearly, but not just quite nearly enough, funny:)
I know I'm too late to be moderated or seen, but:
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Christ, this is 1984, or [insert big brother novel here].
This is just...evil?....sick?
Hypocracy has reached it's peak in the 'land of the free'. I'm just glad I don't live there. The problem of course is the old joke "When the end of the world comes, be glad you live in the Netherlands...it'll come six months later".
After the PATRIOT acts I was amazed. After the Homeland Security act I was frightened. Now I'm just scared. Call me naive, but this is just freaky scary.
I knew that science fiction writers are prophets of a sort. What they qwrite is what people aspire to. Case in point, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson. People read their work, and aspire to create giant Manga robots, the internet, geosynchronous satelites. What sci-fi predict comes to pass, because young kids think it's cool, and thionk of that for the rest of their life. But they also have nightmares...and this is one.
Maybe it's the champange, but this double standard scares the shit out of me. This just shouldn't happen. In the seventies, people marched against a war which didn't really even effect them. But now the problems are at home, and no-one gives a peep!?!? WTF!?
That's really all I can say...wtf!?!?
People, posting on/. is no longer enough. E-mail doesn't work. March...let them know that they've crossed the line. Tell, them, vocally. Just don't sit, cos they'll never see. I'm just scared that what's happening over there will make the crosiing to the EU.
I see lots of disparaging comments on this one. But I remember seeing Asimo (the Honda robot...please, no SFII jokes) in action and thinking "Jesus, look at that!". Imagine Moore's law applied to that.
Asimo already looked pretty much like a granny in slightly slo-mo. Now add taichi into the mix...that's a complex balancing act most humans can't even do (try it once, before you joke about it...stand on one leg, have the other in the air to the front, put both arms to the side of your body that has the leg in the air...what, you fell down? That's why it's hard. Now add movements to it, all the while balanced and controlled. And sloooow. Get it now?).
I tell you, the Japanese and the Chinese have a big thing here...hardly anyone in the west is taking this seriously (excluding some at for example MIT who are considered slightly strange), and consequently the west will have a HUGE disadvantage when housekeeping robots come out in ten, fifteen years time. And this time, they're not kidding; look what's been done in 5 years time...from barely crawling (infant) to selfsufficient, internal powersource, full balance, near full range of motion (granny). The processing power is there, now it's just a matter of application and cost. And products like Aibo (which I hate, too) will cover dev costs.
This is a bit of a ramble, I know (champange has that effect on me:P ) but hear this: robots (Asimov's, to be precise) are coming, and the Aseans have a lead on the rest of the world because they took the long view. They have the patents because they took the time and money to develop something not deemed feasable...but looky here, it's slowly but surely turning out to be not only feasible, but thanks to Aibo (and production robots like the ones FIAT makes &uses thanks to the Asians) profittable too.
Thank god someone had the foresight...my IIIc made me feel I was living Star Trek, the next Asimo might make me think I'm living in Asimov's world. I love technology:)
I just wish Tivo would branch out to Europe. Hell, that'd even be good for the economy, as I'd think really hard and maybe get sattelite too! Anyone familiar with the crap programming (and the not very high number of channels) will understand me here.
In theory, yes. I tried it on a.lit copy of the Necronomicon I had gotten (got the deadtree version too, but I didn't want to lug it along), but it effectively crashed trying to copy/paste 1200 pages to notepad to transfer to my IIIc.
Ah, but we live in a truly free county, where pot is legal-ish on the grounds that it's not a harmfull substance. Not all governments have that kind of common sence. Hell, on grounds of copyright, patent law and the odd belief that we should be able to do what we want with something when we've bought it (unless it happens to kill the neighbour or his cat), I think there's not a country on earth which has laws which enforce what the mayority thinks is right...wlecome to the real world, where justice is only blind to the laws being bought.
Relevance is still quite an important issue. Here's a good example why:
This was a number of years ago, for the final project in my first year of mechanical engineering. I was tasked to find some sheets of rubber, for the skirt (the bottom bit which keeps the air under the thing) of the one-man hovercraft we had to build. I had been quite active on bbs's in the day, but was quite the www-newby. So I innocently type in 'rubber' in my search engine of choice (no google at the time)...wow. I never knew how...inventive...people could be when they had access to some bits of rubber. The closest relevant link I found was to a Durex (condom) site.
Now of course it might be a bit easier, with more and more manufacturors online, but I bet it's still not as easy as I once thought it should be.
You keep on making the same bloody point, but you don't seem to realise the effectiveness of having knowledge memorised, at direct command when you need it. It's just more effective if you've learnt your multiplication tables, or the correct syntax' and exceptions instead of having to look up the correct definition evry time you use it. Memorisation and method are equaly important; if you miss one, you're just crap at your work as when you miss the other.
"The best you get is a 1-page table of integrals in second-year."
Wow! I could turn that into a hugely funny 'you're lucky, we had to do that up- and downhill and all we had was a sharp piece of glass to scratch the numbers into our arms, which we then had to hand in for grading' joke, but the sad (or happy) fact is that we got absolute jack all for our tests...all of it was done from our heads; we had to remember all the different kinds of integration rules and do the math on paper. I might be biased, but I think it is a more effective way of getting taught.
Turns out that that kind of stuff is just like learning CNC g-codes: you have to do it regularly or you forget the rules. But it's pretty easy to re-learn it all, because I learnt it in the correct way in the first place.
"As a student, I hated showing my work, and I could not see the reason for it. As a teacher, the more time I spent in the classroom, the more different types of students I worked with, the more I saw how my students did in other classes AFTER they took my classes, the more I realized students who were not showing their work were simply not learning the tools and techniques they needed later in higher level Math classes (and I found this was especially true for gifted students who always expected to glide through any class)."
Now that last part is so true: it really screwed me up, and it took me so much time to correct that. I wish my math teachers had been a bit more strict...or that I had had a bit more foresight.
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So why didn't you go to 'edit'->'undo'? Quite easy, I'd say. Or just go the 'shift'->'tap cut/paste' route.
...but you have to keep in mind that Bluetooth and WiFi were developed for entirely different purposes; Bluetooth was never intended as a wireless computer networking method, just as cable replacement (as in your gfx card to your monitor, your mainboard to your printer, your scanner to your printer).
Know the story about the frog in boiling water? If the water boils slowly enough, the frog doesn't notice, doesn't jump out until it's boiled. The DMCA (and the current law being considered in the EU) might be the same kind of thing.
As far as I'm concerned, parent should be modded +6 Insightful. Not only does he cut right into the heart of the problem, but there's insight into the way the world could be changed if it weren't for people holding us back in a way which is not in line with carefull scientific practices (or even worse, despite them).
Waffle Iron, keep on using that brain!
But as a politician, it's his job to hold dialogue, change peoples minds, make compromises, understand wtf the issue is and be able to communicate that with other people, inform, motivate, and do all that stuff which one does with the use of that skill we call public speaking. It's his job to be a qualified demogogue...and he isn't a skilled orator at all.
But even then, I know lots of people who aren't skilled orators, but are smart. When they have to speak, there might be lots of ums and ahs, but what comes out is generally intelligent (and intelligable) thought. That's just not the case with GWB.
Also, how else are you going to judge GWB's capabilities? The only side you see is what's on tv. And if you'd've bothered to dig deeper, you'd already know the guy is a complete moron, based on his accomplishments.
That's why I call CNN and BBC World "Propaganda 1" and "2" respectively.
Learn some history, will you; the US isn't just up against an "armed agressor"...they're up against the very people they funded and/or put into power in the first place!
I guess what goes around comes around, really. The objection is against the US fscking about with other countries souvereignity without any better cause than "we want power". The alternative is just as simple as "don't do it anymore".
And to go further: any terrorist organisation is just that; an organisation. Not a country. So wtf is up with that "war on terror"? Just like the "war on drugs" (both of which are propaganda driven, the actual facts of the matter being swept under the carpet), even the actual term used is rediculous. Both terrorism and drugs are an ongoing problem for any nation and must be dealt with accordingly. One cannot use a shortterm solution (going to war) for a long term problem. Or at least you can't without misrepresenting the problem, and screwing up your countries finances.
But isn't it ironic that nearly all of the US' foreign problems have come out of sytems (dictatorships etc.) the US itself has funded and put into place?
It does create a nice sense of irony over the whole thing.
Ah...well pointed out...I was thinking a bit EUcentric for a moment there :) Hmmm...makes you wonder if the JFK files will get copyrighted by the government so they can hold on to them longer :)
The funny thing is, it could just be a case of good, accurate reporting :)
Hell, the sentiment expressed in the statement is just so wrong to start off with, the gramatical errors just compound the air of stupidity exuded by this Neil Turkewitz.
Well, it's not that strange: some piece of copyrighted material falls into the public domain every day in every year. It's just that these are some wellknown pieces that will do so at different times this year :)
Nop...the US has been presuring the rest of the world to fall in line with their copyright restrictions. Thank god they've failed :)
:)
As for me, I'm so damned happy about this: I love Callas, and the great jazz and blues bands/songs. They also make great 'film' music, very atmospheric/moody. Now I can put them under my homemade 3d movies totaly without fear of being asked uncomfortable questions about payment whenever or wherever I show them of.
And what to think of actual good filmmakers, who couldn't secure the rights to that piece they wanted to have under that certain scene in their movie...now they have a few more options. This is a good thing
You make a good number of points here. But I'd say there is plenty of combat experience which includes interaction with computers with which to train/simulate combat experience with a computer.
:)
For example computers have been in aircraft since at least Vietnam. Then there's the computers which infantary soldiers have had since at least Somalia (that's the one I picked up on from the Discovery channel...certain units had backpacks with camera's and more usefull stuff), and who knows if there haven't been earlier instances.
Computers have been going into battle for a long time; I'd say there's plenty of data to implement certain systems. I wouldn't want a computer to calm me down in combat either though.
All I'd need are some 'danger' sunglasses: whenever I'm in danger, they'd turn black to make me feel safe
Wow...you seem to be a very boring person indeed.
"Wow...someone on /. who almost knows his dead languages. I'm nearly impressed."
:)
That's almost what I put down. But then I realised that no, no-one does give a fuck about where their country is headed. Pithy comments is what they prefer to put down, instead of doing something about what's going on.
I have to admit though, it is very nearly, but not just quite nearly enough, funny
Christ, this is 1984, or [insert big brother novel here].
/. is no longer enough. E-mail doesn't work. March...let them know that they've crossed the line. Tell, them, vocally. Just don't sit, cos they'll never see. I'm just scared that what's happening over there will make the crosiing to the EU.
This is just...evil?....sick?
Hypocracy has reached it's peak in the 'land of the free'. I'm just glad I don't live there. The problem of course is the old joke "When the end of the world comes, be glad you live in the Netherlands...it'll come six months later".
After the PATRIOT acts I was amazed. After the Homeland Security act I was frightened. Now I'm just scared. Call me naive, but this is just freaky scary.
I knew that science fiction writers are prophets of a sort. What they qwrite is what people aspire to. Case in point, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson. People read their work, and aspire to create giant Manga robots, the internet, geosynchronous satelites. What sci-fi predict comes to pass, because young kids think it's cool, and thionk of that for the rest of their life. But they also have nightmares...and this is one.
Maybe it's the champange, but this double standard scares the shit out of me. This just shouldn't happen. In the seventies, people marched against a war which didn't really even effect them. But now the problems are at home, and no-one gives a peep!?!? WTF!?
That's really all I can say...wtf!?!?
People, posting on
I see lots of disparaging comments on this one. But I remember seeing Asimo (the Honda robot...please, no SFII jokes) in action and thinking "Jesus, look at that!". Imagine Moore's law applied to that.
:P ) but hear this: robots (Asimov's, to be precise) are coming, and the Aseans have a lead on the rest of the world because they took the long view. They have the patents because they took the time and money to develop something not deemed feasable...but looky here, it's slowly but surely turning out to be not only feasible, but thanks to Aibo (and production robots like the ones FIAT makes &uses thanks to the Asians) profittable too.
:)
Asimo already looked pretty much like a granny in slightly slo-mo. Now add taichi into the mix...that's a complex balancing act most humans can't even do (try it once, before you joke about it...stand on one leg, have the other in the air to the front, put both arms to the side of your body that has the leg in the air...what, you fell down? That's why it's hard. Now add movements to it, all the while balanced and controlled. And sloooow. Get it now?).
I tell you, the Japanese and the Chinese have a big thing here...hardly anyone in the west is taking this seriously (excluding some at for example MIT who are considered slightly strange), and consequently the west will have a HUGE disadvantage when housekeeping robots come out in ten, fifteen years time.
And this time, they're not kidding; look what's been done in 5 years time...from barely crawling (infant) to selfsufficient, internal powersource, full balance, near full range of motion (granny). The processing power is there, now it's just a matter of application and cost. And products like Aibo (which I hate, too) will cover dev costs.
This is a bit of a ramble, I know (champange has that effect on me
Thank god someone had the foresight...my IIIc made me feel I was living Star Trek, the next Asimo might make me think I'm living in Asimov's world. I love technology
I just wish Tivo would branch out to Europe. Hell, that'd even be good for the economy, as I'd think really hard and maybe get sattelite too! Anyone familiar with the crap programming (and the not very high number of channels) will understand me here.
In theory, yes. I tried it on a .lit copy of the Necronomicon I had gotten (got the deadtree version too, but I didn't want to lug it along), but it effectively crashed trying to copy/paste 1200 pages to notepad to transfer to my IIIc.
Seeing the parent modded as +1 insightfull is the funniest thing I've seen all day :)
Ah, but we live in a truly free county, where pot is legal-ish on the grounds that it's not a harmfull substance. Not all governments have that kind of common sence.
Hell, on grounds of copyright, patent law and the odd belief that we should be able to do what we want with something when we've bought it (unless it happens to kill the neighbour or his cat), I think there's not a country on earth which has laws which enforce what the mayority thinks is right...wlecome to the real world, where justice is only blind to the laws being bought.
Relevance is still quite an important issue. Here's a good example why:
This was a number of years ago, for the final project in my first year of mechanical engineering. I was tasked to find some sheets of rubber, for the skirt (the bottom bit which keeps the air under the thing) of the one-man hovercraft we had to build. I had been quite active on bbs's in the day, but was quite the www-newby. So I innocently type in 'rubber' in my search engine of choice (no google at the time)...wow. I never knew how...inventive...people could be when they had access to some bits of rubber. The closest relevant link I found was to a Durex (condom) site.
Now of course it might be a bit easier, with more and more manufacturors online, but I bet it's still not as easy as I once thought it should be.
You keep on making the same bloody point, but you don't seem to realise the effectiveness of having knowledge memorised, at direct command when you need it.
It's just more effective if you've learnt your multiplication tables, or the correct syntax' and exceptions instead of having to look up the correct definition evry time you use it. Memorisation and method are equaly important; if you miss one, you're just crap at your work as when you miss the other.
"The best you get is a 1-page table of integrals in second-year."
Wow! I could turn that into a hugely funny 'you're lucky, we had to do that up- and downhill and all we had was a sharp piece of glass to scratch the numbers into our arms, which we then had to hand in for grading' joke, but the sad (or happy) fact is that we got absolute jack all for our tests...all of it was done from our heads; we had to remember all the different kinds of integration rules and do the math on paper. I might be biased, but I think it is a more effective way of getting taught.
Turns out that that kind of stuff is just like learning CNC g-codes: you have to do it regularly or you forget the rules. But it's pretty easy to re-learn it all, because I learnt it in the correct way in the first place.
"As a student, I hated showing my work, and I could not see the reason for it. As a teacher, the more time I spent in the classroom, the more different types of students I worked with, the more I saw how my students did in other classes AFTER they took my classes, the more I realized students who were not showing their work were simply not learning the tools and techniques they needed later in higher level Math classes (and I found this was especially true for gifted students who always expected to glide through any class)."
Now that last part is so true: it really screwed me up, and it took me so much time to correct that. I wish my math teachers had been a bit more strict...or that I had had a bit more foresight.