Alright, let's stop letting microsoft do all our visual design. Evidenced here. That looks remarkably like WinXP's Control Panel. I'm sorry, but the general trend in desktop distros, especially ones with KDE, is to make things look like windows. Can we please try to innovate a little more on the user interface? I use Enlightenment, I think it does a fairly good job of this. I mean, some of the top downloads for themes are based on Mac's OS X. We need a defined Linux-look and feel that's not based on something developed by someone else. The Linux desktop should not try to be a clone of the Windows. see here.
No, I fully understand that Congress can and does pass any law they want. Even if said law is unconstitutional. For instance, the bill banning abortion passed a few years ago that was promptly overturned. And I think the founders never intended Congress to pass unconstitutional bills.
This is the equivilant, IMHO, of passing bills making abortion illegal. Phone books and compilations are not copyrightable, says the Supreme Court. Feist v. Rural Telecom. Congress cannot change this and prescient would take priority here, the law would be immediatly challenged and overturned if it directly contradicts Feist. IANAL, but this is my read on it.
I can just see it, Nvidia Board Meeting: Okay, I've been to this site, slashdot.org, and they have some radical ideas about business plans, but I think they have something we can use. It's called the ? plan, and always ends in profit. See, here's ours:
1. Release Underclocked Card 2. Release NEW and IMPROVED card, costing more money! 3. Piss off people with NEW and IMPROVED card when they find out Underclocked card can have new bios, being just as good as NEW and IMPROVED card. 4. People who pay more for NEW and IMPROVED card don't buy any more NEW and IMPROVED cards. 5. ??????? 6. Profit!!!!!!!!!!
Neato! I caught this story right when it went on slashdot's main page, 0/3 comments and got the vote tally, we can safely say that this is pre/. effect. Now, I think I know which way most slashdoteers are going to vote, and we've already seen vote skewing here when a sig told people to vote no on Verisign all through September and October (it got around 5000 votes at the end of the month as I recall), let's see how slashdot affects a slightly larger traffic/voting site:
So here are the current vote totals, pre/. effect:
24692 Responces 27% Yes 41% Not today, but maybe soon 29% Never (Likely to spike? Let's see!) 2% None of the above
I wish someone would put out an article on the effective use of metaphors and figurative language and THINKING BEFORE YOU SPEAK! The confederate flag remark? Doh!
News For Nerds, Stuff that matters. That's the test. A new technology comes in that lets you determine identity accuratly, 100%. A man has died and been buried for around 100 years. The question here is: "Should technology be used retroactivly?"
Consider the following example. A person is murdered. A murder-machine is invented 100 years after the person is killed that tells who killed a person even 100 years after the person died. Is it ethical to put the families of the suspects (all the suspects are long dead) through the trauma of knowing that their grandfather was a murderer?
Geekdom is occasionally concerned with science fiction, and science fiction creates worlds with rules designed such that the author can play with an idea. Here, the rules change such that a person can determine identity 100%. This change makes this News for Nerds, and I'd certanly say that the issue of retroactive technology, which can include DNA Testing, Mitochondrial DNA, and Cryogenics, matters.
This seems more like a "name-the-sat" contest than an actual scientific launch. Note that they promise only the ability to put some of your stuff in the launch vehicle and see pictures from "your" sat. Likely, the sat will be one THEY designed used for THEIR purposes, not your scientific pet project.
I am paying $20 for you to give me a CD I can use. I want to rip it and make mix CD's. If I can't, I won't pay you $20 and I won't buy your CD. You don't understand, we aren't given a privelage to buy CD's, we buy from them, not the other way around. They cater to use, not the other way around. We're the consumer, and we should be in control. We aren't addicted to these things.
Too unrealistic. I don't even think we should address this until we are within 50 years of it. Anyone who's worked with AI's knows we're nowhere near this point. Playing out the trial is just an exercise, whereas any actual decision would be highly based on the circumstances. Self-aware AI is a long way off.
A cost-only approach ignores other issues such as security and reliability, which clearly are a major factor for a finance dept. and here open standards/open source have a far better track record than closed source. Not only that, the bidding, in cases such as these, would likely be open to any open souce supplier, of which there are many. There's no cheating here, just a better long term strategy based on evidence availible at the present time.
I have a copy of Photoshop at school, but I don't know how to use it because I mainly do PHP/MySQL work. If someone could post a link to a site teaching how to do cool stuff with Photoshop, I would greatly appreciate it.
Has anyone gotten a chance to hear about the equipment they're using? It's mostly russian Soyez hardware isn't it? More information in this department would be interesting, I know NASA based rocket design off of ICBM's in the early program, did china go the same way?
Yes, but you know it's more complicated than that. Remember, the dose makes the poison. Is there a tolerance to low level radiation or is any exposure harmful? This is the central question. Also, the microwave example is limited exposure. These kids would have prolonged exposure. I don't pretend to know the answer, but I don't think that precludes asking the question. While I don't know, my gut is that you're right and 2 seconds of microwave == 2 years of wifi.
The plantiffs claim to have over 400 articles about the harmful effects of radiation such as WiFi, yet cite 0. I know this is just the beginning of the case, but this seems like a scare tactic, get rid of it and lose $0 or we'll keep going and you'll lose more. The basis of the scientific method is query and data replicability. If you don't query and produce not one datum, you aren't scientifically proving anything, you're making a political statment. The style, but not the substance, of this article, troubles me greatly.
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Now we get the pleasure of another indignant letter from Darl about how the open source community is out to get him.
Wow, this must make the RIAA's day. An artist who needs absolutly no pay and who really is property...
We'll tell you when your compile finishes.
Alright, let's stop letting microsoft do all our visual design. Evidenced here. That looks remarkably like WinXP's Control Panel. I'm sorry, but the general trend in desktop distros, especially ones with KDE, is to make things look like windows. Can we please try to innovate a little more on the user interface? I use Enlightenment, I think it does a fairly good job of this. I mean, some of the top downloads for themes are based on Mac's OS X. We need a defined Linux-look and feel that's not based on something developed by someone else. The Linux desktop should not try to be a clone of the Windows. see here.
No, I fully understand that Congress can and does pass any law they want. Even if said law is unconstitutional. For instance, the bill banning abortion passed a few years ago that was promptly overturned. And I think the founders never intended Congress to pass unconstitutional bills.
This is the equivilant, IMHO, of passing bills making abortion illegal. Phone books and compilations are not copyrightable, says the Supreme Court. Feist v. Rural Telecom. Congress cannot change this and prescient would take priority here, the law would be immediatly challenged and overturned if it directly contradicts Feist. IANAL, but this is my read on it.
I'd just like to take a minute to thank the EFF. You can help them by donating.
I can just see it, Nvidia Board Meeting:
Okay, I've been to this site, slashdot.org, and they have some radical ideas about business plans, but I think they have something we can use. It's called the ? plan, and always ends in profit. See, here's ours:
1. Release Underclocked Card
2. Release NEW and IMPROVED card, costing more money!
3. Piss off people with NEW and IMPROVED card when they find out Underclocked card can have new bios, being just as good as NEW and IMPROVED card.
4. People who pay more for NEW and IMPROVED card don't buy any more NEW and IMPROVED cards.
5. ???????
6. Profit!!!!!!!!!!
Neato! I caught this story right when it went on slashdot's main page, 0/3 comments and got the vote tally, we can safely say that this is pre /. effect. Now, I think I know which way most slashdoteers are going to vote, and we've already seen vote skewing here when a sig told people to vote no on Verisign all through September and October (it got around 5000 votes at the end of the month as I recall), let's see how slashdot affects a slightly larger traffic/voting site:
/. effect:
So here are the current vote totals, pre
24692 Responces
27% Yes
41% Not today, but maybe soon
29% Never (Likely to spike? Let's see!)
2% None of the above
I know two places that would take it: The Lazarus Foundation and Wilde Lake High School
I wish someone would put out an article on the effective use of metaphors and figurative language and THINKING BEFORE YOU SPEAK! The confederate flag remark? Doh!
News For Nerds, Stuff that matters. That's the test. A new technology comes in that lets you determine identity accuratly, 100%. A man has died and been buried for around 100 years. The question here is: "Should technology be used retroactivly?"
Consider the following example. A person is murdered. A murder-machine is invented 100 years after the person is killed that tells who killed a person even 100 years after the person died. Is it ethical to put the families of the suspects (all the suspects are long dead) through the trauma of knowing that their grandfather was a murderer?
Geekdom is occasionally concerned with science fiction, and science fiction creates worlds with rules designed such that the author can play with an idea. Here, the rules change such that a person can determine identity 100%. This change makes this News for Nerds, and I'd certanly say that the issue of retroactive technology, which can include DNA Testing, Mitochondrial DNA, and Cryogenics, matters.
oops... s/RTFM/RTFA. And it looks like the sat will be a Spacedev MTV sat, so you don't even get to design that. Yikes.
/me can't type.
This seems more like a "name-the-sat" contest than an actual scientific launch. Note that they promise only the ability to put some of your stuff in the launch vehicle and see pictures from "your" sat. Likely, the sat will be one THEY designed used for THEIR purposes, not your scientific pet project.
I am paying $20 for you to give me a CD I can use. I want to rip it and make mix CD's. If I can't, I won't pay you $20 and I won't buy your CD. You don't understand, we aren't given a privelage to buy CD's, we buy from them, not the other way around. They cater to use, not the other way around. We're the consumer, and we should be in control. We aren't addicted to these things.
It's Windows XP, but with an obnoxiously larger clock and sidebar! Great! /me predicts the biggest flop since Win ME.
Yes, but what I'm saying is that current laws don't nearly reflect reality at the time when creation of the AI is even concievable.
Too unrealistic. I don't even think we should address this until we are within 50 years of it. Anyone who's worked with AI's knows we're nowhere near this point. Playing out the trial is just an exercise, whereas any actual decision would be highly based on the circumstances. Self-aware AI is a long way off.
A cost-only approach ignores other issues such as security and reliability, which clearly are a major factor for a finance dept. and here open standards/open source have a far better track record than closed source. Not only that, the bidding, in cases such as these, would likely be open to any open souce supplier, of which there are many. There's no cheating here, just a better long term strategy based on evidence availible at the present time.
I have a copy of Photoshop at school, but I don't know how to use it because I mainly do PHP/MySQL work. If someone could post a link to a site teaching how to do cool stuff with Photoshop, I would greatly appreciate it.
Has anyone gotten a chance to hear about the equipment they're using? It's mostly russian Soyez hardware isn't it? More information in this department would be interesting, I know NASA based rocket design off of ICBM's in the early program, did china go the same way?
Yes, but you know it's more complicated than that. Remember, the dose makes the poison. Is there a tolerance to low level radiation or is any exposure harmful? This is the central question. Also, the microwave example is limited exposure. These kids would have prolonged exposure. I don't pretend to know the answer, but I don't think that precludes asking the question. While I don't know, my gut is that you're right and 2 seconds of microwave == 2 years of wifi.
Which is why the CD is gonna die and be replace by a medium with copy protection hardcoded in. Possibly through *ugh* server side verification.
Wait, are you saying we can sue HOT 95.5 for playing crappy music? That sounds like a good idea!
The plantiffs claim to have over 400 articles about the harmful effects of radiation such as WiFi, yet cite 0. I know this is just the beginning of the case, but this seems like a scare tactic, get rid of it and lose $0 or we'll keep going and you'll lose more. The basis of the scientific method is query and data replicability. If you don't query and produce not one datum, you aren't scientifically proving anything, you're making a political statment. The style, but not the substance, of this article, troubles me greatly.