I mean, it's not rocket science...oh, wait...
I hereby propose an immediate moratorium on all "It's not rocket science" jokes when posting to articles involving NASA, spaceflight, or space itself. It's too easy people.
For a few years now I've been copying the text of articles into a.txt files, and saving it in a news database, creating my own personal mini-lexis nexus for research purposes, as you never know when a link is going to go dead.
I don't actually read the stories half the time, just copy the text for later searches. A random smattering of recent stories is just what the doctor ordered half the time, as with most things google, the results of the news searches are, for the most part, highly relevant. Yahoo's searches through AP/reuters never quite did it for me, so it's a welcome edition to my news gathering arsenal.
It's clear that the Navy/Air Force et all are actively recruiting those of a geekish persuasion. The America's Army game appears to be but the tip of the iceberg. Yesterday, I saw a commercial for the Navy, I believe, featuring a kid growing up through the years playing with increasingly sophisticated model/remote control planes, the final shot being the (now) man controlling an UAV in front of a monitor with a keyboard/joystick combo. The tag Line? "We've been waiting for you."
I once thought the practice of blocking access to sites nationwide was going to be all but impossible, but it appears that the first baby steps being taken in the East have been somewhat succesful. I'm interested in the effect such blocking software will have in a trade dispute. What if the EU, or it's individual nations implement such policies? Will http://www.boeing.com/ be unavailable in Europe due to lobbying by Airbus? Is this a paving the way for digital sanctions?
While I am indeed concerned about some of the infringments to liberties post 9-11, I must say that this particular isue is pretty much open and shut. When you go to a library, you are visiting a public place, stocked with public property. The computers you use are not your own privately held property, nor are books/periodicals/music that you check out. There can be no expectation of privacy when the resource one is using is not private.
You're probably going to want to turn down your speakers when playing this game. All you're going to here is endless repetitions of *Thwip!* *Snikt!* *Thwip* *Snikt* *Snikt* perforated only by the occasional "Puny Humans!"
Right, but how many of the robots were gay? I mean, 3pos main function is to talk, and I think that everyone would remember the time that kid anakin built the gay british robot. That's just me though.
I actually want WAY less social commentary in my movies. There's too dagged much pseudo social comentary in movies to begin with. I eat cheerios for breakfast, not because it will enlighten me, or expand my horizens, but because I want something sweet and somewhat tiding in the morning. I watch movies for the same reason, from an entertainment standpoint.
The last thing I need is Keanu saying "Whoa, there are like, too many people cutting down trees, or...you know...whatever..."
>blah blah with some resonance of Nietchze thrown in.
Nietchze? what the....If anyone has any kinda Nietchze in him, it's the Bat, sir... Superman is all about the life affirmation.
You set up a hypothetical situation where the songs are priced. But Morpheus, Kazaa, et all are not providing a cent, red or otherwise to the record companies. Regardless of what you would do IF it was priced at any cost, what a downloader on Kazaa is doing is theft.
The "People" have shown that they want content, without paying for it. Even without the potential loss of sales, at the very least, the record companies are paying money to the artist, as well as the time in a studio to create content, which a large group of people enjoy, without recouping that initial loss for the company.
If "the people" want free content, they need to develop their own content, for the expressed intent of giving it away for free. That would be legal. This is not, however, the model that the recording/movie industry has chosen, they want to be paid. If you take that content, without paying the dough, you are a thief. You are enjoying the fruits of many other peoples labor, without paying for it. Keep in mind, the guy behind the console in a recording studio isn't being payed a hojillion dollars. He's a working class shmuck like you or I.
Pirate all the music you want. Just stop trying to come up with arguments as to how it isn't theft.
This is the sole reason why I never got involved in coding, because I know people who are coders, who I never saw, never talked to, because they were always pushing this project or that, with maybe a week in between. This is simply a foolish practice on the part of employers, strictly finacially, but outside of that management, as a rule, does not respect coders. I think, in part, this is due to the fact that Coders tend to work harder then the average employee, and as such managers push for that extra bit over and over, untill you end up with a 15 hour day. Gather up some compatriots and start your own company, that has nothing to do with the one you currently work at, so as to eliminate a potential lawsuit). If the situation is to change, then groups of coders need to get their entrepreneurialism on, and leave those managers who couldn't write a simple website, let alone a rule in excel, in their dust. This cat can say what he will about going "Balls to the Wall", but I'm guessing he's out of the office at 10 minutes to six.
First it was light-saber control legislation, now the AU government is suppressing the faith of the Jedi they depend upon for it's national defense. Have we not learned from the Trilogies? They will take away a Jedi's rights incrementally, until they are able to invoke the "Episode 3" Clause, targeting and eliminating all Jedi. How long do we have until that fateful day?
Actually, It might be quite possible. Typical Cable signals have riders which can transmit data, but ordinarily don't. This is how most Close Captioning works, the data for the caption gets attached to the rider. It would take a heck of a compression technique, but I think that the room for the data could be added. Of course, we would also all have to purchase enabled televisions/boxes, but I would do it in a heartbeat if I could exchange heinously long and frequent breaks for the oh so irritating product placement.
My knee-jerk reaction was to say pay-per channel would be the only solution, but I very much like this line of thought. All it would take is a static address through the cable/whatever hookup, and usage of Green screen technology.
This would be especially nice for advertisers themselves, as they could target users within various age groups. Imagine logging into your TV, with no more information offered then age and gender, and when a character on TV picks up their green screened can of soda, it turns out to be a Mountain Dew, or Pepsi, or whoever paid the producers more to hit that age-bracket/gender. Let alone logos on shirts/hats/billboards shown in the program. A producer could litter a television show with as many advertisements as they desire, and they would be precisely targeted at the intended viewer. I would be more than willing to log into my TV to avoid 7-8 minutes of advertisements per 30 minute program.
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I mean, it's not rocket science...oh, wait... I hereby propose an immediate moratorium on all "It's not rocket science" jokes when posting to articles involving NASA, spaceflight, or space itself.
It's too easy people.
You know, the one smoking a cigarette. Is he even supposed to be here?
It also had a paint program that MS still hasn't topped. Paintbrush indeed...
For a few years now I've been copying the text of articles into a .txt files, and saving it in a news database, creating my own personal mini-lexis nexus for research purposes, as you never know when a link is going to go dead.
I don't actually read the stories half the time, just copy the text for later searches. A random smattering of recent stories is just what the doctor ordered half the time, as with most things google, the results of the news searches are, for the most part, highly relevant. Yahoo's searches through AP/reuters never quite did it for me, so it's a welcome edition to my news gathering arsenal.
It's clear that the Navy/Air Force et all are actively recruiting those of a geekish persuasion. The America's Army game appears to be but the tip of the iceberg.
Yesterday, I saw a commercial for the Navy, I believe, featuring a kid growing up through the years playing with increasingly sophisticated model/remote control planes, the final shot being the (now) man controlling an UAV in front of a monitor with a keyboard/joystick combo. The tag Line? "We've been waiting for you."
It's Nietzsche!
Neh, I don't respect the philosophy enough to spell the practitioners name correctly.
I once thought the practice of blocking access to sites nationwide was going to be all but impossible, but it appears that the first baby steps being taken in the East have been somewhat succesful.
I'm interested in the effect such blocking software will have in a trade dispute. What if the EU, or it's individual nations implement such policies? Will http://www.boeing.com/ be unavailable in Europe due to lobbying by Airbus? Is this a paving the way for digital sanctions?
While I am indeed concerned about some of the infringments to liberties post 9-11, I must say that this particular isue is pretty much open and shut. When you go to a library, you are visiting a public place, stocked with public property. The computers you use are not your own privately held property, nor are books/periodicals/music that you check out. There can be no expectation of privacy when the resource one is using is not private.
You're probably going to want to turn down your speakers when playing this game. All you're going to here is endless repetitions of *Thwip!* *Snikt!* *Thwip* *Snikt* *Snikt* perforated only by the occasional "Puny Humans!"
Right, but how many of the robots were gay? I mean, 3pos main function is to talk, and I think that everyone would remember the time that kid anakin built the gay british robot. That's just me though.
I actually want WAY less social commentary in my movies. There's too dagged much pseudo social comentary in movies to begin with. I eat cheerios for breakfast, not because it will enlighten me, or expand my horizens, but because I want something sweet and somewhat tiding in the morning. I watch movies for the same reason, from an entertainment standpoint. The last thing I need is Keanu saying "Whoa, there are like, too many people cutting down trees, or...you know...whatever..."
>blah blah with some resonance of Nietchze thrown in. Nietchze? what the....If anyone has any kinda Nietchze in him, it's the Bat, sir... Superman is all about the life affirmation.
You set up a hypothetical situation where the songs are priced. But Morpheus, Kazaa, et all are not providing a cent, red or otherwise to the record companies. Regardless of what you would do IF it was priced at any cost, what a downloader on Kazaa is doing is theft.
The "People" have shown that they want content, without paying for it. Even without the potential loss of sales, at the very least, the record companies are paying money to the artist, as well as the time in a studio to create content, which a large group of people enjoy, without recouping that initial loss for the company. If "the people" want free content, they need to develop their own content, for the expressed intent of giving it away for free. That would be legal. This is not, however, the model that the recording/movie industry has chosen, they want to be paid. If you take that content, without paying the dough, you are a thief. You are enjoying the fruits of many other peoples labor, without paying for it. Keep in mind, the guy behind the console in a recording studio isn't being payed a hojillion dollars. He's a working class shmuck like you or I. Pirate all the music you want. Just stop trying to come up with arguments as to how it isn't theft.
But how many of these transistors would fit on a single human hair?
This is the sole reason why I never got involved in coding, because I know people who are coders, who I never saw, never talked to, because they were always pushing this project or that, with maybe a week in between. This is simply a foolish practice on the part of employers, strictly finacially, but outside of that management, as a rule, does not respect coders. I think, in part, this is due to the fact that Coders tend to work harder then the average employee, and as such managers push for that extra bit over and over, untill you end up with a 15 hour day. Gather up some compatriots and start your own company, that has nothing to do with the one you currently work at, so as to eliminate a potential lawsuit). If the situation is to change, then groups of coders need to get their entrepreneurialism on, and leave those managers who couldn't write a simple website, let alone a rule in excel, in their dust. This cat can say what he will about going "Balls to the Wall", but I'm guessing he's out of the office at 10 minutes to six.
First it was light-saber control legislation, now the AU government is suppressing the faith of the Jedi they depend upon for it's national defense. Have we not learned from the Trilogies? They will take away a Jedi's rights incrementally, until they are able to invoke the "Episode 3" Clause, targeting and eliminating all Jedi. How long do we have until that fateful day?
Actually, It might be quite possible. Typical Cable signals have riders which can transmit data, but ordinarily don't. This is how most Close Captioning works, the data for the caption gets attached to the rider. It would take a heck of a compression technique, but I think that the room for the data could be added. Of course, we would also all have to purchase enabled televisions/boxes, but I would do it in a heartbeat if I could exchange heinously long and frequent breaks for the oh so irritating product placement.
My knee-jerk reaction was to say pay-per channel would be the only solution, but I very much like this line of thought. All it would take is a static address through the cable/whatever hookup, and usage of Green screen technology.
This would be especially nice for advertisers themselves, as they could target users within various age groups. Imagine logging into your TV, with no more information offered then age and gender, and when a character on TV picks up their green screened can of soda, it turns out to be a Mountain Dew, or Pepsi, or whoever paid the producers more to hit that age-bracket/gender. Let alone logos on shirts/hats/billboards shown in the program. A producer could litter a television show with as many advertisements as they desire, and they would be precisely targeted at the intended viewer. I would be more than willing to log into my TV to avoid 7-8 minutes of advertisements per 30 minute program.