Both pre-date the WWW, which pre-dates text messaging over the phone. In fact, technically, dial-up IS text messaging over the phone. Anyone who used an ANSI art drawing tool or a macro key on their terminal emulator back in the 1200 bps modem days could define macros to generate emoticons. So the only possible basis for this that I can see is the fact that it's over the phone or if they substitute special characters for the emoticon text (i.e., an actual happy face for:) ).
Every single previous platform for text messages has developed the capability for emoticons, and the special characters have already been done by various IM services like Yahoo, MSN, and PHPBB. Also, the mechanism for implementing this feature is the same across all platforms: byte substitution. The technique is platform independent, and therefore the platform can't be used as a basis for non-obvious part.
IN Australia, Europe or the US, look how cheap they work when they're back in India/China/Romania. I'd rather have an immigrant working and paying payroll taxes in my country than one taking the job completely out of the country any day. At least if he's working HERE the government will have that much more money to pay my unemployment check.:)
The ink in permanent markers can dissolve or distort the media. I burned a music compilation for my daughter (yes I own all the original CDs, they're from before the days RIAA worried about stuff like this), and wrote on it with a Sharpie marker. She went further and drew on it including several dark blobs. A few months later the disk was shot, with a big black hole on the play side matching one of the dark blobs she drew in.
Any private citizen or organization should be able to do business however they like.
If we lived in an ideal world where all markets had sufficient suppliers and customers to be competitive, the market price was determined purely by supply and demand, all product costs were paid by the producer and all market participants had equal access to market information you might have a point.
But because it is human nature to exploit any economic advantage to the fullest extent possible, we get monopolistic practices of stifling competition, and price gouging. We get companies like polluters and ones that don't provide health insurance that pass along many of their community at large. You get product safety regulations because manufacturers will sell pus and call it perfume if they can get away with it for just long enough. We get cases like Enron, MCI, Adelphia and Tyco where the executives hid information from the financial markets.
Since, as a society, we've decided repeatedly that we don't want our lives to be ruled by caveat emptor and the law of the jungle, we end up with a regulated, mostly free, market. The trouble is that once you decide that some regulation is needed, the process of defining regulation is a political process. So you end up with rules designed to coerce social responsibility in areas that have nothing to do with the fairness and efficiency of the market, or even rules that end up damaging the fairness of the market. And tax loopholes. Regulation eventually becomes a political power game, more than true regulation
An open society completely free from government coercion in the economic or personal sphere is just as much a pie in the sky as the old communist adage of "To each according to (their) needs; From each according to (their) abilities." They both attempt to apply an idealized/simplified economic model to a situation that is complicated by our ability to cram the largest truck possible through every loophole we find. If a truly libertarian society ever got established, I wonder how long it would last before it self-imploded from exploitation.
I would say I'm sufficiently familiar with the power of vortices. I'm not convinced he's found a legitimate way around the laws of thermodynamics. For example, what does the flow rate of the "warm" water need to be to sustain the vortex? Presumably it will vary according to the dimensions of the vortex container and the desired velocity of the vortex. Even using the energy "from warm water" or from the sun incurs transport costs.
Even if we don't generate artificial tornadoes, this chamber architecture sounds like it could be adapted to enhance the efficiency of normal wind turbines and address environmental concerns about turbine blades killing mass quantities of bats and birds.
There's a difference between Joe Schmoe's blog and Robert Cringely's, just as there's a difference between Jane Schmoe's weekly stock-pick newsletter and Forbes.
Unlike with food, the more salt you take with your consumption of any kind of public media, the lower your blood pressure will be.
Elevators in buildings were at first considered unsafe in the 1800's and were initially only used for cargo. Assuming we can develop the technology to build the thing, it probably only should be used for cargo. My personal guess is that we'll have to work out the human and sociological issues before we humans can generate the resources and materials to build the thing in the first place. One country won't be able to do it, unless political boundaries shift dramatically.
"There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here."
Actually that list makes Microsoft's relationship with ATL even more interesting. Microsoft is a supplier to both Staples and CompUSA, and CAGW has also come out against Massachusetts OpenDoc standard (allegedly also instigated by Microsoft).
Well yeah, they're injecting bad data into a P2P network to interfere with its intended operation. The intended operation is illegal. And DMCA2 authorized copyright holders to do crap like that.
People complaining about HBO sound like guys I used to know in school who wanted to complain to the government because they got too many stems in their recreational smoking products.
Have to remember our country was founded by terrorists. More rational than radical Islamic, Israeli, Shining Path, Red Brigade or IRA terrorists, but they were still terrorists when it came to handling crown loyalists. Look up what the Sons of Liberty were really up to some time.
actually obey the speed limit on the interstate? I would estimate about 40% where I live. If you're willing to pay the consequences, you can violate any law you want.
I see his point though. Is music/software/video piracy a social good when practiced on the scale enabled by the internet? I've seen the arguments on both sides for years, so I'm old enough to be cynical about both sides.
Most pirates download because they're cheap and want instant gratification, instead of waiting until they've paid down the credit card a bit. Others are simply avoiding being completely exploited by the media conglomerates. They use a work for a few weeks and then toss it. From the RIAA's point of view, they should pay full price for each product, but as a practical matter, it doesn't make sense. They need to rent at a fraction of the current pricing scheme. If they were forced to pay, they probably would only buy one or two a month anyway. Then there are the hoarders, who just want to brag on having the latest/most/best collection of stuff. Basically piracy is just a defense mechanism media consumers have come up with to satisfy the addiction to novelty created by media advertising.
The **AA's aren't exactly in business to help the artist either. Anyone who believes that they file these suits to get the money that the artists are owed must be living in a bubble. Standard industry practice is to shave off as much as possible off of royalties as "expenses" and then only pay more if the artist gets a lawyer and an accountant. The only worse center of greed, scams and corruption than the media industry is the federal government.
Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety will lose both. This country has let the terrorists and our own politicians terrorize us. Even counting all the civilian deaths in Irag, the death toll from terrorism is lower than the number of people killed in automobile accidents each year in the US. Our leaders' response has been almost entirely misdirected to the threat. Iraq, random searches and the secrecy provisions of the patriot act are just some examples of the wrong approach. The most effective anti-terror provision has probably been to lock the doors to the flight deck on commercial aircraft.
Unlike libertarian purists, I can deal with higher levels of surveillance in public areas and domestic intelligence gathering, but the current approach seems to maximize the expense and impact to civil liberties while failing to achieve the promised security. Also, there are too many escape clauses that allow the executive branch to do whatever it wants with almost no accountability.
The standards for border control are different from those for internal checkpoints. Basically, Customs and the border patrol are allowed to search anyone crossing the border at their discretion. So racial profiling probably is involved, but there isn't a lot you can do about it. For decades, Customs has used vague, subjective criteria to decide who gets searched.
Once you're inside the border, the definition of what constitutes an unreasonable search is much more stringent.
And it's not just using the boxes without paying that would bug FedEx. The website associates the boxes with being ghetto. So there's a negative impact to their image (from a corporate lawyer's point of view, anyway).
But DMCA?
Just because the pictures are on a website rather than printed?
More like there was a machine in your house throwing a cookie out the window onto the street every 5 seconds. Ignoring how dirty the cookies might be, is it OK for a passer-by to eat them? Or how about someone standing on the sidewalk catching them as they fly by?
This ties in with what's happened in Florida. A couple of years ago the state legislature held hearings to investigate the malpractice insurance problem. Witness after witness from the insurance industry gave presentations stating that bogus and excessive claims were the problem. Until they were put under oath. Then the claims became "we think", "look at this one incident" and "we don't have the data with us".
Electronegativity corresponds to the spectral color and brightness. Note how the Reds correspond to the halogens, and the noble gases are grey.
Shell information is a combination of color code and location around the spiral.
It has no structure or elegance; it is just a plian, simple list.
Spend a little more time looking at the chart. The color coded radials correspond to the columns/valence groups in the old chart. The spiral corresponds to increasing atomic number. Basically, this is just a remapping of the old chart from rectangular to polar coordinates: The same information is there, but the format is different. You're right that the circles need to be larger to contain more information, but the additional information was never really part of the purpose of the periodic table anyway. The table has always been a tool for classifying the chemical properties of the elements, it wasn't intended as a reference of the specific attributes of each element.
Apart from statistics like the average atomic weight (which could be added to the circles representing the elements), all the information in the old table is available in the new chart by following the spiral out from H.
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Both pre-date the WWW, which pre-dates text messaging over the phone. In fact, technically, dial-up IS text messaging over the phone. Anyone who used an ANSI art drawing tool or a macro key on their terminal emulator back in the 1200 bps modem days could define macros to generate emoticons. So the only possible basis for this that I can see is the fact that it's over the phone or if they substitute special characters for the emoticon text (i.e., an actual happy face for :) ).
Every single previous platform for text messages has developed the capability for emoticons, and the special characters have already been done by various IM services like Yahoo, MSN, and PHPBB. Also, the mechanism for implementing this feature is the same across all platforms: byte substitution. The technique is platform independent, and therefore the platform can't be used as a basis for non-obvious part.
I don't recall ever seeing a curdling match. Is it more common in dairy country, like cow-tipping?
IN Australia, Europe or the US, look how cheap they work when they're back in India/China/Romania. I'd rather have an immigrant working and paying payroll taxes in my country than one taking the job completely out of the country any day. At least if he's working HERE the government will have that much more money to pay my unemployment check. :)
The ink in permanent markers can dissolve or distort the media. I burned a music compilation for my daughter (yes I own all the original CDs, they're from before the days RIAA worried about stuff like this), and wrote on it with a Sharpie marker. She went further and drew on it including several dark blobs. A few months later the disk was shot, with a big black hole on the play side matching one of the dark blobs she drew in.
If we lived in an ideal world where all markets had sufficient suppliers and customers to be competitive, the market price was determined purely by supply and demand, all product costs were paid by the producer and all market participants had equal access to market information you might have a point.
But because it is human nature to exploit any economic advantage to the fullest extent possible, we get monopolistic practices of stifling competition, and price gouging. We get companies like polluters and ones that don't provide health insurance that pass along many of their community at large. You get product safety regulations because manufacturers will sell pus and call it perfume if they can get away with it for just long enough. We get cases like Enron, MCI, Adelphia and Tyco where the executives hid information from the financial markets.
Since, as a society, we've decided repeatedly that we don't want our lives to be ruled by caveat emptor and the law of the jungle, we end up with a regulated, mostly free, market. The trouble is that once you decide that some regulation is needed, the process of defining regulation is a political process. So you end up with rules designed to coerce social responsibility in areas that have nothing to do with the fairness and efficiency of the market, or even rules that end up damaging the fairness of the market. And tax loopholes. Regulation eventually becomes a political power game, more than true regulation
An open society completely free from government coercion in the economic or personal sphere is just as much a pie in the sky as the old communist adage of "To each according to (their) needs; From each according to (their) abilities." They both attempt to apply an idealized/simplified economic model to a situation that is complicated by our ability to cram the largest truck possible through every loophole we find. If a truly libertarian society ever got established, I wonder how long it would last before it self-imploded from exploitation.
I would say I'm sufficiently familiar with the power of vortices. I'm not convinced he's found a legitimate way around the laws of thermodynamics. For example, what does the flow rate of the "warm" water need to be to sustain the vortex? Presumably it will vary according to the dimensions of the vortex container and the desired velocity of the vortex. Even using the energy "from warm water" or from the sun incurs transport costs.
Even if we don't generate artificial tornadoes, this chamber architecture sounds like it could be adapted to enhance the efficiency of normal wind turbines and address environmental concerns about turbine blades killing mass quantities of bats and birds.
Financial industry newsletters?
There's a difference between Joe Schmoe's blog and Robert Cringely's, just as there's a difference between Jane Schmoe's weekly stock-pick newsletter and Forbes.
Unlike with food, the more salt you take with your consumption of any kind of public media, the lower your blood pressure will be.
Elevators in buildings were at first considered unsafe in the 1800's and were initially only used for cargo. Assuming we can develop the technology to build the thing, it probably only should be used for cargo. My personal guess is that we'll have to work out the human and sociological issues before we humans can generate the resources and materials to build the thing in the first place. One country won't be able to do it, unless political boundaries shift dramatically.
"There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here."
Actually that list makes Microsoft's relationship with ATL even more interesting. Microsoft is a supplier to both Staples and CompUSA, and CAGW has also come out against Massachusetts OpenDoc standard (allegedly also instigated by Microsoft).
Well yeah, they're injecting bad data into a P2P network to interfere with its intended operation. The intended operation is illegal. And DMCA2 authorized copyright holders to do crap like that.
People complaining about HBO sound like guys I used to know in school who wanted to complain to the government because they got too many stems in their recreational smoking products.
Have to remember our country was founded by terrorists. More rational than radical Islamic, Israeli, Shining Path, Red Brigade or IRA terrorists, but they were still terrorists when it came to handling crown loyalists. Look up what the Sons of Liberty were really up to some time.
... ish shtill the king!
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
actually obey the speed limit on the interstate? I would estimate about 40% where I live. If you're willing to pay the consequences, you can violate any law you want.
I see his point though. Is music/software/video piracy a social good when practiced on the scale enabled by the internet? I've seen the arguments on both sides for years, so I'm old enough to be cynical about both sides.
Most pirates download because they're cheap and want instant gratification, instead of waiting until they've paid down the credit card a bit. Others are simply avoiding being completely exploited by the media conglomerates. They use a work for a few weeks and then toss it. From the RIAA's point of view, they should pay full price for each product, but as a practical matter, it doesn't make sense. They need to rent at a fraction of the current pricing scheme. If they were forced to pay, they probably would only buy one or two a month anyway. Then there are the hoarders, who just want to brag on having the latest/most/best collection of stuff. Basically piracy is just a defense mechanism media consumers have come up with to satisfy the addiction to novelty created by media advertising.
The **AA's aren't exactly in business to help the artist either. Anyone who believes that they file these suits to get the money that the artists are owed must be living in a bubble. Standard industry practice is to shave off as much as possible off of royalties as "expenses" and then only pay more if the artist gets a lawyer and an accountant. The only worse center of greed, scams and corruption than the media industry is the federal government.
Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety will lose both. This country has let the terrorists and our own politicians terrorize us. Even counting all the civilian deaths in Irag, the death toll from terrorism is lower than the number of people killed in automobile accidents each year in the US. Our leaders' response has been almost entirely misdirected to the threat. Iraq, random searches and the secrecy provisions of the patriot act are just some examples of the wrong approach. The most effective anti-terror provision has probably been to lock the doors to the flight deck on commercial aircraft.
Unlike libertarian purists, I can deal with higher levels of surveillance in public areas and domestic intelligence gathering, but the current approach seems to maximize the expense and impact to civil liberties while failing to achieve the promised security. Also, there are too many escape clauses that allow the executive branch to do whatever it wants with almost no accountability.
The standards for border control are different from those for internal checkpoints. Basically, Customs and the border patrol are allowed to search anyone crossing the border at their discretion. So racial profiling probably is involved, but there isn't a lot you can do about it. For decades, Customs has used vague, subjective criteria to decide who gets searched.
Once you're inside the border, the definition of what constitutes an unreasonable search is much more stringent.
If you need to "borrow" a patented business process, just get a contract with an unnamed government agency.
Yeah, but DMCA?
And it's not just using the boxes without paying that would bug FedEx. The website associates the boxes with being ghetto. So there's a negative impact to their image (from a corporate lawyer's point of view, anyway).
But DMCA?
Just because the pictures are on a website rather than printed?
More like the billionth time. As Willie Sutton never said when asked why he robbed banks: "Because that's where the money is."
More like there was a machine in your house throwing a cookie out the window onto the street every 5 seconds. Ignoring how dirty the cookies might be, is it OK for a passer-by to eat them? Or how about someone standing on the sidewalk catching them as they fly by?
Sounds like a market opportunity for a support contractor.
This ties in with what's happened in Florida. A couple of years ago the state legislature held hearings to investigate the malpractice insurance problem. Witness after witness from the insurance industry gave presentations stating that bogus and excessive claims were the problem. Until they were put under oath. Then the claims became "we think", "look at this one incident" and "we don't have the data with us".
Electronegativity corresponds to the spectral color and brightness. Note how the Reds correspond to the halogens, and the noble gases are grey. Shell information is a combination of color code and location around the spiral.
It has no structure or elegance; it is just a plian, simple list. Spend a little more time looking at the chart. The color coded radials correspond to the columns/valence groups in the old chart. The spiral corresponds to increasing atomic number. Basically, this is just a remapping of the old chart from rectangular to polar coordinates: The same information is there, but the format is different. You're right that the circles need to be larger to contain more information, but the additional information was never really part of the purpose of the periodic table anyway. The table has always been a tool for classifying the chemical properties of the elements, it wasn't intended as a reference of the specific attributes of each element.
Thanks for the link to the image...
Apart from statistics like the average atomic weight (which could be added to the circles representing the elements), all the information in the old table is available in the new chart by following the spiral out from H.