Many of you have raised the reasonable objection that a scramjet wouldn't be economical. But it might be economical for certain people: the very rich.
The super rich couldn't save the Concorde.
Dow might think twice about booking its senior execs on a plane that will be on the A-list of targets for every terrorist on earth. The next best thing to bringing down Air Force One.
calling the site a bit Windows centric doesn't explain why Firefox shows solid growth in the browser stats while Vista is positioned to overtake OSX and Linux in the OS platform stats.
The high end of the market is moving to Mac, and the low end -- at least the more knowledgeable among them -- are moving to Linux.
Mac 4%
up 2% since March 03
it would be difficult to argue that there has been any significant change in the Mac demographic in the last twenty years.
lately, Apple has been aggressively promoting the Mac's ability to run Windows apps through Boot Camp and viritualization. to me that suggests a company that is being coldly realistic about its place in the PC market.
Call me mercenary but, tough as it is, I'd rather a million kids starve while the million that survive improve their quality of life.
It worked for the survivors of the Black Plague in Europe.
Not so well for the native American tribes decimated by smallpox and other imported diseases.
The kid who is sick and starving is not coming to school in a state that will permit him to learn much of anything. You don't save a million kids for better future. You risk losing them all.
Education in the American South was for generations regarded as a hopeless case. Until the Rockefeller Foundation began a systematic campaign to eliminate parasitic diseases like hookworm.
Mr Dvorak has obviously never heard the expression "teach a man to fish".
The key word here is "teach." OLPC is a textbook, not a teacher.
I imagine a small African village containing 20 teenagers who speak good enlish, are kick-ass programmers with knowledge of the way the outside world works - and web access.
Twenty kick-ass programmers in a village of 900. Keep on dreaming.
The kid who wants to know how the world works moves on to the big city, the capital. He doesn't stay in the village and he doesn't find reality on the web.
Tribal rug makers can sell their rugs on eBay for hundreds of dollars - they can use the computer to allow customers to upload designs like CafePress does - they can go into the custom rug making business.
The value of a tribal rug is in the tradition of tribal designs.
What you are proposing is simply the outsourcing of labor at the expense of your own native craftsman whether they be Appalachian quiltmakers or the native American weavers of the desert Southwest.
My family in New York are all Republicans, but they all voted for her...
ROFLMAO, and you say the previous poster has no credibility? No republican would ever vote for Clinton.
The Republican in New York is centrist, not far-right. New York is centrist, not far right. That is why Giuliani tries to keep conservative voters in out-of-state primaries focused on 9/11.
Boston.com reports that Netflix Inc may suffer a cut in profits if the US Postal Service starts charging extra to manually sort the envelopes that carry its DVDs.
Our NPO does bulk mail pre-sorts for the military and others.
The return address may say Kansas or Kentucky. But the postmark will be upstate New York.
The disabled workers go home with a decent supplement to their monthly SSI or disability check and access to a free dental clinic and other services. The client saves a bundle on mail handling and postage.
I personally want her to stay out of my and my family's videogame-buying experience.
Hillary Clinton's greatest strength is her ability to connect with both the inner city and suburban voter. The gangster game genre and the ultra-violence of a game like Manhunt 2 are profoundly disliked and distrusted in both communities.
The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts
Let's assume that Photoshop has been taught in your school for years. That it is being used in your district's adult education ptograms. That course materials, textbooks, and other resources are all oriented around Photoshop.
In which case you had better be dann sure you have mastered the GIMP before you introduce it in the classroom. That you have the backing of your supervisors.
That there is someone around to take your place when you call in sick with the flu.
The Geek assumes that because the professional version of Photoshop costs $600 retail boxed the amateur version must also cost $600 retail boxed.
You might usefully ask for a show of hands:
Who owns or uses a digital camera at home? What photo editing software came bundled with the camera? There is a good chance the answers will be "pretty much everyone" and Photoshop Elements.
And they only have proof that it was indexed, not even proof that it made it to ONE other PC. To sue someone and say that the one individual is responsible for all other copies of that file on the internet would then mean that the single person is paying the bill for all those other people who then shared that same file out and others copied from that new location.
That is precisely what it means.
Which is why you don't overlay a video that sells for $40 on Amazon.com with your real name and address and post it to the P2P nets.
The damages is always a problem for the plaintiff to show and PROVE.
The plaintiff can stand on his right to statutory damages and win. That is the problem for the defendant who takes her case to a verdict.
seriously, who's paying you to write such rubbish on slashdot?
the uploader risks exposure to statutory damages for the simple reason that his contribution to the P2P nets may be copied and recopied without any known or knowable limits.
Within a P2P network, the total amount of uploading and downloading is the same.
That doesn't mean your upload can't be the ultimate source for hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of others. The DiVX rip which downloads in minutes not hours.
And yet if you sue a company for killing a loved one, or if a doctor leaves his watch inside your loved ones body, they want you to be limited to how much you can sue them for.
What the hell are statutory damages if they are not a limit on damages? The geek is making the same argument as the lawyer or doctor. He just doesn't want to pay the bill. That single song - worth 99 cents on iTunes - may have found its way to 2,000 other PCs.
The American legal system, the best justice money can buy... stays bought...
The copyright owner has the exclusive right - the constitutional right - to profit from his own creation.
The deek does not have a license to distribute.
The geek puts the work in a P2P shared files folder. The geek allows it to be indexed.
It is downloaded [surprise! surprise!] by B and C and D. Who in turn upload it [in whole or in part] to E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L. Who in turn....
The geek who pretends that this is not an unconstrained, unlimited, re-distribution is only kidding himself. This is precisely the kind of abuse that ends in the award of statutory damages.
The geek might want to consider the alternate reality where downloads can be traced to their primary and secondary sources. The alternate reality in which he can be sued for the wholesale value or retail list price of 50,000 downloads of The Transformers.
Just compare the rigour of an undergraduate education a half-century ago to the situation now where anyone (even me) can breeze through four years without a challenge
1957.
Less than ten years after the GI Bill opened up post-secondary education to a broad spectrum of the [white, male] middle class.
What makes you think that undergraduate education in the fifties was all that demanding outside a handful of elite colleges and universities? There wasn't much of a foundation on which to build.
"[T]wo qualities common to educational reformers since World War II: nostalgia and amnesia. They look back through a haze to some imagined golden era of American education when we were "a nation of learners.." What Happened to America's Public Schools?
A party's obligation to provide the grounds of his entitlement to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.' Anyone have an English translation?
The geek in court cobbles together words and phrases he half-remembers from reading the Wikipedia and thinks that is enough. The court has its own dictionaries and encyclopedias, what it needs from you is a clearly reasoned and fully-formed argument for legal relief.
There is absolutely no way to stop anybody from crossing the northern border. It's thousands of miles long, unpatrolled, unfenced, and passes through some pretty wild territory.
"M" rated games may be a smaller percentage of overall games for the PS3 or Xbox 360, but I'll wager that they account for a large percentage of the overall sales.
It is interesting to see how the M rated game fares in competion with Mario and his friends:
Amazon.com Bestsellers In Video Games {9 PM ET November 30]
6 Call of Duty 4 [XBox]
11 Assasin's Creed [XBox]
16 Halo 3 [XBox]
28 Mass Effect [XBox]
42 Call of Duty 4 [PS3]
43 Assasin's Creed [PS3]
48 Call of Duty 4 {XP/Vista]
56 Madden NFL 08 [XBox]
57 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune [PS3]
59 Bioshock [XBox]
68 Guitar Hero 3 [XBox]
72 Ratchet and Clank Future {PS3]
78 Rock Band Special Edition [PS3
84 Lego Star Wars Complete [XBox]
86 Yhe Orange Box [Xbox]
89 The Orange Box [XP/Vista]
98 The Eye of Judgement [PS3]
All Xbox titles listed are for the XBox 360
You could fill in the blanks with a randomly chosen family-friendly game for the Nintendo Will or DS and not go far wrong.
Viable alternatives do not break a monopoly. In fact, the failure of OS X and Linux to make significant inroads onto the desktop despite being far superior alternatives emphasizes the fact that Microsoft is still abusing its monopoly power..
Apple leverages the monopoly to its own advantage with products like Boot Camp, the iPod and iTunes for Windows.
Apple has never tried to compete across the board with Microsoft.
MSDOS and Windows are to be found everywhere from the loading dock to the executive suite. The soldier in Iraq needs something sturdier than a PowerBook. You'll find Windows at POS in your neighborhood mini-mart.
You may have noticed that Apple has opted-out of competition with the OLPC. But Microsoft is there in full force.
The fundamental problem for Linux on the desktop is that it wasn't there in 1977, 1980, 1995.
MSDOS and Windows entered the market as a desktop OS, an OS for the masses and not the technical elite. That has shaped what people have come to expect from Microsoft for over twenty-five years.
In reading through stacks of Creative Computing, the MSDOS PC shoves CP/M off center stage in small business no later than the summer of 82. King's Quest appears in 84.
KQ was a revelation - vivid, cartoon-like, animation from a PC without hardware support for gaming.
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The super rich couldn't save the Concorde.
Dow might think twice about booking its senior execs on a plane that will be on the A-list of targets for every terrorist on earth. The next best thing to bringing down Air Force One.
calling the site a bit Windows centric doesn't explain why Firefox shows solid growth in the browser stats while Vista is positioned to overtake OSX and Linux in the OS platform stats.
Mac 4%
up 2% since March 03
it would be difficult to argue that there has been any significant change in the Mac demographic in the last twenty years.
lately, Apple has been aggressively promoting the Mac's ability to run Windows apps through Boot Camp and viritualization. to me that suggests a company that is being coldly realistic about its place in the PC market.
Linux 3%
up 1% since March 03
Vista 6%
up 6% from January 07
OS Platform Statistics {October]
It worked for the survivors of the Black Plague in Europe.
Not so well for the native American tribes decimated by smallpox and other imported diseases.
The kid who is sick and starving is not coming to school in a state that will permit him to learn much of anything. You don't save a million kids for better future. You risk losing them all.
Education in the American South was for generations regarded as a hopeless case. Until the Rockefeller Foundation began a systematic campaign to eliminate parasitic diseases like hookworm.
The key word here is "teach." OLPC is a textbook, not a teacher.
I imagine a small African village containing 20 teenagers who speak good enlish, are kick-ass programmers with knowledge of the way the outside world works - and web access.
Twenty kick-ass programmers in a village of 900. Keep on dreaming.
The kid who wants to know how the world works moves on to the big city, the capital. He doesn't stay in the village and he doesn't find reality on the web.
Tribal rug makers can sell their rugs on eBay for hundreds of dollars - they can use the computer to allow customers to upload designs like CafePress does - they can go into the custom rug making business.
The value of a tribal rug is in the tradition of tribal designs.
What you are proposing is simply the outsourcing of labor at the expense of your own native craftsman whether they be Appalachian quiltmakers or the native American weavers of the desert Southwest.
A dog can find a dog in a two-dimensional landscape photograph.
In an experiment far removed from the ordinary way in which he experiences his world - and do it with no other sensory or behavioral cues.
That does not strike me as an insignificant achievement.
It would be interesting to know if a dog could recognize a painting of a dog, a sculpture, a cartoon or caricature.
Even more interesting, perhaps, if he could sort the results. Recognize different breeds of dogs. Recognize that one dog appears in several pictures.
a note to the reader:
party discipline as the Canadian or Brit understands it doesn't exist in the United States.
"free" votes in Parliament are rare. strays are dead meat.
ROFLMAO, and you say the previous poster has no credibility? No republican would ever vote for Clinton.
The Republican in New York is centrist, not far-right. New York is centrist, not far right. That is why Giuliani tries to keep conservative voters in out-of-state primaries focused on 9/11.
Our NPO does bulk mail pre-sorts for the military and others.
The return address may say Kansas or Kentucky. But the postmark will be upstate New York.
The disabled workers go home with a decent supplement to their monthly SSI or disability check and access to a free dental clinic and other services. The client saves a bundle on mail handling and postage.
"News for Nerds." More like Flamebait.com. "Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story."
Hillary Clinton's greatest strength is her ability to connect with both the inner city and suburban voter. The gangster game genre and the ultra-violence of a game like Manhunt 2 are profoundly disliked and distrusted in both communities.
Let's assume that Photoshop has been taught in your school for years. That it is being used in your district's adult education ptograms. That course materials, textbooks, and other resources are all oriented around Photoshop.
In which case you had better be dann sure you have mastered the GIMP before you introduce it in the classroom. That you have the backing of your supervisors.
That there is someone around to take your place when you call in sick with the flu.
The Geek assumes that because the professional version of Photoshop costs $600 retail boxed the amateur version must also cost $600 retail boxed.
You might usefully ask for a show of hands:
Who owns or uses a digital camera at home? What photo editing software came bundled with the camera? There is a good chance the answers will be "pretty much everyone" and Photoshop Elements.
That is precisely what it means.
Which is why you don't overlay a video that sells for $40 on Amazon.com with your real name and address and post it to the P2P nets.
The damages is always a problem for the plaintiff to show and PROVE.
The plaintiff can stand on his right to statutory damages and win. That is the problem for the defendant who takes her case to a verdict.
the uploader risks exposure to statutory damages for the simple reason that his contribution to the P2P nets may be copied and recopied without any known or knowable limits.
That doesn't mean your upload can't be the ultimate source for hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of others. The DiVX rip which downloads in minutes not hours.
You are the one who started the ball rolling. You are the one who made it possible.
What the hell are statutory damages if they are not a limit on damages? The geek is making the same argument as the lawyer or doctor. He just doesn't want to pay the bill. That single song - worth 99 cents on iTunes - may have found its way to 2,000 other PCs.
The copyright owner has the exclusive right - the constitutional right - to profit from his own creation.
The deek does not have a license to distribute.
The geek puts the work in a P2P shared files folder. The geek allows it to be indexed.
It is downloaded [surprise! surprise!] by B and C and D. Who in turn upload it [in whole or in part] to E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L. Who in turn....
The geek who pretends that this is not an unconstrained, unlimited, re-distribution is only kidding himself. This is precisely the kind of abuse that ends in the award of statutory damages.
The geek might want to consider the alternate reality where downloads can be traced to their primary and secondary sources. The alternate reality in which he can be sued for the wholesale value or retail list price of 50,000 downloads of The Transformers.
1957.
Less than ten years after the GI Bill opened up post-secondary education to a broad spectrum of the [white, male] middle class.
What makes you think that undergraduate education in the fifties was all that demanding outside a handful of elite colleges and universities? There wasn't much of a foundation on which to build.
"[T]wo qualities common to educational reformers since World War II: nostalgia and amnesia.
They look back through a haze to some imagined golden era of American education when we were "a nation of learners.." What Happened to America's Public Schools?
The geek in court cobbles together words and phrases he half-remembers from reading the Wikipedia and thinks that is enough. The court has its own dictionaries and encyclopedias, what it needs from you is a clearly reasoned and fully-formed argument for legal relief.
I'll take it as given that you don't live within 100 miles of the Canadian border. To call it unwatched is a slight exaggeration. Border security operation busts human-smuggling ring {November 29]
It depends on whether you are talking about Elm Street or a railroad right-of-way from New York to Chicago.
It is interesting to see how the M rated game fares in competion with Mario and his friends:
Amazon.com Bestsellers In Video Games {9 PM ET November 30]
6 Call of Duty 4 [XBox]
11 Assasin's Creed [XBox]
16 Halo 3 [XBox]
28 Mass Effect [XBox]
42 Call of Duty 4 [PS3]
43 Assasin's Creed [PS3]
48 Call of Duty 4 {XP/Vista]
56 Madden NFL 08 [XBox]
57 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune [PS3]
59 Bioshock [XBox]
68 Guitar Hero 3 [XBox]
72 Ratchet and Clank Future {PS3]
78 Rock Band Special Edition [PS3
84 Lego Star Wars Complete [XBox]
86 Yhe Orange Box [Xbox]
89 The Orange Box [XP/Vista]
98 The Eye of Judgement [PS3]
All Xbox titles listed are for the XBox 360
You could fill in the blanks with a randomly chosen family-friendly game for the Nintendo Will or DS and not go far wrong.
Apple leverages the monopoly to its own advantage with products like Boot Camp, the iPod and iTunes for Windows.
Apple has never tried to compete across the board with Microsoft.
MSDOS and Windows are to be found everywhere from the loading dock to the executive suite. The soldier in Iraq needs something sturdier than a PowerBook. You'll find Windows at POS in your neighborhood mini-mart.
You may have noticed that Apple has opted-out of competition with the OLPC. But Microsoft is there in full force.
The fundamental problem for Linux on the desktop is that it wasn't there in 1977, 1980, 1995.
MSDOS and Windows entered the market as a desktop OS, an OS for the masses and not the technical elite. That has shaped what people have come to expect from Microsoft for over twenty-five years.
In reading through stacks of Creative Computing, the MSDOS PC shoves CP/M off center stage in small business no later than the summer of 82. King's Quest appears in 84.
KQ was a revelation - vivid, cartoon-like, animation from a PC without hardware support for gaming.