Ok, I've got to stop you there. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy basically had nothing to do with the books, there's no way it could.
The story has never been cast in stone.
Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, later it was adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows, a "trilogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's just a supply/demand issue: the supply of blue collar workers is extremely high while the demand for them is extremely low. Therefore, companies can choose to be extremely picky in who they hire. This creates a terrible situation for many who don't have the resources or intelligence to gain the higher education necessary to make them valuable enough for a company to overlook any misdemeanors they've been charged with.
I hate to break this to you.
But the old geezer working the fork lift in Receiving is less likely to get the axe than the geek on campus who has been publically linked to Anonymous.
The writeup assumes that no version of Internet Explorer can be thought of as a modern browser. This is not true for IE 10 and 11. That said, a countrywide de-facto standard forcing vendor lock-in is bad.
The first problem is that standards evolve much more slowly than practice ---- and tend to codify existing practices rather than staking out new ground.
South Korea's government was among the first to encourage shopping and banking online, but many people were concerned about Internet safety. The government's goal was to make Internet shopping nearly as secure as a trip to a small-town market, one where vendors know all their customers by name and face.
To reassure South Korean customers, the government created its own system to authenticate the identities of online buyers. To make purchases, shoppers had to supply their names and social security numbers and apply for government-issued ''digital certificates,'' which they could present to sellers as proof of ID. The whole process took just a few clicks.
But the back-and-forth was technologically complicated, and it came with a catch: It required a piece of additional software, or ''plugin,'' known as ActiveX --- which is also made by Microsoft and worked in tandem only with Internet Explorer.
That system, implemented in 1999, remains largely in place today.
Notice he only submitted his fake papers to open access journals. As a scientist, and especially as a biologist, he's perfectly aware of the importance of control groups.
The "control group" isn't necessary if the only question being asked is whether the open access journal would publish a paper that is utterly ridiculous, absolute nonsense.
You can call the call the experiment unfair, if you like.
But that is cold comfort for suppporters of the open source model.
The Journals all assume that the author is acting in good faith and believes his result. They are 'peer' reviewers, not Police.
Meaningful peer review demands an intelligent evaluation of the author's arguments and evidence and the clarity with which they are presented. Good faith does not imply good science. Belief does not imply good science. Neither faith or belief implies good writing and sound editing.
I like the idea behind projects like The Maverick.
The flying car that has a clearly defined and realistic purpose, in the case of the Maverick, delivering routine medical care to areas which are tucked behind a gorge or some other natural obstruction, but where the expense of a fixed wing aircraft or helicopter would be hard to justify.
Time zones were useful when we worked with clocks and dead-tree calendars.
Time zones evolved with the railroads and the telegraph; before the railroad, clocks were synchronized to local solar time --- and changed about every twenty-five miles or so. The proto-geek of those days invented gadgets to fire off a shot of gunpowder at noontime.
Modern comms make schedule adjustments easy.
I'm not so sure about that.
If I need to contact a different country I don't have to figure out their time zone.
The machine can go 24 hours without light or sleep. If you are trying to reach out to a human, you have to show them a little more consideration.
And the switch to monthly subscription for office is a very bad thing, i hope people realize this as well!
I don't see the problem here.
Office 365 Home Premium $99/yr.
5 PCs and/or Macs + any five mobile devices + your Windows phones.
MS Office Pro, full versions of every program, locally resident and always up to date.
MS Office Anywhere, full versions of every program, streamed on demand to any Win7/8 PC.
MS Office Web and Office on Mobile Devices. 20 GB of SkyDrive Storage 60 minutes of global Skype calls per month.
If you are a college student, Office 365 University is $80 for four years with an option to renew in the third year.
And a lot of Wrights buildings are in shambles, or gone. Because he was an artist, not a builder.
There are about 400 surviving Wright buildings --- not bad for an architect whose first significant works date back to 1886. Quite a few were lost to natural causes --- fires, floods and earthquakes. List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
It's true that "Fallingwater" had significant structural problems. It's also true that in 1991 members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture."Fallingwater
A modern video codec that exceeds the performance of H.265...? And one that gains the support of hardware vendors to build it into systems? Good luck
There are about thirty licensors of H.264 and HEVC technologies.
Most of them global industrial giants like Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung, Toshiba, LG. Their principal licensees are on the same scale and for all practical purposes control together they control 100% of a vertically integrated video hardware market.
The geek may have a codec in development. Panasonic and Samsung will have 4K UHD video gear in production.
Given that helmet mounted HUDs are good enough for military pilots.
The military HUD displays information of immediate operational and tactical significance only.
It is not mass market consumer grade tech.
Military pilots tend to be young men and women in their mental and physical prime. Chosen only after surviving a rigorous selection process and intensive training. But death is not unknown:
The following pages will list only those individuals who have lost their lives while operating or performing duties as crewmembers aboard Army Aviation aircraft and their passengers.
A city could bury conduit under its streets and charge a reasonable rate for pulling copper or fiber.
What do you mean by a "city?"
There are 62 incorporated cities in New York ranging in population from 3,147 to 8,244,910. There are only five with a population of over 100,000. List of cities in New York
How much does it cost to bury and maintain conduit?
Prior to 1978, in the US, a copyright notice was required to claim copyright. Mere creation was not sufficient. That doesn't apply to a work created circa 1983.
In a work print or other special pressing, copyright information is likely to be overlaid on the video.
If you are a copyright holder, or acting on his/her/its behalf, and you seed a torrent for me to download, you have, in fact, given me the file. Since you are the copyright holder, that file was given lawfully. You cannot now turn around and sue me for taking from you what you have lawfully given. Your harm, such that there is, is entirely self inflicted.
I sometimes wonder how the geek manages to survive his own bullshit.
The sting works by offering the geek a free movie or a link to a free movie under circumstances which can't possibly be legitimate. Greed kicks in and he downloads "Iron Man 3" and a half dozen or so other flicks each of which sells for $25 at Walmart.
Bonus points for leaving these unlicensed downloads in his shared file folders to be fed back into the P2P nets.
There is more to making good a defense of entrapment than being caught in the trap.
In criminal law:
A valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. Of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.
Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. Nor does the government's use of artifice, stratagem, pretense, or deceit establish inducement. Rather, inducement requires a showing of at least persuasion or mild coercion.
Even if inducement has been shown, a finding of predisposition is fatal to an entrapment defense. The predisposition inquiry focuses upon whether the defendant "was an unwary innocent or, instead, an unwary criminal who readily availed himself of the opportunity to perpetrate the crime."
So for the months that the site was active these files (and links) were being shared with the implicit permission of the copyright umbrella groups? Neat. Bless 'em.
The same permission a mouse gets when nanny baits a snap trap with a piece of cheese. The permission to die from a broken spine.
Oh, you don't? Well, ok, nice not doing business with you.
Let me see if I understand this:
Rather than bury your strangest, most suspect, purchases beneath a billion routine online sales, you want to give them a blood red flag by routing them through TOR? Remember that your suppliers will be demanding a valid shipping address, etc.
Consider how VHS beat Beta (aside from the "having Porn" aspect).
The geek really should be looking at Disney as a tech driver. It brought theatrical production values to ABC in 1954. Color TV sales rocketed with its move to NBC in 1961.
VHS could record a football game from day one.
It entered the market when most sets had RF input only and a color resolution of about 330 lines.
Consider how Blu-Ray has settled into the niche, high-end "I have a 800-inch TV and 13-point surround sound" video/audiophile nerd zone
The geek is the last to know.
Blu-Ray is mass market. The Red Box rental. The Blu-Ray player at Walmart starts at $70. The 60" LED Vizio refurbished is $800.
An anonymous reader writes that although many Linux users are at home with OpenOffice and LibreOffice, typical organizations are as addicted as ever to MS office formats.
To frame the argument this way allows you to ignore the maturity and focus of MS Office apps. Pre-press work can be outsourced to a printer. Everything else moves at the speed of the anonymous clerical worker. Full time staffer. Office temp. Senior volunteer and so on.
The good news is online cloud-based platforms are gaining traction with Google Docs and Office 365 which are not so tied to Windows on the client.
Office 365 includes lightweight web apps.
But the heavy lifting is done using the more familiar, versitile and locally resident MS Office Suite. With full versions of the apps streamed to other PCs or Macs when you need them.
So if you decide to opt-out, do they toss you overboard?
The Puritans in Massachusetts exiled its first dissidents.
But it is isolation and fear --- fear of everything that lies beyond the walls of the world you've built --- that breeds the paranoia which ends in the burning of witches.
I am disappointed, why has none made a reference to Bioshock yet, seeing how a city at sea was mentioned?
Irrational Games specializes in exquisitely crafted game worlds that
brilliantly expose the flaws in the geek's anarchic-libertarian ideals --- which exist on the same plane as those of the Tea Party Republican.
As for myself, if I chose to make my home on an island, it would be Manhattan.
No, we don't have to ask that question. We already have the answer. GTA V sold over eleven million copies in the first day of sales. It's grossed over a billion dollars. Only a complete fucking idiot would doubt that there's a market for good, high-quality AAA games.
The Humble Origin Bundle raised $10.5 million for charity. 2.1 million in sales.
As a big a story in PC gaming as we have seen this year, and not a word, not a whisper of it, made the front pages of Slashdot. You couldn't have asked for a much better sampling of what the AAA title has to offer.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, I've got to stop you there. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy basically had nothing to do with the books, there's no way it could.
The story has never been cast in stone.
Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, later it was adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows, a "trilogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's just a supply/demand issue: the supply of blue collar workers is extremely high while the demand for them is extremely low. Therefore, companies can choose to be extremely picky in who they hire.
This creates a terrible situation for many who don't have the resources or intelligence to gain the higher education necessary to make them valuable enough for a company to overlook any misdemeanors they've been charged with.
I hate to break this to you.
But the old geezer working the fork lift in Receiving is less likely to get the axe than the geek on campus who has been publically linked to Anonymous.
The writeup assumes that no version of Internet Explorer can be thought of as a modern browser. This is not true for IE 10 and 11. That said, a countrywide de-facto standard forcing vendor lock-in is bad.
The first problem is that standards evolve much more slowly than practice ---- and tend to codify existing practices rather than staking out new ground.
South Korea's government was among the first to encourage shopping and banking online, but many people were concerned about Internet safety. The government's goal was to make Internet shopping nearly as secure as a trip to a small-town market, one where vendors know all their customers by name and face.
To reassure South Korean customers, the government created its own system to authenticate the identities of online buyers. To make purchases, shoppers had to supply their names and social security numbers and apply for government-issued ''digital certificates,'' which they could present to sellers as proof of ID. The whole process took just a few clicks.
But the back-and-forth was technologically complicated, and it came with a catch: It required a piece of additional software, or ''plugin,'' known as ActiveX --- which is also made by Microsoft and worked in tandem only with Internet Explorer.
That system, implemented in 1999, remains largely in place today.
South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping because of security law
The second problem is that alternative desktop operating systems have never gained a significant --- barely visible ---- share of the South Korean market, Top 7 OSs in South Korea from October 2012 to October 2013
Notice he only submitted his fake papers to open access journals. As a scientist, and especially as a biologist, he's perfectly aware of the importance of control groups.
The "control group" isn't necessary if the only question being asked is whether the open access journal would publish a paper that is utterly ridiculous, absolute nonsense.
You can call the call the experiment unfair, if you like.
But that is cold comfort for suppporters of the open source model.
The Journals all assume that the author is acting in good faith and believes his result. They are 'peer' reviewers, not Police.
Meaningful peer review demands an intelligent evaluation of the author's arguments and evidence and the clarity with which they are presented. Good faith does not imply good science. Belief does not imply good science. Neither faith or belief implies good writing and sound editing.
I like the idea behind projects like The Maverick.
The flying car that has a clearly defined and realistic purpose, in the case of the Maverick, delivering routine medical care to areas which are tucked behind a gorge or some other natural obstruction, but where the expense of a fixed wing aircraft or helicopter would be hard to justify.
Time zones were useful when we worked with clocks and dead-tree calendars.
Time zones evolved with the railroads and the telegraph; before the railroad, clocks were synchronized to local solar time --- and changed about every twenty-five miles or so. The proto-geek of those days invented gadgets to fire off a shot of gunpowder at noontime.
Modern comms make schedule adjustments easy.
I'm not so sure about that.
If I need to contact a different country I don't have to figure out their time zone.
The machine can go 24 hours without light or sleep. If you are trying to reach out to a human, you have to show them a little more consideration.
And the switch to monthly subscription for office is a very bad thing, i hope people realize this as well!
I don't see the problem here.
Office 365 Home Premium $99/yr.
5 PCs and/or Macs + any five mobile devices + your Windows phones.
MS Office Pro, full versions of every program, locally resident and always up to date.
MS Office Anywhere, full versions of every program, streamed on demand to any Win7/8 PC.
MS Office Web and Office on Mobile Devices.
20 GB of SkyDrive Storage
60 minutes of global Skype calls per month.
If you are a college student, Office 365 University is $80 for four years with an option to renew in the third year.
If you are a NPO, Office 365 can be yours for free. Office 365 for Nonprofits
If you need a managed turn-key HIPPA compliant medical office system Microsoft has you covered. Microsoft Office 365 for Health Organizations
And a lot of Wrights buildings are in shambles, or gone. Because he was an artist, not a builder.
There are about 400 surviving Wright buildings --- not bad for an architect whose first significant works date back to 1886. Quite a few were lost to natural causes --- fires, floods and earthquakes. List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
It's true that "Fallingwater" had significant structural problems. It's also true that in 1991 members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture."Fallingwater
A modern video codec that exceeds the performance of H.265...? And one that gains the support of hardware vendors to build it into systems? Good luck
There are about thirty licensors of H.264 and HEVC technologies.
Most of them global industrial giants like Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung, Toshiba, LG. Their principal licensees are on the same scale and for all practical purposes control together they control 100% of a vertically integrated video hardware market.
The geek may have a codec in development. Panasonic and Samsung will have 4K UHD video gear in production.
Given that helmet mounted HUDs are good enough for military pilots.
The military HUD displays information of immediate operational and tactical significance only.
It is not mass market consumer grade tech.
Military pilots tend to be young men and women in their mental and physical prime. Chosen only after surviving a rigorous selection process and intensive training. But death is not unknown:
The following pages will list only those individuals who have lost their lives while operating or performing duties as crewmembers aboard Army Aviation aircraft and their passengers.
Army Air Crews
[This site has a remarkably clean, handsome, design and is rich in detail.]
A city could bury conduit under its streets and charge a reasonable rate for pulling copper or fiber.
What do you mean by a "city?"
There are 62 incorporated cities in New York ranging in population from 3,147 to 8,244,910. There are only five with a population of over 100,000. List of cities in New York
How much does it cost to bury and maintain conduit?
Prior to 1978, in the US, a copyright notice was required to claim copyright. Mere creation was not sufficient. That doesn't apply to a work created circa 1983.
In a work print or other special pressing, copyright information is likely to be overlaid on the video.
If you are a copyright holder, or acting on his/her/its behalf, and you seed a torrent for me to download, you have, in fact, given me the file. Since you are the copyright holder, that file was given lawfully. You cannot now turn around and sue me for taking from you what you have lawfully given. Your harm, such that there is, is entirely self inflicted.
I sometimes wonder how the geek manages to survive his own bullshit.
The sting works by offering the geek a free movie or a link to a free movie under circumstances which can't possibly be legitimate. Greed kicks in and he downloads "Iron Man 3" and a half dozen or so other flicks each of which sells for $25 at Walmart.
Bonus points for leaving these unlicensed downloads in his shared file folders to be fed back into the P2P nets.
The site smells of entrapment to me.
There is more to making good a defense of entrapment than being caught in the trap.
In criminal law:
A valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. Of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.
Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. Nor does the government's use of artifice, stratagem, pretense, or deceit establish inducement. Rather, inducement requires a showing of at least persuasion or mild coercion.
Even if inducement has been shown, a finding of predisposition is fatal to an entrapment defense. The predisposition inquiry focuses upon whether the defendant "was an unwary innocent or, instead, an unwary criminal who readily availed himself of the opportunity to perpetrate the crime."
Entrapment --- Elements
If they were anything serious they wouldn't have gloated that way.
Have you ever known a geek who could keep his big mouth shut? ---- DPR
So for the months that the site was active these files (and links) were being shared with the implicit permission of the copyright umbrella groups? Neat. Bless 'em.
The same permission a mouse gets when nanny baits a snap trap with a piece of cheese. The permission to die from a broken spine.
Oh, you don't? Well, ok, nice not doing business with you.
Let me see if I understand this:
Rather than bury your strangest, most suspect, purchases beneath a billion routine online sales, you want to give them a blood red flag by routing them through TOR? Remember that your suppliers will be demanding a valid shipping address, etc.
1080p took off for the same reason macs did, marketing
The mass market 1080p monitor makes perfect sense when HDTV sales skyrocket and cheap HDTV panels become available in any size.
The brand name 1080p LED monitor is $130 at New Egg or Office Depot.
Seems a simple solution.
I cringe whenever I hear these words. The geek may get the tech right but he never gets the law right,
Consider how VHS beat Beta (aside from the "having Porn" aspect).
The geek really should be looking at Disney as a tech driver. It brought theatrical production values to ABC in 1954. Color TV sales rocketed with its move to NBC in 1961.
VHS could record a football game from day one.
It entered the market when most sets had RF input only and a color resolution of about 330 lines.
Consider how Blu-Ray has settled into the niche, high-end "I have a 800-inch TV and 13-point surround sound" video/audiophile nerd zone
The geek is the last to know.
Blu-Ray is mass market. The Red Box rental. The Blu-Ray player at Walmart starts at $70. The 60" LED Vizio refurbished is $800.
An anonymous reader writes that although many Linux users are at home with OpenOffice and LibreOffice, typical organizations are as addicted as ever to MS office formats.
To frame the argument this way allows you to ignore the maturity and focus of MS Office apps. Pre-press work can be outsourced to a printer. Everything else moves at the speed of the anonymous clerical worker. Full time staffer. Office temp. Senior volunteer and so on.
The good news is online cloud-based platforms are gaining traction with Google Docs and Office 365 which are not so tied to Windows on the client.
Office 365 includes lightweight web apps.
But the heavy lifting is done using the more familiar, versitile and locally resident MS Office Suite. With full versions of the apps streamed to other PCs or Macs when you need them.
So if you decide to opt-out, do they toss you overboard?
The Puritans in Massachusetts exiled its first dissidents.
But it is isolation and fear --- fear of everything that lies beyond the walls of the world you've built --- that breeds the paranoia which ends in the burning of witches.
I am disappointed, why has none made a reference to Bioshock yet, seeing how a city at sea was mentioned?
Irrational Games specializes in exquisitely crafted game worlds that brilliantly expose the flaws in the geek's anarchic-libertarian ideals --- which exist on the same plane as those of the Tea Party Republican.
As for myself, if I chose to make my home on an island, it would be Manhattan.
No, we don't have to ask that question. We already have the answer. GTA V sold over eleven million copies in the first day of sales. It's grossed over a billion dollars. Only a complete fucking idiot would doubt that there's a market for good, high-quality AAA games.
The Humble Origin Bundle raised $10.5 million for charity. 2.1 million in sales.
As a big a story in PC gaming as we have seen this year, and not a word, not a whisper of it, made the front pages of Slashdot. You couldn't have asked for a much better sampling of what the AAA title has to offer.