There will be a need to offer complete downloads when a word changes, so that professors may be reimbursed for a new book each term. Either that or the books will arrive as DRM locked on disposable tablets. Or will erase themselves after the term is over. Can't have people re-using books, now...
Aren't we missing the point by ruling entirely on accounting grounds? Aren't educational establishments supposed to be doing research, as a part of their fundamental reason for being? I want to know whether there's life out there. I want a cure for cancer.
Yes, I know, and you want a pony. But we're better than that, aren't we? We have to be.
Maybe we should start by teaching a bit of history, starting with the Reformation and the Rennaisence.
We have had personal computers and the internet for about a decade now. A decade. We have utterly no clue how that's going to affect civilisation in the future. But do we want to look back and say "Yes, for the longest time there we could have had it all, but nobody wanted it" ?
If you do end up stuck with a printer, or printers, you might want to see if you are, or if you know, any electronics/robotics hobbyists. Even cheap and ghastly printers contain a reasonable supply of motors(some conventional DC, some steppers) and gears and optointerrupters and other fun little gizmos. The larger and more sophisticated printers can contain pretty impressive quantities of such.
Arrgh for the love of mod points, that's insightful.
Next - a series of combat robot competitions where the components must come from discarded printers. Who's game?
Based on this information, I'm officially switching. The first time I came across an advertisement rather than a failed DNS lookup I was not happy. It's incredibly annoying.
And it's incredibly bad practice. It's in the very best interests of Google that people still enjoy searching for stuff on the net. Their own public DNS redirector is a very logical step and a very good move on their part, and I applaud their smarts. I absolutely hate it when good, working engineering standards are subverted by commercial crap.
And unfortunately the "sub games" are variations of "deliver item X to so-and-so" or "kill X amount of monster Z". Yawn.
It's the getting there that makes it fun, not the accomplishment. Last night we had a good run, and we're finally up to the last boss in Ulduar. It's not the highest and it's not the lowest, and the accomplishments were frosting on the cake. And nobody really cared all that much about the gear that dropped.
What did happen was the execution of a carefully planned approach using a refined strategy with a group of ten friends you can depend on to carry out the tactics well. It involved discussion, a couple of wipes, refined approach, then finally success against Thorim. That was hugely fun.
This is not simple carrot and stick. The win took a lot of thought, a lot of communication and some fairly fast and furious in-game action, a few close calls and some very close timing. If you see WoW as nothing but a level/achievement grind, then you're playing it wrong. It's all about the people you play with, not the counters, that make it fun. And an arbitrary challenge is still a challenge, isn't it? Otherwise you'd have to give up on all games and sports. What a dull life that would be.
Also, even if their streaming app works under Moonlight, we'll never know, because you can't fool it into trying.
Not surprised, really. Closed source is a bit like buying a car and discovering the manufacturer had welded the bonnet shut, with a promise to sue you if you're caught anywhere near a can opener.
...She is quite convinced that the manuscript was penned by DaVinci when he was 8-10 years old. In that context, the illustrations are EXACTLY the kinds that an 8-year old would draw, so no, they wouldn't be particularly realistic. Also in that context, I doubt it was intended as something like a botanical textbook, but rather just the ramblings of the mind of an 8-year old genius.
And coming to terms with left-handedness in a Catholic culture, where being left-handed would be considered "sinister" and thus evil? It would have been a while before he started writing Italian in his customary mirror-script. The church at the time was always quick to beat the devil out of you.
"Assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing!" - Wasn't that in one of the Spaceport Bar episodes?
I wonder about the economics of offering one's own muscle cell culture out on the market for this. MMmm... fresh long pig. I'd go for the long term licensing option at the very least. I suspect mine might taste a bit like cabernet, although if the sample were taken in my youth there would have been a strong barley overtone.
If you made it the correct shape, it could grunt, gurgle, wheeze, even whistle hollowly, as it throbbed and pulsed.
It'd be like designing a musical instrument, really.
Perhaps you could include a mournful cry generator in there - sort of like the "cow moo" shake toys you see some places under the Christmas tree. You could shape it such that it artificially mooed whenever there was too much pressure on the artificial nerves in this artificial meat.
But... would there be artificial pain? And if there were, would I be able to live with the artificial sympathy?
(...) Make a fmall crofs, of two light ftrips of cedar (...)
Awesome! I never knew old Benjamin had a lisp!
Grrrrr (rips open reference with sharp-filed cursor)
That's an early form of the letter "s", the "long S" from Carolingian Minuscule. You'll notice it has no crossbar, as does the letter "f". The "s" we know was often used at the end of words as a bit of shorthand, similar to the cursive un-crossed T.
The quote should read "Make a small cross, of two light strips of cedar".
Good sarcasm, Ohnoitsavram. But you've pegged it - the big ugly monster rearing its head here is the fact that governments do not, as a rule, treat truly free speech as necessarily being in their own best interests. Governments have been fighting with their governed populace over this bone for many, many years. Anytime some new way to communicate pops up, the battle starts up again.
Mind you, it can be a very real threat to an established government, and governments have fallen from it. Think "Samizdat".
It's also harder to govern when your message to the public is diluted by discussion before it's embedded in the public consciousness, and I'm sure this concept is not lost on those who walk the halls of power.
Considering that so much of their business revolves around data processing, wouldn't you think that a method that reduces one of their largest costs (datacenter operation) is key to their business? If anything, datacenter technology is at the forefront of what Google does.
I think it's strategic protection. Patents work two ways - it's not just protecting against copyists, it's protecting yourself from others as well. If others see an innovation you are using, they could turn around and patent it themselves, then stifle your use of the innovation.
Since Google specify their own server layouts, I can imagine this patent is key to them not having someone else lock them out of a way to make their data centres work efficiently.
Perhaps it could be used to produce energy. I'm way out of my league here but I would imagine you could pump in proteins, oxygen and "food crud" to the meat and it's flexing motion could be used to produce electricity. Some of this electricity could be fed back to the system to provide the electrical stimulation the muscle needs. The rest goes to the grid.
I'm a little worried about that guy. It's quite possible he may give us habitual caffeine users a bad name. Host files are cool, yes, I local out most of the annoying ads myself. But with three rather long repeat posts on the subject, I kind of wish he'd stop?
In the safety lecture for visitors to an aluminium smelter, I was told of the results of one person's discarding an allegedly empty disposable cigarette lighter in one of the pots. There were fatalities.
Well now, that poses an interesting question. What is the most economical aluminium refinery design we could come up with in terms of materials required to produce the factory, assuming no environmental impact statement is required in outer space (i.e. we don't have to worry about protecting a general populace from its operation)? Could we come up with a lightweight design that could be put together on (say) an asteroid, also assuming we could harness enough energy to run it?
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There will be a need to offer complete downloads when a word changes, so that professors may be reimbursed for a new book each term. Either that or the books will arrive as DRM locked on disposable tablets. Or will erase themselves after the term is over. Can't have people re-using books, now...
Yes, I know, and you want a pony. But we're better than that, aren't we? We have to be.
Maybe we should start by teaching a bit of history, starting with the Reformation and the Rennaisence.
We have had personal computers and the internet for about a decade now. A decade. We have utterly no clue how that's going to affect civilisation in the future. But do we want to look back and say "Yes, for the longest time there we could have had it all, but nobody wanted it" ?
If you do end up stuck with a printer, or printers, you might want to see if you are, or if you know, any electronics/robotics hobbyists. Even cheap and ghastly printers contain a reasonable supply of motors(some conventional DC, some steppers) and gears and optointerrupters and other fun little gizmos. The larger and more sophisticated printers can contain pretty impressive quantities of such.
Arrgh for the love of mod points, that's insightful.
Next - a series of combat robot competitions where the components must come from discarded printers. Who's game?
I think the intent is that you buy them as penance for bad code you've already written.
No way could I come up with that kind of coin.
They follow your world of warcraft account? That's going too far.
Yes, but that's useful too. You'll know when they've fallen off the "don't be evil" wagon when a DNS redirect offers to sell you in-game gold.
Based on this information, I'm officially switching. The first time I came across an advertisement rather than a failed DNS lookup I was not happy. It's incredibly annoying.
And it's incredibly bad practice. It's in the very best interests of Google that people still enjoy searching for stuff on the net. Their own public DNS redirector is a very logical step and a very good move on their part, and I applaud their smarts. I absolutely hate it when good, working engineering standards are subverted by commercial crap.
Awesome IP address, too (ping -a 8.8.8.8)
Stay away from tha voodoo!
And unfortunately the "sub games" are variations of "deliver item X to so-and-so" or "kill X amount of monster Z". Yawn.
It's the getting there that makes it fun, not the accomplishment. Last night we had a good run, and we're finally up to the last boss in Ulduar. It's not the highest and it's not the lowest, and the accomplishments were frosting on the cake. And nobody really cared all that much about the gear that dropped.
What did happen was the execution of a carefully planned approach using a refined strategy with a group of ten friends you can depend on to carry out the tactics well. It involved discussion, a couple of wipes, refined approach, then finally success against Thorim. That was hugely fun.
This is not simple carrot and stick. The win took a lot of thought, a lot of communication and some fairly fast and furious in-game action, a few close calls and some very close timing. If you see WoW as nothing but a level/achievement grind, then you're playing it wrong. It's all about the people you play with, not the counters, that make it fun. And an arbitrary challenge is still a challenge, isn't it? Otherwise you'd have to give up on all games and sports. What a dull life that would be.
4.2.2.2 and their ilk are free and non-redirecting
Yes, but who is gtei.net?
Also, even if their streaming app works under Moonlight, we'll never know, because you can't fool it into trying.
Not surprised, really. Closed source is a bit like buying a car and discovering the manufacturer had welded the bonnet shut, with a promise to sue you if you're caught anywhere near a can opener.
Or in newspapers, magazines, bridges, overpasses...
And echo in the wells of Silence.
...She is quite convinced that the manuscript was penned by DaVinci when he was 8-10 years old. In that context, the illustrations are EXACTLY the kinds that an 8-year old would draw, so no, they wouldn't be particularly realistic. Also in that context, I doubt it was intended as something like a botanical textbook, but rather just the ramblings of the mind of an 8-year old genius.
And coming to terms with left-handedness in a Catholic culture, where being left-handed would be considered "sinister" and thus evil? It would have been a while before he started writing Italian in his customary mirror-script. The church at the time was always quick to beat the devil out of you.
I wonder about the economics of offering one's own muscle cell culture out on the market for this. MMmm... fresh long pig. I'd go for the long term licensing option at the very least. I suspect mine might taste a bit like cabernet, although if the sample were taken in my youth there would have been a strong barley overtone.
If you made it the correct shape, it could grunt, gurgle, wheeze, even whistle hollowly, as it throbbed and pulsed.
It'd be like designing a musical instrument, really.
Perhaps you could include a mournful cry generator in there - sort of like the "cow moo" shake toys you see some places under the Christmas tree. You could shape it such that it artificially mooed whenever there was too much pressure on the artificial nerves in this artificial meat.
But ... would there be artificial pain? And if there were, would I be able to live with the artificial sympathy?
Grrrrr (rips open reference with sharp-filed cursor)
That's an early form of the letter "s", the "long S" from Carolingian Minuscule. You'll notice it has no crossbar, as does the letter "f". The "s" we know was often used at the end of words as a bit of shorthand, similar to the cursive un-crossed T.
The quote should read "Make a small cross, of two light strips of cedar".
Don't argue, you expected this post.
Good sarcasm, Ohnoitsavram. But you've pegged it - the big ugly monster rearing its head here is the fact that governments do not, as a rule, treat truly free speech as necessarily being in their own best interests. Governments have been fighting with their governed populace over this bone for many, many years. Anytime some new way to communicate pops up, the battle starts up again.
Mind you, it can be a very real threat to an established government, and governments have fallen from it. Think "Samizdat".
It's also harder to govern when your message to the public is diluted by discussion before it's embedded in the public consciousness, and I'm sure this concept is not lost on those who walk the halls of power.
Considering that so much of their business revolves around data processing, wouldn't you think that a method that reduces one of their largest costs (datacenter operation) is key to their business? If anything, datacenter technology is at the forefront of what Google does.
I think it's strategic protection. Patents work two ways - it's not just protecting against copyists, it's protecting yourself from others as well. If others see an innovation you are using, they could turn around and patent it themselves, then stifle your use of the innovation.
Since Google specify their own server layouts, I can imagine this patent is key to them not having someone else lock them out of a way to make their data centres work efficiently.
...is it kosher? I'm serious. No cloven hoof in evidence.
Perhaps it could be used to produce energy. I'm way out of my league here but I would imagine you could pump in proteins, oxygen and "food crud" to the meat and it's flexing motion could be used to produce electricity. Some of this electricity could be fed back to the system to provide the electrical stimulation the muscle needs. The rest goes to the grid.
Follow the white rabbit.
Use notepad++ instead. Windows notepad is annoying to use with files that have no file extensions.
I'm a little worried about that guy. It's quite possible he may give us habitual caffeine users a bad name. Host files are cool, yes, I local out most of the annoying ads myself. But with three rather long repeat posts on the subject, I kind of wish he'd stop?
Hydroelectricity is a pretty horrific form of energy production
Disagree, in context. I would much prefer an artificial lake to a strip mine myself. Not a great fan of breathing sulphur.
In the safety lecture for visitors to an aluminium smelter, I was told of the results of one person's discarding an allegedly empty disposable cigarette lighter in one of the pots. There were fatalities.
Hit any key to continue.
Well now, that poses an interesting question. What is the most economical aluminium refinery design we could come up with in terms of materials required to produce the factory, assuming no environmental impact statement is required in outer space (i.e. we don't have to worry about protecting a general populace from its operation)? Could we come up with a lightweight design that could be put together on (say) an asteroid, also assuming we could harness enough energy to run it?