1) The WSJ article states that sites can include a meta tag that will prevent this "feature". This is intrusive, pig-headed, and backwards. It should be the other way around.
2) The googlizer (look for it, AC wrote it) is far better. It works with any selectable text and will almost surely provide better data.
There's this thing about him not being very smart, which is the part I think I hate the most. The first president ever who has an MBA, and he's not very smart? That's interesting," Kvamme said, shaking his head.
Xt or Intrinsics upon which Xaw and Motif are built can provide a ludicrous amount of appearance and action. Just look at x.themes.org for some examples. GTK is also prior wrt some claims. As for the extra utilities to aid in theming, there's editres and probably a few collections of shell scripts et al. that change the xrdb (X Resources Database); I had one that adjusted the colors of an app based on which workspace it was opened on.
(Hmm, has anyone patented multiple desktops/viewports/workspaces/etc.?)
... it's a wearable computer! Ok, so it's a bit larger than most of those, but if the price is really ~ $720 (US), then prepare to be frankenborged. Most of it should be obvious: just find the apropriate data I/O devices, plug them in and place it in an apropriately ventilated bag. Only thing I didn't see was a portable power source (did I just miss it, being just barely awake?) Presumably the device has an internal transformer which takes a little space; open box, remove standard power unit, replace with portable fusion reactor. (What?! didn't get yours?)
If you've got the $5k for an M2 monitor, you've almost got a sweet wearable for a total of $6k. That doesn't look bad to me; but then neither does cannibalizing by laptop's monitor and making a computer out of one of those nice leather paper pad covers.
More and more I think the wearable computer market is so small because no one is really trying.
Caveat: I just woke up. A logic functions are presently reduced to mathematical ones.
How does it go? "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity"?
There was a project at a university supported by the automotive industry to develop a nuclear-powered car, but then there was this little problem at Three Mile Island and the funding pretty much disappeared. Add to that two things: (1) The researchers had made little progress to the auto makers goal, though they did a lot of research that is important for other things (materials research); (2) There has been a propaganda machine (mainly by the US Gov, I guess) to scare the sense out of people wrt radiation - our "nuclear deterrent" is more effective when people are afraid of it.
You can find out about the automotive research by looking for something like "nuclear-powered car" on Google. (Sorry, don't remember the name of the project off-hand.)
IEEE Spectrum had a good series about Three Mile Island some time ago; but I don't have the issue numbers.
Physics Today, Physics News, or Science had an article in the past year (or 2) about the dangers (real and imagined) of radiation et al.
Last Note:
Present day nuclear reactors use fission; fusion is still a pipe dream; Cassini (and many other space probes) used RTG's (RadioThermal Generators) which rely on natural decay processes; a nuclear bomb is a very complicated machine - a fission reactor in a car (which is probably unnecessary, see RTG's) might 'meltdown' or leak radiation, but it wouldn't become a bomb. The worst-case scenario is probably (and this is just a guess) that the car could explode just as it could with conventional fuel (and how likely is that? *shrug*) and then there would be some nasty clean up to do _if_ the design is so poor as to not contain the fissionable materials. Keeping the reactor safe from an external explosion is 'easy' - we know how to do it. Making a cheap, low-maintenance, and self-containing reactor is probably the hard part; but mostly because of the first two parts.:-)
... in Florida, I was not surprised to see that most of the plazas (plazae?) now have micro-StarBucks in them. (That's the small ones, not the forthcoming offspring.) My parents, whom I was travelling with, laughed at the prices. "People actually pay that much for coffee?!? hahahahah!" (I've gone from paying 0.485 cents per cup to about 0.68 cents per cup - and it's damn good! (except for when the roast is overdone, but you can usually tell if you were there the night before.)) And, though some wouldn't like it, I can smoke in my favorite coffee shop. So, I don't yet have a wireless connection for my laptop - though people seem to think I'm connected through my AC line - but I can almost always find an outlet, or something more interesting than the net; like people! oh, wait, nevermind that... The only place that compares is Waffle House - and mostly b/c of the price (~$1.00 for infinite refills?) and hours (26^H4). Now, maybe there's an idea... internet connections in the booths at Waffle House? (Out of spite, they could charge only customers using a certain non-free (non-) operating system.) Hmm, maybe I could talk the owner of the coffee shop into a similar setup? Perhaps as a preemptive move? (Just make everyone bring an ethernet card or rent them *hehe*) (WedontneednostinkinIRdevices!)
To end this rant:
MicroSoft + StarBucks
= Little Quality + Astronomical Prices
!= Astronomical Quality + Little Prices
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Has it occurred to anyone that if computer and computer component designers and manufacturers would quit trying to support Microsoft (non-)operating systems, then we'd have thumbnail- sized supercomputers?
Also, how much faster would Transmeta have finished Crusoe if they didn't have to compensate for the 16 (8?) bit code that Microsoft uses? (And how much better would the chip be?)
First, a nitpick: it wasn't the DoJ that decided to break up Microsoft, it was the Court.:)
Thank you for picking that nit. Why doesn't someone correct the article?
And though I believe the judge is upholding the laws, I don't believe these laws should exist. I'm not pro-MS, I'm anti-this.DoJ; and this trial is just one of the many reasons.
Why doesn't someone write X extensions for anti-aliasing and alpha? This sounds like an admirable short-term fix. Let XFree86 5.0 be a new system, until then lets have the modules. Anyone want to start some projects at sourceforge? (If I see no action on this I'll register one and provide links and what information I can; but I have to learn it first!)
OK, so you learned it explicitly by rote. (I was refering to the rote learning that takes place through continued use, not the actual course content.)
If you're a math major, you should get religion; start seeing how all the parts tie together.
religion - res ligare - things tied -or- religion - re ligare - regarding ties
(I don't remember which; and my latin grammar is poor from lack of use.)
For example: Study the history of calculus. I think it starts with the method of exhaustion of Eudoxus. Learn what problems they were trying to solve and why and what they tried. See how the methods have evolved. Look into their connections with other sciences - not just today, but throughout history. Even delve into the lives of the people. See what they learned that led them to try what they did. Find what non-mathematicians did for the science and what mathematician did for the other sciences.
All of this is your education. (voice of yoda) "Not this base computation".
ex - out from ducere - to lead
Education is a leading out: of your notions into ideas, and of yourself from slavery to the minds of others.
A branch of knowledge is more than just lumber; it is part of a living thing and a home to other things.
Because public education in this society was designed around the time of the Industrial Revolution, when factories needed just a few simple things from their workers: 1) Do what you are told without question 2) Do it again and again and again (ie repetitive tasks) without getting fidgety
Bullshit! Don't try passing off your political views as knowledge about education. Arithmetic is learned by rote because is so simple and basic that it should be done quickly with little thought. Or do you really want to do 5*2 as (((((((((1++)++)++)++)++)++)++)++)++) ? The basics have to be memorized so you can move on to more interesting things. What's ridiculous is how much time is spent memorizing - nay, trying to teach kids "how it really works". Think "hash table".
As a CS/Math major, I feel that arithmetic is basically useless, in the sense that nobody needs to know long division (or what 11 * 15 is, etc). That's what calculators are for. I feel the same about Calculus (yes, somewhat more deep and much more complex than addition and subtraction but basically just computation; no actual thought required if you know the right techniques). The interesting problems are the ones that computers can't solve.
Then you're a fool and a stooge. If you can't do arithmetic then you're a slave to however can do it and uses that knowledge to make the calculators and computers. The reason you think "no actual thought is required" is that you have learned it by rote. You've done exactly what you think shouldn't be done. Yeah, most anyone can compute a derivative algorithmically, but that's not the point and you miss completely any appreciation of either the mathematics or the real world. Go read Newton, philistine!
As for "higher level math" which you imply starts after arithmetic, everyone uses it every day. If we didn't then every dog would be completely unique; you could never form a concept of dog - i.e., you could never define a variable to be an element of the set "dog" and then recognize memebers of that set. The math professor you heard was dead wrong and probably pushing his own political agenda to get more funding. High schools should be starting with, at least, calculus; that they don't is indicative of what a failure the education in the USA is.
One of the sad things about the anti-trust trial is that Microsoft had not long ago started an R&D division that is researching user interfaces. Among the things I remember were voice control and facial response recognition (the paperclip is watching:-). With the cost of the trial and whatever penalties they may suffer, they'll probably have to cut back on R&D since that kind of investment is usually undertaken by a stable company that is able to plan decades in advance.
The roll-up laptop was MY idea! And they all said I was crazy. The design I had was pretty much . . . no exactly the same. I was looking into it over a year ago - finding materials, pcb designs, chipsets, etc.
To those one slashdot who know me in real life:
I told you so!
Oh wait, my design was one better. You could take off one of the ends of the cylinder and use it as a mouse. (Or does theirs have that too? I may have missed it.)
There's already one reply from someone with 100 altoid cans, and all report another instance.
Some friends of mine made a table-top with altoid cans (I don't remember how many; 10x10, I think). It was a basic wooden table with the top carved out, the cans placed in, and a glass sheet on top. I don't remember if they were empty.
Since there's different altoid flavors with different tins, this could start a revolution in interior design. (Darn, that wasn't so funny after I typed it.)
The "product" is a web page and the "confusion" occurs when jimjag's page is more highly ranked than Object Insight, Inc's page.
At least that what the plaintif could argue. (BTW, IANAL, SEA, SAO)
Also jimjag failed to tell us where his company's web site is and what they do. How do we know that they aren't competitors? According to their website, JVISION is available for Linux. From scanning the page I guess that it is similar to Dia. If jimjag's company employs Dia developers, there may be case. (ROFLMAO)
They (OI) should probably sue those search engines too, for 'contributory negligence' or something like that. Oh, and if anyone has JVISION on a page criticising it or OI, they should be sued for 'restraint of trade' (or something like that). Then we can also go after the small-time search engines that don't turn up any results at all, call it 'denial of existence'. Then there are sites that link to any of the offending pages, including web-based email, and of course sites that don't link to OI's index page. And then there are the sites that deep-link to OI's pages or put them in a frame. Did I mention the part of the world that doesn't get on the web or the net? Lock up all of them too.
A PostScript viewer you can draw on like you'd make notes on paper.
Fast handwriting recognition.
Throw in a Crusoe*, wireless peripherals**, and ubiquitous internet connectivty***.
Blammo! Perfect business appliance.
* - or any other cold, efficient chip ** - like keyboards, A/V I/O, contact lens displays *** - don't forget to use the 'net for "telephone" traffic too
I only know of one search engine that would take someone immediately to a website - Google, I'm feeling lucky.
I tried it. I even tried 'Choclate Chip Coonies', given the proximity of 'k' and 'n' on a qwerty. Nada, zilch, zip, nothing.
There is one possibility that comes to mind: the girl was already looking at a porn site and she has a choclate chip cookie fetish.
However, my best guess is that the girl is simply lying. perhaps someone should take the 'moral high ground' and accuse her of it. I can see it now:
The girl is a liar! All little girls that lie are witches! BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!
There's nothing like a good old fashioned witch hunt to get the mob on your side. When you find her, I suggest putting a long prosthetic nose on her. Have someone bring a broom and run out from behind her house saying that it's her witch's broom. Find somebody who can do some stage magic and, in a cloud of smoke, replace the girl with an actor costumed as a witch. Be sure to pull the actor out before the actual burning. If anyone suggests a dowsing test, then you can try replacing the girl underwater. Don't let anyone claim that the girl turned him into a newt, somebody might catch on; pick some other animal, like an Africanized honeybee or a spotted owl.
And remember . . . witch burnings can be fun . . . and profitable! Sell some t-shirts or barbeque. Try to lay claim the parent's property, for exorcism or something. Don't forget that anyone who objects is probably also a witch and you should treat all witches alike.
The microwave background is a remnant of the big bang (ATCT). It's in the microwave range (NPI) because of a redshift. Light emitted from object moving away from you will be redshifted also. The cause of the redshifts is different.
The microwaves are (part of) the initial energy, they've been streched as the universe has expanded. It's like drawing a wavy line on a balloon and inflating. The wavelength increases as the surface gets larger because (somehow) it's 'connected' to that surface. (wavelength increase = frequency decrease = redshift)
Light from receding emitters is redshifted in the same manner as a sonic doppler shift. (A train whistle lowers in pitch once it passes you.) This is easier to show with pictures and I think it's probably understood, so I'm leave it at that.
There are still other sources of redshifts. As light is emmitted from a massive body, it loses energy to escape gravity. A loss of energy is the same as (or causes?) a redshift. (Energy per photon is greater at greater frequency.)
There are still other sources of redshift, but I don't remember all of them. Technically, these examples can be seen as manifestations of the same thing, but that's for some other time.
ATCT = According To Current Theory NPI = No Pun Intended
Oh, damnit! I just realized you were trying to say the same thing, almost. For there to be an epicenter you have to be able to reduce the dimensions (eliminate time, let's say) and then find a unique point in that space.
So: Earth : 3d -> surface of earth : 2d -> epicenter : (x_0,y_0)
Universe : 4d -> now : 3d -> epicenter : (x_0,y_0,z_0)
You were right about the epi- part, wrong about calling all of now the center.
BTW: There are 360 degrees (2 PI radians) in a circle and 4 PI steradians in a sphere. I don't know how to describe parts of hyperspheres, but I'll guess it's sterochronoradian, (stero- solid; chrono- time; -radian like radius, meant ray or spoke). There are probably 16 PI of them in a hypersphere, but that's just a guess.
An epicenter is a point on the surface of the earth to which the distubance of an earthquake can be traced back.
epi- = surface epicenter = surface-center
It's the point that matters when it comes time to assess damages and make predictions for aftershocks and the like. The actual center of an earthquake could be 500 meters down and two steps to the left;-), but that doesn't matter to us eloi, so that's why you hear so much talk about the epicenter.
IF somehow the big bang (great sex?) theories hold out, and we are actually on the surface of a 3+1 dimensional (3 space + 1 time) hypersphere, then we still wont be looking for an epicenter of the big bang. We'll be looking for the actual center - which I've heard rumored is actually a time warp away, a jump to the left, and a step to the right.
However, if you wish to postulate an epicenter, I'd be really interested in the hypothesis. Heck, I'll postulate that there is one and it's our sun...oh great, there's a call on line 1 from Mr. Torquemada. Got to run!
Here I go again, ready to lose my sacred karma for the moderation revolution. If you haven't spent your last point moderating this up, then spend one on this guy! He's even got a link and a summary of what you'll find! Talk about informative! Did you know about these?
hb0018f.rtf --> Commercial Law - The Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
sb0003f.rtf --> senate version of the House Bill
hb0019f.rtf --> Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
sb0142f.rtf --> senate version of the house bill
sb0505f.rtf --> Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights (cable access bill)
(The link seems to be down, this index should be a good starting place anyway.)
Slashdot Mirror
1) The WSJ article states that sites can include a meta tag that will prevent this "feature". This is intrusive, pig-headed, and backwards. It should be the other way around.
2) The googlizer (look for it, AC wrote it) is far better. It works with any selectable text and will almost surely provide better data.
ROFLMAO
Xt or Intrinsics upon which Xaw and Motif are built can provide a ludicrous amount of appearance and action. Just look at x.themes.org for some examples. GTK is also prior wrt some claims. As for the extra utilities to aid in theming, there's editres and probably a few collections of shell scripts et al. that change the xrdb (X Resources Database); I had one that adjusted the colors of an app based on which workspace it was opened on.
(Hmm, has anyone patented multiple desktops/viewports/workspaces/etc.?)
... it's a wearable computer! Ok, so it's a bit larger than most of those, but if the price is really ~ $720 (US), then prepare to be frankenborged. Most of it should be obvious: just find the apropriate data I/O devices, plug them in and place it in an apropriately ventilated bag. Only thing I didn't see was a portable power source (did I just miss it, being just barely awake?) Presumably the device has an internal transformer which takes a little space; open box, remove standard power unit, replace with portable fusion reactor. (What?! didn't get yours?)
If you've got the $5k for an M2 monitor, you've almost got a sweet wearable for a total of $6k. That doesn't look bad to me; but then neither does cannibalizing by laptop's monitor and making a computer out of one of those nice leather paper pad covers.
More and more I think the wearable computer market is so small because no one is really trying.
Caveat: I just woke up. A logic functions are presently reduced to mathematical ones.
How does it go? "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity"?
:-)
There was a project at a university supported by the automotive industry to develop a nuclear-powered car, but then there was this little problem at Three Mile Island and the funding pretty much disappeared. Add to that two things: (1) The researchers had made little progress to the auto makers goal, though they did a lot of research that is important for other things (materials research); (2) There has been a propaganda machine (mainly by the US Gov, I guess) to scare the sense out of people wrt radiation - our "nuclear deterrent" is more effective when people are afraid of it.
You can find out about the automotive research by looking for something like "nuclear-powered car" on Google. (Sorry, don't remember the name of the project off-hand.)
IEEE Spectrum had a good series about Three Mile Island some time ago; but I don't have the issue numbers.
Physics Today, Physics News, or Science had an article in the past year (or 2) about the dangers (real and imagined) of radiation et al.
Last Note:
Present day nuclear reactors use fission; fusion is still a pipe dream; Cassini (and many other space probes) used RTG's (RadioThermal Generators) which rely on natural decay processes; a nuclear bomb is a very complicated machine - a fission reactor in a car (which is probably unnecessary, see RTG's) might 'meltdown' or leak radiation, but it wouldn't become a bomb. The worst-case scenario is probably (and this is just a guess) that the car could explode just as it could with conventional fuel (and how likely is that? *shrug*) and then there would be some nasty clean up to do _if_ the design is so poor as to not contain the fissionable materials. Keeping the reactor safe from an external explosion is 'easy' - we know how to do it. Making a cheap, low-maintenance, and self-containing reactor is probably the hard part; but mostly because of the first two parts.
... in Florida, I was not surprised to see that most of the plazas (plazae?) now have micro-StarBucks in them. (That's the small ones, not the forthcoming offspring.) My parents, whom I was travelling with, laughed at the prices. "People actually pay that much for coffee?!? hahahahah!" (I've gone from paying 0.485 cents per cup to about 0.68 cents per cup - and it's damn good! (except for when the roast is overdone, but you can usually tell if you were there the night before.)) And, though some wouldn't like it, I can smoke in my favorite coffee shop. So, I don't yet have a wireless connection for my laptop - though people seem to think I'm connected through my AC line - but I can almost always find an outlet, or something more interesting than the net; like people! oh, wait, nevermind that ... The only place that compares is Waffle House - and mostly b/c of the price (~$1.00 for infinite refills?) and hours (26^H4). Now, maybe there's an idea ... internet connections in the booths at Waffle House? (Out of spite, they could charge only customers using a certain non-free (non-) operating system.) Hmm, maybe I could talk the owner of the coffee shop into a similar setup? Perhaps as a preemptive move? (Just make everyone bring an ethernet card or rent them *hehe*) (WedontneednostinkinIRdevices!)
To end this rant:
MicroSoft + StarBucks
= Little Quality + Astronomical Prices
!= Astronomical Quality + Little Prices
(now maybe someone will make that into a haiku)
There a rep bindings to SQL here: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/rep-sql.html
The link to squile was broken when I tried it. Maybe google will turn up something.
Has it occurred to anyone that if computer and computer component designers and manufacturers would quit trying to support Microsoft (non-)operating systems, then we'd have thumbnail- sized supercomputers?
Also, how much faster would Transmeta have finished Crusoe if they didn't have to compensate for the 16 (8?) bit code that Microsoft uses? (And how much better would the chip be?)
I'm still waiting for my 1600x1200 contact lens.
First, a nitpick: it wasn't the DoJ that decided to break up Microsoft, it was the Court. :)
Thank you for picking that nit. Why doesn't someone correct the article?
And though I believe the judge is upholding the laws, I don't believe these laws should exist. I'm not pro-MS, I'm anti-this.DoJ; and this trial is just one of the many reasons.
Why doesn't someone write X extensions for anti-aliasing and alpha? This sounds like an admirable short-term fix. Let XFree86 5.0 be a new system, until then lets have the modules. Anyone want to start some projects at sourceforge? (If I see no action on this I'll register one and provide links and what information I can; but I have to learn it first!)
OK, so you learned it explicitly by rote. (I was refering to the rote learning that takes place through continued use, not the actual course content.)
If you're a math major, you should get religion; start seeing how all the parts tie together.
religion - res ligare - things tied
-or-
religion - re ligare - regarding ties
(I don't remember which; and my latin grammar is poor from lack of use.)
For example: Study the history of calculus. I think it starts with the method of exhaustion of Eudoxus. Learn what problems they were trying to solve and why and what they tried. See how the methods have evolved. Look into their connections with other sciences - not just today, but throughout history. Even delve into the lives of the people. See what they learned that led them to try what they did. Find what non-mathematicians did for the science and what mathematician did for the other sciences.
All of this is your education. (voice of yoda) "Not this base computation".
ex - out from
ducere - to lead
Education is a leading out: of your notions into ideas, and of yourself from slavery to the minds of others.
A branch of knowledge is more than just lumber; it is part of a living thing and a home to other things.
Don't forget your looking glass.
Because public education in this society was designed around the time of the Industrial Revolution, when factories needed just a few simple things from their workers:
1) Do what you are told without question
2) Do it again and again and again (ie repetitive tasks) without getting fidgety
Bullshit! Don't try passing off your political views as knowledge about education. Arithmetic is learned by rote because is so simple and basic that it should be done quickly with little thought. Or do you really want to do 5*2 as (((((((((1++)++)++)++)++)++)++)++)++) ?
The basics have to be memorized so you can move on to more interesting things. What's ridiculous is how much time is spent memorizing - nay, trying to teach kids "how it really works". Think "hash table".
As a CS/Math major, I feel that arithmetic is basically useless, in the sense that nobody needs to know long division (or what 11 * 15 is, etc). That's what calculators are for. I feel the same about Calculus (yes, somewhat more deep and much more complex than addition and subtraction but basically just computation; no actual thought required if you know the right techniques). The interesting problems are the ones that computers can't solve.
Then you're a fool and a stooge. If you can't do arithmetic then you're a slave to however can do it and uses that knowledge to make the calculators and computers. The reason you think "no actual thought is required" is that you have learned it by rote. You've done exactly what you think shouldn't be done. Yeah, most anyone can compute a derivative algorithmically, but that's not the point and you miss completely any appreciation of either the mathematics or the real world. Go read Newton, philistine!
As for "higher level math" which you imply starts after arithmetic, everyone uses it every day. If we didn't then every dog would be completely unique; you could never form a concept of dog - i.e., you could never define a variable to be an element of the set "dog" and then recognize memebers of that set. The math professor you heard was dead wrong and probably pushing his own political agenda to get more funding. High schools should be starting with, at least, calculus; that they don't is indicative of what a failure the education in the USA is.
One of the sad things about the anti-trust trial is that Microsoft had not long ago started an R&D division that is researching user interfaces. Among the things I remember were voice control and facial response recognition (the paperclip is watching :-). With the cost of the trial and whatever penalties they may suffer, they'll probably have to cut back on R&D since that kind of investment is usually undertaken by a stable company that is able to plan decades in advance.
The roll-up laptop was MY idea! And they all said I was crazy. The design I had was pretty much . . . no exactly the same. I was looking into it over a year ago - finding materials, pcb designs, chipsets, etc.
To those one slashdot who know me in real life:
I told you so!
Oh wait, my design was one better. You could take off one of the ends of the cylinder and use it as a mouse. (Or does theirs have that too? I may have missed it.)
There's already one reply from someone with 100 altoid cans, and all report another instance.
Some friends of mine made a table-top with altoid cans (I don't remember how many; 10x10, I think). It was a basic wooden table with the top carved out, the cans placed in, and a glass sheet on top. I don't remember if they were empty.
Since there's different altoid flavors with different tins, this could start a revolution in interior design. (Darn, that wasn't so funny after I typed it.)
What we need is an altoid theme.
Ahh...but...
The "product" is a web page and the "confusion" occurs when jimjag's page is more highly ranked than Object Insight, Inc's page.
At least that what the plaintif could argue.
(BTW, IANAL, SEA, SAO)
Also jimjag failed to tell us where his company's web site is and what they do. How do we know that they aren't competitors? According to their website, JVISION is available for Linux. From scanning the page I guess that it is similar to Dia. If jimjag's company employs Dia developers, there may be case. (ROFLMAO)
They (OI) should probably sue those search engines too, for 'contributory negligence' or something like that. Oh, and if anyone has JVISION on a page criticising it or OI, they should be sued for 'restraint of trade' (or something like that). Then we can also go after the small-time search engines that don't turn up any results at all, call it 'denial of existence'. Then there are sites that link to any of the offending pages, including web-based email, and of course sites that don't link to OI's index page. And then there are the sites that deep-link to OI's pages or put them in a frame. Did I mention the part of the world that doesn't get on the web or the net? Lock up all of them too.
This was fun.
I say let's bring together these things:
Nearly paper-sized (US Letter, A4, whatever) stylus sensitive screens.
A PostScript viewer you can draw on like you'd make notes on paper.
Fast handwriting recognition.
Throw in a Crusoe*, wireless peripherals**, and ubiquitous internet connectivty***.
Blammo! Perfect business appliance.
* - or any other cold, efficient chip
** - like keyboards, A/V I/O, contact lens displays
*** - don't forget to use the 'net for "telephone" traffic too
I only know of one search engine that would take someone immediately to a website - Google, I'm feeling lucky.
I tried it. I even tried 'Choclate Chip Coonies', given the proximity of 'k' and 'n' on a qwerty. Nada, zilch, zip, nothing.
There is one possibility that comes to mind: the girl was already looking at a porn site and she has a choclate chip cookie fetish.
However, my best guess is that the girl is simply lying. perhaps someone should take the 'moral high ground' and accuse her of it. I can see it now:
The girl is a liar! All little girls that lie are witches! BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!
There's nothing like a good old fashioned witch hunt to get the mob on your side. When you find her, I suggest putting a long prosthetic nose on her. Have someone bring a broom and run out from behind her house saying that it's her witch's broom. Find somebody who can do some stage magic and, in a cloud of smoke, replace the girl with an actor costumed as a witch. Be sure to pull the actor out before the actual burning. If anyone suggests a dowsing test, then you can try replacing the girl underwater. Don't let anyone claim that the girl turned him into a newt, somebody might catch on; pick some other animal, like an Africanized honeybee or a spotted owl.
And remember . . . witch burnings can be fun . . . and profitable! Sell some t-shirts or barbeque. Try to lay claim the parent's property, for exorcism or something. Don't forget that anyone who objects is probably also a witch and you should treat all witches alike.
Some things should not be brought to ballot in a republic. The all-time favorite example:
Has Socrates corrupted the youth?
Do the filters block xxx.lanl.gov ?
Do any of the filters even bother with blocking the IP numbers?
Has anyone tried spying on the GET's from people pushing for censorship?
How about getting a statement from ICANN or IETF aut al. saying that those attempting to filter public internet access will be denied all routing?
Isn't there anything to enforce good netizenship, perhaps similar to the UDP (Usenet Death Penalty)?
The microwave background is a remnant of the big bang (ATCT). It's in the microwave range (NPI) because of a redshift. Light emitted from object moving away from you will be redshifted also. The cause of the redshifts is different.
The microwaves are (part of) the initial energy, they've been streched as the universe has expanded. It's like drawing a wavy line on a balloon and inflating. The wavelength increases as the surface gets larger because (somehow) it's 'connected' to that surface. (wavelength increase = frequency decrease = redshift)
Light from receding emitters is redshifted in the same manner as a sonic doppler shift. (A train whistle lowers in pitch once it passes you.) This is easier to show with pictures and I think it's probably understood, so I'm leave it at that.
There are still other sources of redshifts. As light is emmitted from a massive body, it loses energy to escape gravity. A loss of energy is the same as (or causes?) a redshift. (Energy per photon is greater at greater frequency.)
There are still other sources of redshift, but I don't remember all of them. Technically, these examples can be seen as manifestations of the same thing, but that's for some other time.
ATCT = According To Current Theory
NPI = No Pun Intended
Oh, damnit! I just realized you were trying to say the same thing, almost. For there to be an epicenter you have to be able to reduce the dimensions (eliminate time, let's say) and then find a unique point in that space.
So:
Earth : 3d -> surface of earth : 2d -> epicenter : (x_0,y_0)
Universe : 4d -> now : 3d -> epicenter : (x_0,y_0,z_0)
You were right about the epi- part, wrong about calling all of now the center.
BTW: There are 360 degrees (2 PI radians) in a circle and 4 PI steradians in a sphere. I don't know how to describe parts of hyperspheres, but I'll guess it's sterochronoradian, (stero- solid; chrono- time; -radian like radius, meant ray or spoke). There are probably 16 PI of them in a hypersphere, but that's just a guess.
There is no 'epicenter'.
;-), but that doesn't matter to us eloi, so that's why you hear so much talk about the epicenter.
An epicenter is a point on the surface of the earth to which the distubance of an earthquake can be traced back.
epi- = surface
epicenter = surface-center
It's the point that matters when it comes time to assess damages and make predictions for aftershocks and the like. The actual center of an earthquake could be 500 meters down and two steps to the left
IF somehow the big bang (great sex?) theories hold out, and we are actually on the surface of a 3+1 dimensional (3 space + 1 time) hypersphere, then we still wont be looking for an epicenter of the big bang. We'll be looking for the actual center - which I've heard rumored is actually a time warp away, a jump to the left, and a step to the right.
However, if you wish to postulate an epicenter, I'd be really interested in the hypothesis. Heck, I'll postulate that there is one and it's our sun...oh great, there's a call on line 1 from Mr. Torquemada. Got to run!
You left out the most important part:
Additional funding came from the Department of Defense, the Air Force and the National Science Foundation.
When does the government stop stealing money through taxation and, through university research, giving it to businesses?
Here I go again, ready to lose my sacred karma for the moderation revolution. If you haven't spent your last point moderating this up, then spend one on this guy! He's even got a link and a summary of what you'll find! Talk about informative! Did you know about these?
- hb0018f.rtf --> Commercial Law - The Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
- sb0003f.rtf --> senate version of the House Bill
- hb0019f.rtf --> Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
- sb0142f.rtf --> senate version of the house bill
- sb0505f.rtf --> Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights (cable access bill)
(The link seems to be down, this index should be a good starting place anyway.)