yeah, I actually DID wuss out when it came to being fully XHTML strict. Some things were difficult and others I couldn't find a workaround/equivalence for. Mebbe one day I'll upgrade it to strict.
If you did the crime, you're guilty of committing a crime, whether you remember it or not.
Oh , I see, you mean "if someone tells you that you committed a crime, but you don't remember, did you actually commit it?"
Depends
(a) DID you actually commit the crime
(b)did they record you on video camera, with expert eyewitnesses, and did you leave hunks of DNA evidence everywhere?
Like I said previously turn your brain back on and think for a moment. You're obviously trying to pose a deep and meaningful hypothetical question, but actually it's painfully trivial and obvious to everyone except yourself.
Clearly you're trying to one-up "if a tree falls in the forest...". Let me give you a clue here
It's too much of a challenge for you, you're just not smart enough.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.........
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Minnow would be lost; the Minnow would be lost.
The ship took ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Gilligan, the Skipper too,
the Millionaire, and his Wife,
the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann,
here on Gilligan's Isle.
But seriously folks - if you WERE trying to ZAP this, what would you be killing off?
The last time you heard the song?
that you ever had heard the song?
the tune?
the lyrics?
the general storyline?
the peoples names?
At least in the movie they're talking about the wholesale slaughter of ALL memories over a significant portion of time. Although they're also talking about long-term memories, which (apparently) are significantly more complex to deal with.
-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me
I'm lazy when I'm lovin', I'm lazy when I play
I'm lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day
I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk
I'm lazy when I'm dancin' and I'm lazy when I talk
I really hope someone managed to get him to put some *serious effort* into this book+DVD, seems like he's recently been dealing with a major motivation problem.
Then again, if PowerPoint is ForDummies, that probably fits nicely with his lazy attitude to things.
in the recently passed CANSPAM bill, SPAM is explicitly defined as Commercial Email.
So this Political SPAM is perfectly legal.
Not only that, but said bill also legislates opt-out - which means any and every JimBOB spammer has the legal right to SPAM you once (assuming he follows a handfull of basic rules).
So now all spammers need to do is recycle Business Entities like they do ISP accounts, and it's all Perfectly Legal and there's nothing you can do about it.
All the SPAM you can stomach, and then some, for ever and ever.
All I can say is, thisis obviously aimed at large/fleet vehicles, and not your family small-car.
With the wheel-integrated-with-the-engine concept, there's NO WAY that MaryJane Q Citizen (or even JimBOB SixPack truckdriver) is going to be changing a tire on his/her own.
Please insert all your jokes under this thread....
the environmental impact will be dramatically reduced when using TheWheel(TM)
Sounds like someone stole an advertising campaign from 55 hundred years ago I especially love this page with the heading "The Wheel - What It Is, and What It Does"
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I've actually read the article. IANAE (I am not an engineer) but it sounds to me like they're re-inventing the wheel.
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In Communist Russia, The Wheel turns The Engine.
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1. Re-Invent Wheel 2. ??? 3. Profit
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Damn STUPID Patent Office has DONE IT AGAIN.
(TheWheel(TM) has been patented internationally - Patent Nr. WO 01/54939)
Actually you're DEAD WRONG. I (for one) don't want what they sell. Not when it includes several minutes of "previews" that I cannot skip.
Companies completely MISS THE POINT.
I've PAID for this, so WHY do you think I WANT to see (even more of) YOUR ADVERTISING.
If you want to give me 5+ minute s of previews, fine. How about SUPERBIT quality DVDs at $5 less than el-cheapo DVDs are going for currently, including a second DVD with "all the extras" that you'd normally see chewing bitspace on the primary disc?
That would be something approaching fair.
You're a business, so you need to understand this. I expect to receive *real value* for my dollars, if you want me as a customer.
The MPAA (and movies in general) are musc better than the record companies.
No they're not. All they're doing is NOT being as in-your-face public about it. They're STILL threatening to sue people over copyright infringement without even bothering to ask their potential customers if there's anything the MPAA could be doing differently so that people will not feel the need to break the law.
Same old "bloody customers" attitude from big business.
I'm not a biologist/naturalist or any suchlike related, but last time I checked (I seem to recall) mammalian sex was an invasive procedure (so to speak).
I actually went to the echonet site. While they imply that echnoet will be good for the environment, there wasn't one single shred of information about anything to do with the relationship between "echonet" and "the environment".
eg. nothing explaining in what way ECHONET will "sve the environment" or whatever.
But a group of researchers at Microsoft think they may have come up with a solution that could, at least, slow down and deter the spammers.
Actually no, this is not anything like "original research" on the part of Microsoft. This is an often discussed and well-known concept that Microsoft are investigating the practicalities of comercialising. The Project Page on Microsoft even cites several references to earlier work by (gasp!) non-Microsoft "researchers".
But, for some reason, The BEEB manages to miss those facts entirely.
do your best to verify their test results yourself
go back to the site
post your results for everyone else to see
(ie follow the good practices of basic science)
After all... On the internet , nobody knows you're a dog.
Any JimBOB can write a convinving paper, with all the right buzzwords, that sounds as if X+Y=Z, especially if that was logically a likely/expected outcome in the first place.
As a well-known TV show once said (several times and loudly) Trust No-One.
because it's disclosed up-front that it's IBM Linux Team testing Linux (ie no hidden conflict of interest
As opposed to the usual (ie in the Microsoft World)
ZDNet (and/or others) "testing" Microsoft Products (but only vaguely describing how things were configured)
Microsoft paying someone to "report" on the quality/performance of a Microsoft product, but the evaluation is worded in such a way as to convince the user that it's an independent review and the "funded by microsoft" fact is never mentioned anywhere in the evaluation
Many major (especially government) projects are put up for tender.
The whole idea of the tender process, is to find the lowest priced quotation to implement a solution within a given set of specifications.
Now, of course, this does not necessarily mean that the cheapest quotation will be the one selected; but, human nature being what it is, and the simple fact that most if not all projects lack a certain thing known as "an infinite budget", generally you can pretty much bet your life savings on the least $$ quotation being the one selected.
Suposedly, the person/group soliciting quotations for the project will take into account the many and various implications to the project from the variations in implementation on each quote.
Personally I would recommend that NASA have everyone on the tender process committee provide one child apiece to be launched as part of the crew for each mission. That should radically improve the evaluation process for "top bidder".
The firemen/insurance thing was mentioned in passing (like one paragraph in one of the books) along the lines of "it used to be done this way, but the patrician heard of the rampant extortion and shut it down before the entire city burnt to the ground".
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yeah, I actually DID wuss out when it came to being fully XHTML strict. Some things were difficult and others I couldn't find a workaround/equivalence for. Mebbe one day I'll upgrade it to strict.
Speaking of which, checkout my website. Fully XHTML Transitional. Not terribly painful to do.
And here was I thinking the JaneBOT would be running OpenBSD.
I own a CD/DVD burner, copier, cassette recorder, cameras ... does that make me guilty of copyright violation?!
Really it all depends.
Specifically, it depends on who you ask.
Are you asking me? (IANAL)
I'm sure the RIAA has many lawyers who would like to formulate a legal reply to that question.
If you did the crime, you're guilty of committing a crime, whether you remember it or not.
Oh , I see, you mean "if someone tells you that you committed a crime, but you don't remember, did you actually commit it?"
Depends
- (a) DID you actually commit the crime
- (b)did they record you on video camera, with expert eyewitnesses, and did you leave hunks of DNA evidence everywhere?
Like I said previously turn your brain back on and think for a moment. You're obviously trying to pose a deep and meaningful hypothetical question, but actually it's painfully trivial and obvious to everyone except yourself.Clearly you're trying to one-up "if a tree falls in the forest...".
Let me give you a clue here
It's too much of a challenge for you, you're just not smart enough.
Sorry, sux to be you.
- we pay someone to do high-tech industrial espionage/reverse engineering
- we then erase his memories of said activity, so that there's NO EVIDENCE of what we've done
Of course, that's ignoring the (vastly overwhelming and still existing) evidenceAt least if we're doing magic with not-currently-available-technology in the interest of a plot, PLEASE stick to the logically consistent eg
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.........
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Minnow would be lost; the Minnow would be lost.
The ship took ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Gilligan, the Skipper too,
the Millionaire, and his Wife,
the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann,
here on Gilligan's Isle.
But seriously folks - if you WERE trying to ZAP this, what would you be killing off?
- The last time you heard the song?
- that you ever had heard the song?
- the tune?
- the lyrics?
- the general storyline?
- the peoples names?
At least in the movie they're talking about the wholesale slaughter of ALL memories over a significant portion of time.Although they're also talking about long-term memories, which (apparently) are significantly more complex to deal with.
er, that would be no.
.... person minus previous memories = new person
That person still did the crime, even if they have no memory of it.
Ok, and here's the flipside to the comment I know you're begging to make.
specifically
Turn your brain back on and THINK for a moment....
If person+(new)memories != new_person
why should person-(old)memories = new_person
He's Lazy
-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me
I'm lazy when I'm lovin', I'm lazy when I play
I'm lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day
I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk
I'm lazy when I'm dancin' and I'm lazy when I talk
I really hope someone managed to get him to put some *serious effort* into this book+DVD, seems like he's recently been dealing with a major motivation problem.
Then again, if PowerPoint is ForDummies, that probably fits nicely with his lazy attitude to things.
in the recently passed CANSPAM bill, SPAM is explicitly defined as Commercial Email.
So this Political SPAM is perfectly legal.
Not only that, but said bill also legislates opt-out - which means any and every JimBOB spammer has the legal right to SPAM you once (assuming he follows a handfull of basic rules).
So now all spammers need to do is recycle Business Entities like they do ISP accounts, and it's all Perfectly Legal and there's nothing you can do about it.
All the SPAM you can stomach, and then some, for ever and ever.
All I can say is, thisis obviously aimed at large/fleet vehicles, and not your family small-car.
With the wheel-integrated-with-the-engine concept, there's NO WAY that MaryJane Q Citizen (or even JimBOB SixPack truckdriver) is going to be changing a tire on his/her own.
Please insert all your jokes under this thread....
the environmental impact will be dramatically reduced when using TheWheel(TM)
Sounds like someone stole an advertising campaign from 55 hundred years ago
I especially love this page with the heading "The Wheel - What It Is, and What It Does"
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I've actually read the article.
IANAE (I am not an engineer) but it sounds to me like they're re-inventing the wheel.
-----
In Communist Russia, The Wheel turns The Engine.
-----
1. Re-Invent Wheel
2. ???
3. Profit
-----
Damn STUPID Patent Office has DONE IT AGAIN.
(TheWheel(TM) has been patented internationally - Patent Nr. WO 01/54939)
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Have I forgotten anything, folks?
Actually you're DEAD WRONG. I (for one) don't want what they sell. Not when it includes several minutes of "previews" that I cannot skip.
Companies completely MISS THE POINT.
I've PAID for this, so WHY do you think I WANT to see (even more of) YOUR ADVERTISING.
If you want to give me 5+ minute s of previews, fine. How about SUPERBIT quality DVDs at $5 less than el-cheapo DVDs are going for currently, including a second DVD with "all the extras" that you'd normally see chewing bitspace on the primary disc?
That would be something approaching fair.
You're a business, so you need to understand this. I expect to receive *real value* for my dollars, if you want me as a customer.
The MPAA (and movies in general) are musc better than the record companies.
No they're not. All they're doing is NOT being as in-your-face public about it. They're STILL threatening to sue people over copyright infringement without even bothering to ask their potential customers if there's anything the MPAA could be doing differently so that people will not feel the need to break the law.
Same old "bloody customers" attitude from big business.
I'm not a biologist/naturalist or any suchlike related, but last time I checked (I seem to recall) mammalian sex was an invasive procedure (so to speak).
So your $100,000 of "my" tax dollars (semantically loaded sentence) is a red herring.
Does that qualify for a Guinness Record for The Worlds Most Expensive Fish?
eh? Talk? What talk?
I actually went to the echonet site. While they imply that echnoet will be good for the environment, there wasn't one single shred of information about anything to do with the relationship between "echonet" and "the environment".
eg. nothing explaining in what way ECHONET will "sve the environment" or whatever.
I did.
And my mind got bent out of shape trying to understand why the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) cares about recipes.
But a group of researchers at Microsoft think they may have come up with a solution that could, at least, slow down and deter the spammers.
Actually no, this is not anything like "original research" on the part of Microsoft. This is an often discussed and well-known concept that Microsoft are investigating the practicalities of comercialising. The Project Page on Microsoft even cites several references to earlier work by (gasp!) non-Microsoft "researchers".
But, for some reason, The BEEB manages to miss those facts entirely.
You should not trust this evaluation at all.
- Go to the site
- download the testing tools yourself
- read the test paper
- use the test methodologies as documented
- do your best to verify their test results yourself
- go back to the site
- post your results for everyone else to see
(ie follow the good practices of basic science)After all... On the internet , nobody knows you're a dog.
Any JimBOB can write a convinving paper, with all the right buzzwords, that sounds as if X+Y=Z, especially if that was logically a likely/expected outcome in the first place.
As a well-known TV show once said (several times and loudly) Trust No-One.
Remember people, YMMV.
- because the test methodologies are documented
- because it's disclosed up-front that it's IBM Linux Team testing Linux (ie no hidden conflict of interest
As opposed to the usual (ie in the Microsoft World)Many major (especially government) projects are put up for tender.
The whole idea of the tender process, is to find the lowest priced quotation to implement a solution within a given set of specifications.
Now, of course, this does not necessarily mean that the cheapest quotation will be the one selected; but, human nature being what it is, and the simple fact that most if not all projects lack a certain thing known as "an infinite budget", generally you can pretty much bet your life savings on the least $$ quotation being the one selected.
Suposedly, the person/group soliciting quotations for the project will take into account the many and various implications to the project from the variations in implementation on each quote.
Personally I would recommend that NASA have everyone on the tender process committee provide one child apiece to be launched as part of the crew for each mission. That should radically improve the evaluation process for "top bidder".
The firemen/insurance thing was mentioned in passing (like one paragraph in one of the books) along the lines of "it used to be done this way, but the patrician heard of the rampant extortion and shut it down before the entire city burnt to the ground".