Anyone know if the Ipod Nano is flash based? I can't find any mention of it on the Apple website (or maybe I'm just blind...)
It'd be wicked if it was flash based, then I wouldn't feel nervous every time I went jogging =)
Are you honestly trying to cast CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS in the same light as innocent victims of the holocaust and slavery?
I hate to tell you this, but it's a *perfectly acceptible* response to strip away people's rights if the are PROVEN to be unsafe to the community. Once a person commits rape, or assaults a minor or something, all bets are off. You can damn well expect that your rights will be removed. It's a concept commonly known as Justice.
This is completely different than issues that are based on social perceptions, like homosexuality (which I have absolutely nothing against). That is your personal choice.
It's sad that this type of inward looking nationalistic thinking is the norm these days. When will people realize that we are responsible for all of humanity? Does no one teach social responsability anymore?
Let me let you in to a little secret here. The rest of the world *is* under an obligation to help SE Asia. Under a *big* obligation. Why? Because of international treaties? Nope. Because of legislation, or UN decisions? Nope. As humans, we are morally responsable for the welfare and well-being of the rest of the world.
The whole idea of TLDs worked really well over the past few years, but I think its time for a fundamental change in internet addressing. If ICANN just keeps adding new TLDs, they'll accomplish nothing other than to confuse most consumers. Remembering.com/.net/.info/.biz/.mobi/.mail/... probably won't be an issue to most/. users, but I think the vast majority of internet users are going to start getting very confused, very fast.
Maybe we can solicit an "Ask Slashdot" question about alternatives to the TLD problem? What alternatives do you see as being feasible, practicable, and easy on the average end user?
I hate to tell you this, but following orders is no excuse for committing war crimes.
Or do you want to agree with one of the main Nazi defence points in Nuremberg? They claimed this too, you know, that they shouldn't be held accountable for any of their actions because they were ordered to do so. Should Nazi soldiers not be held to account for torturing and murdering millions of Jews and other 'undesireables' simply because they were following orders? How about atrocities in the civil wars all over Africa?
If a commanding officer tells a soldier to rape women, torture innocent children, etc, then is that soldier is completely innocent of any crime, simply because he was ordered to do so?? I should hope you don't think that. Warfare is supposed to be calculated violence, not a series of uncontrolled bestial impulses.
I pay $40/month CAD for 3MB down / 500kbps up cable connection. (In reality, its more like 2.4MB down).
We get business DSL at work from Advantage Internet (www.aibn.com) for something like $80 per month, but it is bundled with some other services. This connection is 1MB down (I'm not sure what the upload bandwidth is).
Alex
Unfortunately, most media companies don't care about the statistical validity of their surveys; they only care about how interesting the survey will seem to their readers. One of the newspapers in my city (Toronto) ran a huge university ranking story last week, based on student reviews. The funny thing was that two of the universities in the top-10 ranking for medical schools didn't actually HAVE medical schools.
Awhell:) What can you do. Aside from complaining on Slashdot, of course.
I wish there was a "-1, Uncultured" moderator rating!
But for those of you who don't know, Heinlein was a master Science Fiction writer, who wrote many famous books, such as "Starship Troopers", "Stranger in a strange land", "The moon is a harsh mistress", etc. I think he wrote over a hundred works. IMHO one of the top 5 science fiction authors of all time
And for those who only saw "Starship Troopers" and never read the book, PLEASE don't judge the author by the movie, because that movie was truly horrendous.
>> 1. Prevents users from digitally extracting Music from CDs in 'listenable' format
I was referring to digital audio extraction. I must remind you that every type of audio media is susceptible to the kind of copying you refer to.
Yes, but he could download a secure file-deletion tool. Those ones will find every sector (on the user's hard drive) used by the file, then re-write each one with all 1's or all 0's a few times, totally removing the data. Big companies use this all the time
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1. Prevents users from digitally extracting Music from CDs in 'listenable' format
2. Allows users to a backup of the CD in a way that is secure and personally identifiable - IE each backup can be traced directly back to the person who created it.
This type of standard can then be adopted into future CD players. Every CD made under this standard should also be CLEARLY labeled so that prospective purchasers will not make an incorrect purchase.
It is understandable that the music industry would want to have copy-protection on the CDs they distribute to curb piracy. However, their current piecemeal approach leads to situations such as these - where some CDs can be read only in some readers.
Secondly, this type of copy-protection is a clear violation of the rights of any person who buys such a CD. Under U.S. and Canadian copyright laws (I don't know the European equivalents), a person has the right to make one copy of a legally purchased CD for backup/archival purposes.
I suggest that the Music Industry come together and create a new standard for copyright protection that
I know what you mean. A co-worker of mine said that she heard tell on the news that Mars was so close to Earth that there was danger that it might collide with the moon. And this was a person who (apparently) did a minor in physics at university. Hehe can you imagine what tides would be like if Mars was that close?! That would make living in Florida REALLY suck!
I'm also sick of reporters saying that this is "the closest Mars has been to earth in the past 60,000 [or whatever the date was] years." This is not the case. This is the closest Mars has been to Earth while at conjuction! There is a rather large difference between the two statements. I wish that media representatives would actually research the materials they're reporting on before shooting off their mouths on T.V. God forbid they should actually know what they're talking about...
In recent news, Stanford's physics department took a leaf out of the infamous "Pet Rock" success story, and made an absolute killing with their new product line "Pet Subatomic Particles" (marketed by Mattel). They come in two varieties: the cute and cuddly "Pet Lepton", for those little girls out there; and the big and fierce "Pet Quark". Each Pet Subatomic-Particle is stamped with it's very own, unique ID number! You can get your very own for only 5 easy payments of $99.99 US!
In related news, this move pissed the hell out of the MIT researchers who developed the so-called "Everything Barcode", which they claimed had enough dataspace to uniquely indentify everything. Said one reasercher, (off the record): "Man, did this come as a surprise. I mean, we made space for every single atom in the entire friggin' universe in this barcode system, but did we think about Quarks and Leptons! Argh! We'll have to go back to square one on this. Give us another two years, and we'll find a number so big, that... well, you get the idea!"
this study has been using media that were made at least two years ago. Has CD/R technology made any leaps recently? Maybe new manufacturing or CD burning methods result in better (and longer) burns.
Pah! You dont need a power grid to run computers. Just hook up the computer to your handy Mr. Fusion, toss in an old banana peel or two, and get cracking!
Seriously though, this has to be one of the stupidest articles ever. It's like putting together a report on "the effects of a gas shortage on cars". Duh! Then again, micheal submitted the article, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised.
And I suppose there are ways to circumvent the ratings systems. What if he made a BUNCH (say like 100) accounts, and sold items to himself - he'd then be able to give himself really good ratings.
Lol! Did you read the article? He DIDN'T actually sell anything - he pretended to, got the money, and never sent the items! So, he made a TON of profit. Wow.
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Anyone know if the Ipod Nano is flash based? I can't find any mention of it on the Apple website (or maybe I'm just blind...) It'd be wicked if it was flash based, then I wouldn't feel nervous every time I went jogging =)
Are you honestly trying to cast CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS in the same light as innocent victims of the holocaust and slavery?
I hate to tell you this, but it's a *perfectly acceptible* response to strip away people's rights if the are PROVEN to be unsafe to the community. Once a person commits rape, or assaults a minor or something, all bets are off. You can damn well expect that your rights will be removed. It's a concept commonly known as Justice.
This is completely different than issues that are based on social perceptions, like homosexuality (which I have absolutely nothing against). That is your personal choice.
Pfft.
It's sad that this type of inward looking nationalistic thinking is the norm these days. When will people realize that we are responsible for all of humanity? Does no one teach social responsability anymore? Let me let you in to a little secret here. The rest of the world *is* under an obligation to help SE Asia. Under a *big* obligation. Why? Because of international treaties? Nope. Because of legislation, or UN decisions? Nope. As humans, we are morally responsable for the welfare and well-being of the rest of the world.
The whole idea of TLDs worked really well over the past few years, but I think its time for a fundamental change in internet addressing. If ICANN just keeps adding new TLDs, they'll accomplish nothing other than to confuse most consumers. Remembering .com/.net/.info/.biz/.mobi/.mail/... probably won't be an issue to most /. users, but I think the vast majority of internet users are going to start getting very confused, very fast.
Maybe we can solicit an "Ask Slashdot" question about alternatives to the TLD problem? What alternatives do you see as being feasible, practicable, and easy on the average end user?
I hate to tell you this, but following orders is no excuse for committing war crimes.
Or do you want to agree with one of the main Nazi defence points in Nuremberg? They claimed this too, you know, that they shouldn't be held accountable for any of their actions because they were ordered to do so. Should Nazi soldiers not be held to account for torturing and murdering millions of Jews and other 'undesireables' simply because they were following orders? How about atrocities in the civil wars all over Africa?
If a commanding officer tells a soldier to rape women, torture innocent children, etc, then is that soldier is completely innocent of any crime, simply because he was ordered to do so?? I should hope you don't think that. Warfare is supposed to be calculated violence, not a series of uncontrolled bestial impulses.
Technically not. O(n^2) is a set, of which n^2+n is a member.
n^2+n "belongs to" O(n^2)
n^2+1 "belongs to" O(n^2)
So even in asymptotic notation, equality is commutative.
I pay $40/month CAD for 3MB down / 500kbps up cable connection. (In reality, its more like 2.4MB down). We get business DSL at work from Advantage Internet (www.aibn.com) for something like $80 per month, but it is bundled with some other services. This connection is 1MB down (I'm not sure what the upload bandwidth is). Alex
Unfortunately, most media companies don't care about the statistical validity of their surveys; they only care about how interesting the survey will seem to their readers. One of the newspapers in my city (Toronto) ran a huge university ranking story last week, based on student reviews. The funny thing was that two of the universities in the top-10 ranking for medical schools didn't actually HAVE medical schools.
:) What can you do. Aside from complaining on Slashdot, of course.
Awhell
Sorry bro, but you're referring to Tom Clancy (!= Robert Heinlein). Totally different genres :)
I wish there was a "-1, Uncultured" moderator rating!
But for those of you who don't know, Heinlein was a master Science Fiction writer, who wrote many famous books, such as "Starship Troopers", "Stranger in a strange land", "The moon is a harsh mistress", etc. I think he wrote over a hundred works. IMHO one of the top 5 science fiction authors of all time
Here is a listing of all his published materials, for those who are interested.
And for those who only saw "Starship Troopers" and never read the book, PLEASE don't judge the author by the movie, because that movie was truly horrendous.
>> 1. Prevents users from digitally extracting Music from CDs in 'listenable' format
I was referring to digital audio extraction. I must remind you that every type of audio media is susceptible to the kind of copying you refer to.
Yes, but he could download a secure file-deletion tool. Those ones will find every sector (on the user's hard drive) used by the file, then re-write each one with all 1's or all 0's a few times, totally removing the data. Big companies use this all the time
(whoops pressed enter by mistake)
1. Prevents users from digitally extracting Music from CDs in 'listenable' format
2. Allows users to a backup of the CD in a way that is secure and personally identifiable - IE each backup can be traced directly back to the person who created it.
This type of standard can then be adopted into future CD players. Every CD made under this standard should also be CLEARLY labeled so that prospective purchasers will not make an incorrect purchase.
It is understandable that the music industry would want to have copy-protection on the CDs they distribute to curb piracy. However, their current piecemeal approach leads to situations such as these - where some CDs can be read only in some readers.
Secondly, this type of copy-protection is a clear violation of the rights of any person who buys such a CD. Under U.S. and Canadian copyright laws (I don't know the European equivalents), a person has the right to make one copy of a legally purchased CD for backup/archival purposes.
I suggest that the Music Industry come together and create a new standard for copyright protection that
My God! When I read that article, I was imagining a cow that could 'hold' 14,000 litres! Heh that's a "Super Cow" indeed!
Whoops I meant "opposition" not "conjunction"!
I know what you mean. A co-worker of mine said that she heard tell on the news that Mars was so close to Earth that there was danger that it might collide with the moon. And this was a person who (apparently) did a minor in physics at university. Hehe can you imagine what tides would be like if Mars was that close?! That would make living in Florida REALLY suck!
I'm also sick of reporters saying that this is "the closest Mars has been to earth in the past 60,000 [or whatever the date was] years." This is not the case. This is the closest Mars has been to Earth while at conjuction! There is a rather large difference between the two statements. I wish that media representatives would actually research the materials they're reporting on before shooting off their mouths on T.V. God forbid they should actually know what they're talking about...
In recent news, Stanford's physics department took a leaf out of the infamous "Pet Rock" success story, and made an absolute killing with their new product line "Pet Subatomic Particles" (marketed by Mattel). They come in two varieties: the cute and cuddly "Pet Lepton", for those little girls out there; and the big and fierce "Pet Quark". Each Pet Subatomic-Particle is stamped with it's very own, unique ID number! You can get your very own for only 5 easy payments of $99.99 US!
... well, you get the idea!"
In related news, this move pissed the hell out of the MIT researchers who developed the so-called "Everything Barcode", which they claimed had enough dataspace to uniquely indentify everything. Said one reasercher, (off the record): "Man, did this come as a surprise. I mean, we made space for every single atom in the entire friggin' universe in this barcode system, but did we think about Quarks and Leptons! Argh! We'll have to go back to square one on this. Give us another two years, and we'll find a number so big, that
this study has been using media that were made at least two years ago. Has CD/R technology made any leaps recently? Maybe new manufacturing or CD burning methods result in better (and longer) burns.
Pah! You dont need a power grid to run computers. Just hook up the computer to your handy Mr. Fusion, toss in an old banana peel or two, and get cracking!
Seriously though, this has to be one of the stupidest articles ever. It's like putting together a report on "the effects of a gas shortage on cars". Duh! Then again, micheal submitted the article, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised.
Lol! With this algorithm, you'll NEVER get to step 6, so you'll never get profit.
Which sucks.
Pfft
Yes, but he did use many different IDs.
And I suppose there are ways to circumvent the ratings systems. What if he made a BUNCH (say like 100) accounts, and sold items to himself - he'd then be able to give himself really good ratings.
Lol! Did you read the article? He DIDN'T actually sell anything - he pretended to, got the money, and never sent the items! So, he made a TON of profit. Wow.
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