If only we kept our aggression at home. Our gun-loving, gun-owning, gun-is-normal attitudes fuel a culture of aggression, and from that: fear. Don't tell me that that doesn't influence foreign policy, and the public's appetite and tolerence for go-in-shooting, gung-ho, intervention.
Well if this kid can be arrested for writing 'disturbing' material, I think Quentin Tarantino can definitely be sent to jail. George Lucas can go with him since the beheading of a Sith Lord in his last film is obviously a disturbing reference to events in Iraq.
I'm not sure anyone who has written a screenplay for a porn movie is safe either.
I'm re-evaluating my attitude towards Alien and Aliens - which contain very disturbing material.
Shouldn't we also make a stance against the current Govenor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger? First of all he's a forigner, and not only has he been associated with mass-shooting fantasies but there is photographic evidence that he has acted out these fantasies. Very disturbing.
What we need is a form of police for the mind, I know: "Thought Police", we could call them. They could make sure our citizens have the right attitude, and we could throw disruptive elements into jail. We should also rewrite troublesome sections in history books and in the media. It will only provoke violence to describe death tolls from various world wars - if indeed they took place. (Privately, we could call this work 'atrocity denial' organized through, say, a Ministry of Disinformation). By denying that atrocities and holocausts ever took place we can build a much better society free from violence.
So there we have it - a blueprint for a new society! The future is going to be fantastic, and arresting this troublesome schoolkid is the catalyst, the start of a new tomorrow.
Have you ever had anything to do with patents, or is this all a thought experiment for you? You say they did nothing, but they did: they had an idea and spent a lot of time and energy patenting it to PROTECT it.
You seem to think that filing a patent is cheap, easy, like sending an email. It might cost $100k+ to get a patent approved, from start to finish, so your idea of "have an idea, file a patent", is wishful thinking.
One year to bring something to market? Are you nuts? Have you ever invented anything, or tried to bring it to market? One rule of thumb is that it takes TEN YEARS to commercialise seomthing, from idea to market. Now, I think that is a bit long these days, but it's not a bad order of magnitude assumption.
You seem not to value IP, perhaps because you have never created nor invented anything yourself.
A problem here is that Verizon seem to be looking to take advantage of Vonage's hard work in developing a market. What we need is MORE protection, not less. If Verizon opted not to assert their patent because they wanted Vonage to do all the heavy lifting first, then they should be penalized for building what was effectively a scam again Vonage. It was almost fraudulent to let Vonage proceed as they did. This is probably a stretch, but couldn't this be viewed as a bait and switch? They baited Vonage by doing nothing. All this would have to be proved.
Everything mentioned here could equally apply to a discussion on operating systems and word processors. Has Vista really made anything better with its flashy graphics? Compared to the simplicity (?) of a BASH or C-Shell command line? Or compared with Windows 95? Why has MS Word not improved over the past 10 years? And how would you say it compares to Wordperfect 5.1 for productivity? I don't think there is a clear-cut answer to any of these.
I know these are age-old questions regularly visited on/. so there's no need to answer those questions here. But the point is that flashy graphics do not necessarily make an improvement.
Did I really have as much fun playing Hack and Rogue compared to PvE in DAoC or WOW? Probably. But it was the advent of networked play that really stepped things up. That's not to say that I haven't stood and watched sunrises in DAoC, or marvelled at the realism in BF2.
And what about sound? I can remember hearing stereo from a PC for the first time and being amazed.
Dipping across the Atlantic, the Sinclair C5 electric car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 was not only a flop but a product of unrivalled ridicule. Unrivalled, except maybe for the Segue. Yes, I know some postal works, police and airport employees use them with gusto - but the city-transforming personal transportation vehicle of the future it is not.
Don't know if its still there, but the Coruscating Mines in DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) used to have an invisible 'crack' in the geometry model at one particular point. You had to run the gauntlet to get to this lowest level of the mines, and getting back up after a long session always seemed like a huge hassle. So the solution was the 'crack'; there was generally a line up of people jumping and hopping, trying to drop through the crack of the DAOC world.
The DAOC system would recognise when someone left the propoer geometry, would think it an error situation, and had a recovery mode which would return people to their last bind site. In other words, it was a nice quick exit from the mines (without having to die).
It was a bug exploit that everyone seemed to think was perfectly OK, perhaps because no one was a loser and everyone gained.
Well I can't argue with that - especially the bit about Survivor:-) Except, maybe, to point out that the largest part of society is 'average' by, err, definition.
You just sound jealous of her success and want to rubbish her achievement. Her output is more earnest than you make it out to be, and more considered. The fact that it is read with admiration by a huge spectrum of people from all walks of life, education, income, background, nationality, age, race etc is the proof of the pudding.
You can't trash something that is so popular with such a large proportion of society as being trivial and schlock, as you put it. In other words, you can't be right and the rest of the world be wrong. Appreciation of a novel, or a work like hers, is an open and transparent effect. It's not like smoking or climate change which were for many years murky subjects confused by misinformation and where the publc we misinformed or simply ignorant of the facts -that emerged slowly. A book is a book; it either appeals to someone or not. There's no more to it than that. So, if her work continues to appeal to new generations you have to admit its qualities.
You'll never see this because JKR has taken a stand against using her work to promote junk food and crap like that. That's why there's been no HP toys with Happy Meals etc. Hmmm... I suppose HP adorning a box all All Bran might happen:-)
I hadn't thought of this - but I think you're on to something!
Another way of getting the tidal forces so desparately needed is to transport water to Mars, and as an earlier reader mentioned this would probably be best done in powder form. Mars has two moons so keeping the tides going, once set in motion, would be easy. An alternative to using H2O would be to use dihydrogen oxide (not sure what its chemical formula is), which is an inert liquid. It's used in many industrial process, so its likely to be inexpensive - although I've heard that it can cause asphyxiation, so people would have to take care.
I don't get it. Why use mirrors that have to be transported to Mars and then would only reflect the weak Martian sunlight? Why not collect sunlight here on Earth, or in Earth orbit, store it in some sort of container, and take it directly to the Martian surface where it's needed?
Any physicist will point out that light has no mass (or the photon, to be precise, which is like light, but is a particle the size and shape of a small pea, whereas light is a wave and slightly different in that it undulates around rather than travelling in a straight line, like the photon). Since light weighs nothing you can store an tremendous amount of light - all that's needed - in your container, and the cost of transporting it is next to nothing! Just the cost of transporting the container - which can be made quite small.
The added benenfit of using Earth light is that the sun is so much stronger here (centrafugal force spins light away from the sun faster here, since the Earth orbits the sun faster, according to the inverse-square law) so the light has more energy than an equivalent volume of light collected near Mars.
Ignite the atmosphere? Rubbish. It will blow out the bottom of the ocean and all the water will run through the hole. Then where will the terraformers get their H2O?
I understand from his blog that having dashed through college, with a focus on learning, he is now thinking of back-tracking with the objective of getting laid. This is, in fact, the that is "next" for him.
From his blog:
"...definitely, having sex is the next thing I'm looking to tackle", he said, "but I have an idea: by energetic rubbing ahead of time I think I can cut the coitus down to about 10 seconds"
He adds later:
".. I'm thinking of another double major - I can't see why I cant pop one off in the first 10 seconds, like I said, and then pop off another up the poop shoot for a total of about 20 seconds. That seems reasonable to me, and there might be some economy of scale - 15 seconds might be doable"
And later there's a brief discussions of logistics:
"I'm not sure where a partner will come from, but I'm looking to spend about $200"
Well another thought is that sci-fi doesnt provide enough differentiation between architypes. You have to come up with pretty contrived reasons why everyone cant have the best laser gun and battle armour. Fantasy has contrived reasons too, but they are more plausible and acceptable because the genre is open to these differentitors.
This is not news. The pioneering work was done by the late Dr Peter Safar and his group at the Safar Center of Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh.
The US Government is pissing about with this kind of thing because it doesnt have anything better to do. The solution is to get it distracted with something else - how about lobbying to have it start a war with some distance third-world country, or two?..... what was that?
I know I'm not your average Slashdotter, but who cares about this opinon, this story? The world must be particularly boring today.
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I dont think our brains like to be cool. Thought it was important that brain and heart were maintained as a constant core temperature. This could be so much easier to do if you kept them in one place instead of two. Temperature control is another matter.
Exactly!
Many people on Slashdot see the value of something as only the marginal cost of production - what it costs to make one more unit. Any piece of software, therefore, has a value of about $0.25. And a drug might not be much more valuable than that either. These people do not have an appreciation for investment, risk and return. It is a very straight-forward but naive view of the world.
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If only we kept our aggression at home. Our gun-loving, gun-owning, gun-is-normal attitudes fuel a culture of aggression, and from that: fear. Don't tell me that that doesn't influence foreign policy, and the public's appetite and tolerence for go-in-shooting, gung-ho, intervention.
Well if this kid can be arrested for writing 'disturbing' material, I think Quentin Tarantino can definitely be sent to jail. George Lucas can go with him since the beheading of a Sith Lord in his last film is obviously a disturbing reference to events in Iraq.
I'm not sure anyone who has written a screenplay for a porn movie is safe either.
I'm re-evaluating my attitude towards Alien and Aliens - which contain very disturbing material.
Shouldn't we also make a stance against the current Govenor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger? First of all he's a forigner, and not only has he been associated with mass-shooting fantasies but there is photographic evidence that he has acted out these fantasies. Very disturbing.
What we need is a form of police for the mind, I know: "Thought Police", we could call them. They could make sure our citizens have the right attitude, and we could throw disruptive elements into jail. We should also rewrite troublesome sections in history books and in the media. It will only provoke violence to describe death tolls from various world wars - if indeed they took place. (Privately, we could call this work 'atrocity denial' organized through, say, a Ministry of Disinformation). By denying that atrocities and holocausts ever took place we can build a much better society free from violence.
So there we have it - a blueprint for a new society! The future is going to be fantastic, and arresting this troublesome schoolkid is the catalyst, the start of a new tomorrow.
Have you ever had anything to do with patents, or is this all a thought experiment for you? You say they did nothing, but they did: they had an idea and spent a lot of time and energy patenting it to PROTECT it.
You seem to think that filing a patent is cheap, easy, like sending an email. It might cost $100k+ to get a patent approved, from start to finish, so your idea of "have an idea, file a patent", is wishful thinking.
One year to bring something to market? Are you nuts? Have you ever invented anything, or tried to bring it to market? One rule of thumb is that it takes TEN YEARS to commercialise seomthing, from idea to market. Now, I think that is a bit long these days, but it's not a bad order of magnitude assumption.
You seem not to value IP, perhaps because you have never created nor invented anything yourself.
A problem here is that Verizon seem to be looking to take advantage of Vonage's hard work in developing a market. What we need is MORE protection, not less. If Verizon opted not to assert their patent because they wanted Vonage to do all the heavy lifting first, then they should be penalized for building what was effectively a scam again Vonage. It was almost fraudulent to let Vonage proceed as they did. This is probably a stretch, but couldn't this be viewed as a bait and switch? They baited Vonage by doing nothing. All this would have to be proved.
Everything mentioned here could equally apply to a discussion on operating systems and word processors. Has Vista really made anything better with its flashy graphics? Compared to the simplicity (?) of a BASH or C-Shell command line? Or compared with Windows 95? Why has MS Word not improved over the past 10 years? And how would you say it compares to Wordperfect 5.1 for productivity? I don't think there is a clear-cut answer to any of these.
/. so there's no need to answer those questions here. But the point is that flashy graphics do not necessarily make an improvement.
I know these are age-old questions regularly visited on
Did I really have as much fun playing Hack and Rogue compared to PvE in DAoC or WOW? Probably. But it was the advent of networked play that really stepped things up. That's not to say that I haven't stood and watched sunrises in DAoC, or marvelled at the realism in BF2.
And what about sound? I can remember hearing stereo from a PC for the first time and being amazed.
Dipping across the Atlantic, the Sinclair C5 electric car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 was not only a flop but a product of unrivalled ridicule. Unrivalled, except maybe for the Segue. Yes, I know some postal works, police and airport employees use them with gusto - but the city-transforming personal transportation vehicle of the future it is not.
Don't know if its still there, but the Coruscating Mines in DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) used to have an invisible 'crack' in the geometry model at one particular point. You had to run the gauntlet to get to this lowest level of the mines, and getting back up after a long session always seemed like a huge hassle. So the solution was the 'crack'; there was generally a line up of people jumping and hopping, trying to drop through the crack of the DAOC world.
The DAOC system would recognise when someone left the propoer geometry, would think it an error situation, and had a recovery mode which would return people to their last bind site. In other words, it was a nice quick exit from the mines (without having to die).
It was a bug exploit that everyone seemed to think was perfectly OK, perhaps because no one was a loser and everyone gained.
He he.
Please mod up.
Well I can't argue with that - especially the bit about Survivor :-) Except, maybe, to point out that the largest part of society is 'average' by, err, definition.
But remember - no generalization is correct!
You just sound jealous of her success and want to rubbish her achievement. Her output is more earnest than you make it out to be, and more considered. The fact that it is read with admiration by a huge spectrum of people from all walks of life, education, income, background, nationality, age, race etc is the proof of the pudding. You can't trash something that is so popular with such a large proportion of society as being trivial and schlock, as you put it. In other words, you can't be right and the rest of the world be wrong. Appreciation of a novel, or a work like hers, is an open and transparent effect. It's not like smoking or climate change which were for many years murky subjects confused by misinformation and where the publc we misinformed or simply ignorant of the facts -that emerged slowly. A book is a book; it either appeals to someone or not. There's no more to it than that. So, if her work continues to appeal to new generations you have to admit its qualities.
You'll never see this because JKR has taken a stand against using her work to promote junk food and crap like that. That's why there's been no HP toys with Happy Meals etc. Hmmm... I suppose HP adorning a box all All Bran might happen :-)
Raw materials? The galaxy is full of them.
Come on - it just works. Pass it on.
Not that kind of Black Hole, you idiot!
Apparantly, there is no data loss. That idea has been revised. Just a very, very long access time.
I hadn't thought of this - but I think you're on to something!
Another way of getting the tidal forces so desparately needed is to transport water to Mars, and as an earlier reader mentioned this would probably be best done in powder form. Mars has two moons so keeping the tides going, once set in motion, would be easy. An alternative to using H2O would be to use dihydrogen oxide (not sure what its chemical formula is), which is an inert liquid. It's used in many industrial process, so its likely to be inexpensive - although I've heard that it can cause asphyxiation, so people would have to take care.
I don't get it. Why use mirrors that have to be transported to Mars and then would only reflect the weak Martian sunlight? Why not collect sunlight here on Earth, or in Earth orbit, store it in some sort of container, and take it directly to the Martian surface where it's needed?
Any physicist will point out that light has no mass (or the photon, to be precise, which is like light, but is a particle the size and shape of a small pea, whereas light is a wave and slightly different in that it undulates around rather than travelling in a straight line, like the photon). Since light weighs nothing you can store an tremendous amount of light - all that's needed - in your container, and the cost of transporting it is next to nothing! Just the cost of transporting the container - which can be made quite small.
The added benenfit of using Earth light is that the sun is so much stronger here (centrafugal force spins light away from the sun faster here, since the Earth orbits the sun faster, according to the inverse-square law) so the light has more energy than an equivalent volume of light collected near Mars.
Ignite the atmosphere? Rubbish. It will blow out the bottom of the ocean and all the water will run through the hole. Then where will the terraformers get their H2O?
I understand from his blog that having dashed through college, with a focus on learning, he is now thinking of back-tracking with the objective of getting laid. This is, in fact, the that is "next" for him.
From his blog:
"...definitely, having sex is the next thing I'm looking to tackle", he said, "but I have an idea: by energetic rubbing ahead of time I think I can cut the coitus down to about 10 seconds"
He adds later:
".. I'm thinking of another double major - I can't see why I cant pop one off in the first 10 seconds, like I said, and then pop off another up the poop shoot for a total of about 20 seconds. That seems reasonable to me, and there might be some economy of scale - 15 seconds might be doable"
And later there's a brief discussions of logistics:
"I'm not sure where a partner will come from, but I'm looking to spend about $200"
Best comment in this article!! Someone mod it up please.
Well another thought is that sci-fi doesnt provide enough differentiation between architypes. You have to come up with pretty contrived reasons why everyone cant have the best laser gun and battle armour. Fantasy has contrived reasons too, but they are more plausible and acceptable because the genre is open to these differentitors.
Also, there is no sci-fi equivalent to magic.
This is not news. The pioneering work was done by the late Dr Peter Safar and his group at the Safar Center of Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh.
The US Government is pissing about with this kind of thing because it doesnt have anything better to do. The solution is to get it distracted with something else - how about lobbying to have it start a war with some distance third-world country, or two? ..... what was that?
I know I'm not your average Slashdotter, but who cares about this opinon, this story? The world must be particularly boring today.
I dont think our brains like to be cool. Thought it was important that brain and heart were maintained as a constant core temperature. This could be so much easier to do if you kept them in one place instead of two. Temperature control is another matter.
Exactly! Many people on Slashdot see the value of something as only the marginal cost of production - what it costs to make one more unit. Any piece of software, therefore, has a value of about $0.25. And a drug might not be much more valuable than that either. These people do not have an appreciation for investment, risk and return. It is a very straight-forward but naive view of the world.