I conceive of cyberspace in a fashion where there are at least 3 independent time frames, and there is constant interaction between the physical and abstract. A schematic showing the conception is here
From here we can now see different levels in which economic activity can be generated.
a) person to person
b) person to document
c) person observing person-to-person, i.e. person observing a)
d) person observing person-to-document, i.e. person observing b)
e) person oberving c) or d), and so on.
f) person observing advertisers, and advertisers observing persons
The business model that will encourage the movement of data and information across the physical and above mentioned levels, about the physical and above mentioned levels, and allow the data and information being generated to be easily created and managed, will be soundly based. In addition if the business model allows the data and information to be transformed into knowledge and action, it will have a sustainable competitive advantage.
Not that it is much of a similarity in actions, but the end goal reminds me of the Roxio case discussed earlier on/.
Micron and the other memory chip makers allege that Rambus duped an industry group into adopting standards for memory chips for which it already had sought patents. Rambus denies the allegations.
Optima believes most every company in the CD-burner industry may be infringing." Optima's patent was infringed in several standards adopted by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), which have been incorporated in a number of CD-ROM hardware and software products...
So, it is adopted as a Standard, and then Optima sues after almost every CD burner is using it....
India's economy has joined the ranks of the world's fastest growing economies, official figures show.
The economy expanded at a scorching 8.6% between July and September.
At least once a day in this village of 2,500 people, Ravi Sham Choudhry turns on the computer in his front room and logs in to the Web site of the Chicago Board of Trade. He has the dirt of a farmer under his fingernails and pecks slowly at the keys. But he knows what he wants: the prices for soybean commodity futures.
The concept is the e-choupal, taken from the Hindi word for village square, or gathering place. The twist is the "e": providing a computer and Internet connections for farmers to gather around. E-choupal allows the farmers to check both futures prices across the globe and local prices before going to market. It gives them access to local weather conditions, soil-testing techniques and other expert knowledge that will increase their productivity.
The method of forecasting by asking a few people what they think is going to happen is called the Delphi Method It is, in my opinion one of the overall weakest methods by far, and especially if the views are collected the way Forbes has done. In normal practice the initial and raw opinions are improved by feedback to the group for more refinement, which obviously has not happened in the Forbes article - hence, the almost idiotic "predictions."
And as you rightly said, these people don't have the faintest clue as to what is happening. Their job is to get paychecks by telling their clients what they want to hear... and they will keep on telling it... Henry Blodgett anyone ?
Called the "Geometrization Conjecture," it is a far-reaching claim that joins topology and geometry, by stating that all space-like structures can be divided into parts, each of which can be described by one of three kinds of simple geometric models. Like a similar result for surfaces proved a century ago, this would have profound consequences in almost all areas of mathematics.
I was wondering if the concepts in the Proof can be used to User Interface (UI) Design because the User Interface is really a surface when viewed, but 3D (plus time) (plus nD) when acted upon.
The article says that space-like structures can be divided into three parts, each of which can be described by one of three simple geometrical model? Can you say a little more about the nature of these "three kinds of simple geometrical models?"
Firstly, I like the concept that there is a fundamental trinity (o.e. three parts) and not a simplistic dipolar breakdown.
Secondly, on a User Interface, I can think of folders and files being two of the "parts?" A third that comes to mind would be a "shortcut" or link.
Is it possible to map the "three kinds of simple geometrical models" to some objects like files/folders/shortcuts etc on the Computer User Interfaces based on an understanding of what the simple geometrical models mean in 3D space?
In addition to heavy-duty self-production he also talks about his experience of
I recently produced a 120-page book that reproduced a sketch journal I kept while bicycling across America. I scanned the images and sent the printer the files of the completely designed book. They sent me back 200 copies at $3.23 per copy. And I could have ordered as few as 10 books.
I thought about it this morning when I came across an article which described Almanac's as terrorist paraphernalia. And it got me wondering...
Could the National Security need some day be so great (threat is at Red ! for example) that it might be necessary to peep into millions of cars to identify the thousands of them carrying Almanacs, being stopped by tens of thousands of cops trying to figure out which one is "inappropriately" marked and highlighted.
Just a crazy parting thought for a very crazy year... Happy New Year everyone....
The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. It urged officers to watch during searches, traffic stops and other investigations for anyone carrying almanacs, especially if the books are annotated in suspicious ways. The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, "the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities." But it warned that when combined with suspicious behavior -- such as apparent surveillance -- a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning." "The practice of researching potential targets is consistent with known methods of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations that seek to maximize the likelihood of operational success through careful planning," the FBI wrote.
The FBI said information typically found in almanacs that could be useful for terrorists includes profiles of cities and states and information about waterways, bridges, dams, reservoirs, tunnels, buildings and landmarks. It said this information is often accompanied by photographs and maps. "For local law enforcement, it's just to help give them one more piece of information to raise their suspicions," said David Heyman, a terrorism expert for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It helps make sure one more bad guy doesn't get away from a traffic stop, maybe gives police a little bit more reason to follow up on this."
Is this a joke.
The FBI urged police to report such discoveries to the local U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the bulletin this week and verified its authenticity.
soldiers flying to an overseas mission will play Trex on the Microsoft video-game system Xbox to familiarize themselves with actual streets, buildings and terrain before setting foot on foreign soil.
For the Civilian bosses of the soldiers may I recommend Civilization, Alpha Centauri, SimIraq, and other "God Game" titles.....
It's not really a flaw, it is the strength. Extending my ealier "logical" arguements...
Using the vaccine, once you discover cigs don't get you "high" any longer, you would find something else to get a similar "high." And this is called crossing the "gateway", i.e a gateway drug. And worse you might never get the same high with anything else, and you will be setting on an endless search...
By smoking pencils you know that cigs can still get you high if you want to. And you don't need to go around chasing something else. There is no time wasted searching - The choice is right there confronting you.
So, the real test is not in whether the cig exists or not, and not whether you can smoke it or not, but it is a question of "Do you want to get High?"
Although the vaccine does not reduce the cravings or withdrawal symptoms of quitting, it will reduce the rewarding effects of smoking.
...
It is designed to curb the "high" smokers feel when they light up.
The theory is that if nicotine cannot enter the brain, smokers don't experience a cigarette's pleasurable effects and slowly, they'll lose interest in smoking.
"So it just becomes like smoking a cigarette that has no nicotine in it," Hatsukami said.
I guess another way to look at this upside-down, which a few people like me may visualize would be:
I want to smoke something that has no noctine in it.
Here is my Pencil. I light it and smoke it. I don't feel the pleasurable effects of nicotine.
Although smoking the burning Pencil does not reduce the cravings or withdrawal symptoms of quitting, it will reduce my rewarding effects of smoking.
It is designed to curb the "high" smokers feel when they light up.
In fact I feel really "low" smoking all this wood/graphite. It is wanting to make me thrown up.
Nowadays whenever I think of smoking I think of how I felt like throwing up. Bingo, I have been cured of smoking. And Boy was it Cheaper than getting that vaccine! And less painful getting "shot" of it too !!
Conclusion Drawn: Smoking Pencils can help you Quit Smoking.
Thank you for all the research dollars ! They are paying for my new wheels.
Tufte is for the Masses, and Brnes for a thin Slice of the Masses (the Classes) -
What Tufte is saying (and I did attend one of his Seminars which was impressive more for the breath of his examples rather than the depth of his analysis) is meant for the masses - majority of the people who are going to be making presentations.
What Byrne is saying is mainly for a thin slice of the masses (the classes) who can overcome the limitations of the tool to create something really "interesting."
To put it bluntly, when a hundred kids are allowed to play Guitars, 99 of them should follow Tufte, and only one should follow Byrne - because 99 are not going to make careers as rock stars while one of them may. Only 1 out of 100 will learn to overcome the limitations imposed by the 6 strings and frets to create something that shall move audiences - the rest won't be able to do so.
Byrne does does talk about the limitations of Powerpoint
"It communicates within certain limited parameters really well and very easily. The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use. I learned it in a few hours, and that's the idea."...
"Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for," Byrne said in a phone interview.
"PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows."
But Byrne is an 'artist" and has been able to "overcome the limitations" in his own whimsical way. Most of what he does would not work in 99 % of the typical presentations.
Again, from the article... and while reading it just imagine how many people could do then and then "sell" the shit...
The book includes mostly lucid musings on how PowerPoint has ushered in "the end of reason," with pictures of bar charts gone hideously astray, fields of curved arrows that point at nothing, disturbing close-ups of wax hands and eyebrows, and a photo of Dolly the cloned sheep enclosed by punctuation brackets.
The 20-minute DVD, encased in the navy blue hardback cover, features the same abstractions in motion. Byrne wrote most of the music. How many people giving typical presentations can write "music"
The overall tone of this compilation is somewhat like a sales pitch - whimsical and upbeat. Many people have to go for years to School to learn how to make a "sales pitch."
So, what I am trying to say is that Powerpoint has many many (some Terrible) limitations. Byrne has learnt to overcome some of them in a whimsical and creative way. His "artistic" talent is not present in most of the people making presentations. (I did write earlier on/. about Art and Overcoming limitations here)
So, most of the people should not follow his example or philosophy. And, to draw general conclusions from one odd data point (outlier) about the nature of data is pretty naive. On the Bell curve, he would be on one end of a tail....
What Tufte is saying holds for the masses. What Byrne represents is for a thin slice (the classes) and the masses should not read too much into it.
A virulent form of tuberculosis was created in the laboratory by experts trying to alter its genetic structure. The mutant form of the bug multiplied more quickly, and was more lethal than its natural counterpart. "This is one of the very few hyper-virulent organisms ever created," said scientist Dr Lisa Morici.
I could just picture the glee with which Dr. Lisa Morici must have said that. It reminds me of the smile on the son's face when his dad came to visit him in his lab.
The father was very proud when his son went off to college. He came to tour the school on Parents' Day and observed his son hard at work in the chemistry lab.
"What are you working on?" he asked.
"A universal solvent," explained the son, " a solvent that'll dissolve anything."
The father whistled, clearly impressed, then wondered aloud, "What'll you keep it in?"
Virus are on Border of living and Dead Matter ...
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Smallpox From The Past
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1. virus -- ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
In viruses, which represent the border between living and dead matter, there are simpler aggregates between nucleic acids and proteins. A virus can be said to be genetic material without a cell of its own, and the structure of viruses can provide clues to the more complicated organisation of the hereditary material in higher organisms.
Virus represent the border between living and dead matter. I thought that it meant that when the virus came across a host cell it could inject its DNA and multiply and that is why it is living , and when it didn't it just lay dormant i.e. it was dead matter. Wasn't the whole premise of Jurrasic Park based on this notion ?
But in the article it says....
Several years ago in Kentucky, she said, a construction crew unearthed a metal coffin containing the mummified corpse of an apparent smallpox victim that researchers traced to the mid-1800s. The CDC checked the tissue for live virus and came up empty.
There's also a slim chance, researchers say, that the scabs could yield live smallpox virus -- believed to reside in only two laboratories in the world -- and provide valuable information on the deadly plague.
If the virus is nothing but the DNA and a protein coating around it, why are the people wanting it to be live ?
Are these questions real, or part of the game? Sometimes players stop midstream and say, "Look, I said 'yes' to the thing about being there for a stranger yesterday, but I thought about it and have to say 'no.' Please remove me from your database."
And to add to the "evil angle" the whole project has real villains... Spooky...
We're funded by the Arts Council of England, Microsoft Research, British Telecom (BT of the Hyperlink Patent fame)...
And then is this feeling of Oh Shit! that I have always wanted to feel in case of Ashcroft or RIAA/MPAA come for me and the Bad Boys... Would love to feel it vicariously rather than in reality.. like the audiences loved "touching" death when the saw from a safe distance the Gladiators battling to death...
they told us the hair stood up on the back of their necks with an adrenaline rush -- "Shit! They're coming for me now"
Wow, No Shit ! I would love to feel that Shit too.
Does it really mean they will take 100% of the CPU while you are sending your email i.e -
if you have other applications than Email working then hard-luck to the sender? i.e is my computer going to "freeze" for 10 seconds for every email that I send?
and the 100 % CPU "sucking" is going to work for all the slow and fast processors ?
I thought they moved from CPU cycles to memory cycles to get over the problem that faster CPU's could overcome their Penny Black solution in the earlier CPU-dependent format.
Mr Wobber and his group calculated that if there are 80,000 seconds in a day, a computational "price" of a 10-second levy would mean spammers would only be able to send about 8,000 messages a day, at most.
I was just wondering (and I hate to play the Devil's Advocate but....) what it would take to spawn multiple independent processes on one computer each running its own email client... I know something like this should be easy with *nix...
The nub of using memory is that it is question of "time." You can't fit "generated time" serially as the day is only 24 hours, but you can fit the "generated time" by putting it in parallel to fit within 24 hours with multiple processes... and the parallel processes ONLY have to run the lightweight email client and nothing much else.
So 1 process on the computer can send out 8,000 emails.
When I wrote about giving the Sitting President 2 minutes for Debating and 4 minutes for boxing, I wasn't referring to the 2000 Debates. What I meant was current and
As he enters the final year of President Bush's current term in office, while refusing to address the question of whether he would serve during a second term, Mr. Powell says, however, that
he is more determined than ever to counter the perception that diplomacy in general - and his own role in particular - have been marginalized in an administration obsessed with war and terrorism.
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but playing with words to try to take legitimacy out of Paul Martin's appointment to Prime Minister is idiotic
If you think my words are taking the "legitimacy" of his appointment, you are overreacting. I described the situation exactly as to how he derives his legitimacy. But I did point out that the Slashdot Editor had a good point when he used unelected for Paul Martin. Elections are of different kinds, and/. readers form an International Audience. In most of the countries Paul Martin is "unlected" no matter how you spin your words. And, God, with 6 posts already and more coming for this story, you are spinning for sure.
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I also find it idiotic that this example could be taken as muffling of this website owner's voice.
If this was a commerical site I could buy and arguement that by having another site the original sites "paying customers" are being siphoned off. A different set of laws come into place. So, in a commercial situation maybe muffling would not necessarily be repression but trying to capture the dollars that you deserve.
But this is political satire. And if the visitors aren't smart enough to see that this is a satire, then Paul Martin is indeed a political pygmy.
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the fact that the domain is obviously meant to draw visitors from mistyping
Well it is Paul Martin Times - Times like in a newpaper New York Times, Los Angles Times, etc. People type nytimes.com and latimes.com NOT nytime.com and latime.com And in the spirit of political speech check out www.whitehouse.gov and www.whitehouse.com as another reader pointed out. And I think Paul Martin Time is quite different, and importantly it is political speech not commercial speech. Why the hell did Paul Martin have to choose paulmartintimes.ca and not paulmartin.ca ? Cause Times means something. And so does Time.
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the fact that the graphics and layout were stolen from their website..... Either the website owner was too lazy to make his own goddamned layout, or he stole it to mislead people.
The word is copied not stolen. Given the Wordsmith that you obviously are, you should know that there is a big difference between copied and stolen. Esp. if it not commercial speech but political speech/satire. And it was not "stolen" (notice the "Quotation Marks) because they website owner was lazy or wanted to mislead, but because it was an important part for the political satire to be effective.
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He's free to say whatever the hell he wants.
True, but as this post points out Re:unelected? when the people voted for the party representatives they knew who was going to be elected the Prime Minister by the representatives they were electing. So, the Prime Minister was "indirectly" elected.
Once the representatives were in place, after their "indirectly elected" Prime Minister retired, the representatives chose Martin to their Prime Minister. But Martin was neither "directly" or "indirectly" expected to be the Prime Minister by the people when they voted. He must prove that he has the people's mandate in the next election. So he is really "unelected."
But the thrust of my original post was not this. This "unelected" business was just mentioned in the passing. What I was pointing to was an analogy between actions of Martin's Govt and its neighboring Govt. In addition to understanding that muffling voices comes with the territory, my post was intended to indicate that this was just the beginning. What might happen to Canada can be - based on the analogy - and it is just an analogy - seen from first having a look at what has happened to the US. If there is already Heil Bush happening - then according to the analogy - maybe Heil Martin is not too far away.
The trend in Ottawa is already more businesslike and conservative - friendlier to the United States and to the Canadian military. Now as Paul Martin assembles his government and prepares for national elections early next year, Mr. Martin is carefully leaning to the right.
He appointed David Pratt, a member of Parliament who urged the previous government to join the invasion of Iraq, as defense minister. (Canada did not join the invasion) Mr. Pratt is expected to be an articulate advocate for increasing the military budget.
He has created a public safety super-ministry to coordinate security policy and planning among several ministries and to consult more closely with the United States Department of Homeland Security.
"Our No. 1 priority is health care," Mr. Martin said this week. (Medicare anyone?)
Copps agreed with a recent New York Times editorial that said Canada's new leader had adopted a more conservative position
"The great thing about being a Liberal used to be that you'd have wonderful arguments and then you'd come together as a team and everybody would pull together," said Copps. "If you had a different point of view, you were not persona non grata." But that tone has changed quickly under Martin's stewardship, she said. "At this point it doesn't seem that there is a lot of room on his team for voices of dissent."
"It never occurred to me that someone would actually try to prevent people from publishing code that they wrote," he said. "The idea just struck me as so deeply offensive that I felt I had to do something about it."
To make his point about free speech, he offered several exhibits from his gallery, including a description of the DeCSS code in plain English and a T-shirt on which the code was printed -- both of which could be considered illegal under the copyright act.
Personally I would love to see the sport of Debating-Box adopted in the US.
The Presidential Contenders Debate for four minutes and then box for two minutes. They do it till one of them can spin the debate or there is a knockout.
The winner then advances to do the same with the sitting President. Only thing is that to help the sitting president the rules are changed and now there is two minutes of debates and four minutes of boxing.
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I conceive of cyberspace in a fashion where there are at least 3 independent time frames, and there is constant interaction between the physical and abstract. A schematic showing the conception is here
From here we can now see different levels in which economic activity can be generated.
The business model that will encourage the movement of data and information across the physical and above mentioned levels, about the physical and above mentioned levels, and allow the data and information being generated to be easily created and managed, will be soundly based. In addition if the business model allows the data and information to be transformed into knowledge and action, it will have a sustainable competitive advantage.
I have more about the cyberspace model here . It is an old article but lays down the visualization.
More about the data & info & knowldege & action relationship is described over here. Sorry but it is in MS word format (about 35 KB). Don't have the tools to convert it with me right now ...
Not that it is much of a similarity in actions, but the end goal reminds me of the Roxio case discussed earlier on /.
From a Slashdot Discussion earlier on the Roxio case
I know the stock Markets are doing well world-wide, but here is what BBC caried on India's Economy yesterday.
Boom time for India's economy
And here is an article from yesterday's NY Times ...
Indian Soybean Farmers Join the Global Village
The method of forecasting by asking a few people what they think is going to happen is called the Delphi Method It is, in my opinion one of the overall weakest methods by far, and especially if the views are collected the way Forbes has done. In normal practice the initial and raw opinions are improved by feedback to the group for more refinement, which obviously has not happened in the Forbes article - hence, the almost idiotic "predictions."
And as you rightly said, these people don't have the faintest clue as to what is happening. Their job is to get paychecks by telling their clients what they want to hear ... and they will keep on telling it ... Henry Blodgett anyone ?
There are tons of other methods to do Technological Forecasting, (an article that I wrote many years ago) and I wish some more work that has more solid basis is presented for Tech Forecasting at /. We deserve better "predictions" than this ....
I was wondering if the concepts in the Proof can be used to User Interface (UI) Design because the User Interface is really a surface when viewed, but 3D (plus time) (plus nD) when acted upon.
The article says that space-like structures can be divided into three parts, each of which can be described by one of three simple geometrical model? Can you say a little more about the nature of these "three kinds of simple geometrical models?"
There is a good article by Kevin Kelly on "Printing small quantities of books cheaply."
In addition to heavy-duty self-production he also talks about his experience of
There is also a longer descrition of Kelly's Latest Publishings in Wired - Kell's Catalaog of Cool.
I thought about it this morning when I came across an article which described Almanac's as terrorist paraphernalia. And it got me wondering ...
Could the National Security need some day be so great (threat is at Red ! for example) that it might be necessary to peep into millions of cars to identify the thousands of them carrying Almanacs, being stopped by tens of thousands of cops trying to figure out which one is "inappropriately" marked and highlighted.
Just a crazy parting thought for a very crazy year ... Happy New Year everyone ....
Here is the article paraphrased from Yahoo ...
For the Civilian bosses of the soldiers may I recommend Civilization, Alpha Centauri, SimIraq, and other "God Game" titles .....
you have been modded down, but it is actually pretty Insightful ....
It's not really a flaw, it is the strength. Extending my ealier "logical" arguements ...
Using the vaccine, once you discover cigs don't get you "high" any longer, you would find something else to get a similar "high." And this is called crossing the "gateway", i.e a gateway drug. And worse you might never get the same high with anything else, and you will be setting on an endless search ...
By smoking pencils you know that cigs can still get you high if you want to. And you don't need to go around chasing something else. There is no time wasted searching - The choice is right there confronting you.
So, the real test is not in whether the cig exists or not, and not whether you can smoke it or not, but it is a question of "Do you want to get High?"
From the Article
I guess another way to look at this upside-down, which a few people like me may visualize would be:
Nowadays whenever I think of smoking I think of how I felt like throwing up. Bingo, I have been cured of smoking. And Boy was it Cheaper than getting that vaccine! And less painful getting "shot" of it too !!
Thank you for all the research dollars ! They are paying for my new wheels.
If you loved my logic, here is another example for you about the Scientist and the Frog.
Tufte is for the Masses, and Brnes for a thin Slice of the Masses (the Classes) -
Byrne does does talk about the limitations of Powerpoint
But Byrne is an 'artist" and has been able to "overcome the limitations" in his own whimsical way. Most of what he does would not work in 99 % of the typical presentations.
Again, from the article ... and while reading it just imagine how many people could do then and then "sell" the shit ...
So, what I am trying to say is that Powerpoint has many many (some Terrible) limitations. Byrne has learnt to overcome some of them in a whimsical and creative way. His "artistic" talent is not present in most of the people making presentations. (I did write earlier on /. about Art and Overcoming limitations here)
So, most of the people should not follow his example or philosophy. And, to draw general conclusions from one odd data point (outlier) about the nature of data is pretty naive. On the Bell curve, he would be on one end of a tail ....
What Tufte is saying holds for the masses. What Byrne represents is for a thin slice (the classes) and the masses should not read too much into it.
I could just picture the glee with which Dr. Lisa Morici must have said that. It reminds me of the smile on the son's face when his dad came to visit him in his lab.
From
Virus represent the border between living and dead matter. I thought that it meant that when the virus came across a host cell it could inject its DNA and multiply and that is why it is living , and when it didn't it just lay dormant i.e. it was dead matter. Wasn't the whole premise of Jurrasic Park based on this notion ?
But in the article it says ....
If the virus is nothing but the DNA and a protein coating around it, why are the people wanting it to be live ?
Am I missing something ? What am I missing ?
It reminds me of the movie The Game (1997) starring Michael Douglas.
And to add to the "evil angle" the whole project has real villains ... Spooky ...
And then is this feeling of Oh Shit! that I have always wanted to feel in case of Ashcroft or RIAA/MPAA come for me and the Bad Boys ... Would love to feel it vicariously rather than in reality .. like the audiences loved "touching" death when the saw from a safe distance the Gladiators battling to death ...
Wow, No Shit ! I would love to feel that Shit too.
When I went in the Site counter was
0000032
Wonder what it will be soon as /.'s go there ...
But more importantly is this a big trend, (only 32 visitors yet?) or are /.'s going to make it a big trend ...
Does it really mean they will take 100% of the CPU while you are sending your email i.e -
I thought they moved from CPU cycles to memory cycles to get over the problem that faster CPU's could overcome their Penny Black solution in the earlier CPU-dependent format.
I was just wondering (and I hate to play the Devil's Advocate but ....) what it would take to spawn multiple independent processes on one computer each running its own email client ... I know something like this should be easy with *nix ...
The nub of using memory is that it is question of "time." You can't fit "generated time" serially as the day is only 24 hours, but you can fit the "generated time" by putting it in parallel to fit within 24 hours with multiple processes ... and the parallel processes ONLY have to run the lightweight email client and nothing much else.
Me thinks it is pretty fair. After the decision to fingerprint almost "everyone" visiting the US, it is just fair, and actually just a matter of time before the Beast Turns Inward. "I think people have come to understand that an increase to security is necessary," said U.S. Homeland Security spokesman Bill Strassberger.
The Govt can keep the DNA of felons in a Central Database, but the rest of the citizens should be motivated to carry their DNA/Fingerprint ID card just in case they have to prove their identity when there is a security situation. The threat level is already at ORANGE and who knows what will happen when it turns RED !! People WAKE UP ! In fact, for your own protection you can already buy ID cards for the family that will store you DNA and fingerprints. These fingerprint and DNA identification cards are great for all families. Be prepared and have that vital identification information that may be needed in an emergency situation. Like when the threat level goes to RED !
Also NCSE provides DNA and Fingerprint Kits either for bulk sales or for use with our e-learning software or Child ID Kits.
FOR YOUR SAFETY Please Order one TODAY ! With your order please give my referrer code ref??###R@D@=sarcastic.
AGAIN, EVERYONE ! PLEASE ORDER YOUR DNA/FINGERPRINT ID CARDS TODAY !!! Don't Wait!!!!!! Make that life changing phone call today !!!!!!!!!
When I wrote about giving the Sitting President 2 minutes for Debating and 4 minutes for boxing, I wasn't referring to the 2000 Debates. What I meant was current and
From the NY Times
Yes. Notice the "Quotation Marks" around it.
If you think my words are taking the "legitimacy" of his appointment, you are overreacting. I described the situation exactly as to how he derives his legitimacy. But I did point out that the Slashdot Editor had a good point when he used unelected for Paul Martin. Elections are of different kinds, and /. readers form an International Audience. In most of the countries Paul Martin is "unlected" no matter how you spin your words. And, God, with 6 posts already and more coming for this story, you are spinning for sure.
Muffling To repress; stifle
If this was a commerical site I could buy and arguement that by having another site the original sites "paying customers" are being siphoned off. A different set of laws come into place. So, in a commercial situation maybe muffling would not necessarily be repression but trying to capture the dollars that you deserve.
But this is political satire. And if the visitors aren't smart enough to see that this is a satire, then Paul Martin is indeed a political pygmy.
Well it is Paul Martin Times - Times like in a newpaper New York Times, Los Angles Times, etc. People type nytimes.com and latimes.com NOT nytime.com and latime.com And in the spirit of political speech check out www.whitehouse.gov and www.whitehouse.com as another reader pointed out. And I think Paul Martin Time is quite different, and importantly it is political speech not commercial speech. Why the hell did Paul Martin have to choose paulmartintimes.ca and not paulmartin.ca ? Cause Times means something. And so does Time.
The word is copied not stolen. Given the Wordsmith that you obviously are, you should know that there is a big difference between copied and stolen. Esp. if it not commercial speech but political speech/satire. And it was not "stolen" (notice the "Quotation Marks) because they website owner was lazy or wanted to mislead, but because it was an important part for the political satire to be effective.
I rest my case. Thank you very much.
True, but as this post points out Re:unelected? when the people voted for the party representatives they knew who was going to be elected the Prime Minister by the representatives they were electing. So, the Prime Minister was "indirectly" elected.
Once the representatives were in place, after their "indirectly elected" Prime Minister retired, the representatives chose Martin to their Prime Minister. But Martin was neither "directly" or "indirectly" expected to be the Prime Minister by the people when they voted. He must prove that he has the people's mandate in the next election. So he is really "unelected."
But the thrust of my original post was not this. This "unelected" business was just mentioned in the passing. What I was pointing to was an analogy between actions of Martin's Govt and its neighboring Govt. In addition to understanding that muffling voices comes with the territory, my post was intended to indicate that this was just the beginning. What might happen to Canada can be - based on the analogy - and it is just an analogy - seen from first having a look at what has happened to the US. If there is already Heil Bush happening - then according to the analogy - maybe Heil Martin is not too far away.
Reminds me of another recent happening. Coincidence ? Consider the following ...
New Prime Minister - Paul Martin - Is Steering Canada Cautiously to the Right
Angry Copps accuses Martin of shift to right
Well Done DVD-Jon
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
There is a beautiful Gallery of CSS descramblers by Dr. David S. Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University).
His site is a gallery devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on DVD movies.
Personally I would love to see the sport of Debating-Box adopted in the US.
The Presidential Contenders Debate for four minutes and then box for two minutes. They do it till one of them can spin the debate or there is a knockout.
The winner then advances to do the same with the sitting President. Only thing is that to help the sitting president the rules are changed and now there is two minutes of debates and four minutes of boxing.