Thanks for clearing that up submitter! I'd hate to think it was being done in a spirit of international cooperation to advance the sum of human knowledge.
Right, we all know it's the US's job to supply the funding, while leaving the actual decision making to "international cooperation." You know, the old "we want to play, we just don't want to pay."
Hell with it. Let somebody else foot the bill for once.
In fact, this is the kind of shit I want to see taken to court in the hopes that a judge will give punitive damages to the company that abused the C&D.
Yeah, it should be illegal to try to stifle free speech by threatening a SLAPP. Particularly when, as in this case, the SLAPP threatened by the C&D would have absolutely no legal merit
That's right, and in fact the pressure is slightly lower than it is at the same altitude closer to the equator (latitude less than 30 deg.), because the earth's rotation pulls some air away from the poles and towards the equator. So even though the Pole is at 9900 feet, the pressure is equivalent to an altitude of 10600 feet near the equator.
But while the air pressure is lower, the density of oxygen in terms of moles/liter might actually be higher. Considering that the air there can get as low as 100C below nice balmy conditions at sane latitudes, it seems that every liter of air breathed at those temperatures could have up to 30% more oxygen in it than the same altitude at nicer temperatures. That won't completely mitigate the fact that the total air pressure at 10k feet is 50% lower than sea level, but it might help correct for the elevation issues.
I'm not doubting that conditions at the south pole wouldn't still pretty much suck, though.
What is needed is a/. style moderation and karma system so that any peer can review it without having to change it and indicate to other which are the best entries and editors.
And like here, it will help for egregious defacement, but will only ensure that the surviving articles match any communinty groupthink that may exist. Still better than a game of "who's the bigger asshole", but not an ultimate solution
1) The whiz kid is advocating a violation of protocol. Often, this is the whiz kid not understanding how things work for the average technology user. In this case, you probably should consider but ultimately reject the opinion of the whiz. In other cases, the opinion should be weighed carefully, keeping in mind that protocol should be adapted once in a while.
Best way to handle that can be to tell whiz kid that yes, he's technically right, his solution is better in an ideal world. Unfortunately, you're left supporting 1 genius (him) and 499 mouth-breathing retards, so he can thank the retards for forcing you to do things even you'd rather not do. That way you can win his respect and, possibly, some sympathy.
Personally, I'm probably a somewhat older/more mature version of the 'whiz kid.' I see our poor IT guy swamped by users who fit very well into the other 'demon' user categories. Seeing what the guy goes through, I try to help him out as much as possible and give him long lead times on things I need. As a result, when unforseen things happen that very rarely require me to play the 'I need this NOW' card, he trusts that I'm not being a jackass and I really do need it (most likely, somebody else did the same thing to me and we're in the same boat).
I pay him back by helping out with our Linux systems since our Windows users usually keep him swamped.
It's so you don't have 80 cars coming from the same ramp trying to merge onto the freeway at the same time. When you have that many cars merging at once, they are invariably going at a very slow speed because some jackass who is afraid of the freeway is slowing everyone down,
Maybe it depends on the area and freeway capacity, but we have them in our area, and guess what? If there are 80 cars merging from the on-ramp, that means it's rush hour and the average speed in all lanes is already below 20mph. If the freeway speed is actually over 50, then it's not rush hour and there aren't many cars coming off the ramps. As such, there is absolutely no time that the meters are actually useful where I live. There's also no feedback system, so you sit even if you're the only car nearby, making it a massive pain in the ass.
Like I said, that may vary by area, and I suspect it may actually be useful on freeways with a lot of lanes. Here, we have 2 lanes each way and the whole point of metering seems lost.
"Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recording into the compressed.mp3 format... they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
Here they are saying that ripping a CD to MP3 format is the creation of an 'unauthorized copy'. Technically, any copy not obtained from the plaintiff is unauthorized because they didn't distribute it.
I like that style of rhetoric. If something in the evidence you're citing completely refutes your argument, replace it with an ellipsis. Good work.
Really, is it just my perception or has the number of stuff that was made a law only to be killed by the courts as unconstitutional skyrocketed? I really wonder, why that is.
Don't know if there's a trend, but it does happen a lot. I believe reason is for election grandstanding. Come the following election, some Congressman can say he's tough on X while his opponent's soft, where X=[crime, guns, drugs, violent games, porn, sex offenders, copyright, gay rights, etc]. This works well for both campaign ads as well as soliciting contributions from companies who take an interest in these matters. It doesn't matter if the courts kill the law; the poor guy still tried and it's not his fault those Commies on the bench ruined everything. Or so he says.
Similarly, that's also where you'll see the 417-3 votes, where somebody will sponsor a bill against killing kittens, with a line item here or there including funding for pork projects. Nobody can vote against your amendment without voting for killing kittens. And the three people who do vote against it will have fun come re-election time, when the opponent saturates TV with commercials that state how much the guy enjoys killing kittens.
Isn't that what restricting Administrative privileges are for? Grandma's XP Home machine has that feature.
Problem is, between Microsoft and their dev community, you pretty much need Admin access to install anything. As a result, windows gives you the choice between having security and being able to use your machine. Fantastic.
Granted it's not entirely their fault, but they've let the dev community persist too long with the whole 'run everything as admin and install globally' thing.
It has nothing to do with voodoo or being god. It's called experience and education - I would trust a doctors own diagnoses more than any self-diagnoses for three reasons.
In my own personal experiences, I've successfully diagnosed something that a multitude of doctors failed at over a decade. I've also carried a number of pre-med idiots through their undergrad chemistry courses. As such, I wouldn't trust the average MD to diagnose my cat.
First, they have (at least competent ones) a much wider knowledge of the diseases out there, how they manifest themselves, how to differentiate between them, and what course of action is necessary based upon a medical history.
Problem: most of them memorize what little information they absorb, promptly forgetting what isn't immediately of use. I am a far better researcher than most doctors because I'm a scientist who uses Google. That should say something.
Finally, a patient performing self-diagnosis is more likely to look at the worst-case scenario, even if it's a very uncommon disease.
Yet the uuncommon cases, again, is all you need the doctors for over a trained nurse. Nurses can deal with common cases like colds; you don't need med school for that. And in my case, the uncommon (by uncommon, I mean 1% of the population, so not very uncommon!) is what I had. And about 7 doctors failed over 10 years. And I finally succeeeded with Google, myself. So I have very little confidence in the medical profession, for that and a variety of other reasons.
Secondly, they have the experience necessary (being surrounded by it 24/7) to determine which of 5 similar sounding diseases it is more likely to be.
If it's something they see often, but then an R.N. could do the job. Doctors are VERY bad at the obscure. Which is about all I need them for, so what good are they?
Think of it this way - you wouldn't want a HR person fixing some huge hardware failure just because they read the manual. If they make a reasonable point or argument, you might expect an expert to listen to their opinion, but that's it.
In an ideal case, yes. But in my case, I am a better scientist, and better researcher, than the morons that occupy the medical profession. So give me the information so I can short-circuit the drawn-out process of "referral merry-go-round". As I said, your average doctor is a worse diagnostician than a typical car mechanic, and a far worse diagnostician than I am. As such, I rely on the morons for very little.
Indeed...I don't think it should be considered a tort if Lewis Black calls George Bush an asshole.
According to the Supreme Court decision in Falwell v. Flynt, that wouldn't be susceptible to libel because no one would interpret that literally to mean that George Bush is actually a sphincter. However, if you say that George Bush has embezzled a billion dollars, that would be libel if it's not true.
That's not to weigh in on this case, but there's some delineation between obvious insults and actual slander.
For that reasons the medical profession train folk for years to deliver this information - to explain what it really means, for you and for your family. To discuss your options. The data should be available,should be affordable, and should be delivered by a professional, not by an email.
Screw that. Our society has viewed doctors as a combination of voodoo and god for too long. From what I've seen, the average doctor's 'bedside manner' is pathetic enough that an email can't be that much worse.
As someone who's had to diagnose my own medical problems after 8 doctors failed for a decade, I'll take the information and use it myself, thanks.
I am positive that, after 6 years (2 degrees) of drinking and sleep deprivation, I am significantly dumber than I was going in to school.
Wait till you have kids. You ain't seen nothing yet. I did 9 years and 3 degrees of sleep deprivation and liver-killing drinking and it doesn't even compare to 18 months of raising rugrats.
So how do you propose to simulate, say, just one hour of continuous zero gravity?
Won't go for an hour, but there are some fairly high drop-towers. There's also the "vomit comet" that does parabolic flight paths for longer than that.
But we're talking about enormously expensive resources on the shuttle. They need to be doing science that's a little better than 'Gee, I wonder what this material does in 0-g?'. And I say this as someone who has a materials science background.
Worse yet, this is clearly a case of putting politics over science. This 'lab' will accomplish nothing more, it seems, than the same insipid crap that's been done since the beginning of the Shuttle era: materials science in 0-g. Zero gravity can be simulated on earth, fairly well. Doing good astronomy needs to be done in space away from sources of interference.
The remaining shuttle missions need to be used for real science, not some political crap that attempts to smooth over differences between US and Europe. As if a space station would solve political problems. Like they'll say "you guys really screwed up that Iraq thing, but you helped us out with the space shuttle so you're OK in my book."
That's been the problem with the ISS since the very beginning - cute story for political news, bad use of resources for science.
Being smart is somehow different than other traits though. If I were to tell a coworker or a friend "let me carry that, I'm stronger" or "let me reach that, I'm taller than you", no one would bat an eye. But if I were to say "let me solve that, I'm smarter", that's plainly offensive. Why is that?
Because intelligence, particularly in today's society, is more closely tied to a person's self worth.
If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that.
You'd think not, and yet we have like 175 MS Office clones (more or less). And that despite the fact that OpenOffice is now pretty damned good. It would be great if integrated groupware became the next big target like productivity software used to be.
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Thanks for clearing that up submitter! I'd hate to think it was being done in a spirit of international cooperation to advance the sum of human knowledge.
Right, we all know it's the US's job to supply the funding, while leaving the actual decision making to "international cooperation." You know, the old "we want to play, we just don't want to pay."
Hell with it. Let somebody else foot the bill for once.
In fact, this is the kind of shit I want to see taken to court in the hopes that a judge will give punitive damages to the company that abused the C&D.
Yeah, it should be illegal to try to stifle free speech by threatening a SLAPP. Particularly when, as in this case, the SLAPP threatened by the C&D would have absolutely no legal merit
and if the Wikipedia mods meta meta moderate
From what I've been hearing so far, they've been doing a bit too much of that already.
I agree in general though, it would be good to detect shenanigans and any sort of oscillatory flame war.
That's right, and in fact the pressure is slightly lower than it is at the same altitude closer to the equator (latitude less than 30 deg.), because the earth's rotation pulls some air away from the poles and towards the equator. So even though the Pole is at 9900 feet, the pressure is equivalent to an altitude of 10600 feet near the equator.
But while the air pressure is lower, the density of oxygen in terms of moles/liter might actually be higher. Considering that the air there can get as low as 100C below nice balmy conditions at sane latitudes, it seems that every liter of air breathed at those temperatures could have up to 30% more oxygen in it than the same altitude at nicer temperatures. That won't completely mitigate the fact that the total air pressure at 10k feet is 50% lower than sea level, but it might help correct for the elevation issues.
I'm not doubting that conditions at the south pole wouldn't still pretty much suck, though.
What is needed is a /. style moderation and karma system so that any peer can review it without having to change it and indicate to other which are the best entries and editors.
And like here, it will help for egregious defacement, but will only ensure that the surviving articles match any communinty groupthink that may exist. Still better than a game of "who's the bigger asshole", but not an ultimate solution
1) The whiz kid is advocating a violation of protocol. Often, this is the whiz kid not understanding how things work for the average technology user. In this case, you probably should consider but ultimately reject the opinion of the whiz. In other cases, the opinion should be weighed carefully, keeping in mind that protocol should be adapted once in a while.
Best way to handle that can be to tell whiz kid that yes, he's technically right, his solution is better in an ideal world. Unfortunately, you're left supporting 1 genius (him) and 499 mouth-breathing retards, so he can thank the retards for forcing you to do things even you'd rather not do. That way you can win his respect and, possibly, some sympathy.
Personally, I'm probably a somewhat older/more mature version of the 'whiz kid.' I see our poor IT guy swamped by users who fit very well into the other 'demon' user categories. Seeing what the guy goes through, I try to help him out as much as possible and give him long lead times on things I need. As a result, when unforseen things happen that very rarely require me to play the 'I need this NOW' card, he trusts that I'm not being a jackass and I really do need it (most likely, somebody else did the same thing to me and we're in the same boat).
I pay him back by helping out with our Linux systems since our Windows users usually keep him swamped.
It's so you don't have 80 cars coming from the same ramp trying to merge onto the freeway at the same time. When you have that many cars merging at once, they are invariably going at a very slow speed because some jackass who is afraid of the freeway is slowing everyone down,
Maybe it depends on the area and freeway capacity, but we have them in our area, and guess what? If there are 80 cars merging from the on-ramp, that means it's rush hour and the average speed in all lanes is already below 20mph. If the freeway speed is actually over 50, then it's not rush hour and there aren't many cars coming off the ramps. As such, there is absolutely no time that the meters are actually useful where I live. There's also no feedback system, so you sit even if you're the only car nearby, making it a massive pain in the ass.
Like I said, that may vary by area, and I suspect it may actually be useful on freeways with a lot of lanes. Here, we have 2 lanes each way and the whole point of metering seems lost.
Flash!?! Have you every built an application in flash? It's a nightmare to maintain.
Screw that, flash is a disaster to *use*. Flash causes a reflex in me that causes me to mash the 'back' button ASAP.
So this "Should" vs. "Shall" is a mute point, they meant what they said.
In a post about the distinction of should and shall, dropping "mute point" in there has to be a troll, right?
"Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recording into the compressed .mp3 format... they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
Here they are saying that ripping a CD to MP3 format is the creation of an 'unauthorized copy'. Technically, any copy not obtained from the plaintiff is unauthorized because they didn't distribute it.
I like that style of rhetoric. If something in the evidence you're citing completely refutes your argument, replace it with an ellipsis. Good work.
Really, is it just my perception or has the number of stuff that was made a law only to be killed by the courts as unconstitutional skyrocketed? I really wonder, why that is.
Don't know if there's a trend, but it does happen a lot. I believe reason is for election grandstanding. Come the following election, some Congressman can say he's tough on X while his opponent's soft, where X=[crime, guns, drugs, violent games, porn, sex offenders, copyright, gay rights, etc]. This works well for both campaign ads as well as soliciting contributions from companies who take an interest in these matters. It doesn't matter if the courts kill the law; the poor guy still tried and it's not his fault those Commies on the bench ruined everything. Or so he says.
Similarly, that's also where you'll see the 417-3 votes, where somebody will sponsor a bill against killing kittens, with a line item here or there including funding for pork projects. Nobody can vote against your amendment without voting for killing kittens. And the three people who do vote against it will have fun come re-election time, when the opponent saturates TV with commercials that state how much the guy enjoys killing kittens.
Isn't that what restricting Administrative privileges are for? Grandma's XP Home machine has that feature.
Problem is, between Microsoft and their dev community, you pretty much need Admin access to install anything. As a result, windows gives you the choice between having security and being able to use your machine. Fantastic.
Granted it's not entirely their fault, but they've let the dev community persist too long with the whole 'run everything as admin and install globally' thing.
No, I think the people who rigged the 1960 election are dead.
Well I'm actually in favor of oligarchy over democracy in that special case where you can get an oligarch who knows what the hell he's doing
Problem: who picks him?
Only morons would do it.
At least they get what they pay for.
None of that is AT&T's problem.
I knew someone would take the bait. ;)
It has nothing to do with voodoo or being god. It's called experience and education - I would trust a doctors own diagnoses more than any self-diagnoses for three reasons.
In my own personal experiences, I've successfully diagnosed something that a multitude of doctors failed at over a decade. I've also carried a number of pre-med idiots through their undergrad chemistry courses. As such, I wouldn't trust the average MD to diagnose my cat.
First, they have (at least competent ones) a much wider knowledge of the diseases out there, how they manifest themselves, how to differentiate between them, and what course of action is necessary based upon a medical history.
Problem: most of them memorize what little information they absorb, promptly forgetting what isn't immediately of use. I am a far better researcher than most doctors because I'm a scientist who uses Google. That should say something.
Finally, a patient performing self-diagnosis is more likely to look at the worst-case scenario, even if it's a very uncommon disease.
Yet the uuncommon cases, again, is all you need the doctors for over a trained nurse. Nurses can deal with common cases like colds; you don't need med school for that. And in my case, the uncommon (by uncommon, I mean 1% of the population, so not very uncommon!) is what I had. And about 7 doctors failed over 10 years. And I finally succeeeded with Google, myself. So I have very little confidence in the medical profession, for that and a variety of other reasons.
Secondly, they have the experience necessary (being surrounded by it 24/7) to determine which of 5 similar sounding diseases it is more likely to be.
If it's something they see often, but then an R.N. could do the job. Doctors are VERY bad at the obscure. Which is about all I need them for, so what good are they?
Think of it this way - you wouldn't want a HR person fixing some huge hardware failure just because they read the manual. If they make a reasonable point or argument, you might expect an expert to listen to their opinion, but that's it.
In an ideal case, yes. But in my case, I am a better scientist, and better researcher, than the morons that occupy the medical profession. So give me the information so I can short-circuit the drawn-out process of "referral merry-go-round". As I said, your average doctor is a worse diagnostician than a typical car mechanic, and a far worse diagnostician than I am. As such, I rely on the morons for very little.
Indeed...I don't think it should be considered a tort if Lewis Black calls George Bush an asshole.
According to the Supreme Court decision in Falwell v. Flynt, that wouldn't be susceptible to libel because no one would interpret that literally to mean that George Bush is actually a sphincter. However, if you say that George Bush has embezzled a billion dollars, that would be libel if it's not true.
That's not to weigh in on this case, but there's some delineation between obvious insults and actual slander.
For that reasons the medical profession train folk for years to deliver this information - to explain what it really means, for you and for your family. To discuss your options. The data should be available,should be affordable, and should be delivered by a professional, not by an email.
Screw that. Our society has viewed doctors as a combination of voodoo and god for too long. From what I've seen, the average doctor's 'bedside manner' is pathetic enough that an email can't be that much worse.
As someone who's had to diagnose my own medical problems after 8 doctors failed for a decade, I'll take the information and use it myself, thanks.
I am positive that, after 6 years (2 degrees) of drinking and sleep deprivation, I am significantly dumber than I was going in to school.
Wait till you have kids. You ain't seen nothing yet. I did 9 years and 3 degrees of sleep deprivation and liver-killing drinking and it doesn't even compare to 18 months of raising rugrats.
So how do you propose to simulate, say, just one hour of continuous zero gravity?
Won't go for an hour, but there are some fairly high drop-towers. There's also the "vomit comet" that does parabolic flight paths for longer than that.
But we're talking about enormously expensive resources on the shuttle. They need to be doing science that's a little better than 'Gee, I wonder what this material does in 0-g?'. And I say this as someone who has a materials science background.
Worse yet, this is clearly a case of putting politics over science. This 'lab' will accomplish nothing more, it seems, than the same insipid crap that's been done since the beginning of the Shuttle era: materials science in 0-g. Zero gravity can be simulated on earth, fairly well. Doing good astronomy needs to be done in space away from sources of interference.
The remaining shuttle missions need to be used for real science, not some political crap that attempts to smooth over differences between US and Europe. As if a space station would solve political problems. Like they'll say "you guys really screwed up that Iraq thing, but you helped us out with the space shuttle so you're OK in my book."
That's been the problem with the ISS since the very beginning - cute story for political news, bad use of resources for science.
Being smart is somehow different than other traits though. If I were to tell a coworker or a friend "let me carry that, I'm stronger" or "let me reach that, I'm taller than you", no one would bat an eye. But if I were to say "let me solve that, I'm smarter", that's plainly offensive. Why is that?
Because intelligence, particularly in today's society, is more closely tied to a person's self worth.
If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that.
You'd think not, and yet we have like 175 MS Office clones (more or less). And that despite the fact that OpenOffice is now pretty damned good. It would be great if integrated groupware became the next big target like productivity software used to be.