Actually, I think the issues they're talking about are mainly time. Not so much that this project is a waste of time, but that it would take an enormous amount of time to do an equally exhaustive search of all of these ancient texts by hand... assuming it's even possible to do an equivalent search by hand (which it's probably not, due to the complexity of the text mining algorithms).
First, I'm not trolling... I'm genuinely interested in what the interest level is for this game...
I am (or at least recently was) a Matrix freak. I think Matrix 1 is the coolest movie ever made, and I even liked 2 and 3.
I am also a MMORPG addict... having paid for many combined years of a few MMORPGs.
But, I have absolutely zero interest in this game. And, if I'm not the absolute prime target demographic for this game, I have no idea who is. And, it really makes me worry for this game's future--as I have no intention of ever playing it. I plan to be fully addicted to WoW by the time this comes out.
Anyone holding their breath for this game? And, do voice actors make a damn difference?
Today, Nintendo does not actively censor the games it releases. Games such as the infamous Conker's Bad Fur Day, which include swearing, blood, and sex are now openly published under the Nintendo banner, as long as they carry with them a "M for Mature Gamers" rating.
So, while they've built up this reputation (imo, undeservedly) as a "kiddie" gaming company--It doesn't sound like this censorship paradigm really carries over to the gamecube.
Great, how long until...
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they outsource my programming job to a petri dish...
It's maddening that there are people who think neutral scientific observations are furthering some kind of political agenda. That's not to say that the idea of "science" hasn't been misused in the past, but I don't believe that's the case w/ global warming.
Do you think scientists are lying about the oceans warming up? Do you think they're lying about global warming? Do you think that liberals (which I am not one, but I am a scientist) have hijacked science to perpetuate some global warming myth... just for the sake of perpetuating some global warming agenda? Why? Because they like to scare people? Because they want to stifle business? I'll tell you why... it's because that's what they're observing.
I realize there is some debate as to WHY global warming appears to be happening. I don't think there is much legitimate debate on IF it is happening though. The debate, now, seems centered on how severe it is, and how severe the impact will be.
I don't really think the issue of the environment and global warming should be a liberal or conservative issue. It's a rational issue. It doesn't make any sense to politicize it.
Found the original program
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For those who haven't seen it, or those who want to relive it, I found Netscape 0.9 beta (from 10-27-1994) here.
I haven't actually tried running running it, but the links seems to be working.
I wonder if slashdot is renderable under Netscape 0.9...
So, who did this damage more? CBS aired their very-hyped 60 minutes episode that now seems to have totally and unfairly
libeled Bush. The damage was done in peoples' minds immediately... and after the fact, 60 minutes and CBS and
Dan Rather can come and say, "Whoops." Regardless of what you think about Bush, this isn't totally fair and I think he'd have
a good case for libel, if he wasn't president. Shouldn't there be some other ramification other than loss of public trust?
But, since the documents were so quickly shown to be BS (only the documents, the story might actually be true)... it seems to have really, really hurt the democrats and apparently back fired on
the apparently-not-so-impartial Dan Rather. It makes the Democrats look like conspirators and more than a little slimy. That they're so
worried that they'd need to plant false evidence smearing Bush. I'm not saying this is true, but it definitely could have that
appearance to people.
So, given the short attention spans of the public--who did this help or hurt the most? I think the argument could definitely be made both ways. And, I can definitely see motivation for both parties to manufacture these documents and hand them over to CBS... I mean, weren't they exposed a little TOO fast?
First, the obligatory IANAL... Now that that is out of the way.
It is implied on this page that they don't HAVE to give you the day off. It reads:
All county employees who are not Hurricane Frances mission-critical should not report to work on Friday, September 3rd in order to prepare themselves and their families. Private employers are urged to provide their employees the same flexibility.
Judging by that, it's more of a suggestion than a requirement... But I also found this on this page:
South Florida's labor and employment lawyers got some unexpected business, thanks to Hurricane Frances and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. As the storm threatened South Florida over the weekend, Rundle and County Mayor Alex Penelas publicly warned employers that they could face criminal prosecution for forcing employees to work during the hurricane.
So, it sounds like people are suing for being forced to work during the hurricane, which might be a slightly different situation than yours.
Sounds to me like your employer is just a major league ahole, and you might not be able to do anything about it.
Removing motivation to create innovative IP
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What a lot of people who take this kind of position often don't realize is the fact that treating IP as property, and protecting peoples' rights to those properties, is what provides the motivation for many of people to be so creative and to pour themselves into their work.
I realize this may not be the case with a lot of open source developers and project members, but in the case of corporate America and entrepreneurs, the financial benefits derived from the protection of IP is a huge motivating factor to its creation.
I agree with Mark Lemley that, given the level of IP creation today, total sharing of it would definitely benefit mankind. However, if you remove the financial benefits of its creation, there will (IMHO) be a drastic drop in the creation of what we now consider to be IP.
Again, I realize this motivation doesn't apply to everyone. But it does to me, and many of my heartless capitalistic cohorts.
The journal Nature just ran a seperate news story a couple weeks ago about carban nanotubes' properties with regards to temperature. That story can be found here.
From the Nature article:
Ortwin Hess from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK and colleagues say that if you took the temperature at one end of a 10-micrometre nanotube, it would not necessarily have the same temperature as the other end, no matter how long it was left to reach a thermal equilibrium. Such a nanotube is about as long as a sheet of paper is thick.
Now, I'm definitely no physicist so please pardon my ignorance--maybe someone can help me out. Does this mean that the temperature differential created on the carbon nanotube wire that causes the current to flow won't ever reach equilibrium? Doesn't this seem too good to be true? Just keep blowing gas over the wire, and you'll have limitless energy.
Check out this URL, for an explanation of what ICANN is and more. But briefly, it states:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses. It does this by overseeing the distribution of unique IP addresses and domain names. It also ensures that each domain name maps to the correct IP address.
ICANN is also responsible for accrediting the domain name registrars. "Accredit" means to identify and set minimum standards for the performance of registration functions, to recognize persons or entities meeting those standards, and to enter into an accreditation agreement that sets forth the rules and procedures applicable to the provision of Registrar Services.
According to this link, Verisign has control of.com until 2007, and must put up.net up for bid in late 2006. I believe they don't currently control.org, but I might be wrong.
I assume if Verisign violated their contract with ICANN in some way, their control over.com and.net could be revoked.
According to this link, the GEFORCE 6800 has DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions. So, it looks like it has the same HDTV capabilities.
This doesn't mean it's not the better choice for a media center, but it looks like it has the HDTV stuff.
Forgive any ignorance I display here, as I'm not one of the fortunate few who has gmail (yet).
I've been trying to imagine why google would do such an un-google thing. Perhaps they're worried about coders going to next level, and coding up entire gmail readers--or incorporating gmail account readers into something like Thunderbird. Adding that word-identification script filter to the login process would certainly prevent something like that--but also has the side effect of blowing up the seemingly innocuous gmail email notifier.
Which leads me to wonder how google's own system tray email notification program can still work. Obviously it's still possible, in theory, to do this same thing in spite of the word-identification script filter. Perhaps google will publish an API that 3rd party developers can use solely for the use of gmail notification abilities in their own programs.
I can't believe (thought it's definitely possible) that their goal would be to blow up only the 3rd party email notification programs. It seems like 3rd party notification programs would serve to only promote the use of gmail. And, as far as I know, they gain no ad revenue directly from their gmail notification system tray icon.
They actually publish an API for doing (limited) google searches in 3rd party programs, which seems like a more overt way to avoid ads and avoid google's revenue source. Maybe that'll be history soon, who knows? I hope this isn't an indication of their new corporate policy and philosophy.
Yeah, I'm nothing if not an ignorant hypocrite who is bad at math. But yeah, having a baby in the last year has definitely resulted in the living under the rock syndrome.
I'm just a bit incredulous about this whole concept of losing IT jobs benefiting IT workers down the road.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, except the Sun's magnetic field is way bigger.
I'm not sure of the exact size, but it seems to extend out to Jupiter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Heliospheric-current-sheet.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast
Anyone else read that as Storing Wind Power in Cold Sores? Because I was pretty frackin' amazed for a second.
"a long time ago" Looks like two geek cards are history!
Actually, I think the issues they're talking about are mainly time. Not so much that this project is a waste of time, but that it would take an enormous amount of time to do an equally exhaustive search of all of these ancient texts by hand... assuming it's even possible to do an equivalent search by hand (which it's probably not, due to the complexity of the text mining algorithms).
I am (or at least recently was) a Matrix freak. I think Matrix 1 is the coolest movie ever made, and I even liked 2 and 3.
I am also a MMORPG addict... having paid for many combined years of a few MMORPGs.
But, I have absolutely zero interest in this game. And, if I'm not the absolute prime target demographic for this game, I have no idea who is. And, it really makes me worry for this game's future--as I have no intention of ever playing it. I plan to be fully addicted to WoW by the time this comes out.
Anyone holding their breath for this game? And, do voice actors make a damn difference?
So, while they've built up this reputation (imo, undeservedly) as a "kiddie" gaming company--It doesn't sound like this censorship paradigm really carries over to the gamecube.
they outsource my programming job to a petri dish...
Do you think scientists are lying about the oceans warming up? Do you think they're lying about global warming? Do you think that liberals (which I am not one, but I am a scientist) have hijacked science to perpetuate some global warming myth... just for the sake of perpetuating some global warming agenda? Why? Because they like to scare people? Because they want to stifle business? I'll tell you why... it's because that's what they're observing.
I realize there is some debate as to WHY global warming appears to be happening. I don't think there is much legitimate debate on IF it is happening though. The debate, now, seems centered on how severe it is, and how severe the impact will be.
I don't really think the issue of the environment and global warming should be a liberal or conservative issue. It's a rational issue. It doesn't make any sense to politicize it.
I haven't actually tried running running it, but the links seems to be working.
I wonder if slashdot is renderable under Netscape 0.9...
According to news.com.com, it looks like Kodak is getting $92M out of Sun. Who's next?
I thought for sure they had rigged a real turtle to wirelessly accept LOGO commands... Now that would be cool.
So, who did this damage more? CBS aired their very-hyped 60 minutes episode that now seems to have totally and unfairly libeled Bush. The damage was done in peoples' minds immediately... and after the fact, 60 minutes and CBS and Dan Rather can come and say, "Whoops." Regardless of what you think about Bush, this isn't totally fair and I think he'd have a good case for libel, if he wasn't president. Shouldn't there be some other ramification other than loss of public trust?
But, since the documents were so quickly shown to be BS (only the documents, the story might actually be true)... it seems to have really, really hurt the democrats and apparently back fired on the apparently-not-so-impartial Dan Rather. It makes the Democrats look like conspirators and more than a little slimy. That they're so worried that they'd need to plant false evidence smearing Bush. I'm not saying this is true, but it definitely could have that appearance to people.
So, given the short attention spans of the public--who did this help or hurt the most? I think the argument could definitely be made both ways. And, I can definitely see motivation for both parties to manufacture these documents and hand them over to CBS... I mean, weren't they exposed a little TOO fast?
It is implied on this page that they don't HAVE to give you the day off. It reads:
Judging by that, it's more of a suggestion than a requirement... But I also found this on this page:
So, it sounds like people are suing for being forced to work during the hurricane, which might be a slightly different situation than yours.
Sounds to me like your employer is just a major league ahole, and you might not be able to do anything about it.
What a lot of people who take this kind of position often don't realize is the fact that treating IP as property, and protecting peoples' rights to those properties, is what provides the motivation for many of people to be so creative and to pour themselves into their work.
I realize this may not be the case with a lot of open source developers and project members, but in the case of corporate America and entrepreneurs, the financial benefits derived from the protection of IP is a huge motivating factor to its creation.
I agree with Mark Lemley that, given the level of IP creation today, total sharing of it would definitely benefit mankind. However, if you remove the financial benefits of its creation, there will (IMHO) be a drastic drop in the creation of what we now consider to be IP.
Again, I realize this motivation doesn't apply to everyone. But it does to me, and many of my heartless capitalistic cohorts.
From the Nature article:
Now, I'm definitely no physicist so please pardon my ignorance--maybe someone can help me out. Does this mean that the temperature differential created on the carbon nanotube wire that causes the current to flow won't ever reach equilibrium? Doesn't this seem too good to be true? Just keep blowing gas over the wire, and you'll have limitless energy.
According to this link, Verisign has control of .com until 2007, and must put up .net up for bid in late 2006. I believe they don't currently control .org, but I might be wrong.
I assume if Verisign violated their contract with ICANN in some way, their control over .com and .net could be revoked.
Hopefully this more directly addresses the issue.
...but this will solve all your problems. And it looks cool, too!
This doesn't mean it's not the better choice for a media center, but it looks like it has the HDTV stuff.
I've been trying to imagine why google would do such an un-google thing. Perhaps they're worried about coders going to next level, and coding up entire gmail readers--or incorporating gmail account readers into something like Thunderbird. Adding that word-identification script filter to the login process would certainly prevent something like that--but also has the side effect of blowing up the seemingly innocuous gmail email notifier.
Which leads me to wonder how google's own system tray email notification program can still work. Obviously it's still possible, in theory, to do this same thing in spite of the word-identification script filter. Perhaps google will publish an API that 3rd party developers can use solely for the use of gmail notification abilities in their own programs.
I can't believe (thought it's definitely possible) that their goal would be to blow up only the 3rd party email notification programs. It seems like 3rd party notification programs would serve to only promote the use of gmail. And, as far as I know, they gain no ad revenue directly from their gmail notification system tray icon.
They actually publish an API for doing (limited) google searches in 3rd party programs, which seems like a more overt way to avoid ads and avoid google's revenue source. Maybe that'll be history soon, who knows? I hope this isn't an indication of their new corporate policy and philosophy.
No worries, that was my attempt at self deprecating sarcastic humor. I didn't mean to imply you were a stinky mean person. ;)
Yeah but... aw crap, you win.
I'm just a bit incredulous about this whole concept of losing IT jobs benefiting IT workers down the road.
How much money does Microsoft have in the bank? $40 billion? $50 billion? That sounds like under the mattress to me.