You would still have an effect due to a cause. It may be a strange route, but the cause is still you killing your grandfather, regardless of how the timeline plays out. It causes a problem from the logic perspective obviously, but it doesn't magically become different because its hard to wrap your head around.
Indeed. Folks who think time is a straight line that we can both only forward (or perhaps back) are akin to the folks who thought the world was flat. The timeline of your matter doesn't have to be the same as the timeline of other matter. You exist for whatever reason, and you go back in time (or rather loop back) then kill your grandfather, so you've altered their future. You'll still exist in your timeline, and why wouldn't you?
Can you elaborate on why that's the case? Perhaps compared to C, which is close to the hardware and doesn't have an interpreter coming along for the ride.
Strangely enough though, only had one customer with it on Mac. The rest have been fools running PC version under Windows... when they already have office installed with Access... or even an SQL Server on the network. ?!!?
If you can show me a way to publish databases to the web that's as quick and easy as FileMaker Pro, I'd love to hear about it.
The only "practical" way to capture momentum from solar wind is with a magnetic sail, since the surface area required (hundreds of square km) would be unfeasible with any physical material.
Hmm. We can make bigger sails, or we can make the space the photons they're capturing smaller. We really need to figure out how to manipulate space-time and/or gravity.
I'm not paying for newspapers as it is - I can find a dozen abandonned editions of the day of any given local paper in the subway and in food courts on any day of the week. Why would I pay for the web version of something I already get for free?
There isn't enough neodymium outside of China to make the required number of high efficiency electric motors.
For fuel cell powered vehicles, there isn't enough platinum on the planet to convert the energy at a useful rate. Organic redox chemists have being working on a platinum substitute for 25 years without success.
Then we need to get into space and start mining it.
Everything that's even remotely interesting on the Internet is either blocked in China or English language. Native Chinese sites is nothing but censored propaganda anyway.
There are plenty of Chinese folks all around the world who would like to use this. It's not just the mainland.
Department of homeland security = wasted taxes Reduce military spending by 50% (what are we North Korea?) Eliminate services offered for free to other governments (scientific or otherwise) Kill NASA dead. Sell Alaska to Canada. Who cares about Alaska. Free from jail anyone who no longer represents a threat (detention centres are full) Any state with a budget deficit doesn't get a vote in the next presidential elections. If that doesn't help, then you can tax my internet.
Except for killing NASA and selling Alaska, you might be on to something.
It doesn't matter that the idea is old - if the implementation of the idea is new.
And if the description of the new "implementation" is suitably imprecise, you can block others from coding up the same old idea in a different manner. Which is why patents on processes / algorithms (aka software) are bullshit.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
I donated to Creative Commons, EFF, and FSF for the first time today. You might not care about the media aspects but our industry absolutely depends on copyleft licenses and creative freedom, so I encourage all of you to do the same.
I suspect that ASCAP is not going to ask congress to stop people giving away their work with no restrictions (hence allowjng other "artists" to make money from it), rather they will ask the lawmakers to remove copyright protection from works that people want to release under a Creative Commons or similar license.
In other words, it is an attack on the GPL and similar licenses.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
I donated to Creative Commons, EFF, and FSF for the first time today. You might not care about the media aspects but our industry absolutely depends on copyleft licenses and creative freedom, so I encourage all of you to do the same.
Really, I guess a technical way around this is to use Tor. And for everyone to have a Tor exit node. Screw the corporations and their fucking advertising!
I agree in principle, but when advertisers piss the technical public off so much that we actually hate kiddie porn less, only then you'll see the uptake of Tor and FreeNet.
In Jefferson's day, not everyone was allowed to vote. In many states voting rights were limited to land-owners, so he saw violent rebellions as a way for the poor uneducated to have their voice heard. Nowadays we have a better method to let their voice be heard, and that is by extending the vote to everyone. Now no one has to die over such silly things.
That's actually a pretty good analogy. It's not really about copyright, it's about the government not listening to the will of the people.
Voting only works every few years, and politicians often reneg on their pre-election promises. We regularly have polls demonstrating large majority disapproval for legislation that gets passed anyway. The only way to get your voice heard in government is "lobbying" and the only entities with enough cash to do that are large business, which are often propped up through government subsidies, contracts, and legislation.
via the different on-demand delivery systems (Hulu/Netflix/Comcast VOD/Verizon VOD)
Those are only available to the US audience. That's a brilliant way to limit your number of viewers, or if it's any good, push your audience to sharing the media over P2P. If Pioneer One had done that, my and my colleagues wouldn't have seen it.
Personally, I think number 2 is the way it is going.
Let's say 2 happens. Why would I care if the next Angelina Jolie has to get a real job instead? Or if some media exec has to blow guys in a park to get his drug fix? I can go to pub and see a live bad if I want music, or buy it from their website (download or hardcopy - this already works for software). Limited audience / commercial-use publications will still exist because the demand is there, just not from the file-sharing masses.
They knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
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You would still have an effect due to a cause. It may be a strange route, but the cause is still you killing your grandfather, regardless of how the timeline plays out. It causes a problem from the logic perspective obviously, but it doesn't magically become different because its hard to wrap your head around.
Indeed. Folks who think time is a straight line that we can both only forward (or perhaps back) are akin to the folks who thought the world was flat. The timeline of your matter doesn't have to be the same as the timeline of other matter. You exist for whatever reason, and you go back in time (or rather loop back) then kill your grandfather, so you've altered their future. You'll still exist in your timeline, and why wouldn't you?
Forth is extremely good for hardware control.
Can you elaborate on why that's the case? Perhaps compared to C, which is close to the hardware and doesn't have an interpreter coming along for the ride.
Strangely enough though, only had one customer with it on Mac. The rest have been fools running PC version under Windows... when they already have office installed with Access... or even an SQL Server on the network. ?!!?
If you can show me a way to publish databases to the web that's as quick and easy as FileMaker Pro, I'd love to hear about it.
The only "practical" way to capture momentum from solar wind is with a magnetic sail, since the surface area required (hundreds of square km) would be unfeasible with any physical material.
Hmm. We can make bigger sails, or we can make the space the photons they're capturing smaller. We really need to figure out how to manipulate space-time and/or gravity.
I'm not paying for newspapers as it is - I can find a dozen abandonned editions of the day of any given local paper in the subway and in food courts on any day of the week. Why would I pay for the web version of something I already get for free?
Pirate!
There isn't enough neodymium outside of China to make the required number of high efficiency electric motors.
For fuel cell powered vehicles, there isn't enough platinum on the planet to convert the energy at a useful rate. Organic redox chemists have being working on a platinum substitute for 25 years without success.
Then we need to get into space and start mining it.
Lots of frames is neat, but how fast can it run my BOINC client?
Do sword fights break out over differing opinions at the water cooler or what?
You have to admit it would be pretty cool if they did. The TSA would gain some much needed respect if they publicized that.
Everything that's even remotely interesting on the Internet is either blocked in China or English language. Native Chinese sites is nothing but censored propaganda anyway.
There are plenty of Chinese folks all around the world who would like to use this. It's not just the mainland.
That's $20,000 per home?
That's not even half of it. They'll need another loan to build the nuclear plant to power them at night.
Personally I think the humanoid design is a sop to public relations.
Maybe it's good for R'n'D, and practise for sending real humans later.
Department of homeland security = wasted taxes
Reduce military spending by 50% (what are we North Korea?)
Eliminate services offered for free to other governments (scientific or otherwise)
Kill NASA dead.
Sell Alaska to Canada. Who cares about Alaska.
Free from jail anyone who no longer represents a threat (detention centres are full)
Any state with a budget deficit doesn't get a vote in the next presidential elections.
If that doesn't help, then you can tax my internet.
Except for killing NASA and selling Alaska, you might be on to something.
Simple solution - don't have your wife as a friend in the first place.
That seems to work for my girlfriend.
It doesn't matter that the idea is old - if the implementation of the idea is new.
And if the description of the new "implementation" is suitably imprecise, you can block others from coding up the same old idea in a different manner. Which is why patents on processes / algorithms (aka software) are bullshit.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
I donated to Creative Commons, EFF, and FSF for the first time today. You might not care about the media aspects but our industry absolutely depends on copyleft licenses and creative freedom, so I encourage all of you to do the same.
I suspect that ASCAP is not going to ask congress to stop people giving away their work with no restrictions (hence allowjng other "artists" to make money from it), rather they will ask the lawmakers to remove copyright protection from works that people want to release under a Creative Commons or similar license.
In other words, it is an attack on the GPL and similar licenses.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
I donated to Creative Commons, EFF, and FSF for the first time today. You might not care about the media aspects but our industry absolutely depends on copyleft licenses and creative freedom, so I encourage all of you to do the same.
That would be most impressive since tor encrypts all of it's traffic right up to the exit node......
I think he's suggesting that the traffic from the exit nodes would get modified. So you'd still get ads, only now they'd be the wrong ads.
Really, I guess a technical way around this is to use Tor. And for everyone to have a Tor exit node. Screw the corporations and their fucking advertising!
I agree in principle, but when advertisers piss the technical public off so much that we actually hate kiddie porn less, only then you'll see the uptake of Tor and FreeNet.
In Jefferson's day, not everyone was allowed to vote. In many states voting rights were limited to land-owners, so he saw violent rebellions as a way for the poor uneducated to have their voice heard. Nowadays we have a better method to let their voice be heard, and that is by extending the vote to everyone. Now no one has to die over such silly things.
That's actually a pretty good analogy. It's not really about copyright, it's about the government not listening to the will of the people.
Voting only works every few years, and politicians often reneg on their pre-election promises. We regularly have polls demonstrating large majority disapproval for legislation that gets passed anyway. The only way to get your voice heard in government is "lobbying" and the only entities with enough cash to do that are large business, which are often propped up through government subsidies, contracts, and legislation.
Want to advertise on MY property, then pay ME not the state.
Those plates aren't your property.
via the different on-demand delivery systems (Hulu/Netflix/Comcast VOD/Verizon VOD)
Those are only available to the US audience. That's a brilliant way to limit your number of viewers, or if it's any good, push your audience to sharing the media over P2P. If Pioneer One had done that, my and my colleagues wouldn't have seen it.
Personally, I think number 2 is the way it is going.
Let's say 2 happens. Why would I care if the next Angelina Jolie has to get a real job instead? Or if some media exec has to blow guys in a park to get his drug fix? I can go to pub and see a live bad if I want music, or buy it from their website (download or hardcopy - this already works for software). Limited audience / commercial-use publications will still exist because the demand is there, just not from the file-sharing masses.
They knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
An explosion of porn apps for the 3ds.
(ha)
"ha"? How about +5 Insightful.
I think this should be a usual problem - how do you people solve this?
Man up. Or at least accept the offers - it doesn't take a lot of courage to say yes.
Or finally women who are both intelligent and smoking hot won't be scarce any more.
Still crazy though.
2 out of 3 ain't bad...