while we're at it... you can also get a vibrator for those nights when your wife is horny but for some weird reason you don't fancy sex... the old and tired "i have a headache, dear" needn't apply; at least you'll get to watch like a curious spectator a woman you thought you knew pretty have a climax, which is a sight you don't often get to see when you're all entwined and busy satisfying your own instinct... a tip, just think clitoreal stimulation with its tip and get one of those things with an analog dial so you get to change the vibration frequency, start slow, really slow that excitement builds up and never exceeds physiological demand for stimulation and slowly build up the frequency, really slowly, tease more than you please, and watch the amusing interaction of physiology and simple portable electromechanics....
with itunes being the market leader, what does this mean to other companies that are hoping to compete... and what does it mean for the future of legal music... hekc... not that i care... since i really think music is way overrated in its importance... and there are more worthwhile things to debate over in life...
what an excellent article, it's not so common that i see an article that's even half as useful.
I learnt that from now i'll be using markers and even buy one of those special CD markers, writing on the hub rather than where the ink might migrate across and damage the dye...
what's so great is that this is an article and slashdot discussion that tells you that you don't need to buy an expensive fast cd rewriter or a label maker... which i had in my shopping list
now... in practical terms... i use those samsung premium cd-r80... are they any good... and what brands are recommended for longevity considering that i don't get a chance to open up and look at the color inside, and even if i did i'm not sure i'd know 'cos most cds i looked at have all the colors of the spectrum and those described in the article seem all any way just diferent shades of blue..
with 6 plus hours of battery life it really doesn't make much sense to have 3 weeks equivalent of music; currently i use an MP3 CD player and i burn my audio as low bitrate mp3 (32kb) which is adequate as all i listen to are audiobooks (i think that whole national obsession with music as if it had been food or water is insane) i carry the mp3 cd player in my bag, which has a shoulder strap and i wear those earphones so its size or weight doesn't matter, but what really matters is that i carry NiMH batteries which are rechargeable and i can carry a foursome and change them when i need to.
So far i've not needed to buy an ipod and i guess i won't for a long time.
you know what intrigues me the most about what you just said... when they'll be able simulate tactile sensations so that it'll add that long overdue dimension to virtual reality...
visual stuff is somewhat easily to simulate and it's already here, so is audio, but once sensation is emulated... that'll be a whole new world of virtual reality... who knows... the porn industry might actually be the engine that'll fuel this innovation as they've already been towards much of internet drive so far...
well i tended to think that we are very very efficient machines considering all those things i heard about how long you'd have to run on a treadmill to burn that snickers bar you ate. Diet books are full of such trivia.
Star wars is a pure marketing exercise; the whole product is nothing more than an exercise in marketing, they basically sell marketing, it sucks. The movie is made to sell merchandise and a video game, the video game to sell merchandise and the movie, the merchandise blah blah... etc etc
I have seen the two recent star wars movies and there's no real story; each occasion i was with a different girl who's never seen a star wars movie before and both commented on each movie "this movie is such a video game"... and they were right... there's the pods racing scene, there's that idiotic scene in the last movie where the whole thing become just a platform game with one of the characters running through a conveyor belt and trying to avoid some dropping sledges or something... the battle scene... it's all so stupid... unless you're a 10 year old boy i see no reason why anyone should care about star wars... hopefully i'll make sure my kids don't buy into such stupid lame marketing
i'll tell you how they made that survey; it's exactly the same way they know that 32 million watched a TV show or 100 milion don't have breakfast in the morning.... they survey or poll a sample of the population and then they multiply the numbers to come out with a result that is an estimate for the entire population. it's probably a thousand individual that they've surveyed.
i really don't know about technology; but there's still nintendo, just play yoshi's island on the gameboy and you'll see that no amount of specs-on-steroids can beat a beautifully designed game that's immensely fun. It's the cutest ever and most entertaining game i ever played and it doesn't need all that technology of the PSP.
That there are actually people who'll pay hundreds of dollars for such inconsiderate and disorderly thing rather than wait for the light to turn green is a sign there are too many people out there with bad tendencies. Is it that stupid "whoa cool!" juvenilism or "i have such an inflated sense of self-importance that i don't have time to wait for the traffic light to turn green" or "this will match nicely with my new BMW penile-extension device and impress chicks" or that worst-of-all-adopters-of-trends postmenopausal overweight churchgoer who'll cause an accident at her local interseciton on her way to wal-mart...
REDMOND -- Stuck in the unenviable situation of "we have too much cash and we don't know what to do with it", Microsoft today unveiled it's new "Window$ $ecurity $trategic Re$pon$e", which added new meaning to "throwing money at a problem..." and the often-used monkier "Micro$oft"....
I imagine every single person on IRC will turning in their avowed rival.
LOL.... thanks for the inspiration... i knew one day i was gonna learn something useful out of slashdot.
well... that's what i meant... Professor Mann is the author of the original paper under criticism... with whom i agree that the method of the those guys is suspect as it relies on data that they admit was provided to them with some difficulty, with the misleading and deceiving claim that the intention was to "replicate" the study, which usually doesn't mean the mere reanalysis of data, but the application of the study methodology on a new set of data to see if the same outcome can be replicated.
After Canada's ratification of the treaty in late 2002, environmentalists had every reason to believe that few climate experts would dare continue to publicly oppose Kyoto's science, Russia would quickly ratify the accord and it soon would become international law.
Instead, as illustrated at this month's World Climate Change Conference in Moscow, exactly the opposite has happened. The growing number of scientists who dispute the treaty's scientific foundation have become increasingly vocal, regularly pushing their case in the media as groundbreaking studies continue to be published that pull the rug out from under Kyoto's shaky edifice.
Sounds to me like the author of this story on USA today probably never did any scientific research or even understood the basic theory of it; it's entirely expected that they'd continue to dispute it even more. The whole function of science is to "disprove" rather than "prove" things, that's why you have that carefully crafted thing called the "null" hypothesis, that people agonize over for ages, and that sounds something like... "there is no difference between A and B" (simplification) that you set out to disprove, so that if you get a difference you calculate the likelihood that such difference was the result of chance, and if such likelihood is very small and chance very improbable then that's the best of your evidence. The whole idea of "scientifically proven" is such a complete misnomer, there's nothing that's "scientifically proven", it's more that it's "null hypothesis" is "disproven", which again is no certain terms and just an exercise in probability and correlation, in engineering it might be up to 99% and in medicine it might be as low as 80%.
The other thing is... those of you who might find this story interesting might wanna have a look at the controversial work of Danish Statistician Bjorn Lomborg and his book; "the skeptical environmentalist, measuring the real state of the world". Just notice two things... like the key figure in this study, an economist, lomborg was neither an ecologist or an environmentalist, and just like him, if you read the reply of Professor Mann who aims to discredit the work of the authors of this study with quite apparent anger, Lomborg's work has been disputed heavily, and he even had things physically thrown at him by an academic scholar when he was invited to speak at Cambridge.
Red Hat will soon lose its grassroot respect and might just become one of those VC-run and profit-driven corporations; those who have expected Red Hat to become the Microsoft of the Linux world probably were talking about microsoft's marketshare but now it appears the outcome will quite possibly also include microsoft's practices.
This isn't the first alarming sign; there's been a few trickling down for a little while, with all the consolidations, takeovers, acquisitions... et cetera et cetera it won't be long before we'll have to wonder whether the GPL will be able to prevent linux from becoming yet another private affair.
This investors' darling is sure to do as investors want. I have always been and still am more respectful - and i know some of you might be tempted to flame me for this, please don't, it's not my point - of Sun Microsystems than ever been of Red Had; Sun is a company that was started by techies and still run by techies, often acted contrary to investors expectations and still does, and contributed far more to open source, with java and openoffice, than red hat ever would've had it not been for the GPL. The creeping clan of MBAs and capital interests Red Hat is awashed with will only mean it won't be long before it'll be the despise of the people it is now alienating; it's just inevitable. You guys sorta got what you wanted, albeit with a twist; you wanted men in suits to endorse linux and now that they are you seem surprised with their actions. If you invite wolves and sharks to dinner just don't be surprised if they'll shave all the meat off the bones and not care for your share, heck, you may even become the meal too.
I think what linux, and OSS in general needs, is an altogether economic model; you just can't have a conventional financing for an alternative development system and expect all to be good. I think such a system that might have promise would be something like those Mutuals or cooperatives that are proven in the housing market and neighbourhood or workplace groceries; some of such "societies", especially in Europe, are big enough to provide an economically viable business that is also ethically and socially responsible.
and attracted my attention the most, although it might be a little off-topic, yet not too off-topic considering that it's still about the site this story is linked to, was the following from the FAQs of osViews.com...
"What OS is osViews served from?"
In an effort to conserve financial resources, we recently set out to find a more economical web server. We analyzed everything that Microsoft, Sun and Linux had to offer but later found that Apple's Xserve running Mac OS X server was more efficient and cost effective than each of these solutions (Yes even Linux).
(Ya, it surprised us too...)
Burt Rutan is such a great idol figure for any aspiring youth; he's cool as elvis, no nonsense as any good ol' american commonsenser, creative as da vinci and alternative as it can be yet deeply respected and admired by the "establishment" guys of his craft. The fact that he can make a design company as relatively small as his sustain itself and succeed in a market that is dominated by huge corporations that not only are deep pocketed and heavily staffed but also capable of yielding political influence, such as boing and lockhead martin, and just do his thing yet sell good without "selling out" is phenomenal and very inspiring. His design are truly creative and beautiful. It's a testament to a design when it's not only highly functional but also beautiful, and wild in a way that's unlike any before yet amazingly simple and makes sense in a way that makes you think there's no good reason why it shouldn't have been this way all along. He should a case study on the list of everyone who's even remotely interested in innovation.
Slashdot Mirror
while we're at it... you can also get a vibrator for those nights when your wife is horny but for some weird reason you don't fancy sex... the old and tired "i have a headache, dear" needn't apply; at least you'll get to watch like a curious spectator a woman you thought you knew pretty have a climax, which is a sight you don't often get to see when you're all entwined and busy satisfying your own instinct...
a tip, just think clitoreal stimulation with its tip and get one of those things with an analog dial so you get to change the vibration frequency, start slow, really slow that excitement builds up and never exceeds physiological demand for stimulation and slowly build up the frequency, really slowly, tease more than you please, and watch the amusing interaction of physiology and simple portable electromechanics....
nope... everyone knows that it's KY and not Vaseline... this hasn't changed for well over a decade now...
I'm afraid to say there hasn't been any further advances in that department...
with itunes being the market leader, what does this mean to other companies that are hoping to compete...
and what does it mean for the future of legal music... hekc... not that i care... since i really think music is way overrated in its importance... and there are more worthwhile things to debate over in life...
what an excellent article, it's not so common that i see an article that's even half as useful.
I learnt that from now i'll be using markers and even buy one of those special CD markers, writing on the hub rather than where the ink might migrate across and damage the dye...
what's so great is that this is an article and slashdot discussion that tells you that you don't need to buy an expensive fast cd rewriter or a label maker... which i had in my shopping list
now... in practical terms... i use those samsung premium cd-r80... are they any good... and what brands are recommended for longevity considering that i don't get a chance to open up and look at the color inside, and even if i did i'm not sure i'd know 'cos most cds i looked at have all the colors of the spectrum and those described in the article seem all any way just diferent shades of blue..
with 6 plus hours of battery life it really doesn't make much sense to have 3 weeks equivalent of music; currently i use an MP3 CD player and i burn my audio as low bitrate mp3 (32kb) which is adequate as all i listen to are audiobooks (i think that whole national obsession with music as if it had been food or water is insane) i carry the mp3 cd player in my bag, which has a shoulder strap and i wear those earphones so its size or weight doesn't matter, but what really matters is that i carry NiMH batteries which are rechargeable and i can carry a foursome and change them when i need to.
So far i've not needed to buy an ipod and i guess i won't for a long time.
i just did a google image search on this name you mentiond, this woman is somewhat unsightly and i wouldn't have sex with her even if i was paid.
you know what intrigues me the most about what you just said... when they'll be able simulate tactile sensations so that it'll add that long overdue dimension to virtual reality...
visual stuff is somewhat easily to simulate and it's already here, so is audio, but once sensation is emulated... that'll be a whole new world of virtual reality... who knows... the porn industry might actually be the engine that'll fuel this innovation as they've already been towards much of internet drive so far...
you're still paralyzed; i'd rather invest hope in stem cell research that maybe one day will enable you to grow new limbs and nerves.
well i tended to think that we are very very efficient machines considering all those things i heard about how long you'd have to run on a treadmill to burn that snickers bar you ate. Diet books are full of such trivia.
are you guys saying that a CPU only uses as much power as a regular lamp pulp.
Star wars is a pure marketing exercise; the whole product is nothing more than an exercise in marketing, they basically sell marketing, it sucks. The movie is made to sell merchandise and a video game, the video game to sell merchandise and the movie, the merchandise blah blah... etc etc
I have seen the two recent star wars movies and there's no real story; each occasion i was with a different girl who's never seen a star wars movie before and both commented on each movie "this movie is such a video game"... and they were right... there's the pods racing scene, there's that idiotic scene in the last movie where the whole thing become just a platform game with one of the characters running through a conveyor belt and trying to avoid some dropping sledges or something... the battle scene... it's all so stupid... unless you're a 10 year old boy i see no reason why anyone should care about star wars... hopefully i'll make sure my kids don't buy into such stupid lame marketing
because there is python
i'll tell you how they made that survey; it's exactly the same way they know that 32 million watched a TV show or 100 milion don't have breakfast in the morning.... they survey or poll a sample of the population and then they multiply the numbers to come out with a result that is an estimate for the entire population. it's probably a thousand individual that they've surveyed.
The Sun has unleashed its largest recorded solar flare, capping 10 days of unprecedented activity for the star.
Solar Orgasm
i really don't know about technology; but there's still nintendo, just play yoshi's island on the gameboy and you'll see that no amount of specs-on-steroids can beat a beautifully designed game that's immensely fun. It's the cutest ever and most entertaining game i ever played and it doesn't need all that technology of the PSP.
That there are actually people who'll pay hundreds of dollars for such inconsiderate and disorderly thing rather than wait for the light to turn green is a sign there are too many people out there with bad tendencies. Is it that stupid "whoa cool!" juvenilism or "i have such an inflated sense of self-importance that i don't have time to wait for the traffic light to turn green" or "this will match nicely with my new BMW penile-extension device and impress chicks" or that worst-of-all-adopters-of-trends postmenopausal overweight churchgoer who'll cause an accident at her local interseciton on her way to wal-mart...
Sick nation...
blender is open source at its best; highly polished, cross-platform.
REDMOND -- Stuck in the unenviable situation of "we have too much cash and we don't know what to do with it", Microsoft today unveiled it's new "Window$ $ecurity $trategic Re$pon$e", which added new meaning to "throwing money at a problem..." and the often-used monkier "Micro$oft"
I imagine every single person on IRC will turning in their avowed rival. LOL.... thanks for the inspiration... i knew one day i was gonna learn something useful out of slashdot.
well... that's what i meant... Professor Mann is the author of the original paper under criticism... with whom i agree that the method of the those guys is suspect as it relies on data that they admit was provided to them with some difficulty, with the misleading and deceiving claim that the intention was to "replicate" the study, which usually doesn't mean the mere reanalysis of data, but the application of the study methodology on a new set of data to see if the same outcome can be replicated.
After Canada's ratification of the treaty in late 2002, environmentalists had every reason to believe that few climate experts would dare continue to publicly oppose Kyoto's science, Russia would quickly ratify the accord and it soon would become international law. Instead, as illustrated at this month's World Climate Change Conference in Moscow, exactly the opposite has happened. The growing number of scientists who dispute the treaty's scientific foundation have become increasingly vocal, regularly pushing their case in the media as groundbreaking studies continue to be published that pull the rug out from under Kyoto's shaky edifice.
Sounds to me like the author of this story on USA today probably never did any scientific research or even understood the basic theory of it; it's entirely expected that they'd continue to dispute it even more. The whole function of science is to "disprove" rather than "prove" things, that's why you have that carefully crafted thing called the "null" hypothesis, that people agonize over for ages, and that sounds something like... "there is no difference between A and B" (simplification) that you set out to disprove, so that if you get a difference you calculate the likelihood that such difference was the result of chance, and if such likelihood is very small and chance very improbable then that's the best of your evidence. The whole idea of "scientifically proven" is such a complete misnomer, there's nothing that's "scientifically proven", it's more that it's "null hypothesis" is "disproven", which again is no certain terms and just an exercise in probability and correlation, in engineering it might be up to 99% and in medicine it might be as low as 80%.
The other thing is... those of you who might find this story interesting might wanna have a look at the controversial work of Danish Statistician Bjorn Lomborg and his book; "the skeptical environmentalist, measuring the real state of the world". Just notice two things... like the key figure in this study, an economist, lomborg was neither an ecologist or an environmentalist, and just like him, if you read the reply of Professor Mann who aims to discredit the work of the authors of this study with quite apparent anger, Lomborg's work has been disputed heavily, and he even had things physically thrown at him by an academic scholar when he was invited to speak at Cambridge.
" Cooperatives follow three principles that define or identify their distinctive characteristics:
user-owned,
user-controlled, and
user-benefited."
How to Start a Cooperative
Red Hat will soon lose its grassroot respect and might just become one of those VC-run and profit-driven corporations; those who have expected Red Hat to become the Microsoft of the Linux world probably were talking about microsoft's marketshare but now it appears the outcome will quite possibly also include microsoft's practices.
This isn't the first alarming sign; there's been a few trickling down for a little while, with all the consolidations, takeovers, acquisitions... et cetera et cetera it won't be long before we'll have to wonder whether the GPL will be able to prevent linux from becoming yet another private affair.
This investors' darling is sure to do as investors want. I have always been and still am more respectful - and i know some of you might be tempted to flame me for this, please don't, it's not my point - of Sun Microsystems than ever been of Red Had; Sun is a company that was started by techies and still run by techies, often acted contrary to investors expectations and still does, and contributed far more to open source, with java and openoffice, than red hat ever would've had it not been for the GPL. The creeping clan of MBAs and capital interests Red Hat is awashed with will only mean it won't be long before it'll be the despise of the people it is now alienating; it's just inevitable. You guys sorta got what you wanted, albeit with a twist; you wanted men in suits to endorse linux and now that they are you seem surprised with their actions. If you invite wolves and sharks to dinner just don't be surprised if they'll shave all the meat off the bones and not care for your share, heck, you may even become the meal too.
I think what linux, and OSS in general needs, is an altogether economic model; you just can't have a conventional financing for an alternative development system and expect all to be good. I think such a system that might have promise would be something like those Mutuals or cooperatives that are proven in the housing market and neighbourhood or workplace groceries; some of such "societies", especially in Europe, are big enough to provide an economically viable business that is also ethically and socially responsible.
Mistrust of corporations is growing because they put shareholders first. That creates opportunities for cooperatives and mutuals, which don't
and attracted my attention the most, although it might be a little off-topic, yet not too off-topic considering that it's still about the site this story is linked to, was the following from the FAQs of osViews.com
"What OS is osViews served from?" In an effort to conserve financial resources, we recently set out to find a more economical web server. We analyzed everything that Microsoft, Sun and Linux had to offer but later found that Apple's Xserve running Mac OS X server was more efficient and cost effective than each of these solutions (Yes even Linux). (Ya, it surprised us too...)
!!!!!
Burt Rutan is such a great idol figure for any aspiring youth; he's cool as elvis, no nonsense as any good ol' american commonsenser, creative as da vinci and alternative as it can be yet deeply respected and admired by the "establishment" guys of his craft. The fact that he can make a design company as relatively small as his sustain itself and succeed in a market that is dominated by huge corporations that not only are deep pocketed and heavily staffed but also capable of yielding political influence, such as boing and lockhead martin, and just do his thing yet sell good without "selling out" is phenomenal and very inspiring. His design are truly creative and beautiful. It's a testament to a design when it's not only highly functional but also beautiful, and wild in a way that's unlike any before yet amazingly simple and makes sense in a way that makes you think there's no good reason why it shouldn't have been this way all along. He should a case study on the list of everyone who's even remotely interested in innovation.