It didn't seem likely that they were brought to the surface by a tsunami. However, the pics reminded me how awesome the BBC serries "The Blue Planet" is. For those who haven't seen it, be sure to check it out at your favorite video store or torrent site.
However, the simplest explanation could be the obvious one which the original poster commented on in the title and that John Harrison also got in a comment in my journal: Sleeping less means more time available for eating!
I think that's a little trite. That extra hour of waking life accounts for the feeding which causes obesity? I doubt it. A much more likely explanation is that obese people do not exercise enough.
I have sleep problems myself. Much of this can be attributed to my lack of physical exertion. I suppose my metabolism keeps me thin because I can stuff my face with pizza, sit around and smoke cigarettes, and still stay thin. I still need to exercise though. I'm weening myself off my preferred sleep aid -- alcohol -- and I find I don't get tired until about 8 or 9 am (when I'm supposed to go off to work.) Sometimes I just stay up for 48 hours to get back on track. I need to get my bike fixed!
So, yeah, I'd say it's a lack of exercise and possibly poor nutritional habits that contribute to less sleep, not the other way around.
As a musician and sometimes-graphics artist, I wholeheartedly support Creative Commons and Free Software. However, there is a subtle difference between the two and I can understand why many artists reservations about giving their work away. With software, you clearly benefit by having open source because the program you are working on is continually improved. You share those improvements. A photograph or illustration (for instance) is unlikely to be improved. Or rather it is unlikely that the creator will share benefit in future derivative works.
Granted, artists do benefit by a general spirit of openness and collaboration. The important caveat (for me at least) is that derivative works are non-commercial. Since by definition most artistic works are completed works, it doesn't seem right for someone to come along and use your music in a commercial or swipe a design for a t-shirt without anything in return other than the good feeling of sharing.
I like the idea of the texture library another poster mentioned, however. I have no qualms about offering "buliding blocks" for free, even if they are used commercially. By the same rationale, I don't mind sharing field recordings or random snippets or loops for free, as long as I get some attribution if they are used in other works (and hopefully a notice too!).
I hope this clears things up a little bit. Respond with any questions/counter-arguments you may have. : )
You guys are missing what the OP is saying. Yes, I know that you can browse through your history in all of these browsers and, to a limited extent, search through their caches (in the OS.) But seriously, I would love if somebody could craft some google extension to search through your cache. Extra bonus to archive the cache (most go back less than two weeks) and index the archive . . . sigh . . . I suppose it will happen eventually as its clear I'm not the only one who desires this ability. Usually google works when I'm trying to find that page I looked at about X two months ago but it sure would be nice to search my extended browser history rather than the whole web sometimes (sometimes links get lost you know.)
It was just a matter of time before a project of this scope got off the ground. I would like to see them team up with Project Gutenberg (and perhaps archive.org) to provide images of the material. Throw in the little transcoder and perhaps wikipedia and we will soon have a killer information resource that can be cross-referenced to silly proportions. This is a boon for research. Projects like this and the public library of science will add much to collective knowledge. It would also be nice to see them team up with the newspaper project! Next stop--public domain LOC!!!
They are the future of unaccountable editorializing.
How ironic. That entire post is unaccountable editorializing. The fact is, blogs provide an excellent filter for information. Most of it is tripe, but there are informed writer's such as Juan Cole's commentary on Iraq. The great thing (or bane, depending on your perspective) is that there are enough voices to get a reasonable sampling of public opinion. I don't think blogs will replace traditional journalism because someone still needs to report the information. However, you will see mainstream journalism looking to the Internet more frequently because specialty writers can still scoop them (see Bev Harris at Blackboxvoting). I could go on, but I'm late for class.
The entry for Hamilton has already been updated to reflect the correction. The general reader may not know whether the information is correct but the specialist would. This applies to paper encyclopedias as well. At least in this case, the specialist can correct the erroneous information.
What would really be great would be a stronger citation practice in place at Wikipedia. Of course, that would require many journals and books to be available electronically (at least for research) and that seems too socialist for a lot of people. Imagine if the Library of Congress was indexed by google (or whoever.) I would imagine the Wikipedia's authority would increase exponentially! Maybe one day . . .
Offtopic, but . . . can you see the flag on the moon with a telescope? I would think that you could and a simple peep verifying that a flag is up there should silence conspiracy theorists. So, where are the telescopic pictures of evidence left behind from the Apollo missions? Seriously . . . I'm curious.
Blasphemer! The "blowing" trick conquers all! Seriously, I don't why the trick works. All I know is it always works. Perhaps it's just a placebo . . . faith in your cartridge is all that is required : )
nobody would pay to do the research that creates new drugs . ..if we pull out of funding the world's research, that research just isn't going to get done. I would imagine that research universities and other public institutions could cover advancement in this respect. They might not have the marketing budgets that the large pharmas have, but hey, who cares?
I would vote for Nader if it weren't for the fact that it would essentially be throwing my vote away.
This comes up too much. Staying at home when you are eligible to vote is "throwing your vote away." Expressing your preference for a political candidate is the very definition of voting. If Nader is your preference, and you vote for him, your vote is valid. Using your choice elsewise is more akin to throwing your vote away in my opinion.
Well, the thought to pop into this thread hadn't really entered my mind until you brought it up, but since I was thinking about this earlier today I figured I'd pipe up. The primary problem with this whole debate is primarily one of semantics. While I do not believe in some dude in the clouds building prototypes of lifeforms with play-dough, I believe there is a high level of structured intelligence that manifests itself through energy. This energy takes the form of what we recognize as matter on occasion. Perhaps this "intelligence" is merely the ground rules of physical interaction in the universe. I suspect that the level of what we crudely call design or intelligence goes deeper than that however. At this point, it simply becomes a matter of faith. You believe in your central organizing principles and I'll believe in mine (they're probably not too far apart.) I can rest assured that i am not the only person who believes in the process of science yet retains some feeling of transcendence. Quoth Albert Einstein:
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I believe in the laws and principles of science. I suggest you eat some psychedelics to get a glimpse of what is known yet unknown. Cheers,
Lavaface
It's an interesting dilemma, to be sure. The notion of moderation does carry with it the looming spectre of censorship. However, I tend to think that moderation is a fairly effective measure overall. Sure some posts here on Slashdot are undeservedly marked down, but I still have the option to browse comments at -1. I tend not to because the large majority of the posts rated -1 are worthy of that moderation. Another interesting thing about Slashdot if the friends system. I can add points to posts of other members with whom I've agreed in the past.
Look at another moderation system--Amazon. Has it been abused? Sure. But seeing what other people are reading and reviewing their comments is immeasurably helpful. Other important moderation systems include Google and peer-reviewed journals. Google's pagerank is abused but not often enough to make me look elsewhere. Scientific journals have the same benefits and pitfalls.
What I'm saying is that moderation is pervasive in how humans learn, whether it comes through personal friends, anonymous netters, or even algorithms. Check out nooron.org for a glimpse of what the future of moderating intelligent comment may hold.
Just to give folks some kind of idea, it would take (2000/60) 33 minutes to download an entire 1GB. MiniDV tapes hold approximately 14GB on a 60 minute tape. You'll get you're GB of data faster from a minidv tape through firewire; not sure how the time stacks up, but if there's a difference, then quality must compensate.
A couple of other advatages to tapes: You don't have to clog up your harddrive with data & Apple has this neat little program, I think it's called iClips(no, wait--iMovie), that lets you effortlessly organize your video content into mini-movies for easy export to the web for Grandma
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a solid state camera (that can transefer @ firewire 800) but the time is not now.
Why should I not be allowed to cut and paste (to prevent distorting a quote)
Well, I suppose you'd just have to do what you would have done with a book in a library--write it down and retype it later. This really is not a fair use issue; they provide free content, saving a trip to the library. In exchange for this they prevent you from easily copying the pages. There really isn't any legitamate reason why an end user should be able to copy every page of the book. Whiners who try to break this will just encourage more restrictive copyright control in the future.
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I don't know but I can tell you I had nothing to do with its death!
Now where's my informative mod? ; )
Thanks, I almost forgot. : )
It didn't seem likely that they were brought to the surface by a tsunami. However, the pics reminded me how awesome the BBC serries "The Blue Planet" is. For those who haven't seen it, be sure to check it out at your favorite video store or torrent site.
I think that's a little trite. That extra hour of waking life accounts for the feeding which causes obesity? I doubt it. A much more likely explanation is that obese people do not exercise enough.
I have sleep problems myself. Much of this can be attributed to my lack of physical exertion. I suppose my metabolism keeps me thin because I can stuff my face with pizza, sit around and smoke cigarettes, and still stay thin. I still need to exercise though. I'm weening myself off my preferred sleep aid -- alcohol -- and I find I don't get tired until about 8 or 9 am (when I'm supposed to go off to work.) Sometimes I just stay up for 48 hours to get back on track. I need to get my bike fixed!
So, yeah, I'd say it's a lack of exercise and possibly poor nutritional habits that contribute to less sleep, not the other way around.
It's just a small point, but I think it's the distributors who are in for a rude awakening. The producers of content will continue to thrive.
Doesn't slashdot use mysql?
Granted, artists do benefit by a general spirit of openness and collaboration. The important caveat (for me at least) is that derivative works are non-commercial. Since by definition most artistic works are completed works, it doesn't seem right for someone to come along and use your music in a commercial or swipe a design for a t-shirt without anything in return other than the good feeling of sharing.
I like the idea of the texture library another poster mentioned, however. I have no qualms about offering "buliding blocks" for free, even if they are used commercially. By the same rationale, I don't mind sharing field recordings or random snippets or loops for free, as long as I get some attribution if they are used in other works (and hopefully a notice too!).
I hope this clears things up a little bit. Respond with any questions/counter-arguments you may have. : )
I looked all over your site but couldn't find out where to sign up. Little help?
You guys are missing what the OP is saying. Yes, I know that you can browse through your history in all of these browsers and, to a limited extent, search through their caches (in the OS.) But seriously, I would love if somebody could craft some google extension to search through your cache. Extra bonus to archive the cache (most go back less than two weeks) and index the archive . . . sigh . . . I suppose it will happen eventually as its clear I'm not the only one who desires this ability. Usually google works when I'm trying to find that page I looked at about X two months ago but it sure would be nice to search my extended browser history rather than the whole web sometimes (sometimes links get lost you know.)
It was just a matter of time before a project of this scope got off the ground. I would like to see them team up with Project Gutenberg (and perhaps archive.org) to provide images of the material. Throw in the little transcoder and perhaps wikipedia and we will soon have a killer information resource that can be cross-referenced to silly proportions. This is a boon for research. Projects like this and the public library of science will add much to collective knowledge. It would also be nice to see them team up with the newspaper project! Next stop--public domain LOC!!!
How ironic. That entire post is unaccountable editorializing. The fact is, blogs provide an excellent filter for information. Most of it is tripe, but there are informed writer's such as Juan Cole's commentary on Iraq. The great thing (or bane, depending on your perspective) is that there are enough voices to get a reasonable sampling of public opinion. I don't think blogs will replace traditional journalism because someone still needs to report the information. However, you will see mainstream journalism looking to the Internet more frequently because specialty writers can still scoop them (see Bev Harris at Blackboxvoting). I could go on, but I'm late for class.
What would really be great would be a stronger citation practice in place at Wikipedia. Of course, that would require many journals and books to be available electronically (at least for research) and that seems too socialist for a lot of people. Imagine if the Library of Congress was indexed by google (or whoever.) I would imagine the Wikipedia's authority would increase exponentially! Maybe one day . . .
Offtopic, but . . . can you see the flag on the moon with a telescope? I would think that you could and a simple peep verifying that a flag is up there should silence conspiracy theorists. So, where are the telescopic pictures of evidence left behind from the Apollo missions? Seriously . . . I'm curious.
Blasphemer! The "blowing" trick conquers all! Seriously, I don't why the trick works. All I know is it always works. Perhaps it's just a placebo . . . faith in your cartridge is all that is required : )
nobody would pay to do the research that creates new drugs . . .if we pull out of funding the world's research, that research just isn't going to get done. I would imagine that research universities and other public institutions could cover advancement in this respect. They might not have the marketing budgets that the large pharmas have, but hey, who cares?
This comes up too much. Staying at home when you are eligible to vote is "throwing your vote away." Expressing your preference for a political candidate is the very definition of voting. If Nader is your preference, and you vote for him, your vote is valid. Using your choice elsewise is more akin to throwing your vote away in my opinion.
Well, the thought to pop into this thread hadn't really entered my mind until you brought it up, but since I was thinking about this earlier today I figured I'd pipe up. The primary problem with this whole debate is primarily one of semantics. While I do not believe in some dude in the clouds building prototypes of lifeforms with play-dough, I believe there is a high level of structured intelligence that manifests itself through energy. This energy takes the form of what we recognize as matter on occasion. Perhaps this "intelligence" is merely the ground rules of physical interaction in the universe. I suspect that the level of what we crudely call design or intelligence goes deeper than that however. At this point, it simply becomes a matter of faith. You believe in your central organizing principles and I'll believe in mine (they're probably not too far apart.) I can rest assured that i am not the only person who believes in the process of science yet retains some feeling of transcendence. Quoth Albert Einstein: "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I believe in the laws and principles of science. I suggest you eat some psychedelics to get a glimpse of what is known yet unknown. Cheers, Lavaface
ah yes, pardon.
[holds pinky to mouth]
MUWAHAHAHAHA!
If you can't wait for Tiger, try Cocoa Gestures.Works (like a charm) in every cocoa app. I highly recommend it.
I dunno . . . maybe 60 billion dollars of cash ; )
Look at another moderation system--Amazon. Has it been abused? Sure. But seeing what other people are reading and reviewing their comments is immeasurably helpful. Other important moderation systems include Google and peer-reviewed journals. Google's pagerank is abused but not often enough to make me look elsewhere. Scientific journals have the same benefits and pitfalls.
What I'm saying is that moderation is pervasive in how humans learn, whether it comes through personal friends, anonymous netters, or even algorithms. Check out nooron.org for a glimpse of what the future of moderating intelligent comment may hold.
A couple of other advatages to tapes: You don't have to clog up your harddrive with data & Apple has this neat little program, I think it's called iClips(no, wait--iMovie), that lets you effortlessly organize your video content into mini-movies for easy export to the web for Grandma
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a solid state camera (that can transefer @ firewire 800) but the time is not now.
Ah yes . . . and our current Attourney General was such a piss-poor republican he lost a Senate race to a dead man. Interesting political times . . .
Well, I suppose you'd just have to do what you would have done with a book in a library--write it down and retype it later. This really is not a fair use issue; they provide free content, saving a trip to the library. In exchange for this they prevent you from easily copying the pages. There really isn't any legitamate reason why an end user should be able to copy every page of the book. Whiners who try to break this will just encourage more restrictive copyright control in the future.