I'm listening to the portion I think you're talking about. If I am, then you as a child did not pick up the nuances of what he was saying.
What he said was this:
On the one hand, we have reason to believe that there are other "technical civilizations" living in this galaxy right this very second, and probably a very large number of them.
On the other hand, we have no credible evidence that they have visited (or even contacted) our civilization on Earth.
Nevertheless, it's feasible that they could have visited the Earth during the time of Humanity. How can we explain this apparent contradiction?
Maybe we are the first technical civilization.
Or, perhaps all such civilizations are practically doomed to self-destruction.
Maybe something we have not yet experienced renders interstellar travel impossible.
Or maybe they are already here but are unnoticed by humans.
"But there's another explanation that is consistent with everything else we know, and that's that it's a big cosmos." The only things that would indicate our presence to them are our radio, TV, and other broadcasts; but these have not yet even reached a distance where it is likely that another civilization has hear them! "From their point of view, all nearby planetary systems might seem equally attractive for exploration." It's simply a matter of infinitesimal probability.
So you see, he did not say that it is impossible; that was a product of your own mind.
Carl Sagan was not a mere science hero; he was a science super-hero.
The idea, I would think, for having Theora would be as a least-common denominator. So what if it wastes battery life? You can still view the content if there isn't an H.264 version
I know that's not acceptable to Apple, because they get the blame from those customers of theirs who don't understand the that they would have to be able to play the content to be compliant. I don't know, maybe they can put a small warning when first playing content lacking HW-accelerated playback.
Both physical and virtual media can be altered and destroyed; it's just that these processes are different in each case. So long as authorities do not interfere with the retention process (as in Fahrenheit 451), there will still be traces of what existed beforehand.
But then again, the Internet's ability to edit information for forge reality has been a major boon for the population of African elephants...
And Wikipedia keeps records of changes made. Anyone who wishes to do so may investigate the changes made to the information.
The point is that enough of the people of Iran find the results incredible and are in general angry enough about their present conditions that they have lost faith in the current government and desire significant reforms. This won't go away, ever. Even if a complete do-over of the election is performed, the fact that peaceful assembly was denied and communications have been disrupted, among many other things, makes this a moot point.
Well, he did credit the unofficial ports. If you're unhappy that it wasn't by name, uh, I dunno, deal with it?
As for why no co-operation, you'll have to ask Pat himself for that. He takes fixes all the time by e-mail, and x86-64 support has been in many of the build scripts since even before SLAMD64 started, so everybody who has followed Slackware should have known that this was coming.
That case was not about the fair use provisions already on the books; it was about the limits of the enumerated power of Congress to establish copyright, which is not a question here. In all probability, he will hand Warner's ass back to them, as this sort of matter is probably well-explored, whereas the scope of Congress' power was not.
And for the record SLX is super fast on responding to trademark violation in removing the item from the listings, and if Taser filed a proper DCMA request LL would respond as well in world.
Only this is a trademark issue, which I don't think the DMCA regulates. However, I think that a save haven for service providers over trademark would be a good idea in light of this incident.
I've been running PulseAudio for many months now, and I've gotten most everything to work fairly well with it. ALSA requires more black magic than PulseAudio does, and that includes the fact that I had to compile PulseAudio and dependencies manually for my Slackware install.
Also, for the few apps that just would not work in the presence of PA (especially recording apps), I haven't found a way to non-destructively disable it. The only app that this mattered for (Linux version of SL < v1.22---so 99.9% of/. need not care) has been fixed. I also had problems using the ALSA pulse plugin that way, but I can get around that by using pacat and sox.
I love the ability to have program-independent volumes and on-the-fly speaker switching. I am waiting for Adobe to allow users to specify which ALSA device to use (without having to set the default) or for gnash to suck less (e.g., "UNIMPLEMENTED: Different stream/playback sound rate (5512/22050). This seems common in SWF files, so we'll warn only once."---I don't care if Macromedia/Adobe/the animation's author were Doing It Wrong: you need to support this).
Why can't we just have one general "cancer test" developed for all kinds of cancer that exist, be it cervical, breast, lung, kidney, colon, etc? Our technology is as advanced as it can get for this day and age.
CANCERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
They have the same general properties (a condition of abnormally frequent cellular reproduction), but the mechanism of how each one works is different. If we consider the biological definitions of the terms, they are analogues but not homologues.
I agree. At the very least, this should have gone to the Idle section; isn't it for crap which the usual readership of this site doesn't give a fuck? Or should I use the proper FF extension to turn this place back into OMG!!!PONIES^H^H^H^H^H^HCELEBRITIES!!!?
As much as I want to believe this, I'm not so sure that these effects are intentional.
First of all, can anyone duplicate them? Secondly, is a binary really the best way to test this? I would think that one would want to interact with whatever APIs control the recording process. In any case, I think that more investigative work needs to be done.
(if you look, Adobe is quite clear on the fact that desktop/laptop flash is free as in beer; but embedded flash very much isn't)
...which is all the more reason to hurry up with the efforts to get SVG + SMIL + XForms + JavaScript + other W3C technologies working together, so that we can kill off Flash.
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I'm listening to the portion I think you're talking about. If I am, then you as a child did not pick up the nuances of what he was saying.
What he said was this:
So you see, he did not say that it is impossible; that was a product of your own mind.
Carl Sagan was not a mere science hero; he was a science super-hero.
The idea, I would think, for having Theora would be as a least-common denominator. So what if it wastes battery life? You can still view the content if there isn't an H.264 version
I know that's not acceptable to Apple, because they get the blame from those customers of theirs who don't understand the that they would have to be able to play the content to be compliant. I don't know, maybe they can put a small warning when first playing content lacking HW-accelerated playback.
makes hiding what was there before too easy
Both physical and virtual media can be altered and destroyed; it's just that these processes are different in each case. So long as authorities do not interfere with the retention process (as in Fahrenheit 451), there will still be traces of what existed beforehand.
But then again, the Internet's ability to edit information for forge reality has been a major boon for the population of African elephants...
And Wikipedia keeps records of changes made. Anyone who wishes to do so may investigate the changes made to the information.
The point is that enough of the people of Iran find the results incredible and are in general angry enough about their present conditions that they have lost faith in the current government and desire significant reforms. This won't go away, ever. Even if a complete do-over of the election is performed, the fact that peaceful assembly was denied and communications have been disrupted, among many other things, makes this a moot point.
I saw a Bing commercial. It makes me want to choke someone to death with my bare hands.
You managed to involve DRM in a discussion about extraterrestrial life. I am impressed by your mastery of Slashdot.
Well, he did credit the unofficial ports. If you're unhappy that it wasn't by name, uh, I dunno, deal with it?
As for why no co-operation, you'll have to ask Pat himself for that. He takes fixes all the time by e-mail, and x86-64 support has been in many of the build scripts since even before SLAMD64 started, so everybody who has followed Slackware should have known that this was coming.
More like "ASSHAT".
now there is only one place to go to access your music, and that is Lala.
You may want to rephrase that particular statement.
That case was not about the fair use provisions already on the books; it was about the limits of the enumerated power of Congress to establish copyright, which is not a question here. In all probability, he will hand Warner's ass back to them, as this sort of matter is probably well-explored, whereas the scope of Congress' power was not.
And for the record SLX is super fast on responding to trademark violation in removing the item from the listings, and if Taser filed a proper DCMA request LL would respond as well in world.
Only this is a trademark issue, which I don't think the DMCA regulates. However, I think that a save haven for service providers over trademark would be a good idea in light of this incident.
I wish there were another instrument. Some parts feel a little too sparse without one more voice.
Has he forgotten who runs the Internets?
You forgot to link to the relevant pic.
(I love that picture so much.)
Same here.
It wouldn't surprise me.
(No I did not RTFA. How did you know?!)
And an ideal being one which almost assuredly cannot be realized means that it should not be attempted at all. Riiiiiiight.
A continuing reduction in the number of nuclear weapons is still a very realistic goal, and it is probably a desirable one too.
I've been running PulseAudio for many months now, and I've gotten most everything to work fairly well with it. ALSA requires more black magic than PulseAudio does, and that includes the fact that I had to compile PulseAudio and dependencies manually for my Slackware install.
Also, for the few apps that just would not work in the presence of PA (especially recording apps), I haven't found a way to non-destructively disable it. The only app that this mattered for (Linux version of SL < v1.22---so 99.9% of /. need not care) has been fixed. I also had problems using the ALSA pulse plugin that way, but I can get around that by using pacat and sox.
I love the ability to have program-independent volumes and on-the-fly speaker switching. I am waiting for Adobe to allow users to specify which ALSA device to use (without having to set the default) or for gnash to suck less (e.g., "UNIMPLEMENTED: Different stream/playback sound rate (5512/22050). This seems common in SWF files, so we'll warn only once."---I don't care if Macromedia/Adobe/the animation's author were Doing It Wrong: you need to support this).
Why can't we just have one general "cancer test" developed for all kinds of cancer that exist, be it cervical, breast, lung, kidney, colon, etc? Our technology is as advanced as it can get for this day and age.
CANCERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
They have the same general properties (a condition of abnormally frequent cellular reproduction), but the mechanism of how each one works is different. If we consider the biological definitions of the terms, they are analogues but not homologues.
Waitaminute... there's an Entertainment section?!
*does double take on URL*
Holy shit, it has its own third-level domain. When did this happen? Was I just not paying attention or something?
I agree. At the very least, this should have gone to the Idle section; isn't it for crap which the usual readership of this site doesn't give a fuck? Or should I use the proper FF extension to turn this place back into OMG!!!PONIES^H^H^H^H^H^HCELEBRITIES!!!?
As much as I want to believe this, I'm not so sure that these effects are intentional.
First of all, can anyone duplicate them? Secondly, is a binary really the best way to test this? I would think that one would want to interact with whatever APIs control the recording process. In any case, I think that more investigative work needs to be done.
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TROLL SLASHDOT
(if you look, Adobe is quite clear on the fact that desktop/laptop flash is free as in beer; but embedded flash very much isn't)
...which is all the more reason to hurry up with the efforts to get SVG + SMIL + XForms + JavaScript + other W3C technologies working together, so that we can kill off Flash.
facepalm.jpg
Randomize the default browser. It'll be great.