Indeed, there is material which virtually everyone would agree should be kept out. Sadistic pornography, incitement to violence against racial or ethnic minorities are just two examples.
There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.
Back in the day, before SMT, when things were simple and axial-leaded, young EE's were tasked with remembering trivialities such as colored codes on the outside of resistors. And yet, ten simple colors are beyond the grasp of the overladen engineering mind. So was born the off-color memory device.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.
0 = black
1 = brown
2 = red
3 = orange
4 = yellow
5 = green
6 = blue
7 = violet
8 = grey
9 = white
Now this was a bit non-PC, so other versions surfaced, such as "Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well", but as everyone knows, politically-correct = not funny.
Yeah, I know, there's tolerance bands, too, but don't get me started about tolerance...
Even if it is incorporated into IE, web developers will see no reason to switch
to this new technology. Microsoft often reserves new initiatives for higher versions of Internet Explorer and leaves the older users in the dust, telling them to upgrade. With such a wide majority of users reluctant to upgrade, it'd be kind of pointless for webmasters to use this instead of flash.
I feel like you are talking about me. You see, I'm one of those late-adopters, still using WinNT as my primary OS. There's a whole world of content out there that I am completely shut out of. So many web sites I visit now offer video files in WMP version 9 format only. I would upgrade the video player, but MS does not offer an upgrade for my OS. I have been left behind.
As for the web sites that are shutting me out, I assume they use WMP9 because it came free with their server software. Webmasters are already making pointless decisions. They'll go right along with this one as well.
Now let's get real. Property is not inherent. Moreover, the subject of what can and cannot be property is a limited one; slavery is a form of property that was once legally recognized but is no longer in most parts of the world.
Well, your slavery comment is a complete non sequitur. Ayn Rand was a champion of the individual, and the will to pursue one's own dreams. Slavery would be a sin to her.
As for property being an inherent right, what you don't seem to understand is that without property, one is not able to sustain life. For example, man's most immediate need is always shelter. Unless you own your shelter (home), there is no guarantee that you'll have shelter tomorrow. And if you depend on the government for shelter, then you aren't free. Property that isn't yours can always be taken away. Your liberty, your very life, is in the hands of those who own the property you depend on for survival, whether that be shelter, land, or even the means to get to and from work to earn money to buy food and clothes.
Face it, without property you have no liberty. Without property, you are a slave.
This is just a way for poorer nations to get their foot in the door to tax wealthier nations. Although the free speech concerns are serious, what it will amount to is a way to funnel funds from us to them. At first, it will be used to police the internet, but then demands will increase, with additional funds being required to fight "terrorism", and what one nation considers terrorism may be legitimate protest.
Eventually, the original goals of the program will shift, and overt wealth redistribution will begin. But unlike the redistribution that goes on in western countries, no more than 10% would ever be applied to humanitarian concerns. The remainder would end up in the hands of beaurocrats and benevolent dictators.
Learn the liberal arts -- mathematics and logic -- and you will be much better prepared to defend yourself as a free citizen in a computerized world.
Nah, to be "free" in our society means having power. And for at least a couple of centuries now, the easiest way to obtain power is to become a lawyer. Learn to defy mathematics and confound logic through the power of law.
This type of nonsense always comes from programmer geeks, too. Face it, the computer is a tool, not an end in itself. Sure, it'd be nice if every school child could write perl and understood regular expressions, but why? I'm sure most of you can drive a car, but how many can rebuild an engine? Can you do a brake job? Sure, being a mechanic in the height of the industrial age would have given you a financial advantage over your peers, but in the end, the automobile is just a tool that gets you from point A to B. The same is true of computers, it's just a tool. If I'm say, a theoretical chemist, why would I need to understand how to get under the hood of my operating system and tinker with it. It's just a tool. I might be interested in some scripting language that my chemistry visualization or analysis programs use, but for the most part, I shouldn't have to tinker with my computer. I should be able to put the key in the ignition (login) and it should work. If it's broken, then I take it to the technician and let her get under the hood.
Once upon a time (actually not so long ago), some prisons did keep prisoners in solitary confinement. Not much rape going on then, but it did have the side effect that most all of them went bonkers. So now, we no longer keep them in social isolation, but there's a whole lot more than just socializing going on.
Perhaps you could prevent most of the rape if all convicts were kept in isolation during nighttime hours, but it would be expensive, and it's unlikely that we'll be spending more on housing prisoners anytime soon, especially when you consider that states are having to release convicts early to combat overcrowding.
Encryption was the first thing I thought about, but for a different reason, it frustrates the efforts of foreign governments and competing businesses from eavesdropping on IBM. You can bet that, at least at the executive level, strong encryption will be available.
As for the peons, yeah probably. IBM will want to sell this to other companies, after all. You can also be sure that IBM will cooperate fully with Uncle Sam to install the necessary weaknesses or back doors. After all, they've done so in the past when they worked with NSA and watered down their LUCIFER algorithm to produce DES. IBM could then play both sides, on the one had selling "secure" VoIP to companies and govenments, and on the other hand contracting with NSA build the monitoring systems. A real win-win, eh? And the best part is, the government won't impose this on anyone. IBM will set the standard, and you will buy it willingly.
Many people have made the observation that Moore's Law is probably a limited phenomenon, and while other increases may continue to fuel increased processing power, Moore's Law does not actually have anything directly to do with processing power.
Who needs Moore's Law when we've got Beowulf clusters?
And Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters.
And Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters.
if you want this fixed, the best way is grassroots so that people will complain to their elected officials.
Yeah, right. There is no grassroots to speak of. Most people can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on a TV (special antenna not included), just to pick up a few medium-resolution terrestrial channels.
And of those people that can afford the new sets, they won't bitch about it until they lose the ability to use their new toys.
And of those people that bitch about it, they'll be complaining to Philips, Sony, or Best Buy. They may even want refunds.
Ultimately, it'll come down to consumers not buying the products.
As a late-adopter, I'll probably still be watching low-res TV on my ancient CRT. Wake me when hi-res TV comes out. By then, the monitor tech should be advanced enough to build them on the cheap, even if fiber to the home and video-on-demand are a bit pricey.
"Many think of using high-performance computing for computational science and research," Bottum said. "At Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), our mission is to support learning as well as discovery. While research is critical, we're also building for the classroom."
But now students can print "Hello World!" in ray-traced, spinning, textured 3-D letters. Yay!
Why not just create the next reservoir by digging a big hole before flooding the site? You could store the same amount of water with less surface area, which would not only reduce evaporation, but also reduce heating of the water from the sun.
There are still non-conventional nuclear weapons to work on. The nirvana of nuclear war are weapons that produce high-energy bursts of neutrons, or some electromagnetic energy like X-rays or gamma rays, but no significant radioactive isotopes. Ideally, you'd like to nuke a target to wipe out all the enemy combatants, then roll in the next day and set up camp.
The defense industry is the one most likely to spend money on bleeding edge technology. Not only will the military buy it, but they will also fund R&D. It's a real sweet spot to be in, the government pays to bring your product to maturity, and you also get to keep the rights to it.
I suspect the mention of homeland security is marketing hype. Do you really believe that getting on an airplane will ever be fast? Besides, I doubt that convolving high-resolution images in real-time is all that important for security.
One day you guys will be all excited to see that someone has built a subspace carrier-frequency card for the PCI bus and ported a neural-interface OS to the PC.
With one caveat, if the company actually owns a patent for this device, than you must pay a royalty(with permission) to recreate one. However, it doesn't seem this is incredibly inventive or creative, so I don't think they'd qualify for a patent on this.
A design patent doesn't have to be incredibly inventive or creative. You could get a design patent for a crosshatch pattern on a coffee cup. It's really not much different from a copyright.
Of course, hundreds of these channels will be HDTV feeds from various camera angles in each room of coed dorms. Although we may have the technology in the future to offer so much data, the amount of quality, creative content will be no different than it is now.
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Indeed, there is material which virtually everyone would agree should be kept out. Sadistic pornography, incitement to violence against racial or ethnic minorities are just two examples.
There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.
Back in the day, before SMT, when things were simple and axial-leaded, young EE's were tasked with remembering trivialities such as colored codes on the outside of resistors. And yet, ten simple colors are beyond the grasp of the overladen engineering mind. So was born the off-color memory device.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.
0 = black
1 = brown
2 = red
3 = orange
4 = yellow
5 = green
6 = blue
7 = violet
8 = grey
9 = white
Now this was a bit non-PC, so other versions surfaced, such as "Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well", but as everyone knows, politically-correct = not funny.
Yeah, I know, there's tolerance bands, too, but don't get me started about tolerance...
Poetic justice is pending.
I'm sorry..
But it runs Mozilla just fine...
Even if it is incorporated into IE, web developers will see no reason to switch to this new technology. Microsoft often reserves new initiatives for higher versions of Internet Explorer and leaves the older users in the dust, telling them to upgrade. With such a wide majority of users reluctant to upgrade, it'd be kind of pointless for webmasters to use this instead of flash.
I feel like you are talking about me. You see, I'm one of those late-adopters, still using WinNT as my primary OS. There's a whole world of content out there that I am completely shut out of. So many web sites I visit now offer video files in WMP version 9 format only. I would upgrade the video player, but MS does not offer an upgrade for my OS. I have been left behind.
As for the web sites that are shutting me out, I assume they use WMP9 because it came free with their server software. Webmasters are already making pointless decisions. They'll go right along with this one as well.
Just remember that when you jack an iPod,
you're jacking every iPod that it has jacked.
Now let's get real. Property is not inherent. Moreover, the subject of what can and cannot be property is a limited one; slavery is a form of property that was once legally recognized but is no longer in most parts of the world.
Well, your slavery comment is a complete non sequitur. Ayn Rand was a champion of the individual, and the will to pursue one's own dreams. Slavery would be a sin to her.
As for property being an inherent right, what you don't seem to understand is that without property, one is not able to sustain life. For example, man's most immediate need is always shelter. Unless you own your shelter (home), there is no guarantee that you'll have shelter tomorrow. And if you depend on the government for shelter, then you aren't free. Property that isn't yours can always be taken away. Your liberty, your very life, is in the hands of those who own the property you depend on for survival, whether that be shelter, land, or even the means to get to and from work to earn money to buy food and clothes.
Face it, without property you have no liberty. Without property, you are a slave.
The idea isn't new at all. The same thing was tried (and failed) with the Kyoto scheme.
And anyone with a heart would include Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
This is just a way for poorer nations to get their foot in the door to tax wealthier nations. Although the free speech concerns are serious, what it will amount to is a way to funnel funds from us to them. At first, it will be used to police the internet, but then demands will increase, with additional funds being required to fight "terrorism", and what one nation considers terrorism may be legitimate protest.
Eventually, the original goals of the program will shift, and overt wealth redistribution will begin. But unlike the redistribution that goes on in western countries, no more than 10% would ever be applied to humanitarian concerns. The remainder would end up in the hands of beaurocrats and benevolent dictators.
I ask that you oppose this at every opportunity.
Learn the liberal arts -- mathematics and logic -- and you will be much better prepared to defend yourself as a free citizen in a computerized world.
Nah, to be "free" in our society means having power. And for at least a couple of centuries now, the easiest way to obtain power is to become a lawyer. Learn to defy mathematics and confound logic through the power of law.
This type of nonsense always comes from programmer geeks, too. Face it, the computer is a tool, not an end in itself. Sure, it'd be nice if every school child could write perl and understood regular expressions, but why? I'm sure most of you can drive a car, but how many can rebuild an engine? Can you do a brake job? Sure, being a mechanic in the height of the industrial age would have given you a financial advantage over your peers, but in the end, the automobile is just a tool that gets you from point A to B. The same is true of computers, it's just a tool. If I'm say, a theoretical chemist, why would I need to understand how to get under the hood of my operating system and tinker with it. It's just a tool. I might be interested in some scripting language that my chemistry visualization or analysis programs use, but for the most part, I shouldn't have to tinker with my computer. I should be able to put the key in the ignition (login) and it should work. If it's broken, then I take it to the technician and let her get under the hood.
Once upon a time (actually not so long ago), some prisons did keep prisoners in solitary confinement. Not much rape going on then, but it did have the side effect that most all of them went bonkers. So now, we no longer keep them in social isolation, but there's a whole lot more than just socializing going on.
Perhaps you could prevent most of the rape if all convicts were kept in isolation during nighttime hours, but it would be expensive, and it's unlikely that we'll be spending more on housing prisoners anytime soon, especially when you consider that states are having to release convicts early to combat overcrowding.
Encryption was the first thing I thought about, but for a different reason, it frustrates the efforts of foreign governments and competing businesses from eavesdropping on IBM. You can bet that, at least at the executive level, strong encryption will be available.
As for the peons, yeah probably. IBM will want to sell this to other companies, after all. You can also be sure that IBM will cooperate fully with Uncle Sam to install the necessary weaknesses or back doors. After all, they've done so in the past when they worked with NSA and watered down their LUCIFER algorithm to produce DES. IBM could then play both sides, on the one had selling "secure" VoIP to companies and govenments, and on the other hand contracting with NSA build the monitoring systems. A real win-win, eh? And the best part is, the government won't impose this on anyone. IBM will set the standard, and you will buy it willingly.
Many people have made the observation that Moore's Law is probably a limited phenomenon, and while other increases may continue to fuel increased processing power, Moore's Law does not actually have anything directly to do with processing power.
Who needs Moore's Law when we've got Beowulf clusters?
And Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters.
And Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters of Beowulf clusters.
And...
...goes the weasel. LOL!!
In fact, I understood that herring perfectly. He said "Guess what I had for dinner?!"
if you want this fixed, the best way is grassroots so that people will complain to their elected officials.
Yeah, right. There is no grassroots to speak of. Most people can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on a TV (special antenna not included), just to pick up a few medium-resolution terrestrial channels.
And of those people that can afford the new sets, they won't bitch about it until they lose the ability to use their new toys.
And of those people that bitch about it, they'll be complaining to Philips, Sony, or Best Buy. They may even want refunds.
Ultimately, it'll come down to consumers not buying the products.
As a late-adopter, I'll probably still be watching low-res TV on my ancient CRT. Wake me when hi-res TV comes out. By then, the monitor tech should be advanced enough to build them on the cheap, even if fiber to the home and video-on-demand are a bit pricey.
"Many think of using high-performance computing for computational science and research," Bottum said. "At Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), our mission is to support learning as well as discovery. While research is critical, we're also building for the classroom."
But now students can print "Hello World!" in ray-traced, spinning, textured 3-D letters. Yay!
Why not just create the next reservoir by digging a big hole before flooding the site? You could store the same amount of water with less surface area, which would not only reduce evaporation, but also reduce heating of the water from the sun.
There are still non-conventional nuclear weapons to work on. The nirvana of nuclear war are weapons that produce high-energy bursts of neutrons, or some electromagnetic energy like X-rays or gamma rays, but no significant radioactive isotopes. Ideally, you'd like to nuke a target to wipe out all the enemy combatants, then roll in the next day and set up camp.
The defense industry is the one most likely to spend money on bleeding edge technology. Not only will the military buy it, but they will also fund R&D. It's a real sweet spot to be in, the government pays to bring your product to maturity, and you also get to keep the rights to it.
I suspect the mention of homeland security is marketing hype. Do you really believe that getting on an airplane will ever be fast? Besides, I doubt that convolving high-resolution images in real-time is all that important for security.
One day you guys will be all excited to see that someone has built a subspace carrier-frequency card for the PCI bus and ported a neural-interface OS to the PC.
With one caveat, if the company actually owns a patent for this device, than you must pay a royalty(with permission) to recreate one. However, it doesn't seem this is incredibly inventive or creative, so I don't think they'd qualify for a patent on this.
A design patent doesn't have to be incredibly inventive or creative. You could get a design patent for a crosshatch pattern on a coffee cup. It's really not much different from a copyright.
Of course, hundreds of these channels will be HDTV feeds from various camera angles in each room of coed dorms. Although we may have the technology in the future to offer so much data, the amount of quality, creative content will be no different than it is now.