Shareholders do. And it's one thing for
a corporation to strike a deal with a
public university such that it helps both.
But for a corporation to use public-funded
to corrupt the scientific community, and
to silence research that may hurt its bottom
line, is unacceptable.
It doesn't matter whether it works,
what matters is whether it pays.
For example, it is much easier to run a study of a drug
with the maker's cooperation, than for
example, to run a compilation of statistics
on complications from the drug after it is in
general use. Case in point: phen-fen.
And until such an independent study comes up,
you're rolling in the dough, as is what
happened with phen-fen.
In science museums you'll find exercise
bikes hooked up to lightbulbs to show exactly
that.
In my demo the appliances will also be hooked
up to line power, so people can see their
output compared to line power (and thus be
humbled). No vomiting necessary.
Yeah, that is a much better way to go about it.
The hard part will of course be physically
arranging the appliances for such a demo
and doing the solder work. But it would make
a useful thing. Might do this in my copious
free time, when I get some.
Your exercise bike came linked to a dynamo, so that you could use it to store up power in an array of rechargeables, so you could then then use a Zener diode setup to bypass the power supplies on some of your appliances (when and only when the batteries were up) and power them with the sweat of your brow? You could have an array of Zeners
for each voltage level on your radio or other small appliances, and it wouldn't take too much
soldering to hook these up. It would make a really cool demo, especially now that Fornicalia is
having rolling blackouts and other states may soon as well.
Just how much of this is due to the insane
rents in the SF Bay Area? I'm (almost)
willing to bet that no such story is happening
over in Boston, which certainly saw enough
of both the boom and bust, and where
rents are high but not insane.
Never mind the song.
Her whole act is a sign of the apocalypse.
I'm only 26 years old. I should not be getting
grumpy and curmudgeonly just yet. But now I
can't help it. How can parents let a 12 year old
dress like that in front of a camera? Never mind the
Napster issue, or how the RIAA's manipulation
of the intellectual property laws are cheating
the artists. If the music industry lets
Western culture decline to the point
that 12 year olds are expected to dress
like that to get stage time, it deserves
to lose every penny to bootlegging.
On the other hand, she hasn't been signed yet.
Hillary Rosen: take note. If you have
anything resembling integrity, you'll
blacklist this kid for a few years,
or make sure she gets a few pointers
from Charlotte Church.
The Japanese have a thing for labor-intensive produce (which is not surprising, considering the terrain of their country). Some US stores are now selling Japanese apples, so you should try one some time. What they do is let only one apple grow on each branch of a tree, nipping the rest in the bud, so that it grows large and sweet. (And of course, they pamper their trees.) So, I'm not all that surprised that they would think of square watermelons.
I ask that passengers put their Hotmail accounts
in the logged out positions, and put on their seat
belts. It has been a pleasure carrying you on
AOL-Time-Warner-American-Airlines, and I hope
you'll choose to fly with us again.
There's nothing anyone can do about existing copyrights. But the cost-free and absolutely
hassle free availability of pre-1920 works
is going to make ebook reader owners lean
toward the works available on PG, and
drive a harder bargain when it comes to
copy-control hassles with new ebooks.
(on another note)
I got me my Palm IIIxe. I'm not much of
a gamer, and I haven't packed my date book
and address book to the gills. But I
have several books on board for when I'm bored.
Right now, I have Clausewitz's On War,
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism,
a novel called Tartarin of Tarascon,
and Sun Tzu's Art of War. And I still
have 4 megs free. Beats reading the tabloid
headlines when the line at the supermarket
is long.
Issue #1: if it's between an ebook reader
and hemp-paper books, the books win hands-down.
But never mind that for now.
Assuming the hardware is sturdy, an ebook
reader shouldn't go obsolete so quickly.
Just because you can double a
computer's speed every 18 months doesn't
mean you need to, if all you do is display book
pages on the damn thing. So ebook hardware should
become a long term investment. There is also the
issue of carrying capacity, but after 20 or so
books, you don't even need more. Frankly, my
Palm IIIxe gives me enough reading for a long
flight. A memory dongle for a Palm will give me
enough reading for a coast-to-coast ride on
Amtrak. We don't need to put more books on
these things than we will read between syncs.
So, hardware may break, but it won't go obsolete.
Hopefully, any hardware company in this business
will keep this in mind rather than go all bubbly
like Cisco did.
The article goes into thorough detail on the
problems that could be posed if publishers are
allowed to use the new medium to redefine
intellectual property rights for text works.
A scary portent of the future, and a distillation
of those paragraphs would make a good thing to
keep on hand to give (for example) your fellow
students if your college wants to switch out of
textbooks.
But, the article omits the importance of sites
like Andamooka and the Gutenberg project, and
also the significance of wireless technology
and the Web. If I buy an ebook reader of some
sort, it had better 1. do HTML, 2. do PDF and PS,
3. do ASCII, 4. let me make downloads of
these from whatever sites I want. What does
that mean? Any ebook reader must also be a
Web pad to get me to buy it. I do believe that
thanks to the Web and to sites like those two
(and Nupedia, and many more), and thanks to
upcoming Web pads, we have dodged a bullet here. (A Web pad with good handwriting
recognition would be dreamy. Mmmm..)
Is this enough? No.
We need more content on those sites, not
to mention more effort to clue in Joe Sixpack
about these issues. But things do look
good IMHO. Since any ebook reader has
to be able to navigate the Web (either through
wireless or through a well thought out
Web-suck program), ebook buyers won't be
too eager to have to buy books with insane
reader software and rights management
software hassles.
If the grid's monitoring and controlling
computers are actually connected to the net,
somebody in Cal-ISO needs to do some
prison time for criminal negligence.
This is inexcusable.
Slashdot used to be a place where a
sufficiently egregious screwup in a story
would result in a prompt update and
mea culpa from the responsible editor.
This no longer seems to be the case.
I have my sortings set to "highest rated first"
because a red herring story will usually
have a prompt comment correcting the issue
and getting moderated up to 5. When discussion closes on a story, however, it gets
served as static HTML, and unsorted, and
such comments no longer show up at the top.
This is why updates are necessary, but/.'s
editors are getting increasingly lax about
getting these done, some editors more than
others (coughMichaelcough).
This needs to change. Editors, please,
start updating your stories, even when
it means wearing a paper bag for a few days.
If you don't, the "new journalism" will no
longer have any advantage over the old.
Slashdot Mirror
Shareholders do. And it's one thing for
a corporation to strike a deal with a
public university such that it helps both.
But for a corporation to use public-funded
to corrupt the scientific community, and
to silence research that may hurt its bottom
line, is unacceptable.
It doesn't matter whether it works, what matters is whether it pays. For example, it is much easier to run a study of a drug with the maker's cooperation, than for example, to run a compilation of statistics on complications from the drug after it is in general use. Case in point: phen-fen. And until such an independent study comes up, you're rolling in the dough, as is what happened with phen-fen.
In science museums you'll find exercise
bikes hooked up to lightbulbs to show exactly
that.
In my demo the appliances will also be hooked
up to line power, so people can see their
output compared to line power (and thus be
humbled). No vomiting necessary.
Yeah, that is a much better way to go about it.
The hard part will of course be physically
arranging the appliances for such a demo
and doing the solder work. But it would make
a useful thing. Might do this in my copious
free time, when I get some.
Imagine a cluster of these in a health club somewhere.
Your exercise bike came linked to a dynamo, so that you could use it to store up power in an array of rechargeables, so you could then then use a Zener diode setup to bypass the power supplies on some of your appliances (when and only when the batteries were up) and power them with the sweat of your brow? You could have an array of Zeners for each voltage level on your radio or other small appliances, and it wouldn't take too much soldering to hook these up. It would make a really cool demo, especially now that Fornicalia is having rolling blackouts and other states may soon as well.
Sorry. Can't help it.
Dude, back when there was a gold standard,
there were bank runs and panics every 5 years
or so. Count me the hell out.
Just how much of this is due to the insane
rents in the SF Bay Area? I'm (almost)
willing to bet that no such story is happening
over in Boston, which certainly saw enough
of both the boom and bust, and where
rents are high but not insane.
"12 year old kids should be singing about things they know. Like recess and dodge ball."
Amen.
If you secede, all those federal water
subsidies go poof! You'll lose
water allocations from states due east,
wither and die. Greetings from NM.
Never mind the song. Her whole act is a sign of the apocalypse. I'm only 26 years old. I should not be getting grumpy and curmudgeonly just yet. But now I can't help it. How can parents let a 12 year old dress like that in front of a camera? Never mind the Napster issue, or how the RIAA's manipulation of the intellectual property laws are cheating the artists. If the music industry lets Western culture decline to the point that 12 year olds are expected to dress like that to get stage time, it deserves to lose every penny to bootlegging.
On the other hand, she hasn't been signed yet. Hillary Rosen: take note. If you have anything resembling integrity, you'll blacklist this kid for a few years, or make sure she gets a few pointers from Charlotte Church.
The Japanese have a thing for labor-intensive produce (which is not surprising, considering the terrain of their country). Some US stores are now selling Japanese apples, so you should try one some time. What they do is let only one apple grow on each branch of a tree, nipping the rest in the bud, so that it grows large and sweet. (And of course, they pamper their trees.) So, I'm not all that surprised that they would think of square watermelons.
I ask that passengers put their Hotmail accounts
in the logged out positions, and put on their seat
belts. It has been a pleasure carrying you on
AOL-Time-Warner-American-Airlines, and I hope
you'll choose to fly with us again.
Thanks! Needed that!
There's nothing anyone can do about existing copyrights. But the cost-free and absolutely
hassle free availability of pre-1920 works
is going to make ebook reader owners lean
toward the works available on PG, and
drive a harder bargain when it comes to
copy-control hassles with new ebooks.
Hopefully.
I got used to it after a while. Took some practice, though.
(on another note) I got me my Palm IIIxe. I'm not much of a gamer, and I haven't packed my date book and address book to the gills. But I have several books on board for when I'm bored. Right now, I have Clausewitz's On War, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, a novel called Tartarin of Tarascon, and Sun Tzu's Art of War. And I still have 4 megs free. Beats reading the tabloid headlines when the line at the supermarket is long.
I hope you will join the Project Gutenberg
efforts, then. It is a good thing to do if
you're bored. They even have wishlists.
Issue #1: if it's between an ebook reader and hemp-paper books, the books win hands-down. But never mind that for now.
Assuming the hardware is sturdy, an ebook reader shouldn't go obsolete so quickly. Just because you can double a computer's speed every 18 months doesn't mean you need to, if all you do is display book pages on the damn thing. So ebook hardware should become a long term investment. There is also the issue of carrying capacity, but after 20 or so books, you don't even need more. Frankly, my Palm IIIxe gives me enough reading for a long flight. A memory dongle for a Palm will give me enough reading for a coast-to-coast ride on Amtrak. We don't need to put more books on these things than we will read between syncs. So, hardware may break, but it won't go obsolete.
Hopefully, any hardware company in this business will keep this in mind rather than go all bubbly like Cisco did.
The article goes into thorough detail on the problems that could be posed if publishers are allowed to use the new medium to redefine intellectual property rights for text works. A scary portent of the future, and a distillation of those paragraphs would make a good thing to keep on hand to give (for example) your fellow students if your college wants to switch out of textbooks.
But, the article omits the importance of sites like Andamooka and the Gutenberg project, and also the significance of wireless technology and the Web. If I buy an ebook reader of some sort, it had better 1. do HTML, 2. do PDF and PS, 3. do ASCII, 4. let me make downloads of these from whatever sites I want. What does that mean? Any ebook reader must also be a Web pad to get me to buy it. I do believe that thanks to the Web and to sites like those two (and Nupedia, and many more), and thanks to upcoming Web pads, we have dodged a bullet here. (A Web pad with good handwriting recognition would be dreamy. Mmmm..)
Is this enough? No. We need more content on those sites, not to mention more effort to clue in Joe Sixpack about these issues. But things do look good IMHO. Since any ebook reader has to be able to navigate the Web (either through wireless or through a well thought out Web-suck program), ebook buyers won't be too eager to have to buy books with insane reader software and rights management software hassles.
My tinfoil cap I've been using ever since
the radio tower in Des Moines told me to
join the Backstreet Boys, that's prior art,
man. No fair..
If the grid's monitoring and controlling
computers are actually connected to the net,
somebody in Cal-ISO needs to do some
prison time for criminal negligence.
This is inexcusable.
Slashdot used to be a place where a sufficiently egregious screwup in a story would result in a prompt update and mea culpa from the responsible editor.
This no longer seems to be the case.
I have my sortings set to "highest rated first" because a red herring story will usually have a prompt comment correcting the issue and getting moderated up to 5. When discussion closes on a story, however, it gets served as static HTML, and unsorted, and such comments no longer show up at the top. This is why updates are necessary, but /.'s
editors are getting increasingly lax about
getting these done, some editors more than
others (coughMichaelcough).
This needs to change. Editors, please, start updating your stories, even when it means wearing a paper bag for a few days. If you don't, the "new journalism" will no longer have any advantage over the old.
The Falklands War almost broke the observation,
but McDonalds didn't come to Argentina until
shortly after the war.
Serbia, however, did have a McD's in Belgrade.
It was looted on day 2 of the US air campaign.