Or, instead of posting the summary from the blog post, you could have looked at the actual list. Most of the attendees are obviously media people: program directors, commentators etc. There were 3 academics, representatives from a couple of environmental groups, and at least one industry rep (from BP). So really, they get together a small group of 'experts' to inform the other attendees about the subject so that they can make their reporting policy decisions. It seems like the list shows exactly what the BBC described.
"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
In all of the discussions about copyright and patents, the ranters all seem to assume that ideas float freely and all anyone needs to do is fire up the machines to produce the widgets or code it up. They neglect the fact that someone had to spend (usually a lot) of time (and often money) to conceive, test, refine and _then_ produce the book, game, widget, etc. And with all of that investment there was no guarantee that it would succeed.
As soon as printing presses were around, it became clear that there are plenty of assholes who will wait to the very end of that process and simply copy a popular product, selling it cheaper because they had to take no risks. And plenty of people willing to save a buck by buying the knockoff.
Nobody would care if you came up with new bread shapes unless they somehow made eating bread even more wonderful. Despite the hours/weeks/years you spent toiling, your bread would be copied and you would never be able to recoup those costs.
I don't think that perpetual copyright is the answer, but neither is vilifying everyone who comes up with an original idea and wishing they would go out of business because Joe down the street was able to copy them in a week and sell it to you for half the price.
Generally a picture of a chalkboard or whiteboard from a distance, with heads in the way is of significantly lower quality than simply writing the equations yourself. In fact, in my cosmology class I currently need to roll my chair back from the table on occassion to even see the board and my professor tends to add annotations or erase areas in the middle of an explanation.
Having spent three semesters now taking notes on an iPad I couldn't disagree more. In physics and astrophysics classes it is quite common to want to add plots and other figures to your notes. If you have them at hand (ie googled for them) then you are correct and a laptop is as good. However, it is much more frequent that you simply need to add a quick figure or write down an equation with more greek letters than you feel like pseudo-latexing out. Switch the the pen, zoom in for smoothing or detail work, result is better generally than pen and paper. Since most of the content is typed, there is not 'recognition' problem. I have had a professor ask for my notes since they were more detailed than his slides (incorporating what he was saying as well).
I use an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard as well as a pen. For general lectures or notes in a class where there are few equations, the keyboard is great. For a few figures or equations I can zoom in and draw with my finger (in the same notebook app that I am typing in) or even quickly google the figures I see in the presentation and paste them directly into my notes. For my cosmology class, heavy on general relativity, I find that I can't type the equations fast enough and so switch to an app which has fantastic stylus response. Both apps allow exporting as PDF (among other things) and so for classes where I use both notebooks, I export to PDF and merge the pages in the proper order.
Apps: iNotes (typing with light figure work) and NoteShelf (fantastic pen work with Griffen pen). The 'fatness' of the stylus is not an issue and for particularly fine writing you can write in a 'zoomed' area and have it appear on the page at a smaller size. The app also recognizes your wrist as opposed to where you are writing so that you can just write directly on the page. They also have lousy screenshots on their website...the control you have over line shape is superb. Both apps allow organizing your notes in different notebooks so that you can separate out your classes.
The one thing I would still like is a better app for general note taking. iNotes is fine for typing but the drawing tools are rather limited. A previous app that I used, Notify, was fantastic until it crashed 45 minutes into a class taking all of my notes with it. Both iNotes and NoteShelf have been stable and I have never lost any notes.
I don't know where you pulled your stats from, though I know I have essentially seen the same bullshit floating around for months now. Even if your numbers were anywhere close to correct (or weren't skewed to pull some middle income households into the wealthy), you are neglecting the fact that the amount of income brought in by those groups is far larger by percentage than the amount of taxes they pay. In 2000, the top 10% owned 69.8% of the wealth (it has gotten worse since). They should be paying _at least_ 70% of the taxes.
With the iPhone (and now with any ipod if you buy apple's new headphones) you can click on the mic to pause, double click to skip a track, and triple click to skip backwards a track. Volume has also been added to the side of the new Touch to match the iPhone so that all of the things you can reasonably hope to accomplish by feel are now possible.
So all of those corporate blackberries out there are a myth? There it's even worse since all of their e-mail (read sensitive data) is passing through a single third party's servers. And as for competitive bidding, that will still come down to the software vendor and the vendor can make a specific deal with the corporation and give it to them to load through their corporate App Store.
And in Safari, you can turn on the 'Private Browsing...' option so that as soon as you close the window, all private data is cleared. However, I agree that it is not really a solution. What is odd is that the main portion of.Mac actually has two logout buttons. It is only the iDisk access which lacks it.
The system has one big flaw, though -- it only work with static senders. A spammer who changes the envelope from address won't get caught, and might even by luck pick a forged sender address that has a positive latest-25-score.
So the solution for the spammers to defeat this system is to send the spams multiple times to the same receipients, but with different senders. This will increase the overall spam, which I don't see as a good service. As someone who already receives a boatload of spam (I would say 90% would be on the low side) I can tell you that is already how it works. I receive the same (or similar) messages not just from different forged senders, but from different mail servers and initial IP addresses. This system would do absolutely nothing to stem the tide of these e-mails.
In addition, any mailing list which happens to send to me would result in an automatically lower score for that e-mail. At least at the superficial level, this system doesn't seem very workable.
actually, it is only about.1g if you are accellerating for 3.5 days to 50 million km then the same to slow down. However, there seems to be a bit of a problem with their speculation. It says that it could thrust up to speeds greater than 100km/sec. At.1g for 3.5 days you would be going 3 times that. If instead you accelerated really quickly (say.5g for 5.6 hours) to 100km/sec it would take you 11 days to get there.
Although it is an 'independent' company, FileMaker blows Access out of the water and you can use it on windows. However, if you are used to the sludge that is Access, you could probably just start developing web front ends to MySQL databases for free.
I am at a desktop machine right now and not my laptop so I can't quite remember the setting. However, under the mouse/keyboard system pref there is a setting for 'Ignore Mouse while Typing' or some such thing. When I first got a powerbook with a trackpad, this annoyed me to no end so I turned it off and lived with the fact that my cursor would jump all over the screen while I was typing. The newer machines are much better than they used to be (even on a 17" where the trackpad is huge) but the main thing is just a matter of re-training yourself...your wrists have to be completely off of the trackpad.
As to why you might be losing mouse clicks, are you also having a battery problem? A coworker of mine was complaining about strange mouse behaviour and a couple of days later came in with a distended battery that had been growing and pushing on the trackpad from beneath. Apple is replacing the battery and when they checked it out, noticed that it had dislodged the trackpad connector.
My wife is not part of the slashdot crowd, and she was all for the phone (despite her hatred of AT&T) until she found out that it wouldn't _fully_ replace her palm. Specifically, she wanted to install something akin to OmniOutliner on it so that she could avoid both Apple's lame outliner (from iCal) and Palm's lame outliner. If you have a full computer disguised as a phone, it is only natural to want to install your favorite apps on it.
BTW the guy at the omni booth at macworld I talked to was excited about developing for the iPhone if it was possible...I would assume they are disappointed too.
you may be correct, but the idea of bio-fuels is that they produce no net carbon. If you plant a bunch of algae, it sucks carbon-dioxide out of the air to grow, you then burn it for fuel (or whatever it is they do with algae) returning much of that carbon to the air, but in the meantime you are growing more algae...no net carbon. Theoretically you could also sequester the carbon dioxide that you produce and actually remove carbon from the cycle.
Not quite everything you envisioned, but it is in use today: Bio-Gas Digester Generators. And an article in the NYTimes today was projecting a large increase in bio-fuels if carbon were taxed, I would assume that some of it would be this.
I actually sat in on a lecture a few months ago by a scientist in Berkeley (don't remember where he was actually from) whose model was also accurately predicting space weather. He showed us 300 minutes of simulation and then showed us what the sun actually did during that time period and they matched very closely, so theoretically he could predict 300 minutes into the future. However, when asked how much computer time was spent to get those 300 minutes he said, "3 months...on a 2000CPU machine".
He mentioned the Johns Hopkins group and said that they were much closer to realtime (still behind) but that their model was simpler...I don't know whose model was more accurate.
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Largely because the field was pioneered by European and Australian astronomers.
Or, instead of posting the summary from the blog post, you could have looked at the actual list. Most of the attendees are obviously media people: program directors, commentators etc. There were 3 academics, representatives from a couple of environmental groups, and at least one industry rep (from BP). So really, they get together a small group of 'experts' to inform the other attendees about the subject so that they can make their reporting policy decisions. It seems like the list shows exactly what the BBC described.
"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
In all of the discussions about copyright and patents, the ranters all seem to assume that ideas float freely and all anyone needs to do is fire up the machines to produce the widgets or code it up. They neglect the fact that someone had to spend (usually a lot) of time (and often money) to conceive, test, refine and _then_ produce the book, game, widget, etc. And with all of that investment there was no guarantee that it would succeed.
As soon as printing presses were around, it became clear that there are plenty of assholes who will wait to the very end of that process and simply copy a popular product, selling it cheaper because they had to take no risks. And plenty of people willing to save a buck by buying the knockoff.
Nobody would care if you came up with new bread shapes unless they somehow made eating bread even more wonderful. Despite the hours/weeks/years you spent toiling, your bread would be copied and you would never be able to recoup those costs.
I don't think that perpetual copyright is the answer, but neither is vilifying everyone who comes up with an original idea and wishing they would go out of business because Joe down the street was able to copy them in a week and sell it to you for half the price.
Generally a picture of a chalkboard or whiteboard from a distance, with heads in the way is of significantly lower quality than simply writing the equations yourself. In fact, in my cosmology class I currently need to roll my chair back from the table on occassion to even see the board and my professor tends to add annotations or erase areas in the middle of an explanation.
Having spent three semesters now taking notes on an iPad I couldn't disagree more. In physics and astrophysics classes it is quite common to want to add plots and other figures to your notes. If you have them at hand (ie googled for them) then you are correct and a laptop is as good. However, it is much more frequent that you simply need to add a quick figure or write down an equation with more greek letters than you feel like pseudo-latexing out. Switch the the pen, zoom in for smoothing or detail work, result is better generally than pen and paper. Since most of the content is typed, there is not 'recognition' problem. I have had a professor ask for my notes since they were more detailed than his slides (incorporating what he was saying as well).
I use an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard as well as a pen. For general lectures or notes in a class where there are few equations, the keyboard is great. For a few figures or equations I can zoom in and draw with my finger (in the same notebook app that I am typing in) or even quickly google the figures I see in the presentation and paste them directly into my notes. For my cosmology class, heavy on general relativity, I find that I can't type the equations fast enough and so switch to an app which has fantastic stylus response. Both apps allow exporting as PDF (among other things) and so for classes where I use both notebooks, I export to PDF and merge the pages in the proper order.
Apps: iNotes (typing with light figure work) and NoteShelf (fantastic pen work with Griffen pen). The 'fatness' of the stylus is not an issue and for particularly fine writing you can write in a 'zoomed' area and have it appear on the page at a smaller size. The app also recognizes your wrist as opposed to where you are writing so that you can just write directly on the page. They also have lousy screenshots on their website...the control you have over line shape is superb. Both apps allow organizing your notes in different notebooks so that you can separate out your classes.
The one thing I would still like is a better app for general note taking. iNotes is fine for typing but the drawing tools are rather limited. A previous app that I used, Notify, was fantastic until it crashed 45 minutes into a class taking all of my notes with it. Both iNotes and NoteShelf have been stable and I have never lost any notes.
I don't know where you pulled your stats from, though I know I have essentially seen the same bullshit floating around for months now. Even if your numbers were anywhere close to correct (or weren't skewed to pull some middle income households into the wealthy), you are neglecting the fact that the amount of income brought in by those groups is far larger by percentage than the amount of taxes they pay. In 2000, the top 10% owned 69.8% of the wealth (it has gotten worse since). They should be paying _at least_ 70% of the taxes.
Here is one nicely collated article http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
As you realize that the top 1% of earners hold 35% of the wealth, you have to wonder why they don't want to pay their taxes.
With the iPhone (and now with any ipod if you buy apple's new headphones) you can click on the mic to pause, double click to skip a track, and triple click to skip backwards a track. Volume has also been added to the side of the new Touch to match the iPhone so that all of the things you can reasonably hope to accomplish by feel are now possible.
yes, but then most of the jokes are about you.
So all of those corporate blackberries out there are a myth? There it's even worse since all of their e-mail (read sensitive data) is passing through a single third party's servers. And as for competitive bidding, that will still come down to the software vendor and the vendor can make a specific deal with the corporation and give it to them to load through their corporate App Store.
You do know that your macbook pro has digital optical audio which will send dts surround don't you?
And in Safari, you can turn on the 'Private Browsing...' option so that as soon as you close the window, all private data is cleared. However, I agree that it is not really a solution. What is odd is that the main portion of .Mac actually has two logout buttons. It is only the iDisk access which lacks it.
Was the tool toilet paper then?
actually, it is only about .1g if you are accellerating for 3.5 days to 50 million km then the same to slow down. However, there seems to be a bit of a problem with their speculation. It says that it could thrust up to speeds greater than 100km/sec. At .1g for 3.5 days you would be going 3 times that. If instead you accelerated really quickly (say .5g for 5.6 hours) to 100km/sec it would take you 11 days to get there.
Although it is an 'independent' company, FileMaker blows Access out of the water and you can use it on windows. However, if you are used to the sludge that is Access, you could probably just start developing web front ends to MySQL databases for free.
Are you serious?! Try 'Show Status Bar' under the View menu.
Actually, if the 128kbps files are encrypted, they should be significantly larger. Maybe they 256kbps files will end up being the same size?
I am at a desktop machine right now and not my laptop so I can't quite remember the setting. However, under the mouse/keyboard system pref there is a setting for 'Ignore Mouse while Typing' or some such thing. When I first got a powerbook with a trackpad, this annoyed me to no end so I turned it off and lived with the fact that my cursor would jump all over the screen while I was typing. The newer machines are much better than they used to be (even on a 17" where the trackpad is huge) but the main thing is just a matter of re-training yourself...your wrists have to be completely off of the trackpad.
As to why you might be losing mouse clicks, are you also having a battery problem? A coworker of mine was complaining about strange mouse behaviour and a couple of days later came in with a distended battery that had been growing and pushing on the trackpad from beneath. Apple is replacing the battery and when they checked it out, noticed that it had dislodged the trackpad connector.
My wife is not part of the slashdot crowd, and she was all for the phone (despite her hatred of AT&T) until she found out that it wouldn't _fully_ replace her palm. Specifically, she wanted to install something akin to OmniOutliner on it so that she could avoid both Apple's lame outliner (from iCal) and Palm's lame outliner. If you have a full computer disguised as a phone, it is only natural to want to install your favorite apps on it.
BTW the guy at the omni booth at macworld I talked to was excited about developing for the iPhone if it was possible...I would assume they are disappointed too.
you may be correct, but the idea of bio-fuels is that they produce no net carbon. If you plant a bunch of algae, it sucks carbon-dioxide out of the air to grow, you then burn it for fuel (or whatever it is they do with algae) returning much of that carbon to the air, but in the meantime you are growing more algae...no net carbon. Theoretically you could also sequester the carbon dioxide that you produce and actually remove carbon from the cycle.
Not quite everything you envisioned, but it is in use today: Bio-Gas Digester Generators. And an article in the NYTimes today was projecting a large increase in bio-fuels if carbon were taxed, I would assume that some of it would be this.
Those were not 300 minutes of simulation, but 300 seconds, sorry.
He mentioned the Johns Hopkins group and said that they were much closer to realtime (still behind) but that their model was simpler...I don't know whose model was more accurate.