He's been using "other people's telescopes" so to speak.
This is nothing new -- in fact, most astronomers work just like him - they use observations made by their colleagues.
The astronomers who actually do observations are fewer than the people who do astronomy, mostly because observing requires a whole lot of skills on top of astronomy knowledge.
Yes, absolutely, getting the footing of UK's naval might post-WWII had absolutely nothing to do with the US gaining super-power status.
Not having its cities bombed to smithereens, not having its economy devastated, not having lost a large percentage of its population was not a factor either.
Grabbing a large amount of science and technology for free from friend and foe as spoils of war and repayment for services rendered, and sucking up the best brains just because US offered better conditions wasn't a factor either.
If it is all about population and resources, how come Japan is not where India is? How come Russia lost its super-power status? How come Africa is still largely starving?
Actually, the US got into power by waiting out until all major powers in Europe were badly bloodied by WWII, and then picking a side and trading old equipment for world dominance. See, e.g. destroyers for bases, lend-lease, etc.
Then, after the war, the US was easily able to attract talent by money - the so called "brain drain".
It is doubtful copyrights were even in the game, especially given the fact that the rules were largely synchronized immediately postwar, and the copyrights mostly covered literature anyway.
It is really hard to believe what kind of crap becomes policy courtesy of the European Commission these days.
It is even funnier when you consider that the EC is basically very close to the Chinese Politburo -- the Commission is neither elected by the people whose money it liberally wastes, nor effectively accountable to anyone, but the backroom dealers in Europe.
There's a story from the end of the Roman republic that comes to mind.
Republican Rome had a very complicated legislative system with duplicate institutions and authority, which worked well only if "the way of the ancestors" was followed. If, on the other hand, that wasn't the case, the system was easily exploitable, but exploits could cause it to easily grind to a complete halt.
Tiberius Gracchus was the first to exploit (for a "just" cause, agrarian reform) the system successfully. He (completely legally, but ignoring tradition) sidestepped the Senate and used force to shut his opposition up.
Eventually, he was killed, but what he started lived on. The Roman republic was never the same.
In more ways than one, his action was the beginning of the Roman Revolution and lead ultimately to the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the monarchy under Octavian Augustus.
That's nothing. A friend got stuck in the toilet in a lone cabin - the lock broke or something (the rest of us camped out in tents a few miles out).
So, since she had no gadgets on her, she started crying for help out of the window. Some kids heard her, brought an old lady in some hours. The kids didn't come back, the lady couldn't help, and our friend was reluctant to be alone (it was getting late in the afternoon), so she tried to have the old lady make a call on her cell.
There was no reception in the area, and the old lady apparently has never used a cellphone anyway, BUT... but they somehow managed to send an email to a common friend of ours on a different continent - using the intermittent and weak WiFi that was available from somewhere.
So, the friend got the mail (written by the old lady, so pretty incoherent and scary-sounding) in the middle of the night, then looked up my phone, called me and asked me could we find a better time for pranks.
So, we went to check out what's up and had to break the door.
/ true story / still no idea where that wifi came from / cool story, too
I just turned it on, and already got about 3 chain mail style messages about Skype having to purge its invalid user base, so please forward this to 15 of your friends.
Thanks, but the "add-on bar" just shows add-on options, it does not provide the most important function of the status bar - looking up URL on mouseover.
This drive to kill URLs and replace them with keywords, which mozilla has been doing since 3.0 and the "smart-ass" address bar just went over the top.
I know that the starting few characters of URLS are now shown in the address bar, however the address bar isn't even close to long enough to display two URLs properly.
And I run on >1500 horizontal resolution.
Anyway, like I said, the current generation of debils who develop for mozilla can very well make a browser for themselves.
Obama can't do shit at home because of the same reason every other US president couldn't do shit - the president ain't got the power. The people who believed his campaign and voted for him on the basis of his campaign promises, only show ginormous lack of knowledge about how the US operates. Now, those Obama voters, who also voted democrat in the parliamentary elections... they should be really angry.
Incidentally, this lack of power to do stuff at home is also why capable presidents (like, say, FDR, Nixon or even Clinton) usually excel abroad, where there are fewer limitations to what they can do. What truly speaks of Obama's (lack of) ability is his total failure to show any leadership internationally, despite the huge amount of goodwill that the retirement of Bush brought.
He's almost as bad as Bush (in the sense that he's an inexperienced and unsophisticated demagogue, who lacks interest in foreign affairs), and the reason he isn't actually worse is most likely the fact that he just isn't doing anything at all.
Or maybe he's just a sign that the US is, like Britain in 1900, ready to roll off from the top.
Removing the fucking status bar. I don't know which idiot came up with this brilliant concept, but he (or she) is the reason I'm dumping firefox for greener pastures.
The reason that broke the back of the proverbial camel that is.
It is probably viewed as a reasonable safeguard for preventing more secrets leaking, including secrets within the force, and not as censorship.
Technically, of course, it is meaningless to keep the pretense the Wikileaks are secrets anymore. If you are in a simple situation and only have access to one, or very few secrets, this is so.
Typical commercial NDAs are usually drafted in this fashion -- I haven't signed a single one that doesn't provide a clause that renders it void if the matters it covers become public in some way.
But if you are the military, and you manage a lot of secrets and a lot of compartmentalization across a large group of people, a leak may have many undesired effects, especially given other, yet unleaked knowledge that insider groups have.
I suppose this is the main reason for banning staff from reading leaks, theoretically. Ditto for government officials with clearance.
Now, we can argue all day whether a commercial-style NDA is better than a keeping a pretense, and it may be totally meaningless given the difficulty of enforcement, but there is a perverse logic behind the decision that is not based on censorship, or desire to "unbreak" the leak, but, rather, prevent further leaks and problems.
I live in Japan. At the moment, I don't have a 1Gbps connection because I don't need one; I have a 100Mbps instead. I've been on broadband since maybe 2001, when broadband was still 1.5Mbps. I'm a pretty heavy user, I host several sites that exchange large files, and I test the connection periodically, just to be sure.
So far I've never had a situation, outside of announced planned maintenance (or the 3 unplanned outages I've experienced since 2001) where I wasn't able to get the maximum speed out of the connection, really. Most of the time I test with sites outside of Japan.
I've used ftth from both the biggest fish - NTT (they only provide the fiber, then you have to sign up with a provider, and you can choose from may options), and from a smaller ones - USEN. The experience is pretty much the same.
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You should visit a modern observatory.
He's been using "other people's telescopes" so to speak.
This is nothing new -- in fact, most astronomers work just like him - they use observations made by their colleagues.
The astronomers who actually do observations are fewer than the people who do astronomy, mostly because observing requires a whole lot of skills on top of astronomy knowledge.
How about Great Britain, you little racist shit? Why won't Britannia rule again, my friend? Or they are Anglo-Saxon niggers?
Why so much noise, won't ordering a wake-up call to that same phone work better?
Yes, absolutely, getting the footing of UK's naval might post-WWII had absolutely nothing to do with the US gaining super-power status.
Not having its cities bombed to smithereens, not having its economy devastated, not having lost a large percentage of its population was not a factor either.
Grabbing a large amount of science and technology for free from friend and foe as spoils of war and repayment for services rendered, and sucking up the best brains just because US offered better conditions wasn't a factor either.
If it is all about population and resources, how come Japan is not where India is? How come Russia lost its super-power status? How come Africa is still largely starving?
Yours is a very simple world.
After WW2? Certainly.
Actually, the US got into power by waiting out until all major powers in Europe were badly bloodied by WWII, and then picking a side and trading old equipment for world dominance. See, e.g. destroyers for bases, lend-lease, etc.
Then, after the war, the US was easily able to attract talent by money - the so called "brain drain".
It is doubtful copyrights were even in the game, especially given the fact that the rules were largely synchronized immediately postwar, and the copyrights mostly covered literature anyway.
It is really hard to believe what kind of crap becomes policy courtesy of the European Commission these days.
It is even funnier when you consider that the EC is basically very close to the Chinese Politburo -- the Commission is neither elected by the people whose money it liberally wastes, nor effectively accountable to anyone, but the backroom dealers in Europe.
It is a sham and a shame.
There's a story from the end of the Roman republic that comes to mind.
Republican Rome had a very complicated legislative system with duplicate institutions and authority, which worked well only if "the way of the ancestors" was followed. If, on the other hand, that wasn't the case, the system was easily exploitable, but exploits could cause it to easily grind to a complete halt.
Tiberius Gracchus was the first to exploit (for a "just" cause, agrarian reform) the system successfully. He (completely legally, but ignoring tradition) sidestepped the Senate and used force to shut his opposition up.
Eventually, he was killed, but what he started lived on. The Roman republic was never the same.
In more ways than one, his action was the beginning of the Roman Revolution and lead ultimately to the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the monarchy under Octavian Augustus.
well, there's groovy for that.
Is the Earth core going to stop then as well? And by 2012 you mean December 2012, right?
That's nothing. A friend got stuck in the toilet in a lone cabin - the lock broke or something (the rest of us camped out in tents a few miles out).
So, since she had no gadgets on her, she started crying for help out of the window. Some kids heard her, brought an old lady in some hours. The kids didn't come back, the lady couldn't help, and our friend was reluctant to be alone (it was getting late in the afternoon), so she tried to have the old lady make a call on her cell.
There was no reception in the area, and the old lady apparently has never used a cellphone anyway, BUT ... but they somehow managed to send an email to a common friend of ours on a different continent - using the intermittent and weak WiFi that was available from somewhere.
So, the friend got the mail (written by the old lady, so pretty incoherent and scary-sounding) in the middle of the night, then looked up my phone, called me and asked me could we find a better time for pranks.
So, we went to check out what's up and had to break the door.
/ true story
/ still no idea where that wifi came from
/ cool story, too
I just turned it on, and already got about 3 chain mail style messages about Skype having to purge its invalid user base, so please forward this to 15 of your friends.
So, the Internet is the same as ever.
Thanks, but the "add-on bar" just shows add-on options, it does not provide the most important function of the status bar - looking up URL on mouseover.
This drive to kill URLs and replace them with keywords, which mozilla has been doing since 3.0 and the "smart-ass" address bar just went over the top.
I know that the starting few characters of URLS are now shown in the address bar, however the address bar isn't even close to long enough to display two URLs properly.
And I run on >1500 horizontal resolution.
Anyway, like I said, the current generation of debils who develop for mozilla can very well make a browser for themselves.
No more donations from me.
"Sneaky Reveal" is also apparently a part of their new lingerie line. The part for playful adults.
Obama can't do shit at home because of the same reason every other US president couldn't do shit - the president ain't got the power. The people who believed his campaign and voted for him on the basis of his campaign promises, only show ginormous lack of knowledge about how the US operates. Now, those Obama voters, who also voted democrat in the parliamentary elections ... they should be really angry.
Incidentally, this lack of power to do stuff at home is also why capable presidents (like, say, FDR, Nixon or even Clinton) usually excel abroad, where there are fewer limitations to what they can do. What truly speaks of Obama's (lack of) ability is his total failure to show any leadership internationally, despite the huge amount of goodwill that the retirement of Bush brought.
He's almost as bad as Bush (in the sense that he's an inexperienced and unsophisticated demagogue, who lacks interest in foreign affairs), and the reason he isn't actually worse is most likely the fact that he just isn't doing anything at all.
Or maybe he's just a sign that the US is, like Britain in 1900, ready to roll off from the top.
Removing the fucking status bar. I don't know which idiot came up with this brilliant concept, but he (or she) is the reason I'm dumping firefox for greener pastures.
The reason that broke the back of the proverbial camel that is.
I would, but I use perl instead of ruby.
Or extorting the random gambling site.
Except it is so sad, there's nothing to laugh about.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
It is probably viewed as a reasonable safeguard for preventing more secrets leaking, including secrets within the force, and not as censorship.
Technically, of course, it is meaningless to keep the pretense the Wikileaks are secrets anymore. If you are in a simple situation and only have access to one, or very few secrets, this is so.
Typical commercial NDAs are usually drafted in this fashion -- I haven't signed a single one that doesn't provide a clause that renders it void if the matters it covers become public in some way.
But if you are the military, and you manage a lot of secrets and a lot of compartmentalization across a large group of people, a leak may have many undesired effects, especially given other, yet unleaked knowledge that insider groups have.
I suppose this is the main reason for banning staff from reading leaks, theoretically. Ditto for government officials with clearance.
Now, we can argue all day whether a commercial-style NDA is better than a keeping a pretense, and it may be totally meaningless given the difficulty of enforcement, but there is a perverse logic behind the decision that is not based on censorship, or desire to "unbreak" the leak, but, rather, prevent further leaks and problems.
That's abridging the freedom of the readership, not of the press. The wikileaks still get published, it is just forbidden to read them.
Come to think of it, it will be a constitutional way to cut you off information when, in a few years, all press comes to your Eyepad.
/ says my tinfoil hat.
Especially for you:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=8951
Well, there was this guy from a small village, who went to the big city once, and was taken to the zoo.
So, he sees the cage of the giraffe, stops in front of it, takes a long, hard look and firmly says: "There ain't no such animal".
I live in Japan. At the moment, I don't have a 1Gbps connection because I don't need one; I have a 100Mbps instead. I've been on broadband since maybe 2001, when broadband was still 1.5Mbps. I'm a pretty heavy user, I host several sites that exchange large files, and I test the connection periodically, just to be sure.
So far I've never had a situation, outside of announced planned maintenance (or the 3 unplanned outages I've experienced since 2001) where I wasn't able to get the maximum speed out of the connection, really. Most of the time I test with sites outside of Japan.
I've used ftth from both the biggest fish - NTT (they only provide the fiber, then you have to sign up with a provider, and you can choose from may options), and from a smaller ones - USEN. The experience is pretty much the same.
Make of it what you wish.