Why? Segways are not the same devices as bikes. They are more compact, can be stopped easier, are more maneuverable. Segways are not cars also. So why should they follow the same rules?
Absolutely no logic in your post and still it's Score 4.
But see how it is done with video. While MP3-ripping is done by anyone with a CD and a computer, DVD-ripping is to a large extent done by professionals. Even with the most popular movie, like, for example, The Two Towers, there are only around 7 different rips. For most of the movies it is just one or two. That means that you can have a limited number of trusted sources for checksums. Right now it is done by maintaining a website, like Sharereactor or Filenexus. Even if they are legally (unlikely) or economically (possible, but also not very unlikely) forced to close, the checksums can be electronically signed and distributed in any possible way.
Then the only way to poison the pool of available files is to control something like 99% of nodes, which is unlikely to happen.
The chairman of the department for the struggle against high-tech crimes of the Moscow Central Directorate for Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Chepchugov, has recently released a statement about pornsites. Dmitry Chepchugov stated that the income earned from pornsites is being used to fund extremist and terrorist organizations.
Actually Khrushchev used the "Kuzkina mat" expression in a speech after Power's spyplane was grounded. Accidentally at that very time Soviet scientists were working on the 100MTon thermonuclear bomb, which they started calling after that "Kuzkina mat".
Regarding "We will bury you", in Russian Khrushchev's words translated literally meant exactly that ("My vas zakopaem" - We you will_bury). But you are correct in that context they meant: "We'll be around longer than you, and we'll attend your funeral."
Dipshit, the absense of a tester is not a problem, it's a symptom. Some bloated IIS team would have been quite fine without his presence. Win XP team, OTOH, was quite happy that this tester was there to fix that bug, and all that stuff. If you care about your family more than your job, you have got to get your priorities straight.
If a free failed discontinued product is better for the economy than expensive maintained "successful" product, I suppose the invisible hand of Mr. Smith will be slowly pushing the "successful" companies from the business.
Sure, it doesn't usually happen, and not in the today's technological field, where the opportunities for product improvement exists. But still, I am happily using the abandonwared AtGuard! for addcutting and firewalling, as well, as thousands other users.
But I admit, it is hard to find an example, where the company will voluntarily go out of business (letting the consumers use free existing products), just because economy doesn't need it. None of them will renounce from selling you a "new" and "improved" product ina year or two.
Why don't you think about some other countries where the film will not be shown until months after December, 19?
Take Russia, for example. The premier date is Feb, 7th - only because one month ago the worldwide distribution rights were transferred to another company.
Don't you think in this case downloading the DivX or buying it on CD would be justified?
Exactly! You don't have the right to create a life whenever you wish. You must consider what you are doing and what good will be the life to the newly created being. It is irresponsible to be a parent, if you have bad genetic inheritance, bad physical conditions, bad habits, no parental skills, no resources to raise a child.
And so:
When you conceive a child, you must think what life will it have.
When you create a clone, you must think what life will it have.
When you program an AI, you must think what life will it have.
Noone has the right to mess with the life, with the spirit and with the intellegence. The creator must be reponsible for his actions.
Lois Bujold has said in public that Science Fiction is a reflection of the society that exists when the work is created, not a prediction of the future, and I believe her.
Sadly it is very much so...:-( Many people, including writers, beleive that it is not literature if it is not about people. And by people they mean present people. Take for example this Wired story.
A robotic expert says: "Star Trek, especially, has been about the present, though it takes place in the future. Gene Rodenberry always tried to show current problems in a different light. It is difficult to build a show like that if all you are doing for an hour each week is showcasing nifty gadgets."
This is stunningly stupid and shortsighted. What actual benefits are in using hi-tech gadgetry in a show (movie/book/game) about present people? There are none! The real reason for SF should be showing potential technologies/inventions and how they affect the Universe (not necessarily us humans). The ideas can be taken from author's imagination as well as from existing ideas/inventions. Our society desperately needs understanding of future possibilities. Despite Sony selling 100000+ AIBO's already, most people still do not realise the potential of robotics.
It was done several years ago already by several Russian inventors. They also created a virtual suit (wireless motion tracking, not limited to room).
I have personally seen it working and talked with the guys who did it. They are very capable and I think that in 1-2 years the spheres will be avaiable for sale.
What is important is the speed of progress, not the total time required to develop something. We obviously started our biomed/genetic research hundreds of thousands years ago, when we picked the first vegetable and tasted it. However, it would be worthwhile to consider how much time will it take for us to build the first human-size organism completely from scratch. 64 years starting from the decoding of human genome would be a good guess.
If you want a physicist to take something from history, the course needs to be taught from the perspective of a physicist: How has science influenced historical developments at various times in various places?
No, no and not! You need to have a broad view on the world, not a narrow-minded view of the physicist described above. There are two main problems with that:
The history of physics or influence of physics on the history are SPECIFIC things. And you just can't learn them unless you are familiar with the BASIC concepts of history. The civilizations, historical formations, etc.
History as related to physics is not enough. Literature as related to physics is not enough. Medicine as related to physics is not enough. Music, biology, sociology, management, mathematics, phylosophy, cultures, politology, geography, EVERYTHING as related to physics is not enough. Broad is broad. Narrow is narrow.
Don't be confused. Shaping a person interested in nothing but physics is not broad education. Creating a person interested in all (or at least many) aspects of the world to some extent IS.
Actually the first translation of LOTR (into Russian) that I read, didn't include Tom. For me it wasn't a great problem and I didn't find that Old Forest part adds much to the story.
An excellent example of such an interface is good old Norton Commander (for Windows it is FAR - File and Archive Manager. UNIX equivalents are somewhat lacking in features and UI quality).
For example, imagine that you want to move all your object files, plus a few others that don't have anything in common. (save to you - i.e. not the same name, or file type, etc.)
OK, good challenge.;)
You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the GUI
You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the FAR, you can have up to ten shortcuts (Ctrl+Number), you can have a user menu with optional keyboard shortcut navigation (F2 D I brings me to my Palm Install directory).
Type a command along the lines of "select *.o" into the cli parser of that _very_ GUI directory window, and the appropriate _icons_ highlight, and are selected. Quickly mouse around to the other couple of icons you want, and shift-click to add them to the selection.
Select one file with.o extension and press Ctrl+GreyPlus. Or press GreyPlus and enter one or several wildcards, separated with commas. Then you can move along the file list (with keyboard or mouse, actually) and use Insert to manually select files. Of course, you can unselect files in the same way. Some extra seclecting features are also available.
Then drag the icons from the window into another folder visible onscreen (which may be easier than having to remember and type in another pathname), change over to that window and enter a command like "rename * *.backup" to rename all of the moved files.
Then use the second panel of FAR (!) to navigate to the target directory. Press F6 to move all the files there. You can even add to the path which is shown in the window something like *.*.backup and you don't need that extra step.;)
So, this is an ideal UI for the file management. You can't beat FAR neither in GUI Explorer-like apps (what a pain to look at people using it for 5 minutes to accomplish what was described above) nor in CLI (you need more tiping and more time).
I have a cable modem connection with payment by bandwidth used. It was a source of some frustration when I suddenly found that the monthly traffic went up almost 2 times for the last 8 months. There are several PCs hooked to the same connection in my family and some of the traffic of course is generated by others. However, I was not able to find out how much traffic was e-mail attachments, how much my web-surfing and how much some file-sharing networks.
Anyone knows a solution to that? A small, lean app that can give the stats on the fixed connection usage by app, servers, time, etc.
Yesterday I had a lecture on Innovation Management in my institute. The professor told us about communication systems, Iridium in particular, we watched a promotional video tape from them and discussed that a lot. What a surprise was it for me, when at home I read in the news that tomorrow Iridium is going down...:(((
Tereshkova had sex in space many years ago
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Well, NASA isn't in a hurry, because this too was already done by Soviets.:) We had our Sputnik launched first, we had Gagarin in the space first, we had the Lunohod on the Moon first and many many more. (Except for man on the Moon, but financially the man-on-the-Moon campaign was a disaster for the US)
And Valentina Tereshkova was ordered to have some sex in the space, althougth the whole story wasn't much advertised because of Soviet secrecy and moral standards.
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And what if I would be running two copies of KaZaA / Donkey each.
1) First copy is for sharing stuff.
2) Second copy is for downloading stuff only (no sharing at all).
Then I upload just for the sake of sharing, don't I?
Why? Segways are not the same devices as bikes. They are more compact, can be stopped easier, are more maneuverable. Segways are not cars also. So why should they follow the same rules?
Absolutely no logic in your post and still it's Score 4.
But see how it is done with video. While MP3-ripping is done by anyone with a CD and a computer, DVD-ripping is to a large extent done by professionals. Even with the most popular movie, like, for example, The Two Towers, there are only around 7 different rips. For most of the movies it is just one or two. That means that you can have a limited number of trusted sources for checksums. Right now it is done by maintaining a website, like Sharereactor or Filenexus. Even if they are legally (unlikely) or economically (possible, but also not very unlikely) forced to close, the checksums can be electronically signed and distributed in any possible way. Then the only way to poison the pool of available files is to control something like 99% of nodes, which is unlikely to happen.
Pravda.Ru reports:
The chairman of the department for the struggle against high-tech crimes of the Moscow Central Directorate for Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Chepchugov, has recently released a statement about pornsites. Dmitry Chepchugov stated that the income earned from pornsites is being used to fund extremist and terrorist organizations.
Read the full story.
That's hilarious! The best joke I've read in last month.
Actually Khrushchev used the "Kuzkina mat" expression in a speech after Power's spyplane was grounded. Accidentally at that very time Soviet scientists were working on the 100MTon thermonuclear bomb, which they started calling after that "Kuzkina mat".
Regarding "We will bury you", in Russian Khrushchev's words translated literally meant exactly that ("My vas zakopaem" - We you will_bury). But you are correct in that context they meant: "We'll be around longer than you, and we'll attend your funeral."
Dipshit, the absense of a tester is not a problem, it's a symptom. Some bloated IIS team would have been quite fine without his presence. Win XP team, OTOH, was quite happy that this tester was there to fix that bug, and all that stuff. If you care about your family more than your job, you have got to get your priorities straight.
Stupid!
The money are not printed, they are taken from the experimenters.
Total amount of money and the value of dollar, obviously (for people familiar with basic math) doesn't change.
If a free failed discontinued product is better for the economy than expensive maintained "successful" product, I suppose the invisible hand of Mr. Smith will be slowly pushing the "successful" companies from the business.
Sure, it doesn't usually happen, and not in the today's technological field, where the opportunities for product improvement exists. But still, I am happily using the abandonwared AtGuard! for addcutting and firewalling, as well, as thousands other users.
But I admit, it is hard to find an example, where the company will voluntarily go out of business (letting the consumers use free existing products), just because economy doesn't need it. None of them will renounce from selling you a "new" and "improved" product ina year or two.
"Did anything important happen in Russia in 1918?"
Sure, but not by your standards... The Great October Revolution, you probably had in mind, happened in 1917.
Why don't you think about some other countries where the film will not be shown until months after December, 19?
Take Russia, for example. The premier date is Feb, 7th - only because one month ago the worldwide distribution rights were transferred to another company.
Don't you think in this case downloading the DivX or buying it on CD would be justified?
Exactly! You don't have the right to create a life whenever you wish. You must consider what you are doing and what good will be the life to the newly created being. It is irresponsible to be a parent, if you have bad genetic inheritance, bad physical conditions, bad habits, no parental skills, no resources to raise a child.
And so:
When you conceive a child, you must think what life will it have.
When you create a clone, you must think what life will it have.
When you program an AI, you must think what life will it have.
Noone has the right to mess with the life, with the spirit and with the intellegence. The creator must be reponsible for his actions.
Lois Bujold has said in public that Science Fiction is a reflection of the society that exists when the work is created, not a prediction of the future, and I believe her.
Sadly it is very much so... :-( Many people, including writers, beleive that it is not literature if it is not about people. And by people they mean present people. Take for example this Wired story.
A robotic expert says: "Star Trek, especially, has been about the present, though it takes place in the future. Gene Rodenberry always tried to show current problems in a different light. It is difficult to build a show like that if all you are doing for an hour each week is showcasing nifty gadgets."
This is stunningly stupid and shortsighted. What actual benefits are in using hi-tech gadgetry in a show (movie/book/game) about present people? There are none! The real reason for SF should be showing potential technologies/inventions and how they affect the Universe (not necessarily us humans). The ideas can be taken from author's imagination as well as from existing ideas/inventions. Our society desperately needs understanding of future possibilities. Despite Sony selling 100000+ AIBO's already, most people still do not realise the potential of robotics.
It was done several years ago already by several Russian inventors. They also created a virtual suit (wireless motion tracking, not limited to room).
I have personally seen it working and talked with the guys who did it. They are very capable and I think that in 1-2 years the spheres will be avaiable for sale.
Check more at
http://www.virtusphere.com/
What is important is the speed of progress, not the total time required to develop something. We obviously started our biomed/genetic research hundreds of thousands years ago, when we picked the first vegetable and tasted it. However, it would be worthwhile to consider how much time will it take for us to build the first human-size organism completely from scratch. 64 years starting from the decoding of human genome would be a good guess.
If you want a physicist to take something from history, the course needs to be taught from the perspective of a physicist: How has science influenced historical developments at various times in various places?
No, no and not! You need to have a broad view on the world, not a narrow-minded view of the physicist described above. There are two main problems with that:
Don't be confused. Shaping a person interested in nothing but physics is not broad education. Creating a person interested in all (or at least many) aspects of the world to some extent IS.
Actually the first translation of LOTR (into Russian) that I read, didn't include Tom. For me it wasn't a great problem and I didn't find that Old Forest part adds much to the story.
Danila
An excellent example of such an interface is good old Norton Commander (for Windows it is FAR - File and Archive Manager. UNIX equivalents are somewhat lacking in features and UI quality).
For example, imagine that you want to move all your object files, plus a few others that don't have anything in common. (save to you - i.e. not the same name, or file type, etc.)
OK, good challenge. ;)
You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the GUI
You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the FAR, you can have up to ten shortcuts (Ctrl+Number), you can have a user menu with optional keyboard shortcut navigation (F2 D I brings me to my Palm Install directory).
Type a command along the lines of "select *.o" into the cli parser of that _very_ GUI directory window, and the appropriate _icons_ highlight, and are selected. Quickly mouse around to the other couple of icons you want, and shift-click to add them to the selection.
Select one file with .o extension and press Ctrl+GreyPlus. Or press GreyPlus and enter one or several wildcards, separated with commas. Then you can move along the file list (with keyboard or mouse, actually) and use Insert to manually select files. Of course, you can unselect files in the same way. Some extra seclecting features are also available.
Then drag the icons from the window into another folder visible onscreen (which may be easier than having to remember and type in another pathname), change over to that window and enter a command like "rename * *.backup" to rename all of the moved files.
Then use the second panel of FAR (!) to navigate to the target directory. Press F6 to move all the files there. You can even add to the path which is shown in the window something like *.*.backup and you don't need that extra step. ;)
So, this is an ideal UI for the file management. You can't beat FAR neither in GUI Explorer-like apps (what a pain to look at people using it for 5 minutes to accomplish what was described above) nor in CLI (you need more tiping and more time).
See screenshot or visit the official FAR web-site.
I have a cable modem connection with payment by bandwidth used. It was a source of some frustration when I suddenly found that the monthly traffic went up almost 2 times for the last 8 months. There are several PCs hooked to the same connection in my family and some of the traffic of course is generated by others. However, I was not able to find out how much traffic was e-mail attachments, how much my web-surfing and how much some file-sharing networks.
Anyone knows a solution to that? A small, lean app that can give the stats on the fixed connection usage by app, servers, time, etc.
Hey, man! ;-) They don't need a trust model for that.
Artists who want to enforce their copyrights can go out and search for Metallica.
Yesterday I had a lecture on Innovation Management in my institute. The professor told us about communication systems, Iridium in particular, we watched a promotional video tape from them and discussed that a lot. What a surprise was it for me, when at home I read in the news that tomorrow Iridium is going down... :(((
Well, NASA isn't in a hurry, because this too was already done by Soviets. :) We had our Sputnik launched first, we had Gagarin in the space first, we had the Lunohod on the Moon first and many many more. (Except for man on the Moon, but financially the man-on-the-Moon campaign was a disaster for the US)
And Valentina Tereshkova was ordered to have some sex in the space, althougth the whole story wasn't much advertised because of Soviet secrecy and moral standards.