An apparatus for the sequestration of carbon dioxide in liquids, such as well water or tap water, removing harmful carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and allowing the possibility of selling the liquid with the carbon dioxide therein as healthy and refreshing drink to Europeans and East-Coast Yuppies.
With this database and the wall between the occupied territories why should I eat kosher salt? Sure, they have it in every cooking show, but if you don’t get enough iodine, you become sick. I bet, Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t eat kosher. Iodine is also good to have in case of nuclear attacks and Isreal has nuclear weapons.
What? - Off topic and completely incoherent?? - I thought that was the theme.
T-mobile actually is a perfect example, how multinational competition won't help much.
True, their contracts aren't quite as bad (yet). For $100 dollars you can even get pay-as-you-go that doesn't expire for a year (the best I found in the US). But in Germany you can buy minutes for 15€ and they're good for a year, or two years if you spend €30. Oh, and that includes calling within the network for 3c.
Same with DSL and phone service by the way, even after value added tax and despite of the low dollar, it's still much cheaper.
The US oligopol seems to make good money, and adding another player just makes them devide the loot by 4 instead of 3.
That cell phone might not increase your cancer risk, but if you don't stop texting and put that damn thing down and try to drive like a normal person it for sure will get you shot.
If your brother had the same taste in torrents as his roomie, and they had a caching server, there wouldn't be a bandwith problem.
If 100 people download the latest CD, or watch the new youtube fab, the local ISP has to get the content only once upstream.
Problem is, they oversold bandwith to the point, where upstream is saturated. So, you cancel heavy user, or preferably heavy users with a high percentage of unique traffic. Because that's all you can do as an ISP once your backbone is gone.
Most information we save is not about "all or nothing":
A software program eventually crashes or stops because of a wrong bit. But a book is still readable if some letters are unclear or a word is missing. - We shouldn't store information that isn't "all or nothing" in an all-or-nothing format.
I remember a storage example from doing neural networks:
An algorithm writes numbers to a matrix. A vector holds "1.2;4.8;0.9". If you add "5", the same memory now holds "1;5;1;5"
It of course could be used the other way around as well: Loss of one memory cell degrades quality of the whole, but the whole information is still accessible.
By now, computer would be fast enough to implement a kind of "lossy digital" holographic archival file format. For scans or picture archives this would be great. And it doesn't prevent you from adding additional checksums or correction blocks.
Know what, capitalism fan-boy: Contracts are fair between equal partners, or when you have the choice to say no without losing life or property, or when there is enough competition within an industry that you have alternatives - Or when you even had a f*ing choice, and you could lead a normal life without constantly signing away your rights.
Often you find uneven service contracts that allow providers to change terms of service, hike up fees, or terminate the contract unilaterally, because you might have acted differently from expected, or can't be milked any further, or are too much trouble, or don't act conform to their norms, or used free speech while not being on your own property.
Some examples:
credit lenders preying on people with medical bills (there are countries where 100% APR is illegal, no matter what the contract says).
all photo services have vague "good taste" even for private prints (Kodak even adds "blasphemy", so no naked baby Jesus cards this Xmas, I guess).
user submitted content often gets licensed over to the company offering the blog/forum.
broad "not liable for damages" disclaimers, even in cases where the company knew about the problem or created it (ok with a blog, not ok with a rental car)
Walking through a mall with a peace button.
...
As far as the ban goes, the Xbox thing might not be the best example for uneven contract law. But by also disabling users' property it certainly is not the reaction of a fair business partner, but of someone who'd like to throw a chair at you. It is like you (probably) stole our city water, so the city will burn down your house. (You should have known, city ordinance says so, and you agreed to it by moving here)
You know, companies could behave differently, treat users with reason, fairness, and react appropriately and still do business. I recently posted to an online forum, that states : "Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)" (my italics) - Isn't that a much fairer way to treat people than to simply ban everyone (and destroy their computer) who mentions goats and how nice they can be as pets?
Murdoch's business model is based on withholding information. Since his sources are accessible to others just as well, this won't work anymore. On the same note, I'd also welcome the death of the local TV news: "There's something in your drinking water. More after this short break."
That said, I agree with the warning about blogging: first person accounts can't replace objective journalism. One of the attractions of bloggers is the seemingly "authentic" view of a person involved with the topic, versus the 3rd person account a journalist offers. And yes, the "true authentic" is often an illusion. Industry is already influencing bloggers, and not everyone discloses their "free samples" they got before writing a review. - Or just the fact, they are writing a review on a sample they got without comparing it to the competitor. Bad bloggers aren't an improvement over bad journalists.
However, there are many cases where the blogger is better than the traditional journalist: An IT-blogger usually provides better information about a new software release, than the tech column writer in the local paper, who got moved to the tech column last month, because he did such a good job with the obituaries.
So, why read the paper if I can get the same or more online? Why watch the news about a land slide in South America, if local bloggers have more information available? Yes, these are rhetorical questions. The answer of course is: Because a journalist offers more. Or to turn it around: Where journalism doesn't offer more, it will die. A journalist can connect the dots, analyze, ask questions: Land-slide - Population growth? Deforestation?
Where journalists are doing that, journalism still adds value. But, you can't ask good questions about things that sound jibber jabber to you and you can't even achieve anything that resemble an objective presentation of different options, if you are too undereducated (or under-experienced) to realize that there might be more than one way to look at it, or that the opposite of main-stream isn't always "crazy". So, good journalism requires journalists that know things about the things they are reporting, not just how to present things that might interest people who are into these things. That again is bad news for Fox News, but also for people who think, that a CJ-BA will be all it takes to become the next investigative wonder, or that the semester of Japanese will let you write articles that are better than the political blog of a Japanese ex-pat with a PoliSci degree.
I hope for the death of bad journalism. Whether this will help good journalism, I don't know. There are journalists I find worth reading. I lived in the US and Germany long enough to know both countries, but Marcia Pally still gives me things to think about. Her articles are also on-line, does that make her a blogger? While missing the boat on some topics, Scholl-Latour usually points out political crisis years before they become daily news. But he too isn't in the daily-news business. He writes books and does documentaries.
What about newspapers? I don't know. A local paper can't feed an expert journalist and her family, but it's its access to local news, that keeps the paper alive. Germany has newspaper cooperatives, where international and national news are done in a central office with the local papers then adding their local content before print. The only major American paper I know of, that does that, is The Onion..
carbon offsets: making up for your pollution by supporting green projects.
bad code offsets: making up for your bad code by supporting open source projects.
blonde joke offsets: making up for your blonde jokes by donating to Gloria Steinem.
idiocy offsets: making up for voting W by supporting inner city youth projects.
netnerd offsets: making up for that/. comment by posting something really insightful on someones blog.
I probably dont write long essays or papers as well because I haven't been doing that in a long time.
Noone is good at writing long essays anymore. But at the same time essays are getting more enlarged, expanded, extensive, outstretched and their wording becomes more sophisticated, refined, schooled, experienced. - Often quite in contrast to the skills of the submitting author or other parts of the same essay.
And in English literature, instead of writing an essay analyzing the drama structure of a play we read in class, you will have to "text a friend about that thing we read"
I switchd to ubuntu becaue all my friends had it *lol* and thanthey hadthat real nice brown swirl in the bagground,but now it look like they R switching to grey, and which I don like that much. but Fedora looks like pretty impressive. me like blue!
i really really like comparizons between diffrent linux distrobutions because they alwayz show U pictores of the desktops
It wouldn't be a problem if that would happen once, and they came up with something more useful than the steering wheel. But next year's model will again "redefine" everything.
Gnome (which I love) or kde, or windows... would suck less if they gave the user easy options to just stick with the old look, gui, menu layout, or window manager after an upgrade.
Agreed, but laws and business regulations can make a difference. Do they try to prevent this or do they (even inadvertently) set up an environment that helps these kind of people?
And that has been the problem so far. Most archives are still holding on to their micro film, even when they hand out CDs for every day use. There is a real need for an up-to-date archival medium. Unforunatly that demand hasn't been met by the industry yet, mainly because archives aren't a huge market like consumer electronics. And despite what politicans claim sometimes, they also aren't seen as critical. If they "fail", no production capacity is lost, just our cultural heritage.
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they use carbon and silver. this is like "turning an apple into a battery" when you stick zinc and copper into it.
better yet: you are White House Security and it's your job to distinguish between party guests and uninvited imposters.
Rapeseed is what causes rape.
I never had sex with that woman.
An apparatus for the sequestration of carbon dioxide in liquids, such as well water or tap water, removing harmful carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and allowing the possibility of selling the liquid with the carbon dioxide therein as healthy and refreshing drink to Europeans and East-Coast Yuppies.
Save the planet, eat a cow.
Large underground herds of cows, that is.
With this database and the wall between the occupied territories why should I eat kosher salt? Sure, they have it in every cooking show, but if you don’t get enough iodine, you become sick. I bet, Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t eat kosher. Iodine is also good to have in case of nuclear attacks and Isreal has nuclear weapons.
What? - Off topic and completely incoherent?? - I thought that was the theme.
True, their contracts aren't quite as bad (yet). For $100 dollars you can even get pay-as-you-go that doesn't expire for a year (the best I found in the US). But in Germany you can buy minutes for 15€ and they're good for a year, or two years if you spend €30. Oh, and that includes calling within the network for 3c.
Same with DSL and phone service by the way, even after value added tax and despite of the low dollar, it's still much cheaper.
The US oligopol seems to make good money, and adding another player just makes them devide the loot by 4 instead of 3.
That cell phone might not increase your cancer risk, but if you don't stop texting and put that damn thing down and try to drive like a normal person it for sure will get you shot.
Problem is, they oversold bandwith to the point, where upstream is saturated. So, you cancel heavy user, or preferably heavy users with a high percentage of unique traffic. Because that's all you can do as an ISP once your backbone is gone.
A software program eventually crashes or stops because of a wrong bit. But a book is still readable if some letters are unclear or a word is missing. - We shouldn't store information that isn't "all or nothing" in an all-or-nothing format.
I remember a storage example from doing neural networks:
An algorithm writes numbers to a matrix. A vector holds "1.2;4.8;0.9". If you add "5", the same memory now holds "1;5;1;5" It of course could be used the other way around as well: Loss of one memory cell degrades quality of the whole, but the whole information is still accessible.
By now, computer would be fast enough to implement a kind of "lossy digital" holographic archival file format. For scans or picture archives this would be great. And it doesn't prevent you from adding additional checksums or correction blocks.
Often you find uneven service contracts that allow providers to change terms of service, hike up fees, or terminate the contract unilaterally, because you might have acted differently from expected, or can't be milked any further, or are too much trouble, or don't act conform to their norms, or used free speech while not being on your own property.
Some examples:
As far as the ban goes, the Xbox thing might not be the best example for uneven contract law. But by also disabling users' property it certainly is not the reaction of a fair business partner, but of someone who'd like to throw a chair at you. It is like you (probably) stole our city water, so the city will burn down your house. (You should have known, city ordinance says so, and you agreed to it by moving here)
You know, companies could behave differently, treat users with reason, fairness, and react appropriately and still do business. I recently posted to an online forum, that states : "Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)" (my italics) - Isn't that a much fairer way to treat people than to simply ban everyone (and destroy their computer) who mentions goats and how nice they can be as pets?
Murdoch's business model is based on withholding information. Since his sources are accessible to others just as well, this won't work anymore. On the same note, I'd also welcome the death of the local TV news: "There's something in your drinking water. More after this short break."
That said, I agree with the warning about blogging: first person accounts can't replace objective journalism. One of the attractions of bloggers is the seemingly "authentic" view of a person involved with the topic, versus the 3rd person account a journalist offers. And yes, the "true authentic" is often an illusion. Industry is already influencing bloggers, and not everyone discloses their "free samples" they got before writing a review. - Or just the fact, they are writing a review on a sample they got without comparing it to the competitor. Bad bloggers aren't an improvement over bad journalists.
However, there are many cases where the blogger is better than the traditional journalist: An IT-blogger usually provides better information about a new software release, than the tech column writer in the local paper, who got moved to the tech column last month, because he did such a good job with the obituaries.
So, why read the paper if I can get the same or more online? Why watch the news about a land slide in South America, if local bloggers have more information available? Yes, these are rhetorical questions. The answer of course is: Because a journalist offers more. Or to turn it around: Where journalism doesn't offer more, it will die. A journalist can connect the dots, analyze, ask questions: Land-slide - Population growth? Deforestation?
Where journalists are doing that, journalism still adds value. But, you can't ask good questions about things that sound jibber jabber to you and you can't even achieve anything that resemble an objective presentation of different options, if you are too undereducated (or under-experienced) to realize that there might be more than one way to look at it, or that the opposite of main-stream isn't always "crazy". So, good journalism requires journalists that know things about the things they are reporting, not just how to present things that might interest people who are into these things. That again is bad news for Fox News, but also for people who think, that a CJ-BA will be all it takes to become the next investigative wonder, or that the semester of Japanese will let you write articles that are better than the political blog of a Japanese ex-pat with a PoliSci degree.
I hope for the death of bad journalism. Whether this will help good journalism, I don't know. There are journalists I find worth reading. I lived in the US and Germany long enough to know both countries, but Marcia Pally still gives me things to think about. Her articles are also on-line, does that make her a blogger? While missing the boat on some topics, Scholl-Latour usually points out political crisis years before they become daily news. But he too isn't in the daily-news business. He writes books and does documentaries.
What about newspapers? I don't know. A local paper can't feed an expert journalist and her family, but it's its access to local news, that keeps the paper alive. Germany has newspaper cooperatives, where international and national news are done in a central office with the local papers then adding their local content before print. The only major American paper I know of, that does that, is The Onion..
carbon offsets: making up for your pollution by supporting green projects. /. comment by posting something really insightful on someones blog.
bad code offsets: making up for your bad code by supporting open source projects.
blonde joke offsets: making up for your blonde jokes by donating to Gloria Steinem.
idiocy offsets: making up for voting W by supporting inner city youth projects.
netnerd offsets: making up for that
Noone is good at writing long essays anymore. But at the same time essays are getting more enlarged, expanded, extensive, outstretched and their wording becomes more sophisticated, refined, schooled, experienced. - Often quite in contrast to the skills of the submitting author or other parts of the same essay.
And in English literature, instead of writing an essay analyzing the drama structure of a play we read in class, you will have to "text a friend about that thing we read"
i really really like comparizons between diffrent linux distrobutions because they alwayz show U pictores of the desktops
No, I'm sure he was talking about f-spot:
Gspot is in debian, but ubuntu dropped it for some reason.
No, I'm sure he was talking about f-spot:
Gspot is in debian, but ubuntu dropped it for some reason.
That problem is mentioned all over the net, what's not mentioned is that the problem stems from transfers across different OSs.
A suggestion that might be a work-around : Sync Windows to a smb share, and use unison locally on that directory.
I am not using windows, so I'm fine. But, I also can't guarantee that my suggestion works.
How do I know? I just googled it.
Gnome (which I love) or kde, or windows ... would suck less if they gave the user easy options to just stick with the old look, gui, menu layout, or window manager after an upgrade.
Agreed, but laws and business regulations can make a difference. Do they try to prevent this or do they (even inadvertently) set up an environment that helps these kind of people?
And that has been the problem so far. Most archives are still holding on to their micro film, even when they hand out CDs for every day use. There is a real need for an up-to-date archival medium. Unforunatly that demand hasn't been met by the industry yet, mainly because archives aren't a huge market like consumer electronics. And despite what politicans claim sometimes, they also aren't seen as critical. If they "fail", no production capacity is lost, just our cultural heritage.