1. If external Internet connectivity goes down, or is degraded it is still nice to have access to your calendars
2. Having control of the actual data means you can present it in a wide variety of formats, within a variety of applications, linked up in a variety of ways that aren't possible when it is hosted externally - even when that external host offers an API
3. Hosting it internally makes single sign-on easier.
It strikes me that such a ban will simply provide an incentive for people to produce more sophisticated P2P clients that cloak their activity in some way by getting their traffic to masquerade as something else. It can still be encrypted, it just won't be obviously encrypted - it will be hidden a la steganography. And then we'll have yet another packet inspection arms race.
If you actually read the IPCC report you will see, for example that it does state that under moderate warming conditions, North America will see an increase in crop yields. Unfortunately, as the warming increases yields fall.
Sounds like one could make an argument they spend their days digging up reasons for themselves to even exist. I mean, surely a task force set up to "survey global warming research" doesn't have it in their best interests to conclude anything less than doom and gloom.
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A classic ad hominem attack and it gets modded 'Insightful? Come on Slashdot.
It's really not clear from this review...
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... whether it is worth buying if you are not an After Effects user.
That's quite simply because - as a good PR firm - they know that that isn't the story he is writing, that he wouldn't be interested in hearing about that and would be annoyed by any attempt to lead him along that path. The journalist decides the angle, the PR gets behind it. You don't say to a journalist who asks a question: "actually, a more interesting question is X"... unless it really, genuinely is a more interesting question.
That certainly would be one way, but that would also mean the bloggers being subject to some form of peer review and editing prior to publication, and at that point the blogger has morphed into a journalist, for all intents and purposes.
I ought to also point out that the lone blogger is pretty much in the same situation as the lone journalist, or the lone analyst or anything else when it comes to getting access to media information. As a freelance journalist you face a barrage of questions before being granted any sort of access. Which publications do you write for? What are their circulations? (if not a well-known brand) who is there target audience? Quite often trade-shows require you to provide a photocopy of the magazine's 'flannel panel' - showing your name and position, before giving you a press pass.
Bottom line? I don't think most media departments treat lone bloggers and lone journalists that much differently - they don't like either much. It's just that most journalists are affiliated in some way to a larger organisation.
As an ex-journalist in the UK, I have to point out that journalism is a trade, not a profession. There are no professional exams to take to get into the business. Certainly there are media degrees but they are of debatable value when it comes to actually getting a job. Training is more-or-less based on the apprenticeship model.
Like any trade, there are good tradespeople and bad ones.
I guess they may be having trouble with the word 'species' in this context - since one (rough, disclaimers apply) marker of a species is a group which can interbreed to create viable, fertile offspring)
Precisely. Any asexual reproductive process, coupled with random mutation and selection will lead to genetic diversity in a population. It just means that the rate of change is dependent on random mutation alone, rather than having the added boost of sexual mixing. Not a non-story, but not an earth-shattering one.
I just want to respond by saying that the original poster *does* have valid security concerns, however. One possible solution, albeit a bit heavily engineered and expensive, might be to use virtual machines - one for work with restrictions, one that allows access to Gmail/whatever. Hmmm.
I think the killer quote from the article is this:
"The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced."
The quoted researcher seems to be assuming that there is some kind of current travelling down the nerve, rather than a wave of depolarisation. If this is the only basis for their assertion that sound is mediating nerve action (as it appears to be) then the guys at Copenhagen are smoking something most unusual... or have been subjected to some really strange sounds, whichever.
U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With September 26, 2001 | Issue 3734
WASHINGTON, DC--In a televised address to the American people Tuesday, a determined President Bush vowed that the U.S. would defeat "whoever exactly it is we're at war with here."
"America's enemy, be it Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, a multinational coalition of terrorist organizations, any of a rogue's gallery of violent Islamic fringe groups, or an entirely different, non-Islamic aggressor we've never even heard of... be warned,"
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It won't affect the popularity of Gnash at all, as I see it. The scenarios are either:
1. Producer creates video in Flash - doesn't invoke DRM - user watches it as nornal
2. Producer creates video in Flash - does invoke DRM - user can either watch it, or grumble and not watch it,
I note with interest that your Web page is unavailable. Do you host that yourself, or does a third party do it for you?
Let's see. How about
1. If external Internet connectivity goes down, or is degraded it is still nice to have access to your calendars
2. Having control of the actual data means you can present it in a wide variety of formats, within a variety of applications, linked up in a variety of ways that aren't possible when it is hosted externally - even when that external host offers an API
3. Hosting it internally makes single sign-on easier.
It strikes me that such a ban will simply provide an incentive for people to produce more sophisticated P2P clients that cloak their activity in some way by getting their traffic to masquerade as something else. It can still be encrypted, it just won't be obviously encrypted - it will be hidden a la steganography. And then we'll have yet another packet inspection arms race.
Because you want to run OS X most of the time, but need to run Windows on occassion?
If you actually read the IPCC report you will see, for example that it does state that under moderate warming conditions, North America will see an increase in crop yields. Unfortunately, as the warming increases yields fall.
A classic ad hominem attack and it gets modded 'Insightful? Come on Slashdot.
... whether it is worth buying if you are not an After Effects user.
Forbidden Planet for me, every time. Thank God no-one has remade it.
No, sorry - you don't get it.
Imagine you are a customer looking for your local car dealership. You phone the car company:
"Can you tell me where the nearest dealership is to Smallville please?"
"Sure, but first let me tell you about our unparalleled build quality and aftersales service... "
"... ah, no thanks - I just need to know where I can actually test drive a a car"
"... each car undergoes a rigourous 15-point test session before being >BRRRRRRRRRhad asks - unless you want to look like a fool.
That's quite simply because - as a good PR firm - they know that that isn't the story he is writing, that he wouldn't be interested in hearing about that and would be annoyed by any attempt to lead him along that path. The journalist decides the angle, the PR gets behind it. You don't say to a journalist who asks a question: "actually, a more interesting question is X" ... unless it really, genuinely is a more interesting question.
That certainly would be one way, but that would also mean the bloggers being subject to some form of peer review and editing prior to publication, and at that point the blogger has morphed into a journalist, for all intents and purposes.
I ought to also point out that the lone blogger is pretty much in the same situation as the lone journalist, or the lone analyst or anything else when it comes to getting access to media information. As a freelance journalist you face a barrage of questions before being granted any sort of access. Which publications do you write for? What are their circulations? (if not a well-known brand) who is there target audience? Quite often trade-shows require you to provide a photocopy of the magazine's 'flannel panel' - showing your name and position, before giving you a press pass.
Bottom line? I don't think most media departments treat lone bloggers and lone journalists that much differently - they don't like either much. It's just that most journalists are affiliated in some way to a larger organisation.
As an ex-journalist in the UK, I have to point out that journalism is a trade, not a profession. There are no professional exams to take to get into the business. Certainly there are media degrees but they are of debatable value when it comes to actually getting a job. Training is more-or-less based on the apprenticeship model.
Like any trade, there are good tradespeople and bad ones.
...and don't forget to get a receipt for your receipt.
I guess they may be having trouble with the word 'species' in this context - since one (rough, disclaimers apply) marker of a species is a group which can interbreed to create viable, fertile offspring)
Precisely. Any asexual reproductive process, coupled with random mutation and selection will lead to genetic diversity in a population. It just means that the rate of change is dependent on random mutation alone, rather than having the added boost of sexual mixing. Not a non-story, but not an earth-shattering one.
Since the Macs come with wireless built in, I don't see much demand for 3rd party wireless cards.
No, because in this case the patent system is a self-inflicted wound, not something imposed by an outside aggressor.
Ah, but you should care. This is good news since it is another excellent piece of ammunition in the battle to show that the system is broken.
I just want to respond by saying that the original poster *does* have valid security concerns, however. One possible solution, albeit a bit heavily engineered and expensive, might be to use virtual machines - one for work with restrictions, one that allows access to Gmail/whatever. Hmmm.
In the UK the Razr is just about the cheapest tri-band phone with bluetooth - the two features I need. Which is why I bought it.
The quoted researcher seems to be assuming that there is some kind of current travelling down the nerve, rather than a wave of depolarisation. If this is the only basis for their assertion that sound is mediating nerve action (as it appears to be) then the guys at Copenhagen are smoking something most unusual... or have been subjected to some really strange sounds, whichever.
In the words of The Onion:
U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With
September 26, 2001 | Issue 3734
WASHINGTON, DC--In a televised address to the American people Tuesday, a determined President Bush vowed that the U.S. would defeat "whoever exactly it is we're at war with here."
"America's enemy, be it Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, a multinational coalition of terrorist organizations, any of a rogue's gallery of violent Islamic fringe groups, or an entirely different, non-Islamic aggressor we've never even heard of... be warned,"