A wall alone does not make a house. A contour crafter would also need to insert plumbing pipes, electrical wiring, and ventilation ducts in walls as it builds them. The prototype can't do that, but Khoshnevis sees that as a trivial problem: "The second hand on your watch was placed robotically on a tiny shaft. Modern robotics can achieve tight tolerances and very high speeds. So having segments of tubing robotically inserted, put atop one another, and welded together as the wall goes up is really a no-brainer."
Marketing isn't the only reason for cookies to be used in a site. Referrals and affiliate programs swing largely on cookies; if you reccommend someone to a site, you get credit, discounts, or what have you.
While this might seem to be entirely unneccessary to many in the audience, there are a LOT of sites that use this system to generate traffic and grow their audience. Offering an incentive for people to tell their friends about a site pushes the viewers from "this is a pretty cool site" to "People I know might appreciate hearing about this site, and if there is something I get from it too, then what harm?"
It can't be denied that China has few friends (a bad case of buying their own brainwashing), but if the US was to nuke them, it had better be in retaliation for a similar strike, or there will be a whole lot of white fingers on a whole lot of triggers.
One mis-step, and its bye bye USA. Trade agreements would be cancelled, indeed trade with the USA as a whole would be cancelled, and the unfortuante people of China would not rest until revenge had been extracted, one way or the other, no matter how long it took.
Some good points there, many of which I agree with, but I have to call you on this one...
America _could_ pull off an Autarky, except for oil, if push came to shove, it's just that international trade is more efficient and better at keeping prices down. OTOH, a cheaper RMB would really kill the EU to the point where they'd need defensive tariffs merely to survive.
Well if America isn't exporting to China, where is it exporting to? The EU. If Europe's economy was hit badly, the pain would be felt from Alaska to Florida. The global economy isn't a modular system, it is strongly interlinked, and when one sector suffers, the ripple effect is felt by everyone.
One or two Trident subs are all you need to ruin China's day.
The next party to use Nuclear weapons in an offensive capacity on this planet has indicated two things... one, it no longer wishes to exist, and two, it no longer wishes the planet to exist. While two might be debatable, number one is most assured.
Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Actually the biggest problem I have with fundies is their missionary zeal, the ones that use their lean or not so lean takings and go to third world countries, where they live like lords and convert poor, starving, and awed masses to whatever fucked-up faction they represent. Every time I'm in south east asia and see one of those sweaty, moustachioed swine, I just see the nightmares they are seeding for the rest of the world in 50 or a hundred years time.
Oh yeah, and they haven't taken any vows of celibacy either, if you get my meaning.
Eh I thought they had worked out that hawking radiation was not matter coming out of the hole, but another part of the accretion disc. Did I pick that up wrong?
I mean why would google give a damn about desktops, manufacturing end terminals, upgrading and maintaining a high speed global network and so on? In short, they wouldn't. That's taking on everyone all at once, and thats a fight no one can win. Why invent the wheel, when there's good money to be made on the backs of other accomplishments?
My guess is they are trying to create a single source of information: Ask the oracle a question, receive all relevant data. A single core database of all information known to the human race. We're already halfway there; the first thing I do when I run across a new word or unfamiliar concept, I google it, and 90% of the time I get what I need. If they organise it a bit better, centralise, compile, and verify it, set it up in a data haven somewhere, well its a brave new world.:D
Once they aren't keeping personal information about people. Then its an abomination.
I hardly bother making comments anymore, I just exit to BoingBoing until the slashcode gives me mod points, but this really needs to be said. The deprecation of computer related fields which is so prevalent in America is NOT the case elsewhere. Where I grew up, the "computer guys" were treated with a certain reverence and awe.
Brains are appreciated in systems which aren't the meatgrinder and specialisation winnowing of US education. I was puzzled for a long time by the "news for nerds" tag on the front page for a long time, eventually I just figured it was there to keep most of the meatheads out.
I mean I fit the classical "nerdy" stereotype almost perfectly, but I'll plant you on your ass if you call me a nerd, son. Mod me down if you like, but seriously, people, a little perspective here!
Ironically enough I just got this down the wire... Google is changing web content dynamically. I didn't read it too closely yet, but if you are talking about making people use bundled products, often with them being unaware of it, this fits the bill nicely.
Absoloutely. I'm sick and tired of scr1pt k1ddies and spammers using hacked machines and IRC botnets to loot the internet at will. The anonymous aspects of the internet are in many ways a blessing, but like all good things it can be far too easily abused. If a malcontent is in a country where your legal system can't touch him or her, can you use this "fingerprint" to lock them out of your network without having to close off whole IP ranges?
Actually that term wasn't in common parlance until the 19th century, and even then only amongst the English speaking people of the world, who at the time represented a significantly smaller percentage of the global population than today:-)
By the Godwins law link there we have both lost the argument, and since I was supporting the gp in the first place, there was no argument, so has this whole thread never, in fact, existed? My head asplode...
Seriously though, I find the parallels between the words of the Reichsfuhrer and the situation today to be chilling. Was there some article lately pointing out that marketers are starting to use the propaganda techniques perfected by the nazis to sell their wares?
"What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think."--Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." --Adolf Hitler
Ultimately the circular arguments here lead to a fairly solid conclusion. Technology is moving too quickly for the law to keep up. The law and body of the law changes slowly, and that is a good thing. It prevents nasty little loopholes creeping in and weakening all of the law.
The problem is that technology has no such limitation, and every day throws up unusual and exceptional cases significantly different enough from previous cases to merit an adjustment or amendment to the laws of the land, if you understand the context. The law will never be able to keep up with this.
Every time I hear some benighted intellectual weeping about the lost joys of liberté, egalité, et fraternité, and their replacement by mass media, fast food, and the fading of the cultures of the west, I want to barf. Why the hell do you think that political debate in any forum is ferocious and spirited? People care about things like that.
They care and try to make their voices heard. Joe average, whoever he is, is interested in the political process, he wants to help decide who will lead him into the next decade. Whatever about disillusionment, propaganda, and spindoctoring (which were every bit as much of the political scene in the time of Goethe as today), there aren't 10 people of voting age today in the US that can honestly say they don't care, they would rather stuff a burger in their faces.
Oh yes, and the Roman Empire fell because it was pulled apart by barbarians and internal strife, groups trying to seize power for themselves, not the whimsical lack of interest.
So it pops up a security warning for a small feature on Mozilla (that asks you anytime it is used anyway), and yet has nothing to say about security on IE?
Our friendly national telco here in Ireland, Eircom gives me a lovely warning message when I try to access it with Mozilla, some crap about others being able to see my username and password. I knew MS had our government in a headlock, but wow, this is a new low. Anyone feels like complaining, let them know;-)
Not sure if it applies to Firefox, but I'd guess yes.
Books are generally printed at a resolution between 600 and 1200 dpi
Actually, professional quality printing usually maxes out at 300 dpi, any more than that and you ar wasting your time. Its a bit more compex than that, but 300 dpi is the best as a rule.
The second is usability life. Laptops range from 2 to 4 hours of usable time while reading a text document. Then you have to re-charge it. A book generally never needs to be recharge.
True, but weighed against that, books are large lumps of processed wood, and that means they are heavy. You try carrying a hundred books of novel size around with you and see how far you get. I'm a fairly widely read person, and I've read probably tens of thousands of books in my lifetime. I could carry every book I have ever read in one pocket, with this device. In terms of
power consumption, the screens hold the image without power, and only need short spikes to change the page. This should extend power to what, ten or twenty times that of an equivalent laptop battery? Not too shabby, although its still a tradeoff. For anyone that doesn't own a semi permanent place to store large book collections though, I see no alternative to this technology.
Oh, but wait, Kia and Avertec are in business to make money too! Ack!
Brilliantly done, in your blind knock kneed rush to defend Apple, you missed the point entirely. You don't save and record ADVERTS for BMWs do you? Create torrents and share them around? Hello?
Hard to tell, but are you being ironic, or moronic?
Thats a bit rich coming from someone who is worshipping a COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT for a FOR-PROFIT company. I mean come on, folks, Apple doesn't give a rats ass except that you buy their products. Let me restate that:
Apple doesn't care about you.
Steve Jobs doesn't care about you.
The only place this might be untrue is in regards to the amount of money they can make you spend on their product.
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You are 0w3nd.... at least give in gracefully and accept you are wrong, outclassed, and out-thought...
No, you didn't RTFA...
A wall alone does not make a house. A contour crafter would also need to insert plumbing pipes, electrical wiring, and ventilation ducts in walls as it builds them. The prototype can't do that, but Khoshnevis sees that as a trivial problem: "The second hand on your watch was placed robotically on a tiny shaft. Modern robotics can achieve tight tolerances and very high speeds. So having segments of tubing robotically inserted, put atop one another, and welded together as the wall goes up is really a no-brainer."
Or if you did, you didn't understand it....
Marketing isn't the only reason for cookies to be used in a site. Referrals and affiliate programs swing largely on cookies; if you reccommend someone to a site, you get credit, discounts, or what have you.
While this might seem to be entirely unneccessary to many in the audience, there are a LOT of sites that use this system to generate traffic and grow their audience. Offering an incentive for people to tell their friends about a site pushes the viewers from "this is a pretty cool site" to "People I know might appreciate hearing about this site, and if there is something I get from it too, then what harm?"
It can't be denied that China has few friends (a bad case of buying their own brainwashing), but if the US was to nuke them, it had better be in retaliation for a similar strike, or there will be a whole lot of white fingers on a whole lot of triggers.
One mis-step, and its bye bye USA. Trade agreements would be cancelled, indeed trade with the USA as a whole would be cancelled, and the unfortuante people of China would not rest until revenge had been extracted, one way or the other, no matter how long it took.
Some good points there, many of which I agree with, but I have to call you on this one...
America _could_ pull off an Autarky, except for oil, if push came to shove, it's just that international trade is more efficient and better at keeping prices down. OTOH, a cheaper RMB would really kill the EU to the point where they'd need defensive tariffs merely to survive.
Well if America isn't exporting to China, where is it exporting to? The EU. If Europe's economy was hit badly, the pain would be felt from Alaska to Florida. The global economy isn't a modular system, it is strongly interlinked, and when one sector suffers, the ripple effect is felt by everyone.
One or two Trident subs are all you need to ruin China's day.
The next party to use Nuclear weapons in an offensive capacity on this planet has indicated two things... one, it no longer wishes to exist, and two, it no longer wishes the planet to exist. While two might be debatable, number one is most assured.
Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Actually the biggest problem I have with fundies is their missionary zeal, the ones that use their lean or not so lean takings and go to third world countries, where they live like lords and convert poor, starving, and awed masses to whatever fucked-up faction they represent. Every time I'm in south east asia and see one of those sweaty, moustachioed swine, I just see the nightmares they are seeding for the rest of the world in 50 or a hundred years time.
Oh yeah, and they haven't taken any vows of celibacy either, if you get my meaning.
Eh I thought they had worked out that hawking radiation was not matter coming out of the hole, but another part of the accretion disc. Did I pick that up wrong?
I mean why would google give a damn about desktops, manufacturing end terminals, upgrading and maintaining a high speed global network and so on? In short, they wouldn't. That's taking on everyone all at once, and thats a fight no one can win. Why invent the wheel, when there's good money to be made on the backs of other accomplishments?
My guess is they are trying to create a single source of information: Ask the oracle a question, receive all relevant data. A single core database of all information known to the human race. We're already halfway there; the first thing I do when I run across a new word or unfamiliar concept, I google it, and 90% of the time I get what I need. If they organise it a bit better, centralise, compile, and verify it, set it up in a data haven somewhere, well its a brave new world. :D
Once they aren't keeping personal information about people. Then its an abomination.
I hardly bother making comments anymore, I just exit to BoingBoing until the slashcode gives me mod points, but this really needs to be said. The deprecation of computer related fields which is so prevalent in America is NOT the case elsewhere. Where I grew up, the "computer guys" were treated with a certain reverence and awe.
Brains are appreciated in systems which aren't the meatgrinder and specialisation winnowing of US education. I was puzzled for a long time by the "news for nerds" tag on the front page for a long time, eventually I just figured it was there to keep most of the meatheads out.
I mean I fit the classical "nerdy" stereotype almost perfectly, but I'll plant you on your ass if you call me a nerd, son. Mod me down if you like, but seriously, people, a little perspective here!
Ironically enough I just got this down the wire... Google is changing web content dynamically. I didn't read it too closely yet, but if you are talking about making people use bundled products, often with them being unaware of it, this fits the bill nicely.
Don't be evil? Indeed...
Absoloutely. I'm sick and tired of scr1pt k1ddies and spammers using hacked machines and IRC botnets to loot the internet at will. The anonymous aspects of the internet are in many ways a blessing, but like all good things it can be far too easily abused. If a malcontent is in a country where your legal system can't touch him or her, can you use this "fingerprint" to lock them out of your network without having to close off whole IP ranges?
Actually that term wasn't in common parlance until the 19th century, and even then only amongst the English speaking people of the world, who at the time represented a significantly smaller percentage of the global population than today :-)
By the Godwins law link there we have both lost the argument, and since I was supporting the gp in the first place, there was no argument, so has this whole thread never, in fact, existed? My head asplode...
Seriously though, I find the parallels between the words of the Reichsfuhrer and the situation today to be chilling. Was there some article lately pointing out that marketers are starting to use the propaganda techniques perfected by the nazis to sell their wares?
the firebombing of innocent civilians in Tokyo or the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
...and I'm sure the people of China might have a thing or two to say about Nanking...
"What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think."--Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." --Adolf Hitler
Ultimately the circular arguments here lead to a fairly solid conclusion. Technology is moving too quickly for the law to keep up. The law and body of the law changes slowly, and that is a good thing. It prevents nasty little loopholes creeping in and weakening all of the law.
The problem is that technology has no such limitation, and every day throws up unusual and exceptional cases significantly different enough from previous cases to merit an adjustment or amendment to the laws of the land, if you understand the context. The law will never be able to keep up with this.
I cannot see a resolution to the problem.
STFU.
Every time I hear some benighted intellectual weeping about the lost joys of liberté, egalité, et fraternité, and their replacement by mass media, fast food, and the fading of the cultures of the west, I want to barf. Why the hell do you think that political debate in any forum is ferocious and spirited? People care about things like that.
They care and try to make their voices heard. Joe average, whoever he is, is interested in the political process, he wants to help decide who will lead him into the next decade. Whatever about disillusionment, propaganda, and spindoctoring (which were every bit as much of the political scene in the time of Goethe as today), there aren't 10 people of voting age today in the US that can honestly say they don't care, they would rather stuff a burger in their faces.
Oh yes, and the Roman Empire fell because it was pulled apart by barbarians and internal strife, groups trying to seize power for themselves, not the whimsical lack of interest.
I don't think it would shake the theological world nearly as much as the discovery of intelligent life in the New World did.
Er, they thought it was India. Of course it didn't shake the theological world. Hence the term "American Indians."
Remarkable. Its not even a bank. Tsk tsk, what are they teaching in troll school these days? Standards slipping, we are not impressed...
So it pops up a security warning for a small feature on Mozilla (that asks you anytime it is used anyway), and yet has nothing to say about security on IE?
Don't tell me thats not loaded....
Our friendly national telco here in Ireland, Eircom gives me a lovely warning message when I try to access it with Mozilla, some crap about others being able to see my username and password. I knew MS had our government in a headlock, but wow, this is a new low. Anyone feels like complaining, let them know ;-)
Not sure if it applies to Firefox, but I'd guess yes.
Books are generally printed at a resolution between 600 and 1200 dpi
Actually, professional quality printing usually maxes out at 300 dpi, any more than that and you ar wasting your time. Its a bit more compex than that, but 300 dpi is the best as a rule.
The second is usability life. Laptops range from 2 to 4 hours of usable time while reading a text document. Then you have to re-charge it. A book generally never needs to be recharge.
True, but weighed against that, books are large lumps of processed wood, and that means they are heavy. You try carrying a hundred books of novel size around with you and see how far you get. I'm a fairly widely read person, and I've read probably tens of thousands of books in my lifetime. I could carry every book I have ever read in one pocket, with this device. In terms of power consumption, the screens hold the image without power, and only need short spikes to change the page. This should extend power to what, ten or twenty times that of an equivalent laptop battery? Not too shabby, although its still a tradeoff. For anyone that doesn't own a semi permanent place to store large book collections though, I see no alternative to this technology.
Oh, but wait, Kia and Avertec are in business to make money too! Ack!
Brilliantly done, in your blind knock kneed rush to defend Apple, you missed the point entirely. You don't save and record ADVERTS for BMWs do you? Create torrents and share them around? Hello?
Hard to tell, but are you being ironic, or moronic?
Thats a bit rich coming from someone who is worshipping a COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT for a FOR-PROFIT company. I mean come on, folks, Apple doesn't give a rats ass except that you buy their products. Let me restate that:
Apple doesn't care about you.
Steve Jobs doesn't care about you.
The only place this might be untrue is in regards to the amount of money they can make you spend on their product.
See a cowboy's someone who can get things done without a comitte, without saying mother may I or kissing anyone's ass.
Ah, so not unlike a dictator then... that's ironic on more levels than I care to go into right now...