Granted, this is very impressive science. But to say it's a 'car' reminds me of those ads for sea monkeys from comics years ago: The ones which showed them as basically being a little underwater nuclear family.
Still bought some though!
http://seamonkeys.3wpages.com/ComicSeamonkeyAd1.jp g
What bothers me is when the govt starts creating agencies called "The Department of Homeland Security" and passing laws called "The Patriot Act." Makes me think I'm suddenly in an Orwell novel instead of a free country.
Absolutely. They sound like something out of an alternate history SF novel - except we're living it..
The bosonic part of the superstring consists of this vortex line. Inside the vortex, they would trap an ultracold cloud of fermionic atoms. Hopefully this will allow observation of the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions, thus providing the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory."
If it doesn't, they could always try reversing the polarity. It's a million-to-one shot, but it just might work..
This is true on lots of levels. My company has a local partner in China who distributes our software there and I went over to Shanghai to do some training for them. When I asked them to install some stuff we needed on some machines, they had pirate copies of *everything* (windows, word, CAD stuff) etc. and just installed those. Some of the guys there even asked me how they could get around the licensing check built into our software(!)
They just don't seem to have a concept of IP: in China it's all about price, nothing else. They'll do anything to cut costs
(I'd be interested to know which software companies are actually doing well in China!)
Staff can make the three-mile voyage into town in their off hours by calling a water taxi.
Hmm. Since the whole idea is to avoid immigration laws/cost of getting visas, then these people won't be catching the water taxi into town as often as they think..
The biggest problem with illegally downloading music ( or anything else ) via p2p is that it devalues the commodity in the mind of the person doing the downloading.
When you can get something for free, you don't respect it: listen to the song once, play the game a few times, then forget it on your harddisk along with the thousands of other downloaded songs and download some other stuff. You don't really care because, well, it's free and there's plenty more music where that came from. If you buy something, chances are you're going to sit down and take the time to appreciate it.
Anyway, once that mentality is established, I think the chances of someone actually paying for music later are pretty low.
It creates a meme: "Music is free".
When you have a very large number of people downloading from a young age then that becomes the norm and a few years down the track it becomes a really tough for anyone trying to make money by selling music. The current business model may collapse, and perhaps we'll see more artists distributing their music themselves on the net, but there will still be LOTS of 'sharing ' of music going because lots of kids who have never known any different will grow up into adults who haven't either. Do you think they will ever get in the habit of paying for music in any significant way?
Hmm, I may just stop there before I descend into a moral rant.
Just some thoughts that crossed my mind as I did exactly the same thing.
>The whole concept of naming things in Asian >culture versus American culture is really at >odds, and things that sound ok or even good >in Asian languages sound absolutely hideous, >sexual/pornographic (LG/Lucky Gold anyone?), >or just plain silly.
Yeah, none of those names will ever catch on. "Spirited Away" should have been named "Sen and Chiro's Excellent Adventure" for the US. Now, where's my WalkMan?
The whole world is going to have to overcome their dependency on oil and perhaps sooner than we think. We'll be hearing the term "Peak Oil" a lot more in future..
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
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I will, right after this one..
Granted, this is very impressive science. But to say it's a 'car' reminds me of those ads for sea monkeys from comics years ago: The ones which showed them as basically being a little underwater nuclear family. Still bought some though! http://seamonkeys.3wpages.com/ComicSeamonkeyAd1.jp g
Perfect! So bloggers are 100% journalists under the second definition
No, Blackboard is J2EE as well.
This is the perfect medium. Hollywood mostly produces watch-once-only movies anyway.
Absolutely. They sound like something out of an alternate history SF novel - except we're living it..
If it doesn't, they could always try reversing the polarity. It's a million-to-one shot, but it just might work..
It's funny 'cos it's true. http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/03_voices/starwa rs/starwars.asp
This is true on lots of levels. My company has a local partner in China who distributes our software there and I went over to Shanghai to do some training for them. When I asked them to install some stuff we needed on some machines, they had pirate copies of *everything* (windows, word, CAD stuff) etc. and just installed those. Some of the guys there even asked me how they could get around the licensing check built into our software(!)
They just don't seem to have a concept of IP: in China it's all about price, nothing else. They'll do anything to cut costs
(I'd be interested to know which software companies are actually doing well in China!)
Hmm. Since the whole idea is to avoid immigration laws/cost of getting visas, then these people won't be catching the water taxi into town as often as they think..
The biggest problem with illegally downloading music ( or anything else ) via p2p is that it devalues the commodity in the mind of the person doing the downloading. When you can get something for free, you don't respect it: listen to the song once, play the game a few times, then forget it on your harddisk along with the thousands of other downloaded songs and download some other stuff. You don't really care because, well, it's free and there's plenty more music where that came from. If you buy something, chances are you're going to sit down and take the time to appreciate it. Anyway, once that mentality is established, I think the chances of someone actually paying for music later are pretty low. It creates a meme: "Music is free". When you have a very large number of people downloading from a young age then that becomes the norm and a few years down the track it becomes a really tough for anyone trying to make money by selling music. The current business model may collapse, and perhaps we'll see more artists distributing their music themselves on the net, but there will still be LOTS of 'sharing ' of music going because lots of kids who have never known any different will grow up into adults who haven't either. Do you think they will ever get in the habit of paying for music in any significant way? Hmm, I may just stop there before I descend into a moral rant. Just some thoughts that crossed my mind as I did exactly the same thing.
Glad they explained how much was stolen in such clear terms. The value of the US lakh isn't what it used to be anyway..
>The whole concept of naming things in Asian >culture versus American culture is really at >odds, and things that sound ok or even good >in Asian languages sound absolutely hideous, >sexual/pornographic (LG/Lucky Gold anyone?), >or just plain silly.
Yeah, none of those names will ever catch on. "Spirited Away" should have been named
"Sen and Chiro's Excellent Adventure" for the US. Now, where's my WalkMan?
The whole world is going to have to overcome their dependency on oil and perhaps sooner than we think. We'll be hearing the term "Peak Oil" a lot more in future.. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/