Big whoop. People have been making much better products for ages. Don't need huge grants. Add bodily fluids and bake for 9 months. Might as well subsidize baby making with that research money. Probably will get more units out of money spent.
What is the point of trying to make something as close to human as possible? Shouldn't they be trying to make something that does things humans can't do?
which is why you make an enormous fresnel zone plate, except instead of drawing it on glass you carve/drill it into the earth.
what's the wavelength of an earthquake shockwave? i'm going to start digging.
any crazy ideas on how to harness energy of triggered quakes?
mine:
carve a large pattern around the area to direct the quake at a giant pendulum which will then swing the gays straight... and the straights gay. for science!
HL7 = cow dung.
Thousands of pages of documentation to define code values and what they mean.
That's not a protocol. It's just a list of values.
If HL7 had any elegance to it, it might pass for a protocol. As it is, it's just a pile of shit for which you have to pay hundreds of dollars just to read the description of every undigested leaf of grass and the amorphous goo that holds them together.
Notice there has been relatively large volume of trading the past two days (16th & 17th - the report came out on 16th) but the price hasn't moved much during that time. Looks like some people bought up SNE last month, raising price. Now they are using this positive report to get rid of SNE stocks. Well, I'm not at all knowledgeable about stocks, but that's what I thought looking at the chart.
article written by Initiative for Software Choice
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The Demise of IP?
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· Score: 2, Informative
At the bottom of the article it says...
Melanie Wyne is executive director of the Initiative for Software Choice, a global coalition run by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
I'll talk about the Initiative for Software Choice first, since it is the easiest to dismiss. Although it is nominally under the auspices of CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, there seems little doubt that it was nudged into existence by Microsoft following the open source bills introduced in 2002 (CompTIA is a legitimate industry group that runs the A+ certification program, among others).
Why doesn't cnet not point out a connection like this? I can't remember every damn organization and who they're affiliated with.
Seeing as how ChoicePoint DBT helped deny voting rights to legitimate voters in order to get Bush elected in 2000, Democrats are probably looking for some way to bring this up at the investigation.
I think it'll be fun. I'll have popcorn in hand watching C-SPAN whenever this happens.
Blech. That spoiled my day. Lexmark really deserves to die. Or they should change their business model and improve their products.
Here's to hoping their 2004 numbers do drop significantly.
I would know, having worked as a sales rep at an electronics retailer.
There are so many nightmarish stories customers walk into the stores with. Dried up ink, cartridges that run out in a few weeks, broken printers, etc. I never recommended a Lexmark once. Many computer packages were bundled with Lexmark by default, maybe because they're so cheap and there are rebates, but you're better off with other brands.
Oh, and the cartridges. Just as shoddy as the printers. Customers complained of ink drying up after not using the printer for a week. A week. Wee small things too, the ink compartments are. I doubt the ink would last long.
Lexmark will be dead soon even if they had won this lawsuit. Just as well that they lost. People won't have the stupid choice available to them that much sooner.
Crazykimchi linked it two days ago.
Granted, I never thought of linking it myself. But since I'm never at fault, I blame you, yes you.
You should have had RSS set up to monitor all news sites while bathing in a tub full of coffee.
With 1,000 or so of you doing this in shifts you could cut down the response time to around a minute.
http://www.levity.com/mavericks/quake.htm ----- Tributsch has suggested that a piezoelectric effect may be at work here. When certain crystals, such as quartz, are arranged in such a way that pressure is applied along certain of the crystal's axes, the distribution of positive and negative ions can shift slightly. In this way pressure changes produce electrical charging of the crystal's surfaces. On the average, the earth's crust consists of 15% quartz, and in certain areas it can be as high as 55%.
According to Tributsch, the piezoelectric effect of the quartz is capable of generating enough electrical energy to account for the creation of airborne ions before and during an earthquake. This electrostatic charging of aerosol particles may be what the animals are reacting to. Animals, also observed acting unusual in similar ways prior to thunderstorms, may have evolved a sensitivity to electrical changes in their environment (Tributsch, 1982). -----
Electromagnetic noise generated by pizoelectric effects from quartz under stress is also significant. Some Japanese reseracher did experiments on animals by compressing quartz near them and observing their reactions. The animals were isolated from the quartz, so it's not the ions that were causing observed effects.
I'm inclined to say the tsunami prediction by the random number generators is an electomagnetic effect, rather than some psychic ability of a mysterious collective unconsciousness.
Seeing as how the collective consciousness guys are magnifying tiny voltage changes caused by quantum effects in their random generators, let's go with electromagnetic noise from compressed quartz.
I forget exactly where I got the picture, but it was a Japanese picture posting site at least half a year ago. I think I saw the huge spiky crab too. I just didn't save that.
In the middle of the that last reply, I inserted an incomplete sentence. But you know what I was trying to say.
They weren't simply drawing a line through 2000 and 1996 election results.
Before I respond to the parts of your comment relevant to the subject at hand, let me say... don't put words in my mouth.
I voted for Nader in 2000 and I didn't give a damn who won then. But the carefree years of Clinton are gone. Now I've had 4 years of Bush. If he did win legitimately, then fine. I say let him have fun. Because whoever comes into office next time around will have a hell of a mess on their hands. But if he didn't win legitimately, I'd be damned if I'm going to let him, as President of a nation whose government claims to follow the will of the people and to uphold separation of church and state, stuff big business and Christian interests down my throat for yet another four years.
Did I say Saddam is better than Bush? Why would anyone make a comparison between the two? Is Saddam up for elections here in the US?
I have opposed the War in Iraq from the get-go. Does my opposing the War in Iraq somehow mean I love Saddam? I bought the whole WMD story. What twisted bastard would lie to the public about something so important? But I thought the US couldn't afford the resources needed to fight and maintain stability in Iraq after having invaded Afghanistan. I thought our troops would be in both countries for decades. Did you really think we'd take Iraq in a week, kill Saddam, then leave? Do you think that our troops will leave in a few years? Because I'm still thinking in terms of decades, regardless of which party calls the shots.
Now that I've let that out... I think what these guys at Berkeley did is a bit more complicated than your
Hey, I got my own opinion about what happened during the 2004 elections. Don't tell me to give up. Because I'm not going to give up. If it turns out I'm wrong, that's great. Because that means paperless voting didn't screw up election results. If Bush won because of voter fraud or gross error, of course he shouldn't be our next President. So why do you think we shouldn't question what seems questionable? Or do you think we should leave it to Kerry, that spineless lesser of two evils who conceded when his running mate wanted to continue fighting? Better yet, why don't we ask Bush to check if he was elected legitimately?
Paperless voting is sloppy. You have heard of machines spitting out more votes than there are registered voters, right? And of machines that were counting backwards? At the very least there should be a ballot box full of receipts to back up the machine count. We wouldn't have resort to statistical analysis if that were the case this election.
And it's also not a good idea to put our election in the hands of any company who can claim trade secrets in order to prevent examination of their systems. Of course they don't want us to find anything wrong with their systems. They make money selling the image of security and accuracy. But they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability like this.
I think we both agree on these two last issues. Unless I'm wrong. Feel free to tell me all about it in that case.
This is a pre-emptive strike on any other persons who wish to correct me. I meant to say that 3 million voters turned out for 2004 elections in Florida.
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Big whoop. People have been making much better products for ages. Don't need huge grants. Add bodily fluids and bake for 9 months. Might as well subsidize baby making with that research money. Probably will get more units out of money spent. What is the point of trying to make something as close to human as possible? Shouldn't they be trying to make something that does things humans can't do?
lol scant
Google is not the solution for your programming domain inquries. Facebook is. You just need to get better friends.
which is why you make an enormous fresnel zone plate, except instead of drawing it on glass you carve/drill it into the earth. what's the wavelength of an earthquake shockwave? i'm going to start digging.
any crazy ideas on how to harness energy of triggered quakes? mine: carve a large pattern around the area to direct the quake at a giant pendulum which will then swing the gays straight... and the straights gay. for science!
hannibal lecter?
What he said. It sucks. Buy something fun with your money. Like a hooker.
HL7 = cow dung. Thousands of pages of documentation to define code values and what they mean. That's not a protocol. It's just a list of values. If HL7 had any elegance to it, it might pass for a protocol. As it is, it's just a pile of shit for which you have to pay hundreds of dollars just to read the description of every undigested leaf of grass and the amorphous goo that holds them together.
Depends on how old you are and whether they wear those outfits during the day.
Yeah. That's what I get for not reading the article first, I guess.
The "stay the course" strategy?
Seems like the buzz these clowns are creating is letting some people get rid of their SNE stock.
chart of SNE's stock for the last month
Notice there has been relatively large volume of trading the past two days (16th & 17th - the report came out on 16th) but the price hasn't moved much during that time. Looks like some people bought up SNE last month, raising price. Now they are using this positive report to get rid of SNE stocks. Well, I'm not at all knowledgeable about stocks, but that's what I thought looking at the chart.
I seemed to vaguely remember something about ISC and MS so I searched and got this explanation of Initiative for Software Choice.
Why doesn't cnet not point out a connection like this? I can't remember every damn organization and who they're affiliated with.
This is really the better place to start reading.
I'm sure someone pointed this out before, but Bitkeeper's distributed nature means a licensee has to cooperate with the reverse-engineer, thus there is much breaking of terms.
Seeing as how ChoicePoint DBT helped deny voting rights to legitimate voters in order to get Bush elected in 2000, Democrats are probably looking for some way to bring this up at the investigation.
I think it'll be fun. I'll have popcorn in hand watching C-SPAN whenever this happens.
Blech. That spoiled my day. Lexmark really deserves to die. Or they should change their business model and improve their products. Here's to hoping their 2004 numbers do drop significantly.
I would know, having worked as a sales rep at an electronics retailer.
There are so many nightmarish stories customers walk into the stores with. Dried up ink, cartridges that run out in a few weeks, broken printers, etc. I never recommended a Lexmark once. Many computer packages were bundled with Lexmark by default, maybe because they're so cheap and there are rebates, but you're better off with other brands.
Oh, and the cartridges. Just as shoddy as the printers. Customers complained of ink drying up after not using the printer for a week. A week. Wee small things too, the ink compartments are. I doubt the ink would last long.
Lexmark will be dead soon even if they had won this lawsuit. Just as well that they lost. People won't have the stupid choice available to them that much sooner.
Crazykimchi linked it two days ago. Granted, I never thought of linking it myself. But since I'm never at fault, I blame you, yes you. You should have had RSS set up to monitor all news sites while bathing in a tub full of coffee. With 1,000 or so of you doing this in shifts you could cut down the response time to around a minute.
http://www.levity.com/mavericks/quake.htm
Tributsch has suggested that a piezoelectric effect may be at work here. When certain crystals, such as quartz, are arranged in such a way that pressure is applied along certain of the crystal's axes, the distribution of positive and negative ions can shift slightly. In this way pressure changes produce electrical charging of the crystal's surfaces. On the average, the earth's crust consists of 15% quartz, and in certain areas it can be as high as 55%.
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According to Tributsch, the piezoelectric effect of the quartz is capable of generating enough electrical energy to account for the creation of airborne ions before and during an earthquake. This electrostatic charging of aerosol particles may be what the animals are reacting to. Animals, also observed acting unusual in similar ways prior to thunderstorms, may have evolved a sensitivity to electrical changes in their environment (Tributsch, 1982).
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Electromagnetic noise generated by pizoelectric effects from quartz under stress is also significant. Some Japanese reseracher did experiments on animals by compressing quartz near them and observing their reactions. The animals were isolated from the quartz, so it's not the ions that were causing observed effects.
I'm inclined to say the tsunami prediction by the random number generators is an electomagnetic effect, rather than some psychic ability of a mysterious collective unconsciousness.
Seeing as how the collective consciousness guys are magnifying tiny voltage changes caused by quantum effects in their random generators, let's go with electromagnetic noise from compressed quartz.
Never you mind. I should have read some of the comments first. Nothing new here.
Strange Sea Critters
I forget exactly where I got the picture, but it was a Japanese picture posting site at least half a year ago. I think I saw the huge spiky crab too. I just didn't save that.
Anyone know what it says on the board?
In the middle of the that last reply, I inserted an incomplete sentence. But you know what I was trying to say. They weren't simply drawing a line through 2000 and 1996 election results.
Before I respond to the parts of your comment relevant to the subject at hand, let me say... don't put words in my mouth.
I voted for Nader in 2000 and I didn't give a damn who won then. But the carefree years of Clinton are gone. Now I've had 4 years of Bush. If he did win legitimately, then fine. I say let him have fun. Because whoever comes into office next time around will have a hell of a mess on their hands. But if he didn't win legitimately, I'd be damned if I'm going to let him, as President of a nation whose government claims to follow the will of the people and to uphold separation of church and state, stuff big business and Christian interests down my throat for yet another four years.
Did I say Saddam is better than Bush? Why would anyone make a comparison between the two? Is Saddam up for elections here in the US?
I have opposed the War in Iraq from the get-go. Does my opposing the War in Iraq somehow mean I love Saddam? I bought the whole WMD story. What twisted bastard would lie to the public about something so important? But I thought the US couldn't afford the resources needed to fight and maintain stability in Iraq after having invaded Afghanistan. I thought our troops would be in both countries for decades. Did you really think we'd take Iraq in a week, kill Saddam, then leave? Do you think that our troops will leave in a few years? Because I'm still thinking in terms of decades, regardless of which party calls the shots.
Now that I've let that out... I think what these guys at Berkeley did is a bit more complicated than your
Hey, I got my own opinion about what happened during the 2004 elections. Don't tell me to give up. Because I'm not going to give up. If it turns out I'm wrong, that's great. Because that means paperless voting didn't screw up election results. If Bush won because of voter fraud or gross error, of course he shouldn't be our next President. So why do you think we shouldn't question what seems questionable? Or do you think we should leave it to Kerry, that spineless lesser of two evils who conceded when his running mate wanted to continue fighting? Better yet, why don't we ask Bush to check if he was elected legitimately?
Paperless voting is sloppy. You have heard of machines spitting out more votes than there are registered voters, right? And of machines that were counting backwards? At the very least there should be a ballot box full of receipts to back up the machine count. We wouldn't have resort to statistical analysis if that were the case this election.
And it's also not a good idea to put our election in the hands of any company who can claim trade secrets in order to prevent examination of their systems. Of course they don't want us to find anything wrong with their systems. They make money selling the image of security and accuracy. But they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability like this.
I think we both agree on these two last issues. Unless I'm wrong. Feel free to tell me all about it in that case.
This is a pre-emptive strike on any other persons who wish to correct me. I meant to say that 3 million voters turned out for 2004 elections in Florida.