bittorrent means you also broadcast as you download.
Utter crap. Broadcasting is a "push" technology, bittorrent is a pull technology. The most they can get you for is "making content available". And don't pervert perfectly reasonable terms in future. Remember "standards" ? They exist so that we all know what we are referring to. When you start bastardising them, we are left with confusion. This applies to spelling, grammar and programming alike. Invent a new language if you're not happy with this one, but on this site we use English. Insightful my arse !
But surely, the real information is gained from the fact that something "observed" the remote component of the entanglement. If the "home" component gets triggered, then *something* _must_ have happened to the remote component. Prior tests could establish the different stimuli that are needed, to get a set of known results. What that *something* was caused by, is then another problem, but it's a start.
There is not much point to a "muscle car" if it uses so much fuel that it can only run for 2 seconds - so I would say it IS worth noting ! It has to have a certain amount of fuel economy OR huge ferkin tanks !
And as there is no evidence for ESP available, it does not exist ? A scientist in 1900 would have had trouble proving the existence of WIMPs, and describing the internet or space flight. The lack of evidence is not proof of the non-existence of anything. Here's an anecdote - About 20 years ago, I awoke feeling really strange, bad if you like. I hadn't slept restlessly, or been drinking the night before. After getting up and drinking a coffee, I decided to go for a ride on my motorbike. I had no destination in mind, just to clear my head. For some reason I found myself heading for my parents house 10 miles away. When I got there, my sister (who doesn't live there) rushed out the door in tears, crying "you knew, you knew !" My sisters baby had died from cot death that morning. I realise this *proves* nothing, but how do you explain it without some reference to extra-sensory perception ?
Then again, we're also finding out that they can produce a four-door 40mpg car without making it a hybrid.
They'd better be able to - I run a 1992 Ford Sierra, 1.8 litre, four door, petrol, which routinely returns 450 miles from an 11 gallon tank (that's Imperial gallons). It makes me laugh when I see people crowing about their brand new cars that get lower mpg than mine does. My last service (oil, oil filter, plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, plug leads, air filter) cost me around £25 ! The car only cost me £350 2 years ago, and has never let me down yet.
Amortize that !
Oh, and the CO2 emissions were checked and found to be around 0.002 at the last MOT.
I have a T-Mobile account which for £15/month (about $30) gives me 50 minutes of anytime, any network calls and unlimited data over HSDPA.
Nice. As opposed to Virgin, who charged me 0.005 pence per kb over GPRS.
And say the scientists find a way to control the climate ? What else will they fuck up in the process ? Who can say what will happen if we disrupt a natural process to suit ourselves - we could end up like Mars or Venus, take your pick.
Pure human arrogance to believe we have to manipulate the planet to suit ourselves, just because we want to continue our unrelenting expansion and consumption of resources.
Agent Smith had it right - we are a disease, an infection unlike any other.
I'm all for reducing CO2 emissions, as well as any other pollutants, but we need to reduce our energy consumption not find ways to nullify the effects of consuming more. We are not good residents, we shit everywhere, use things beyond their ability to reproduce, and we don't leave things as we found them. And then we complain when the planet dares to fall outside our comfortable existence range. It's high time we started living within our means environmentally, and not try to fuck the planet over at every opportunity.
The planet has been through many changes in climate before, both high extremes and low. And if you believe that the current situation is any worse than past events, you are not seeing any more than the climate terrorists are telling you. I have seen data that shows that after EVERY warming event, there is a rapid drop in temperatures and CO2, to levels way below any comfortable human existence. I believe the govts know this, and that is what they are trying to prevent - not rising CO2, but the inevitable consequences around 40 to 50 years after the peak has been reached. You think flooding is a big problem for mankind ? Wait till you see what the ice will do !
Finally, do we really know enough about the climates cyclic nature to actually PREVENT it following its natural course ? I don't believe we do, and so therefore we should minimise our impact on the process and let nature take its course.
I say we should find a way to prevent earthquakes, then San Francisco would be safe, and associated costs would come down. Oh hang on, that means stopping tectonic activity, so the plates would have to stop moving. Never mind that volcanoes provided much of the raw materials for life as we enjoy it, it interferes with commerce ! Ban it now !
Open-source developers, like a scientist, need to put aside egos and see what works and what doesn't, no matter who came up with it.
Open source devs usually do, but then they get blamed for cloning proprietary software. That's without mentioning the M$ patent troll, who jumps on people for implementing new ideas "no matter who came up with it" !
If you live in the UK or US then you have probably never experienced many MOMENTS of terror, let alone LIVED in terror.
As far as folks in the UK are concerned, I guess you never heard of the IRA. That's the reason that to this day, you will not find any trash cans on most London streets.
Rubbish ! No seriously, that's crap. Do you remember a bomb going off outside Harrods in Knightsbridge ? Well when I was there last week, there is a rubbish bin every 50 yards or so along that road. You can check for yourself at the London transport webcam page. Zoom in on the map and pick a camera.
It doesn't matter what your opinion of any terrorist organisation is, the methods they use are the same ones any freedom fighters/insurgents must use. When fighting for your beliefs, you must sometimes use methods you find distasteful, or risk losing everything. Unless you can view this dispassionately, then you can never understand the motivations and actions of rebel organisations. As for imposing fundamentalist islam on the planet - get real. How are they going to influence billions by the use of terrorism ? If the US hadn't been such an arse, and kept its nose out of the Middle East, then there would be no fundamentalist movement on this scale. The fact that the US didn't and isn't keeping out of ME affairs just allows the islamist groups more fuel to add to the recruiting fire. If the US wasn't in Iraq, then the insurgents can't say "look what America is doing in our homeland" and if the US didn't try to control the govt.s of the ME using commercial threats and embargoes then the insurgents would have nothing to blame their problems on except their own people. In short, the US is setting itself up to be a target, then complaining when it gets hit !
The algae grows at low level, which is where it gets its CO2 from, but the aircraft will be distributing most of the CO2 at very high levels in the atmosphere. What problems could be exacerbated by this unbalanced distribution ? Won't the CO2 cause a blanket effect at high levels ?
Hear, hear. Plus - with open source, anyone can look at the code later and re-use bits that do work well for other projects, whereas with closed source code, you can never know whether a project failed due to bad code, lack of interest or commercial pressure. Also if you accidentally implement something using the same methods as a piece of closed source code, then you are open to abuse by the patent system, even though there was no way of knowing you were infringing.
So fire-bombing Tokyo was valid ? Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not murder ? Both cases were intended to show that Japan could be hurt, and stood as implicit threats against the population, in order to force a change of policy in the Japanese government. The attacks on the WTC were intended to show the US govt. that they could be hurt, in their own land, with the minimum of expenditure. And the WTC was of course significant, as the GP pointed out, it stood for US economic imperialism - which was part of the issue being disputed. And I believe the Pentagon is a valid military target, and needs no qualification.
If a small force of (Polish || Chechen || Afghan || Yugoslavian || East German || Rumanian || Finnish) soldiers had given the USSR a bloody nose during the cold war by destroying the Kremlin or the Lubyanka they would have been heroes. Just because you don't believe there is a war going on, doesn't mean there isn't. And it's not a war on terror either. Part of the US constitution allows people to own guns, both for protection against outside threats and threats from within (ie bad govt.). When the day comes, will you regard the "freedom fighters" who blow up the White House as terrorists ? Depends which side you're on I guess.
War is violent by definition. The way to end war by winning it. The winner is one who is better at killing the other side. So in a way, this plane ends wars. The quicker you end a war, the fewer casualties are the result. This war machine is a life saver (especially our own!!)
Depends which side you're on, and whether the war is just in the first place. Hey you looked at my girlfriend - *bang* Hey we want what you've got - *bang* We don't like the colour of your skin - *bang* Maybe the opposition having a chance to fight back and possibly win, brings balance to the decision to go to war in the first place. If you are not going to suffer from the consequences, war becomes easy, and tyranny reigns. Most Mafia hit men would beat me in an argument, because they have guns and I don't - does that make them "victorious" ? Co-existence depends on having a certain amount of respect for other peoples points of view - if you can wipe them out with no danger to your own forces, then there is no co-existence, just domination and dictatorship.
Far be it for me to piss off the iPhone fanbois, but there are already devices and apps to do all this. My HTC PDA running WM5 (yeah yeah, I know) has GPS, HSDPA, GPRS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and an OS you can write apps for. Consequently, when TomTom lets me down I simply fire up Google Maps, set it to use GPS and it shows me where I am and tracks my movement, with markers for every listing I care about popping up on screen as I travel. Even TomTom tells me if there is a low bridge or a weight limit on my route (relevant when driving 44 tonnes). When I needed to find a branch of a particular fuel station I went to their website, downloaded the pdf of all the locations, and put the post code into Google maps. My email comes in regularly, I can SSH into the server, post photos (taken on the PDA) to my favourite truckers forum, listen to music, play videos (why I would want to, I don't know) and even make phone calls when necessary ! Ok, it's not as skinny as the iPhone, and the screen doesn't automatically flip round as I fumble with it, but I see that as a plus. And when I'm bored I can read an ebook. So please don't try to tell me that I'm too far from my data, it's all in the palm of my hand right now (unfortunate pun sorry). (oh and it's sold sim free too, with replaceable battery and works out cheaper than an iPhone even after adding 2x 2GB miniSD cards [it will apparently read a 4GB ok too]) You can even make WM5 look nice.
Remember that the Concorde lasted a long time - it's first flight was in 1976!
First *commercial* flight. It's first flight ever was roughly 6 years earlier, from France to Britain. My father worked at Filton on Concorde 002, I even have a B&W photo somewhere of me as a kid inside the hangar as they wired up the airframe.
The U.S. is not a trustworthy ally?! Western Europe would have fallen under communism after WWII if it weren't for the U.S. Perhaps you might have been ok with that outcome.
Two points: a)Times change - Libya was a good ally once, as was Iran, as was the USSR, do you get the picture ? Past performance may not be indicative of future results. b)The US would probably be speaking French if it wasn't for the British ! Perhaps you would have been ok with *that* outcome ? Maybe it's your outgrown senses of entitlement and self importance that are the root causes of the present troubles ? There is also a big difference between minding your own business, and flipping the finger to people who are in desperate need of help.
Most commercial products are just clones or extensions of other existing products.
If you wanted to open a bakers shop, where would you do it ? In a street that had no bakers at all, or a few doors down from a successful baker ? There is usually a valid reason for the street with no bakers being that way, plus if the other guy can make it pay where he is, then you should be able to as well. Competition.
It is great in some areas but I think is far from the universal solution that RMS and the faithful believe.
But it will and must become more and more widespread as time goes on. If I want a tool to do a certain task I can either pay money for something I may use rarely or only once, *or* I can take a peek at the wealth of open source code out there, and write my own tailored version. I'm not trying to steal code, any more than a kid with a guitar is trying to steal music. That's the whole thing about computing that excites me, it allows you to create things that you would never be able to do using the old methods. I am never going to be a great artist or writer, but I can get some pretty good results coding when I can see how it's done and what works before I start. Plagiarism maybe, but I'm not looking to claim ownership. This is what "standing on the shoulders of giants" refers to. Looking ahead to the way the job markets are going, without open source software, we will end up as mere peons, condemned to buy and consume things the corporations tell us to, and to believe what we're told. Much like the middle ages before books were widespread. So to stretch the analogy, without source code to read, future generations will remain uneducated and isolated. So I would say that if you regard general education as a good thing for humanity, then you should regard open source code in the same light. Or would you prefer to pay Sony or Panasonic to send someone round to sort out that damn flashing *12:00* on the vcr ?
Doesn't sound like you've ever done it. Nothing worse than a bad trip - it seems to last for ever, you wish you could sleep but the trip won't let you. and don't get me started about shrooms... However, when not under the influence, pretty much nothing in *real* life is ever as scary again.
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Deducted is what happens when they take tax from your wages.
Broadcasting is a "push" technology, bittorrent is a pull technology.
The most they can get you for is "making content available".
And don't pervert perfectly reasonable terms in future. Remember "standards" ? They exist so that we all know what we are referring to. When you start bastardising them, we are left with confusion. This applies to spelling, grammar and programming alike. Invent a new language if you're not happy with this one, but on this site we use English.
Insightful my arse !
DVB-T broadcasts include an 8 day EPG in the transmissions, and MythTV picks it up just fine, thanks. (In the UK/Europe of course)
But surely, the real information is gained from the fact that something "observed" the remote component of the entanglement. If the "home" component gets triggered, then *something* _must_ have happened to the remote component. Prior tests could establish the different stimuli that are needed, to get a set of known results.
What that *something* was caused by, is then another problem, but it's a start.
There is not much point to a "muscle car" if it uses so much fuel that it can only run for 2 seconds - so I would say it IS worth noting !
It has to have a certain amount of fuel economy OR huge ferkin tanks !
And as there is no evidence for ESP available, it does not exist ?
A scientist in 1900 would have had trouble proving the existence of WIMPs, and describing the internet or space flight. The lack of evidence is not proof of the non-existence of anything.
Here's an anecdote -
About 20 years ago, I awoke feeling really strange, bad if you like. I hadn't slept restlessly, or been drinking the night before. After getting up and drinking a coffee, I decided to go for a ride on my motorbike. I had no destination in mind, just to clear my head.
For some reason I found myself heading for my parents house 10 miles away. When I got there, my sister (who doesn't live there) rushed out the door in tears, crying "you knew, you knew !"
My sisters baby had died from cot death that morning.
I realise this *proves* nothing, but how do you explain it without some reference to extra-sensory perception ?
They'd better be able to - I run a 1992 Ford Sierra, 1.8 litre, four door, petrol, which routinely returns 450 miles from an 11 gallon tank (that's Imperial gallons). It makes me laugh when I see people crowing about their brand new cars that get lower mpg than mine does. My last service (oil, oil filter, plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, plug leads, air filter) cost me around £25 !
The car only cost me £350 2 years ago, and has never let me down yet.
Amortize that !
Oh, and the CO2 emissions were checked and found to be around 0.002 at the last MOT.
I have a T-Mobile account which for £15/month (about $30) gives me 50 minutes of anytime, any network calls and unlimited data over HSDPA.
Nice.
As opposed to Virgin, who charged me 0.005 pence per kb over GPRS.
Velcro.
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http://www.open2.net/coast/introducingclimatechan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature
What else will they fuck up in the process ?
Who can say what will happen if we disrupt a natural process to suit ourselves - we could end up like Mars or Venus, take your pick.
Pure human arrogance to believe we have to manipulate the planet to suit ourselves, just because we want to continue our unrelenting expansion and consumption of resources.
Agent Smith had it right - we are a disease, an infection unlike any other.
I'm all for reducing CO2 emissions, as well as any other pollutants, but we need to reduce our energy consumption not find ways to nullify the effects of consuming more.
We are not good residents, we shit everywhere, use things beyond their ability to reproduce, and we don't leave things as we found them. And then we complain when the planet dares to fall outside our comfortable existence range.
It's high time we started living within our means environmentally, and not try to fuck the planet over at every opportunity.
The planet has been through many changes in climate before, both high extremes and low. And if you believe that the current situation is any worse than past events, you are not seeing any more than the climate terrorists are telling you.
I have seen data that shows that after EVERY warming event, there is a rapid drop in temperatures and CO2, to levels way below any comfortable human existence. I believe the govts know this, and that is what they are trying to prevent - not rising CO2, but the inevitable consequences around 40 to 50 years after the peak has been reached.
You think flooding is a big problem for mankind ? Wait till you see what the ice will do !
Finally, do we really know enough about the climates cyclic nature to actually PREVENT it following its natural course ?
I don't believe we do, and so therefore we should minimise our impact on the process and let nature take its course.
I say we should find a way to prevent earthquakes, then San Francisco would be safe, and associated costs would come down. Oh hang on, that means stopping tectonic activity, so the plates would have to stop moving. Never mind that volcanoes provided much of the raw materials for life as we enjoy it, it interferes with commerce ! Ban it now !
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No seriously, that's crap. Do you remember a bomb going off outside Harrods in Knightsbridge ? Well when I was there last week, there is a rubbish bin every 50 yards or so along that road. You can check for yourself at the London transport webcam page.
Zoom in on the map and pick a camera.
It doesn't matter what your opinion of any terrorist organisation is, the methods they use are the same ones any freedom fighters/insurgents must use. When fighting for your beliefs, you must sometimes use methods you find distasteful, or risk losing everything. Unless you can view this dispassionately, then you can never understand the motivations and actions of rebel organisations.
As for imposing fundamentalist islam on the planet - get real. How are they going to influence billions by the use of terrorism ? If the US hadn't been such an arse, and kept its nose out of the Middle East, then there would be no fundamentalist movement on this scale. The fact that the US didn't and isn't keeping out of ME affairs just allows the islamist groups more fuel to add to the recruiting fire. If the US wasn't in Iraq, then the insurgents can't say "look what America is doing in our homeland" and if the US didn't try to control the govt.s of the ME using commercial threats and embargoes then the insurgents would have nothing to blame their problems on except their own people.
In short, the US is setting itself up to be a target, then complaining when it gets hit !
The algae grows at low level, which is where it gets its CO2 from, but the aircraft will be distributing most of the CO2 at very high levels in the atmosphere. What problems could be exacerbated by this unbalanced distribution ?
Won't the CO2 cause a blanket effect at high levels ?
Hear, hear.
Plus - with open source, anyone can look at the code later and re-use bits that do work well for other projects, whereas with closed source code, you can never know whether a project failed due to bad code, lack of interest or commercial pressure. Also if you accidentally implement something using the same methods as a piece of closed source code, then you are open to abuse by the patent system, even though there was no way of knowing you were infringing.
So fire-bombing Tokyo was valid ?
Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not murder ?
Both cases were intended to show that Japan could be hurt, and stood as implicit threats against the population, in order to force a change of policy in the Japanese government.
The attacks on the WTC were intended to show the US govt. that they could be hurt, in their own land, with the minimum of expenditure. And the WTC was of course significant, as the GP pointed out, it stood for US economic imperialism - which was part of the issue being disputed. And I believe the Pentagon is a valid military target, and needs no qualification.
If a small force of (Polish || Chechen || Afghan || Yugoslavian || East German || Rumanian || Finnish) soldiers had given the USSR a bloody nose during the cold war by destroying the Kremlin or the Lubyanka they would have been heroes.
Just because you don't believe there is a war going on, doesn't mean there isn't. And it's not a war on terror either.
Part of the US constitution allows people to own guns, both for protection against outside threats and threats from within (ie bad govt.). When the day comes, will you regard the "freedom fighters" who blow up the White House as terrorists ?
Depends which side you're on I guess.
Hey you looked at my girlfriend - *bang*
Hey we want what you've got - *bang*
We don't like the colour of your skin - *bang*
Maybe the opposition having a chance to fight back and possibly win, brings balance to the decision to go to war in the first place. If you are not going to suffer from the consequences, war becomes easy, and tyranny reigns.
Most Mafia hit men would beat me in an argument, because they have guns and I don't - does that make them "victorious" ?
Co-existence depends on having a certain amount of respect for other peoples points of view - if you can wipe them out with no danger to your own forces, then there is no co-existence, just domination and dictatorship.
Far be it for me to piss off the iPhone fanbois, but there are already devices and apps to do all this.
My HTC PDA running WM5 (yeah yeah, I know) has GPS, HSDPA, GPRS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and an OS you can write apps for. Consequently, when TomTom lets me down I simply fire up Google Maps, set it to use GPS and it shows me where I am and tracks my movement, with markers for every listing I care about popping up on screen as I travel. Even TomTom tells me if there is a low bridge or a weight limit on my route (relevant when driving 44 tonnes). When I needed to find a branch of a particular fuel station I went to their website, downloaded the pdf of all the locations, and put the post code into Google maps. My email comes in regularly, I can SSH into the server, post photos (taken on the PDA) to my favourite truckers forum, listen to music, play videos (why I would want to, I don't know) and even make phone calls when necessary !
Ok, it's not as skinny as the iPhone, and the screen doesn't automatically flip round as I fumble with it, but I see that as a plus. And when I'm bored I can read an ebook.
So please don't try to tell me that I'm too far from my data, it's all in the palm of my hand right now (unfortunate pun sorry).
(oh and it's sold sim free too, with replaceable battery and works out cheaper than an iPhone even after adding 2x 2GB miniSD cards [it will apparently read a 4GB ok too])
You can even make WM5 look nice.
It's first flight ever was roughly 6 years earlier, from France to Britain. My father worked at Filton on Concorde 002, I even have a B&W photo somewhere of me as a kid inside the hangar as they wired up the airframe.
a)Times change - Libya was a good ally once, as was Iran, as was the USSR, do you get the picture ? Past performance may not be indicative of future results.
b)The US would probably be speaking French if it wasn't for the British ! Perhaps you would have been ok with *that* outcome ?
Maybe it's your outgrown senses of entitlement and self importance that are the root causes of the present troubles ?
There is also a big difference between minding your own business, and flipping the finger to people who are in desperate need of help.
So to stretch the analogy, without source code to read, future generations will remain uneducated and isolated.
So I would say that if you regard general education as a good thing for humanity, then you should regard open source code in the same light. Or would you prefer to pay Sony or Panasonic to send someone round to sort out that damn flashing *12:00* on the vcr ?
Doesn't sound like you've ever done it. ...
Nothing worse than a bad trip - it seems to last for ever, you wish you could sleep but the trip won't let you. and don't get me started about shrooms
However, when not under the influence, pretty much nothing in *real* life is ever as scary again.