The OP seems to be still suffering from the thought that technology is going to cure it all: terrorism, diseases... C'mon, dude. We live in the XXIth century now.
...before the US government as the prolonged arm of the "content industry" ( what a hateful word, by the way ! ) is not a solution. Cowering before any government never is. Never.
On the one hand, one might argue that Malekpour knew - or should have known - what he risked by returning to Iran.
OTOH, the death penalty is heinous in and by itself.
The question that comes to my mind, and that I would very much like to have feedback upon, is: does this case deserve a campaign, under "us" computer programmers, geeks, architects, database tuners and birds of many digital feathers, to free Malekpour ?
....on the topic of whether or not the USA is still ( with "still" receiving a heavy stress ) capable of major innovation. The most innovating producst I saw in, say, the last year, were either open-/crowdsourced, Asian or - for a small minority of them - European. I am mainly speaking about my own field ( software architecture and design ) industries in which I have worked: aerospace, the software industry, and agriculture. It should give anyone reading this some food to mentally chew on if the USA need DARPA, of all institutions, to try and keep a bleeding edge.
That thing WAS good. Way back in the 90s, you could actually ask an english natural-language question at Altavista, and have a serious chance at getting a response that made sense. Now try THAT at Slashdot in 2012 !
Well, this one has several times the radius of Earth, and circles its host star in 90 days. If there is life, it might look like Pacman being played in a plate of boiling soup. Which is what we looked like some billion years ago.
Couldn't NASA get a bit of funding from people who wanted to bid on the rights to name a world? (Unlike copyrights, aren't celestial bodies named FOREVER?).
No, it couldn't. NASA has nothing to do with naming planets. NASA is a US government agency. The US is one among many countries in the world. Funding such an agency of such a country through such a mechanism would come close to the "sell me a star" or "sell me an acre of moonscape" con trick.
I repeat: NOT "convert buzz into something real". This was a demonstration project, if I understood the FA well enough. At most, it was a proof of concept. In and by itself, both the OP, the FA and AFAIAC the whole project are more buzz than real...although I would be glad to be contradicted with sound arguments.
Wearing it, however, would imply the wearer to be so much of a prolete that his being one would preclude him knowing about being one. So there would be one explicit and one implicit self-referential aspect to the t-shirt. Congrats with that intellectual achievement:-)
Well, yes, it is the idea that clothing, as anything we use, should be functional; that function dictates form; and that "letters and images" pertain to neither function nor form, in clothing. A three-piece suit, expensive or not ( I have two of less than 150 € ), literally "suits" me well. Call me elitist ? Fine. Being elite also brings responsibilities with it, by which I stand.
Moreover, there are way too many letters and images around us, already. Going through the city where I live and work, I may not stop reading all day. Most of it ads. Which is bother- and tiresome.
Thank you. I do not wear t-shirts, though, only shirts. Nor do I wear any clothes with lettering or images on them. Letters and images belong in books.
The larger organizations get, the harder it becomes to enforce whatsoever organization-wide. They acquire their own dynamics; one of the most important of that self-perpetuating dynamical processes & characteristics is mediocrity. Doing bad things, or at least a readiness in some individuals to do them, is part of that mediocrity. It is similar to what made many IBM products almost too complex to use, and an ungovernable mastodont out of, say, Bell and IBM, as corporations. I personally noticed the same thing at Airbus.
... I have no opinion, for lack of knowledge. One of my best friends, however, regularly builds websites for advertisement campaigns. He *swears* by Dreamweaver, maintaining there is no real good replacement or alternative. And his requirement #1 is, you guessed it: WYSIWYG.
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More of the worlwide tendency: governments wanting frantically to control what people see, hear, read, have access to, and do.
The OP seems to be still suffering from the thought that technology is going to cure it all: terrorism, diseases... C'mon, dude. We live in the XXIth century now.
that Google does this for altruistic reasons. Where is the snake under the grass ?
"Venray" is a boring little town in the Netherlands. Both it and neighbouring Venlo are known for the tough crime scene. Link ?
...before the US government as the prolonged arm of the "content industry" ( what a hateful word, by the way ! ) is not a solution. Cowering before any government never is. Never.
On the one hand, one might argue that Malekpour knew - or should have known - what he risked by returning to Iran.
OTOH, the death penalty is heinous in and by itself.
The question that comes to my mind, and that I would very much like to have feedback upon, is: does this case deserve a campaign, under "us" computer programmers, geeks, architects, database tuners and birds of many digital feathers, to free Malekpour ?
....on the topic of whether or not the USA is still ( with "still" receiving a heavy stress ) capable of major innovation. The most innovating producst I saw in, say, the last year, were either open-/crowdsourced, Asian or - for a small minority of them - European. I am mainly speaking about my own field ( software architecture and design ) industries in which I have worked: aerospace, the software industry, and agriculture. It should give anyone reading this some food to mentally chew on if the USA need DARPA, of all institutions, to try and keep a bleeding edge.
Mod parent up. Currently at troll status, should be at "insightful".
...to Microsoft or Oracle than my invention to Wallmart. There, I've said it.
"There is also the desire to keep space free of military weaponry"
BOUAHAHAHA
Sorry, had to catch my breath from laughing
or was that made it better?
That thing WAS good. Way back in the 90s, you could actually ask an english natural-language question at Altavista, and have a serious chance at getting a response that made sense. Now try THAT at Slashdot in 2012 !
Well, this one has several times the radius of Earth, and circles its host star in 90 days. If there is life, it might look like Pacman being played in a plate of boiling soup. Which is what we looked like some billion years ago.
Couldn't NASA get a bit of funding from people who wanted to bid on the rights to name a world? (Unlike copyrights, aren't celestial bodies named FOREVER?).
No, it couldn't. NASA has nothing to do with naming planets. NASA is a US government agency. The US is one among many countries in the world. Funding such an agency of such a country through such a mechanism would come close to the "sell me a star" or "sell me an acre of moonscape" con trick.
I repeat: NOT "convert buzz into something real". This was a demonstration project, if I understood the FA well enough. At most, it was a proof of concept. In and by itself, both the OP, the FA and AFAIAC the whole project are more buzz than real...although I would be glad to be contradicted with sound arguments.
Wearing it, however, would imply the wearer to be so much of a prolete that his being one would preclude him knowing about being one. So there would be one explicit and one implicit self-referential aspect to the t-shirt. Congrats with that intellectual achievement :-)
Well, yes, it is the idea that clothing, as anything we use, should be functional; that function dictates form; and that "letters and images" pertain to neither function nor form, in clothing. A three-piece suit, expensive or not ( I have two of less than 150 € ), literally "suits" me well. Call me elitist ? Fine. Being elite also brings responsibilities with it, by which I stand.
Moreover, there are way too many letters and images around us, already. Going through the city where I live and work, I may not stop reading all day. Most of it ads. Which is bother- and tiresome.
Thanks but no, thanks. Sport is for the proletariat.
Thank you. I do not wear t-shirts, though, only shirts. Nor do I wear any clothes with lettering or images on them. Letters and images belong in books.
Are we finally getting the spaceship windows and flying cars we were promised for the 21st century ? Or are my hopes in vain ?
? Huh ?
Gratias ago tibi, amice, per correctionem. "Librum" quidem forma accepta est per "liberum"; "facium" necnon genitivus pluralis est. Error ubi est ?
Normally. In the case of Facebook I make an exception.
As Cato used to say: "Cetero censeo librum facium delendum esse".
1) which problem does this solve ?
2) if the answer at #1) is not "null", then how monkeyproof is it ?
The larger organizations get, the harder it becomes to enforce whatsoever organization-wide. They acquire their own dynamics; one of the most important of that self-perpetuating dynamical processes & characteristics is mediocrity. Doing bad things, or at least a readiness in some individuals to do them, is part of that mediocrity. It is similar to what made many IBM products almost too complex to use, and an ungovernable mastodont out of, say, Bell and IBM, as corporations. I personally noticed the same thing at Airbus.
... I have no opinion, for lack of knowledge. One of my best friends, however, regularly builds websites for advertisement campaigns. He *swears* by Dreamweaver, maintaining there is no real good replacement or alternative. And his requirement #1 is, you guessed it: WYSIWYG.