I am a Mormon, and I am aware that a large majority of other Mormons do not agree with Senator Hatch. While I was too young to vote against him the last time he was up for election, you can bet that I won't be voting for him this time around, either. I spoke with him as a member my city's Youth City Council when he came to address our small group. As a young teenager I cornered him on the issues of internet taxation and fair-use rights, back when Napster was his favorite buzzword. I liked his views then on internet taxation. He felt that trying to impose a tax would stifle growth. He doesn't seem to feel that way anymore, mind you, but back then that's what he told us. However he wouldn't let me get in a word edgewise when it came to fair-use. Napster, in his opinion, was the spawn of Satan.
Pretty ridiculous, coming from a man who tried to paint himself as the Patron Saint of Technology (forgive me, Scott Adams) when he spoke to us.
And yes, cthrall, I laughed when I saw your post.:)
I cheated. Though it really is a great dramatic monologue, and I try to use it for auditions whenever they're looking for the super-intelligent scientist type. The Ian Malcolm character is a wealth of quoteable quotes. Kudos to Michael Crichton.
Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan!
[Jumps out of the vehicle]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There's, another example. See, here I'm now by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos theory.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan!
[Jumps out of the vehicle]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There's, another example. See, here I'm now by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos theory.
Sorry about dressing up the link in so much Jurassic Park. Really, though, NASA's Near-Earth Object Program website is highly informative, and a great read.
Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum):Don't you see the danger, John, in what you're doing here? Genetic force is the most awesome power the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that found his dad's gun. I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here. It didn't acquire any discipline to attain it. You read what others have done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself so therefore you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew it you had it. You patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now your selling it! You wanna sell it! Well, your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop if they should. No, hold on John, this is not an animal wiped out by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction.
Pretty scary if nature selected them in a matter of seconds. Too bad the vastly hyper-intelligent dinosaur civilization's NASA counterpart didn't have a Near-Earth Object Program.
Sadly, that's not going to be good enough. You're on video surveilence, everywhere. I work for a car rental company, and if you're within one hundred feet of one of our locations, chances are we've got your face on file, and in pretty decent resolution, too. Pretty scary when you think about it. And if you wanted to escape that, you'd have to dress pretty conspicuously. That would just draw more attention to you as well.
I think the real question is this: Were the writers of The Simpsons always consistant? I know this comes up as a problem in, for example, a lot of science fiction and fantasy authors use little bits of made up languages to add variety and depth to their writing. Unfortunately, very few take as much care as J.R.R. Tolkien (and his many languages of Middle Earth) or Marc Okrand (Klingon) to actually create a consistant linguistic structure.
So are there many instances of inconsistency?
While not a big fan of the game itself . . .
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. . . I don't mind studying the underlyingmath
behind it at all. In fact, I find the study of probability and game theory more fun than poker itself.
As a geek, I prefer playing with John Conway's Life.
A few years ago, Popular Mechanics ran a story about the new Area 51. They claim that Area 6413, as it is called, will be located in central Utah, and used as a lauching pad to test Lockheed Martin Skunkworks vehicles, which will land at Michael Army Airfield, which sits behind the Dugway Proving Grounds one of the US Military's most heavily defended, remote, and scariest places to be.
Whether or not Popular Mechanics is right or not remains to be seen. Either way, the Groom Dry Lake Bed testing ground currently known as Area 51 has attracted too many visitors, and as such is likely to be or have been phased out of existance in the short term.
The Creative Commons license brings licensing to the masses. As an independent filmmaker, I am so overjoyed to be able to have websites such as Magnatune where I can find decent artists who want exposure for their music, something some of my films can provide. At the same time, I get good quality audio for my films. They win. I win. It's a wonderful thing.
To anyone who has not explored the CC licences, I highly encourage them to check it out and learn about this really cool license.
Also, I didn't notice any really significant changes in the 2.0 licenses. Did anyone catch something blaringly obvious that I missed?
. . . take my fair use rights. I wasn't using them anyway.
Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet
I'm trying to imagine that moment when they "discovered" this . . . Did they honestly just not know? "Gee, we're sending them a stream of data that gets played automatically. Those stupid end users will never think to *save* that data!"
And while it's not a direct comment about the problem, everyone I know seems to want to pronounce it *Uh*-Kah-Mee with a strong emphasis on the first syllable. Akamai co-founder and chief scientist Tom Leighton has a video tour of the Akamai NOCC where he clearly pronounces it Ah-kah-my.
Am I the only one who has noticed that when you have a society of geeks who communicate mostly by text, there is a great disparity in the way people choose to pronounce things?
At least most of us have settled on a pronunciation of Linux and J. K. Rowling's Hermione.
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As long as LCD is taken to mean Liquid Crystal Diode in the phrase "an LCD display" . . . which is, I am sure, what you meant.
Pretty ridiculous, coming from a man who tried to paint himself as the Patron Saint of Technology (forgive me, Scott Adams) when he spoke to us.
And yes, cthrall, I laughed when I saw your post.
Bruce Willis says, "Yes."
Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan!
[Jumps out of the vehicle]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There's, another example. See, here I'm now by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos theory.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle. Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan! [Jumps out of the vehicle] Dr. Ian Malcolm: There's, another example. See, here I'm now by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos theory.
. . . and best of all . . .
God help us; we're in the hands of engineers.
Sorry about dressing up the link in so much Jurassic Park. Really, though, NASA's Near-Earth Object Program website is highly informative, and a great read.
Pretty scary if nature selected them in a matter of seconds. Too bad the vastly hyper-intelligent dinosaur civilization's NASA counterpart didn't have a Near-Earth Object Program.
Video surveilence. It's everywhere.
So are there many instances of inconsistency?
As a geek, I prefer playing with John Conway's Life.
Whether or not Popular Mechanics is right or not remains to be seen. Either way, the Groom Dry Lake Bed testing ground currently known as Area 51 has attracted too many visitors, and as such is likely to be or have been phased out of existance in the short term.
To anyone who has not explored the CC licences, I highly encourage them to check it out and learn about this really cool license.
Also, I didn't notice any really significant changes in the 2.0 licenses. Did anyone catch something blaringly obvious that I missed?
I wonder if it will get to 2 Columbus Circle before this beautiful building gets an awful facelift.
I was pretty sure that he was already dead!
Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet
I'm trying to imagine that moment when they "discovered" this . . . Did they honestly just not know? "Gee, we're sending them a stream of data that gets played automatically. Those stupid end users will never think to *save* that data!"
For the humor impared, that was a joke, not a serious post.
Then again, I probably don't want to case mod the family pc, so my only other options are modding my 400 MHz Linux box . . . or my PC Jr. ;)
Am I the only one who has noticed that when you have a society of geeks who communicate mostly by text, there is a great disparity in the way people choose to pronounce things? At least most of us have settled on a pronunciation of Linux and J. K. Rowling's Hermione.