I am pro gun ownership. I think this whole, "hold at gun point" thing is stupid. I'm sorry, I've always been taught that you only draw your weapon to do one thing, fire it.
I have a few hand guns. Most are locked up safely. I have no kids so I keep on in a desk next to my bed, ready to be loaded. Just slide in the clip, and I'm good to go. We have had a few breakins lately in my area. If you break in, I will not be holding you for the police. I am in my right to kill, and I will kill. To hold at gunpoint is to risk that you might have a gun, or a friend I did not notice. It is stupid and very unsafe. I have a wife to protect, and property to protect. I really think anyone who holds at gunpoint had no intent of using the weapon in the first place. This is bad gun ownership.
You should only draw your weapon when you have identified a target and intend to fire on it. Hesitation might get you killed. The only exception might be in the case of military and police.
Windows Home Server makes me pretty angry too but I dont find the need to start ranting about shooting intruders. Im also a little disturbed that someone so willing to spout off about killing people has the responsibility for several handguns. But I guess Im a Brit and shooting each other isn't a national pastime over here.
I have seen this exact post verbatim, high modded on 5/6 stories in the last day. Yet I havent seen any of the myminicity links (browsing at 1). Just sayin is all.
Most of the characters are binary forcing the typist to hold alt (but she can just keep this held down) and using her right hand to type the 3 digit ASCII code. So therefore we need to divide the 117 figure by 3 (3 keystrokes per character) to get 39then by 2 to get 19.5. So I would say Vista is only about 20 times slower than a human typist.
I've seen several posts now about Romanian users or friends of Romanian users saying that the ordinary people are suffering because they cant use online services. But at the end of the day it isn't the rest of the worlds duty to fix their political problems. If it is really such a huge problem for ordinary Romanians then they need to lobby their government for tighter anti-corruption controls and better law enforcement against cyber crime.
Until there is some evidence to the service provider (ebay, amazon, foo.com, whatever) that the majority of Romanian transaction are legit then I don't see any problem with them refusing to do business with that company. At the end of the day use of their service *isnt* a human right and they have the right to refuse service to whoever they want. If they *didnt* refuse transactions with a high probability of being fraudulent then they certainly wouldn't be doing a very good job for their shareholders.
Not only are (many) consumers circumventing the record companies, the artists are also. It is an almost trivial matter now to self-publish your own material. If your stuff is good, you'll get the buzz, and that will take care of the marketing on it's own. What else does an artist need from a label that they can't do on their own?
Notice that more and more bands are stepping away from the big-name labels? Because they are becoming increasingly irrelevant, perhaps?
Well they need access to a large distribution channel. Not just anyone can walk up to MTV or radio 1 or whatever and say here play my CD. Unless you're shifting massive quantities CD duplication is pretty expensive too so its hard to make CD prices competitive. The result is that independant bands are not priced competitively and don't have access to a large audience.
More and more large succesful artists are stepping away from record labels because they have taken what the needed from them and now have the critical mass of fans to do it themselves competitively.
And besides, it's the old supply-demand law - no matter what the price is, unless it's zero, you are not gonna get as many people getting your album as you could. Free music is the best for the popularity, and guess what affects the sales of the merchandise and tickets to your shows?
Theres are hundreds of thousands if not millions of small bands which give away all of their music for free but the majority sure as hell isn't popular.
And last but not least, they are especially demanding when it comes to content. Real content, top quality content. For many of the audiophiles this will be Classical music, featuring the world's top orchestras, conductors and voices, including a tagging scheme that finally makes sense in operas and symphonies, etc. etc.
I'm not convinced that classical music even as performed by the worlds top orchestra's is really going to be where you see the biggest difference, the budget to spend on top notch production just isn't there like it is with more popular forms of music. How many orchestras spend 4 weeks tuning the microphone placement of each instrument to get the right sound for example? By comparison to much chart music classical recording is a *relatively* slapdash affair.
Further it's elitist in the extreme to suggest that many audiophiles are classical music fans. Of my personal circle of friends many have several thousand dollars worth of hi-fi equipment and none of them exclusively (or even mostly) listen to classical music
No good tech story is complete without a comparison of a tangible tech object to *bytes. FTA:
Cisco notes that three exabytes is equivalent to 750 million DVDs.
I'm having a little trouble wrapping my mind around that number. Tell me, how many songs is that? How many 40GB iPods Beowulf clustered together make three exabytes? Consider this, you could pave a 4 lane highway from New York to LA with 1GB flash drives and that road still wouldn't have enough space to hold three exabytes.
three exabytes is equivelents to four sofa's, half a dining suite, the rear axle from a ford mondeo and a sign saying "ball games are prohibited. Did that help?
What about the possibility that if aliens are short enough on resources to require an empire of subjugated worlds that they would not be able to afford or generate the gignormous amounts of energy it would take to get here?
I guess what Im saying is maybe mass invasion isnt profitable.....
Send out signals from a planet -- lol.
Build a partial dyson sphere around a somewhat nearby star, even just a vast network of satellites, and use them to turn the light of the star on and off to send an unmistakable binary message. Occasionally this binary message can contain the encrypted 'log' of visitors, so that we can find out about them from any vantage point in the universe (but they ostensibly can't locate us like with some directional signal, unless they can trace our 'subspace signature' somehow).
This would over time 'draw' aliens to the star while giving some protection against hostile civilizations. We should be looking for something grand like this, not some 'hydrogen times pi' nonsense.
Pfft! Turning stars on and off lol.
Oscillate the curvature of spacetime or even change a set of physical constants. Occasionly this 11 dimensional message can contain an encrypted 'log' of visitors.....
... we should be looking for something grand like this, not some dyson sphere nonsense.
But very few people need to start from the beginning most people have some experience with web development of the non 2.0 variety already. Once you have been introduced to xmlHttpRequest the rest is a case of reading docs and good design which should be language / platform agnostic. The main problem with the web 2.0 stuff is that it is a disparate set of loosely coupled technologies which makes it fiddly to develop with.
There is some interesting noises coming out of Volta http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/197872651/gwt-and-volta abstracting the actual runtime location of arbitrary code is a really great idea and we've seen some baby steps towards this already with GWT and Gears.
It's the ridiculously stupid characters that killed my interest in the series. How many times does someone have to do something without the slightest thought to the consequences before they get a sense of responsibility? Don't they realize that they're in the middle of an important battle between good and evil?
Woops, I re-joined this guy's severed powers, and I have no idea if he's the dragon or not.
Woops, I shot that unknown target with balefire.
Woops, I gave away an important secret by babbling stupidly (dozens of times).
Every single one of the main characters, and most of the secondary characters, were total idiots. I spent most of the time wondering if it could get worse, then marveling at how much worse it could get, then wishing they would all die.
Please, finish it, so that it goes away forever.
Wow described like that its almost as if it directly inspired 24.
A friend and I once trained a HAL bot (hidden markov based conversation bot) on a combination of the harmonc time cube and a page about the consequences of rejecting Christ written by some kind of raving lunatic. We then let it talk to everyone on our MSN contacts list. It was hilariously funny *and* difficult to distinguish from a real religious zealot.
Im not convinced that the indistinguishable argument is really that great a definition anyway. Assume that a judge finds a bot indistinguishable from a human over text based chat and using that definition we conclude the bot is intelligent.
The judge then moves into the next room where he can see the participants (or lets say can see the sourcecode and how it is a relatively simple series of instructions) and is now able to distinguish between them. Was the bot therefore intelligent when the researcher was in one room but not when he was in the other?
I would think the UI is the least of the problem, you'll end up with an unsupported mess of hacked together code that people have copy/pasted of the internets trying to make a quick $. The potential legal problems with using any code taken from unverified sources should be enough to put all but the most insane companies off trying these sites.
Browsing through one example a few years ago as an undergrad (rent-a-coder) it was amazing how a copmany can survive where 90% of the jobs are for illegal purposes (poker bots or phishing sites).
The Royal Mail in the UK is facing the same problem. Basically the government mandate that they must provide service to everywhere in the country and serving all the outlying villages / sheds in remote places is killing their chances of competing with other companies who are free to only serve areas that are profitable.
I imagine this would be even more of a problem in the US where the distances involved are so much bigger.
You are encouraging infingment on my clients intellectual property. Since they are fully paid up members of the EIAA you will be receiving our extortion demands shortly.
What happens when Joe doesnt secure his drive properly and shares his terrabyte of illegal mp3s and movies to the world through a service ownded by western digital (or whoever their 3rd party partener is)?
I suspect that is the question they were really worried about . Sadly in such litigious times its cheaper for companies to cover their ass than it is stand up to the media cartel.
Since entropy is proportional to information loss we can therefore measure the increase in entropy in bits. Which means (since as some other poster pointed out energy loss occurss during switching and is hence dependant on frequency) we can rate the the efficiancy in bits per bit....yay.
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Windows Home Server makes me pretty angry too but I dont find the need to start ranting about shooting intruders. Im also a little disturbed that someone so willing to spout off about killing people has the responsibility for several handguns. But I guess Im a Brit and shooting each other isn't a national pastime over here.
I have seen this exact post verbatim, high modded on 5/6 stories in the last day. Yet I havent seen any of the myminicity links (browsing at 1). Just sayin is all.
Thats not really fair.
Most of the characters are binary forcing the typist to hold alt (but she can just keep this held down) and using her right hand to type the 3 digit ASCII code. So therefore we need to divide the 117 figure by 3 (3 keystrokes per character) to get 39then by 2 to get 19.5. So I would say Vista is only about 20 times slower than a human typist.
I've seen several posts now about Romanian users or friends of Romanian users saying that the ordinary people are suffering because they cant use online services. But at the end of the day it isn't the rest of the worlds duty to fix their political problems. If it is really such a huge problem for ordinary Romanians then they need to lobby their government for tighter anti-corruption controls and better law enforcement against cyber crime.
Until there is some evidence to the service provider (ebay, amazon, foo.com, whatever) that the majority of Romanian transaction are legit then I don't see any problem with them refusing to do business with that company. At the end of the day use of their service *isnt* a human right and they have the right to refuse service to whoever they want. If they *didnt* refuse transactions with a high probability of being fraudulent then they certainly wouldn't be doing a very good job for their shareholders.
pff brackets are for losers..how much more readable is this?
int foo-type bar-type baz-{
doSomething-param1-param2-;
}
The software should be embedded in the data and the whole lot stored as a tape for a universal turing machine.
Or you could just document the format I suppose, whichever.
Heaven knows I like to ensure that my pants look their best but this is just advocating cosmetic surgery for the sake of it.
Well they need access to a large distribution channel. Not just anyone can walk up to MTV or radio 1 or whatever and say here play my CD. Unless you're shifting massive quantities CD duplication is pretty expensive too so its hard to make CD prices competitive. The result is that independant bands are not priced competitively and don't have access to a large audience.
More and more large succesful artists are stepping away from record labels because they have taken what the needed from them and now have the critical mass of fans to do it themselves competitively.
Theres are hundreds of thousands if not millions of small bands which give away all of their music for free but the majority sure as hell isn't popular.
To be honest its mostly irrelevant at this point since you're still going to have to support FF2, IE6 and IE7 for years yet.
I'm not convinced that classical music even as performed by the worlds top orchestra's is really going to be where you see the biggest difference, the budget to spend on top notch production just isn't there like it is with more popular forms of music. How many orchestras spend 4 weeks tuning the microphone placement of each instrument to get the right sound for example? By comparison to much chart music classical recording is a *relatively* slapdash affair.
Further it's elitist in the extreme to suggest that many audiophiles are classical music fans. Of my personal circle of friends many have several thousand dollars worth of hi-fi equipment and none of them exclusively (or even mostly) listen to classical music
three exabytes is equivelents to four sofa's, half a dining suite, the rear axle from a ford mondeo and a sign saying "ball games are prohibited. Did that help?
What about the possibility that if aliens are short enough on resources to require an empire of subjugated worlds that they would not be able to afford or generate the gignormous amounts of energy it would take to get here?
I guess what Im saying is maybe mass invasion isnt profitable.....
Pfft! Turning stars on and off lol.
Oscillate the curvature of spacetime or even change a set of physical constants. Occasionly this 11 dimensional message can contain an encrypted 'log' of visitors
There is some interesting noises coming out of Volta http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/197872651/gwt-and-volta abstracting the actual runtime location of arbitrary code is a really great idea and we've seen some baby steps towards this already with GWT and Gears.
Wow described like that its almost as if it directly inspired 24.
A friend and I once trained a HAL bot (hidden markov based conversation bot) on a combination of the harmonc time cube and a page about the consequences of rejecting Christ written by some kind of raving lunatic. We then let it talk to everyone on our MSN contacts list. It was hilariously funny *and* difficult to distinguish from a real religious zealot.
Im not convinced that the indistinguishable argument is really that great a definition anyway. Assume that a judge finds a bot indistinguishable from a human over text based chat and using that definition we conclude the bot is intelligent.
The judge then moves into the next room where he can see the participants (or lets say can see the sourcecode and how it is a relatively simple series of instructions) and is now able to distinguish between them. Was the bot therefore intelligent when the researcher was in one room but not when he was in the other?
Or more likely the "verb form"? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Leverage
I would think the UI is the least of the problem, you'll end up with an unsupported mess of hacked together code that people have copy/pasted of the internets trying to make a quick $. The potential legal problems with using any code taken from unverified sources should be enough to put all but the most insane companies off trying these sites.
Browsing through one example a few years ago as an undergrad (rent-a-coder) it was amazing how a copmany can survive where 90% of the jobs are for illegal purposes (poker bots or phishing sites).
The Royal Mail in the UK is facing the same problem. Basically the government mandate that they must provide service to everywhere in the country and serving all the outlying villages / sheds in remote places is killing their chances of competing with other companies who are free to only serve areas that are profitable.
I imagine this would be even more of a problem in the US where the distances involved are so much bigger.
You are encouraging infingment on my clients intellectual property. Since they are fully paid up members of the EIAA you will be receiving our extortion demands shortly.
3. Profit.
There should totally be a bizarre mod, it should be +1 or -1 based on user preferences. Spoon.
What happens when Joe doesnt secure his drive properly and shares his terrabyte of illegal mp3s and movies to the world through a service ownded by western digital (or whoever their 3rd party partener is)?
I suspect that is the question they were really worried about . Sadly in such litigious times its cheaper for companies to cover their ass than it is stand up to the media cartel.
Since entropy is proportional to information loss we can therefore measure the increase in entropy in bits. Which means (since as some other poster pointed out energy loss occurss during switching and is hence dependant on frequency) we can rate the the efficiancy in bits per bit....yay.
My RAM runs in 42km^2Kjbps