Laws need to be enacted to mandate that adult content be broadcast on designated ports, as well as to empower the private sector to enforce compliance
This guy is a nutcase... as a Utah resident myself, I have to say that I'm often ashamed of what my fellow citizens try to do. Of course, I spent most of my life elsewhere, so my views are rather atypical here.
We just got a wireless router for our house, mostly because we'll be having 4 or 5 kids coming home for Christmas, all bringing wireless-enabled laptops. A single wireless router, and suddenly everything is easy.
It can't be coincidence that the picture produced by these intelligently-designed life-forms is that of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They are obviously indicating who is the Great Intelligent Designer of the human race!
Google's first device was enclosed in LEGO Duplos--somewhat larger than what most people think of as LEGO blocks, but still LEGOs, sort of. It is (or was, when I was there a few years ago) on display in the Comp Sci building at Stanford.
Even worse is if the flexible pricing is on an individual basis. You like country? Buy several country songs in a row, and suddenly the price for all country music goes up, just for you.
Indeed. I've been seriously considering a "switch-back" myself--I started using Windows in the mid-90s, and I've since grown very comfortable with it, but I'm very tempted by some of Apple's offerings at this point.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to justify replacing my 6 month old laptop... maybe I'll buy a mac mini. It would be way cool if I could use my laptop as a keyboard/moniter for the mini, though, as I'm not keen on buying new ones to clutter up my desk.
While I am not personally familiar with the Korean school system, I do know that slightly less than half of Swedish first graders turn 8 by the end of the school year--grades are determined by calendar years, and you start 1st grade the year you turn 7, so if your birthday is before mid-June, you will be 8 by the end of the year.
Sweden also has a 12-year school system, FWIW. But I will stop mocking your typical American assumptions about the rest of the world now.
(Disclaimer: I am also American. I just happen to be very well acquainted with the rest of the world, having lived there for >16 years...)
Only criminals will go to the trouble to avoid being caught in such a web of information collection, leaving innocent private citizens as the only victims in this process.
Along these lines, google for "Carnival Booth"--a paper written by two MIT grad students suggesting that profiling makes it less likely that terrorists will be caught, for exactly this reason.
Unfortunately, in the minds of most Americans, communism is equivalent to totalitarianism. I just moved here for university a few months ago from Sweden, and let me be the first to say that I'm fairly disgusted with American's misperceptions on a lot of things. And institutes of higher education are supposed to be dangerously liberal, or something. Heh.
I've always found 14'' to be my sweetspot in the past, but like you, I've increasingly found the 12'' size very attractive. Perhaps in a year or four when I replace the 14'' I just bought...
I lived in Sweden for a year, and this sort of technology is entirely pervasive--but even slightly more advanced. You go to the bank website, where they give you two numbers which you plug into your little device, which then gives you another number. You need that number as well as your username/password to log in.
Nearly everybody does their banking there online, too. My dad commented that many Americans would probably complain it was too much work. There's always a trade off between convenience and security, though.
I don't see the paradox that is supposedly there. It may be that all Cretans are not liers, but Epimenides is. Thus, he is lying when he says all Cretans are liers, so that all Cretans are not liers. It is perfectly consistent.
The so-called paradox is simply a misunderstanding, or an assumption that Epimenides is a lier if and only if all Cretans are liers.
Worse than that, when I lived in Vienna, Austria, McDonalds had some kind of exclusive agreement with the government (national or local, I don't know) that no other American fast food chains could operate there.
It did eventually change, but McDonalds got more than a little bit of a head start on their competition.
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This reminds me of Nomic.
First found in Peter Suber's book "The Paradox of Self-Amendment" or something of the sort.
The third problem: Who enforces it?
That's the really scary part:
Laws need to be enacted to mandate that adult content be broadcast on designated ports, as well as to empower the private sector to enforce compliance
This guy is a nutcase... as a Utah resident myself, I have to say that I'm often ashamed of what my fellow citizens try to do. Of course, I spent most of my life elsewhere, so my views are rather atypical here.
Lies! Damn Lies!
(All but one of his friends were killed.)
That depends.
We just got a wireless router for our house, mostly because we'll be having 4 or 5 kids coming home for Christmas, all bringing wireless-enabled laptops. A single wireless router, and suddenly everything is easy.
Uhh, in case you didn't RTFA, this _is_ college level biology. The team that genetically engineered the bacteria was led by a grad student.
It can't be coincidence that the picture produced by these intelligently-designed life-forms is that of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They are obviously indicating who is the Great Intelligent Designer of the human race!
Ironic, actually. :-)
Google's first device was enclosed in LEGO Duplos--somewhat larger than what most people think of as LEGO blocks, but still LEGOs, sort of. It is (or was, when I was there a few years ago) on display in the Comp Sci building at Stanford.
Try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=filetype% 3Atorrent+fish&btnG=Search.
Even worse is if the flexible pricing is on an individual basis. You like country? Buy several country songs in a row, and suddenly the price for all country music goes up, just for you.
Hopefully they will not be so evil...
Find a material it eats through very slowly?
So, I guess the far side of the moon never gets claimed.
Though, that might not be a bad thing...
So, I'd like you to do an analysis without assuming anything.
First point you must make sure not to assume: Released figure are true or representative in any way of actual figures.
Ready... set... go!
Indeed. I've been seriously considering a "switch-back" myself--I started using Windows in the mid-90s, and I've since grown very comfortable with it, but I'm very tempted by some of Apple's offerings at this point.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to justify replacing my 6 month old laptop... maybe I'll buy a mac mini. It would be way cool if I could use my laptop as a keyboard/moniter for the mini, though, as I'm not keen on buying new ones to clutter up my desk.
While I am not personally familiar with the Korean school system, I do know that slightly less than half of Swedish first graders turn 8 by the end of the school year--grades are determined by calendar years, and you start 1st grade the year you turn 7, so if your birthday is before mid-June, you will be 8 by the end of the year.
Sweden also has a 12-year school system, FWIW. But I will stop mocking your typical American assumptions about the rest of the world now.
(Disclaimer: I am also American. I just happen to be very well acquainted with the rest of the world, having lived there for >16 years...)
Only criminals will go to the trouble to avoid being caught in such a web of information collection, leaving innocent private citizens as the only victims in this process.
Along these lines, google for "Carnival Booth"--a paper written by two MIT grad students suggesting that profiling makes it less likely that terrorists will be caught, for exactly this reason.
Unfortunately, in the minds of most Americans, communism is equivalent to totalitarianism. I just moved here for university a few months ago from Sweden, and let me be the first to say that I'm fairly disgusted with American's misperceptions on a lot of things. And institutes of higher education are supposed to be dangerously liberal, or something. Heh.
Actually, 2.8 should be over the old usage, (11.5-2.8)=8.7. So it's actually a 32% increase in usage.
You obviously never took a marketing class (I admit, I haven't, either).
It doesn't affect Macs (shows up as a regular music CD), so I would presume it doesn't affect Linux either.
I've always found 14'' to be my sweetspot in the past, but like you, I've increasingly found the 12'' size very attractive. Perhaps in a year or four when I replace the 14'' I just bought...
I lived in Sweden for a year, and this sort of technology is entirely pervasive--but even slightly more advanced. You go to the bank website, where they give you two numbers which you plug into your little device, which then gives you another number. You need that number as well as your username/password to log in.
Nearly everybody does their banking there online, too. My dad commented that many Americans would probably complain it was too much work. There's always a trade off between convenience and security, though.
I don't see the paradox that is supposedly there. It may be that all Cretans are not liers, but Epimenides is. Thus, he is lying when he says all Cretans are liers, so that all Cretans are not liers. It is perfectly consistent.
The so-called paradox is simply a misunderstanding, or an assumption that Epimenides is a lier if and only if all Cretans are liers.
Since you couldn't be bothered to read the note at the end of the page you linked to, "this one" is a hoax.
Click on link. Read page. Read note at end of page:
Did you enjoy this story? It turns out to have been a hoax. The full story is found here.
Not to mention that it always is night everywhere at the same time...
Worse than that, when I lived in Vienna, Austria, McDonalds had some kind of exclusive agreement with the government (national or local, I don't know) that no other American fast food chains could operate there.
It did eventually change, but McDonalds got more than a little bit of a head start on their competition.
Actually, the author calls Firefox commerical FOSS, so he's hardly making the mistake of equating FOSS and non-commercial.
You didn't read the article, did you?