To quote my father (an Irish boy and lifelong devout Roman Catholic) from one debate with a conservative, "Yes, the pope is a good and holy man, but that doesn't mean that what he said isn't stupid." And that was about JP II; he's less partial to the current one.
Would he stand for somebody vandalising a picture of the Pope in a public place?
What will the people of Thailand do without their daily dose of teenage girls lipsyncing to pop songs?
Since the entertainment in Thai nightclubs seems to consist entirely of all but naked teenage girls lipsyncing to pop songs I don't think YouTube will be much of a loss.
However, they released sufficient information for interchange products to be developed.
I have worked with DEC gear for 20 years and I can think of many examples of closed interfaces which they used to keep competitors from interfacing with their systems and taking their markets.
Their approach to third party alpha motherboards was very close to that of apple to clone makers.
They used the same old tactic, but that doesn't make what Microsoft are doing right. The difference now is that we have more, better, open standards. The expectations are higher now because IT is more pervasive.
And as Google willingly publishes a ton of API's to make it possible to interoperate and integrate their technologies, I think they are really going out of their way to play nice.
And in any event their main interface is stock standard html.
The Papua and Australian Aboriginals are for instance also interesting leftovers of previous peoples coming "out of Africa".
I read somewhere that even now human African populations have much more diversity than humans outside Africa. Perhaps the different racial characteristics represent groups who left Africa at various times because they were less suited to the environment there.
Heh. As an Australian I was particularly surprised to discover that I can be arrested for "brawling" in public in the UK even if the person I'm fighting has given me his consent.
If I am sitting in the row in front of you at the MCG and you start a consensual brawl with the guy next to you I would want you both to be arrested.
I love the Lisa UI. When I use Gnome for documents (as opposed to code) I always work as close to the Lisa model as I can. Inidently there was an article on digg a couple of days ago about Lisa emulators. They are toys of course, but it would be nice to see a pure document oriented UI, perhaps as a Gnome configuration.
2010 does not belong on that list. The *BOOK* was good, but the movie stank.
Somebody familiar with a few bad or mediocre SF movies might not have rated Serenity so high. In other words: in order to judge you need to have broad familiarity with the subject you are judging.
The roads are (in America) getting more crowded by the day, the law of tonnage rules and small guys get eaten alive in wrecks.
Where I live you need a special license to drive a truck over 4000kg. This should change so that anything bigger than a small hatch requires a heavy vehicle license, with higher medical standards and more penalties for infringements. A lot of older people drive bigger cars because they are more likely to cause a crash.
Would Brazil and 12 Monkeys be included, I guess we would also see The Truman Show, Stalker, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, and Jakob's Ladder on the list. All SF and great movies, but hardly recognised as such by the average movie goer.
All of those films are SF. Would a neuromancer film not be SF because it didn't have blaser guns? I don't think anybody should vote on best SF film ever if they have not seen Logans Run, THX1138, 2001, 2010, Silent Running, Gattica, etc. In other words, a reasonable cross section of the genre.
Who thought they meant electromagnetic interference?
Probably.
But now that you mention it, sufficently large amounts of EMI would certainly remove DRM from most types of media but this may be in the category of cures which kill the disease and the patient.
Warner and other entertainment companies are moving cautiously ahead, but their interests are divided. All want to share their content online with consumers but are, at the same time, imposing constraints that risk alienating a younger, Web-oriented audience.
Mention of the younger, Web-oriented audience tries to dismiss the shift to online content as a fad for young people. In my house we don't bother with TV any more. My wife and I are both over 40. Our son is 5. We have three laptops, broadband and wifi. A lot of our entertainment (news + movies and music) comes down the line, and some movies we rent from the video shop.
Warner could put the video shop out of business if they let me get movies on bittorrent. If they make it cheap enough to download when I want to watch, as opposed to keeping a copy and watching it later, then it won't get pirated much because I would have to keep the stuff around, cluttering up my system.
They could be using storm sewers, in which case, it wouldn't be particularly unpleasant to maintain
Once I got called out during heavy rain because a system went down due to flooding under the false floor. The building had been flooded through the phone cable pipe. The tech who came out from the phone company told me with a straight face that their network is virtually an additional storm water system.
We opened a pit down hill from my building, tugged on a cable and cleared the blockage which had caused the flood.
The same power that lets insane farmers lay down ~2km of copper wire underneath high tension lines to leech ~110V
I heard of guy who lived next door to an AM radio transmitter. He hooked a wire to the cyclone wire fence around the transmitter, rectified and inverted it and used it to run his house.
Faith is the one the worst things ever to befall upon mankind. It is a destructive force that destroys reason and makes otherwise intelligent people into idiots.
Though I wonder where we would be without it. Seriously, if you have to teach uneducated stone age people how to do agriculture for generations after you have died, you need to start by saying "do these things because I say so". There really is no other way to communicate your ideas.
Its a shame we are stuck with the original methodology now that our communications (language, storage, etc) are so mature.
I remember a freighter that came into Charleston harbor with a SAIL snarled in the anchor. The crew never heard or felt a thing, but the sailboat was never found.
When I first got my sea kayak I used to paddle around the harbour area taking a close look at the docked freighters. Until one day I noticed a ship being prepped to leave. One check they do is to drop the anchor. Makes sense, just don't be underneath when it happens because they don't winch it down. They drop it.
Incidently this is the first mention I have seen of Jim Gray intending to scatter his Mothers ashes. It puts a different slant on the situation for me. Maybe he didn't intend to come back.
Frankly, even the rabidly fundamentalist anti-evolution junkies are aware that evolution is widely accepted in the scientific community. This doesn't stop them from trying their best to discredit the theory and convert people over to their way of thinking, but they'd have to be utterly daft to not realize that most scientists do not in fact agree with their point of view.
At college we had one fantastic physics lecturer and we all tried to get into his class because the understood the subject and was a great communicator. He had one flaw which was religion. One day when talking about the second law of thermodynamics he claimed that it conflicts with evolution. Fortunately I had just been reading an Asimov book on the subject so I was well prepared to argue and my lecturer agreed that Asimov was correct.
I know he didn't believe that stuff, but he had to say it for some reason. Its a shame really. He's a smart guy.
perhaps keeping the core of the planet(s) hot and this might keep the magnetic core active enough to preserve an atmosphere.
We will know more about this once we get landers on Europa and Io. Both are models for this type of planet because Juipiter is (really) the second sun we almost got.
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Would he stand for somebody vandalising a picture of the Pope in a public place?
Since the entertainment in Thai nightclubs seems to consist entirely of all but naked teenage girls lipsyncing to pop songs I don't think YouTube will be much of a loss.
I have worked with DEC gear for 20 years and I can think of many examples of closed interfaces which they used to keep competitors from interfacing with their systems and taking their markets.
Their approach to third party alpha motherboards was very close to that of apple to clone makers.
They used the same old tactic, but that doesn't make what Microsoft are doing right. The difference now is that we have more, better, open standards. The expectations are higher now because IT is more pervasive.
And in any event their main interface is stock standard html.
I read somewhere that even now human African populations have much more diversity than humans outside Africa. Perhaps the different racial characteristics represent groups who left Africa at various times because they were less suited to the environment there.
You mean they burn the rubbish on the spot? Sounds great.
You can do X if it is not a direct threat to me.
If I am sitting in the row in front of you at the MCG and you start a consensual brawl with the guy next to you I would want you both to be arrested.
I love the Lisa UI. When I use Gnome for documents (as opposed to code) I always work as close to the Lisa model as I can. Inidently there was an article on digg a couple of days ago about Lisa emulators. They are toys of course, but it would be nice to see a pure document oriented UI, perhaps as a Gnome configuration.
Somebody familiar with a few bad or mediocre SF movies might not have rated Serenity so high. In other words: in order to judge you need to have broad familiarity with the subject you are judging.
Yes, I am sure the germans would agree with that.
Where I live you need a special license to drive a truck over 4000kg. This should change so that anything bigger than a small hatch requires a heavy vehicle license, with higher medical standards and more penalties for infringements. A lot of older people drive bigger cars because they are more likely to cause a crash.
All of those films are SF. Would a neuromancer film not be SF because it didn't have blaser guns? I don't think anybody should vote on best SF film ever if they have not seen Logans Run, THX1138, 2001, 2010, Silent Running, Gattica, etc. In other words, a reasonable cross section of the genre.
No, its an old-ish distro, originally based on redhat. It still uses RPM.
Probably.
But now that you mention it, sufficently large amounts of EMI would certainly remove DRM from most types of media but this may be in the category of cures which kill the disease and the patient.
TFA:
Mention of the younger, Web-oriented audience tries to dismiss the shift to online content as a fad for young people. In my house we don't bother with TV any more. My wife and I are both over 40. Our son is 5. We have three laptops, broadband and wifi. A lot of our entertainment (news + movies and music) comes down the line, and some movies we rent from the video shop.
Warner could put the video shop out of business if they let me get movies on bittorrent. If they make it cheap enough to download when I want to watch, as opposed to keeping a copy and watching it later, then it won't get pirated much because I would have to keep the stuff around, cluttering up my system.
Are you sure about the number of blocks? Most of the interior of the pyramid is fill, not properly cut and positioned blocks.
Once I got called out during heavy rain because a system went down due to flooding under the false floor. The building had been flooded through the phone cable pipe. The tech who came out from the phone company told me with a straight face that their network is virtually an additional storm water system.
We opened a pit down hill from my building, tugged on a cable and cleared the blockage which had caused the flood.
I think you might be right. Google does have an april fool but this is not it.
But we had that months ago.
I heard of guy who lived next door to an AM radio transmitter. He hooked a wire to the cyclone wire fence around the transmitter, rectified and inverted it and used it to run his house.
Must have taken a while to find, too.
Though I wonder where we would be without it. Seriously, if you have to teach uneducated stone age people how to do agriculture for generations after you have died, you need to start by saying "do these things because I say so". There really is no other way to communicate your ideas.
Its a shame we are stuck with the original methodology now that our communications (language, storage, etc) are so mature.
When I first got my sea kayak I used to paddle around the harbour area taking a close look at the docked freighters. Until one day I noticed a ship being prepped to leave. One check they do is to drop the anchor. Makes sense, just don't be underneath when it happens because they don't winch it down. They drop it.
Incidently this is the first mention I have seen of Jim Gray intending to scatter his Mothers ashes. It puts a different slant on the situation for me. Maybe he didn't intend to come back.
At college we had one fantastic physics lecturer and we all tried to get into his class because the understood the subject and was a great communicator. He had one flaw which was religion. One day when talking about the second law of thermodynamics he claimed that it conflicts with evolution. Fortunately I had just been reading an Asimov book on the subject so I was well prepared to argue and my lecturer agreed that Asimov was correct.
I know he didn't believe that stuff, but he had to say it for some reason. Its a shame really. He's a smart guy.
We will know more about this once we get landers on Europa and Io. Both are models for this type of planet because Juipiter is (really) the second sun we almost got.