Added to this, the amount of damage done as speed increases is not linear; it's exponential. So if your phone call means that you don't slow down when you otherwise would have, getting into the same accident could be exponentially worse.
If you find that the radio distracts you when driving, don't turn it on. If you find that passengers distract you, institute a "no talking to the driver" rule, and eject people from your car if they break it.
There's a reason you need a license to drive a car, and it's not so the government can track you. It's the same reason you need a license to drive an airplane.
Then that means you are part of the small percent who can drop out of an audible conversation with no other feedback when the need arises. Other studies have shown* that the majority of people are hard-wired not to be able to do this, so their perceptions are significantly hampered while conducting a blind conversation.
Now, if you're just filtering out the non-information from the person on the other side of the phone while driving, and not actually listening/having a conversation, the impact should be minimal.
*they're all referenced in similar slashdot articles; I'll leave it at hearsay for now.
It's not about infrastructure -- it's about building icons of society. About being able to say "Yes, we built that... we are Chinese!" Cultural icons are a great way of staving off discontent within the populace... even if they displace a minority in the process.
Or, he realizes like China does that they are quickly becoming the US target for when the US goes bottoms-up and can't support itself anymore. They don't need to match the US in firepower, but they have to make the idea of just coming in to take back everything the US moved to China over the past 30 years something to give the US pause. Plus, this is a great way to grow nationalism at a time when it's waning in China. Nothing would boost their country more than a cold war. That still doesn't mean they are depending on a physical offensive strategy. They don't need to -- they already have the overall manpower to succeed, one of the largest areas of real estate in the world, and they own much of the rest of the world too. The Chinese have an insular culture, and consider themselves the Shining Ones who already have everything worth having.
While the Internet is disabusing some Chinese of this last point, it doesn't take much to convince them that the costs of moving to a US model are not worth the risks in societal change. All it takes is a few large international gestures, like the space program and these aircraft carriers ("See? we can do this too, if we want to.").
Not to be outdone, the GM class carriers will use an iTS launch, mimicking the Steam launch technology while being more mobile and using stricter guidance technologies.
This won't be an issue with Intranet clients... only public facing browsers will be affected by this, as internal browsers will all go through a local WSUS server.
ah; I did indeed lose the thread; that one didn't show up for me for some reason.
Children living at home is a sign that your children are still dependent on you. That could be good or bad, depending on the reason:) In many parts of the world, you live with your parents* until they die.
*or you live with your spouse's parents, or you end up (un)lucky, and your sibling gets them while you go out and have to do jobs that significantly curtails your life expectancy, just to get by.
This is why a lot of students these days get eBooks, and just pirate whatever books they need from others. This doesn't work once you get to seminars where the authors only publish in print to the university bookstore (until some TA gets their hand on a digital copy and distributes it), but I remember with the advent of the commercial Internet, many students were no longer using College Bookstores, but instead buying from online sources (both used and new).
I also remember picking up the previous edition of a few textbooks for really cheap and copying the assignment pages from the library copy. It always seemed underhanded to me that for some courses, you essentially paid $120 for a set of assignment questions (as you could get the rest of the material from the lecturer's notes or other sources).
If my kids are going to school full time, WTF is wrong with them living at home?
Well, look at it this way. In order to get the courses I needed to get my undergraduate degree, I needed to go to a college that was a 6 hour commute from home. I took as many courses as I could from the local college and via remote learning initiatives, but that only covered a few 100 and 200-level courses. Not everyone lives near a college that actually provides the training needed.
N
Here is my arrangement for when my kids are done with high school.
1) You can live at home if you go to school full time. 2) You can live at home if you are starting your own business and working it full time.
You want to play games all day? fine, do it in your own place.
So, if my daughter is 22 and need to live at home while she gets her PhD is physics? I really don't see a problem with that.
Neither do I... assuming that it is physically and financially possible for her to live at home while getting a PhD. Unless you live in a densely populated area, this is highly unlikely.
I should add... if the dog fails to perform properly, you can have it put down and train another... can't do that to a swamp without bringing in large machinery to dredge, drain, and burn. And then you've got a bill for the job, a bunch of machinery, and some very hungry alligators with nowhere to go on your hands.
To clarify, limited government WITH TEETH is much more effective than a totalitarian government.
A limited government, in charge of socialist mandates (mandates to help the people as a whole) who can make good on punishments for those who abuse the system, will enable a balanced society without preventing freedom of action by individuals within that society.
Think of such a government as protecting your house with a guard dog. Think of the alternate as protecting your house with an encompassing swamp, complete with alligators.
The dog is fed and groomed by you, has a specific job to do, and does it well. The swamp is only in it to survive and grow... possibly at your expense, and definitely at the expense of most people attempting to visit your house. Only those who can navigate the changing ways of the swamp will survive the visit.
Sometimes advocating a less offensive alternative is the only viable means of effectively opposing something vile.
And sometimes advocating a more offensive alternative is the only viable means of getting your less offensive bill to be accepted by the majority, vileness and all.
When you use terminology like "MAFIAA" or tell them to go fuck themselves, whatever point you were trying to make just sounds ridiculous.
I think that depends on the point... but it definitely limits their listening audience.
That said, I don't really get the mentality that you want to support artists, but in order to punish content cartels that artists willingly signed up with to distribute their work globally, you refuse to pay for the artists' work. That doesn't hurt the publishers; it just means the artist sells less records,
False -- the artist doesn't sell fewer records; they sell the same number as if you had not downloaded. Now, if you chose to actually buy instead of download, there would be more records sold.
which makes publishers less likely to take risks on edgier acts that don't guarantee a return on their investment. You only hurt the artists in that equation.
If they don't take risks on edgier acts, that means the edgier acts will have to find an alternate way to produce their work -- which is a GOOD thing. Edgier acts generally operate at a loss through the major labels -- meaning at the end of the day they owe more to the label than they make back in sales. Record labels don't take many risks -- all the services they provide the artists are *at the artist's expense* -- the labels excel in 4 things: 1) acting as a loan house for musicians 2) promoting the "chosen few" through the media cartels 3) dictating the quality and quantity of the works 4) perpetuating their business model
With New Media, 1) is no longer as necessary, as any musician can afford to produce and promote 2) is only a small market segment (almost anyone can publish on iTunes, for example) 3) is solved by social media (which is then manipulated by the Old Media who have learned how to co-opt New Media) 4) is slowly failing
So... you can change "You only hurt the artists" to "You only emancipate the artists". This means that *some* edgier acts will never exist... but people love to create, and other edgy acts will fill in the gap.
Most of the music I've purchased in the past 10 years has been from independent labels or direct from the artist/venue. It's edgier, and these groups control everything... instead of being beholden to some label to sing tracks for x more tracks/$$ where the music is written by an ad agency and the instrumental tracks are a re-mix of something from the label's IP library.
Also, solar panels have to have the right angle of reception to be at all useful. On a weather balloon with no directional control, you're going to have to seriously overload the envelope/payload with cells in order to get any useful current... and that will add a LOT of weight.
Every produced work of intellectual property's copyright is held by the producer, unless they choose to transfer it under contract to another party. The copyright holder has complete control over that work, with a few exemptions for satire, political debate, news reporting and educational study. These are *limited* exemptions, and are in place until copyright expires due to time, or due to the holder intentionally releasing the work into the public domain.
If I write something and put it in a publicly accessible place, I still own copyright... just like a professional photographer owns copyright on photos they take of me, even if they use the photos appear in ads and they have sold copies to me.
This is what copyright is all about.
Of course, some countries have specific exemptions. For example, in Sweden and Canada, it is perfectly legal to download music from wherever you want; it's just not legal to upload without permission.
In the UK and USA, this practice is illegal, and carries criminal (not just statutory) penalties.
"The studios" is not a copyright holder. TFA points out that employees from one studio were downloading content from another. However, as I pointed out elsewhere, that doesn't really matter, as they aren't going to sue their accomplices (and they're not legally bound to).
Aside from the basement jokes, I'm pretty sure the ancient Greeks generally built single story structures. You could make it multilevel if you want to compartmentalize the various bits, or even split-level or bi-level if you have arguments that are slightly off-tangent.
Another useful trick is to attach different bits of the speech to different objects in the room you're planning to present the speech in... with the downside that the janitorial staff can easily misplace an entire paragraph, or get your arguments all out of order between memorization and presentation.
This is exactly what one of the X-Prize contenders set out to do; I never did hear how that team fared in the long run. The other great thing is that to bring the rig back down, you just compress the helium (instead of letting it loose).
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Added to this, the amount of damage done as speed increases is not linear; it's exponential. So if your phone call means that you don't slow down when you otherwise would have, getting into the same accident could be exponentially worse.
If you find that the radio distracts you when driving, don't turn it on. If you find that passengers distract you, institute a "no talking to the driver" rule, and eject people from your car if they break it.
There's a reason you need a license to drive a car, and it's not so the government can track you. It's the same reason you need a license to drive an airplane.
Then that means you are part of the small percent who can drop out of an audible conversation with no other feedback when the need arises. Other studies have shown* that the majority of people are hard-wired not to be able to do this, so their perceptions are significantly hampered while conducting a blind conversation.
Now, if you're just filtering out the non-information from the person on the other side of the phone while driving, and not actually listening/having a conversation, the impact should be minimal.
*they're all referenced in similar slashdot articles; I'll leave it at hearsay for now.
It's not about infrastructure -- it's about building icons of society. About being able to say "Yes, we built that... we are Chinese!" Cultural icons are a great way of staving off discontent within the populace... even if they displace a minority in the process.
Or, he realizes like China does that they are quickly becoming the US target for when the US goes bottoms-up and can't support itself anymore. They don't need to match the US in firepower, but they have to make the idea of just coming in to take back everything the US moved to China over the past 30 years something to give the US pause. Plus, this is a great way to grow nationalism at a time when it's waning in China. Nothing would boost their country more than a cold war. That still doesn't mean they are depending on a physical offensive strategy. They don't need to -- they already have the overall manpower to succeed, one of the largest areas of real estate in the world, and they own much of the rest of the world too. The Chinese have an insular culture, and consider themselves the Shining Ones who already have everything worth having.
While the Internet is disabusing some Chinese of this last point, it doesn't take much to convince them that the costs of moving to a US model are not worth the risks in societal change. All it takes is a few large international gestures, like the space program and these aircraft carriers ("See? we can do this too, if we want to.").
Not to be outdone, the GM class carriers will use an iTS launch, mimicking the Steam launch technology while being more mobile and using stricter guidance technologies.
This won't be an issue with Intranet clients... only public facing browsers will be affected by this, as internal browsers will all go through a local WSUS server.
That's a relief... they'll be wanting a gamma tester next, not a kappa tester.
ah; I did indeed lose the thread; that one didn't show up for me for some reason.
Children living at home is a sign that your children are still dependent on you. That could be good or bad, depending on the reason :)
In many parts of the world, you live with your parents* until they die.
*or you live with your spouse's parents, or you end up (un)lucky, and your sibling gets them while you go out and have to do jobs that significantly curtails your life expectancy, just to get by.
This is why a lot of students these days get eBooks, and just pirate whatever books they need from others. This doesn't work once you get to seminars where the authors only publish in print to the university bookstore (until some TA gets their hand on a digital copy and distributes it), but I remember with the advent of the commercial Internet, many students were no longer using College Bookstores, but instead buying from online sources (both used and new).
I also remember picking up the previous edition of a few textbooks for really cheap and copying the assignment pages from the library copy. It always seemed underhanded to me that for some courses, you essentially paid $120 for a set of assignment questions (as you could get the rest of the material from the lecturer's notes or other sources).
If my kids are going to school full time, WTF is wrong with them living at home?
Well, look at it this way. In order to get the courses I needed to get my undergraduate degree, I needed to go to a college that was a 6 hour commute from home. I took as many courses as I could from the local college and via remote learning initiatives, but that only covered a few 100 and 200-level courses.
Not everyone lives near a college that actually provides the training needed.
N
Here is my arrangement for when my kids are done with high school.
1) You can live at home if you go to school full time.
2) You can live at home if you are starting your own business and working it full time.
You want to play games all day? fine, do it in your own place.
So, if my daughter is 22 and need to live at home while she gets her PhD is physics? I really don't see a problem with that.
Neither do I... assuming that it is physically and financially possible for her to live at home while getting a PhD. Unless you live in a densely populated area, this is highly unlikely.
I should add... if the dog fails to perform properly, you can have it put down and train another... can't do that to a swamp without bringing in large machinery to dredge, drain, and burn. And then you've got a bill for the job, a bunch of machinery, and some very hungry alligators with nowhere to go on your hands.
To clarify, limited government WITH TEETH is much more effective than a totalitarian government.
A limited government, in charge of socialist mandates (mandates to help the people as a whole) who can make good on punishments for those who abuse the system, will enable a balanced society without preventing freedom of action by individuals within that society.
Think of such a government as protecting your house with a guard dog. Think of the alternate as protecting your house with an encompassing swamp, complete with alligators.
The dog is fed and groomed by you, has a specific job to do, and does it well. The swamp is only in it to survive and grow... possibly at your expense, and definitely at the expense of most people attempting to visit your house. Only those who can navigate the changing ways of the swamp will survive the visit.
Sometimes advocating a less offensive alternative is the only viable means of effectively opposing something vile.
And sometimes advocating a more offensive alternative is the only viable means of getting your less offensive bill to be accepted by the majority, vileness and all.
Just saying.
When you use terminology like "MAFIAA" or tell them to go fuck themselves, whatever point you were trying to make just sounds ridiculous.
I think that depends on the point... but it definitely limits their listening audience.
That said, I don't really get the mentality that you want to support artists, but in order to punish content cartels that artists willingly signed up with to distribute their work globally, you refuse to pay for the artists' work. That doesn't hurt the publishers; it just means the artist sells less records,
False -- the artist doesn't sell fewer records; they sell the same number as if you had not downloaded. Now, if you chose to actually buy instead of download, there would be more records sold.
which makes publishers less likely to take risks on edgier acts that don't guarantee a return on their investment. You only hurt the artists in that equation.
If they don't take risks on edgier acts, that means the edgier acts will have to find an alternate way to produce their work -- which is a GOOD thing. Edgier acts generally operate at a loss through the major labels -- meaning at the end of the day they owe more to the label than they make back in sales. Record labels don't take many risks -- all the services they provide the artists are *at the artist's expense* -- the labels excel in 4 things:
1) acting as a loan house for musicians
2) promoting the "chosen few" through the media cartels
3) dictating the quality and quantity of the works
4) perpetuating their business model
With New Media,
1) is no longer as necessary, as any musician can afford to produce and promote
2) is only a small market segment (almost anyone can publish on iTunes, for example)
3) is solved by social media (which is then manipulated by the Old Media who have learned how to co-opt New Media)
4) is slowly failing
So... you can change "You only hurt the artists" to "You only emancipate the artists". This means that *some* edgier acts will never exist... but people love to create, and other edgy acts will fill in the gap.
Most of the music I've purchased in the past 10 years has been from independent labels or direct from the artist/venue. It's edgier, and these groups control everything... instead of being beholden to some label to sing tracks for x more tracks/$$ where the music is written by an ad agency and the instrumental tracks are a re-mix of something from the label's IP library.
Why not call it the Xbox 14.4kbps?
The next one will be the Xbox V.bis.
Or, they could call it the Xbox Rad13, or maybe the Xbox 4pi....
You forgot to mention his Voice.
And yes... there is absolutely no argument that Google is, in fact, Mail.
You mean I won?
Haven't had a comment modded like that in years though....
Also, solar panels have to have the right angle of reception to be at all useful. On a weather balloon with no directional control, you're going to have to seriously overload the envelope/payload with cells in order to get any useful current... and that will add a LOT of weight.
um?
Every produced work of intellectual property's copyright is held by the producer, unless they choose to transfer it under contract to another party. The copyright holder has complete control over that work, with a few exemptions for satire, political debate, news reporting and educational study. These are *limited* exemptions, and are in place until copyright expires due to time, or due to the holder intentionally releasing the work into the public domain.
If I write something and put it in a publicly accessible place, I still own copyright... just like a professional photographer owns copyright on photos they take of me, even if they use the photos appear in ads and they have sold copies to me.
This is what copyright is all about.
Of course, some countries have specific exemptions. For example, in Sweden and Canada, it is perfectly legal to download music from wherever you want; it's just not legal to upload without permission.
In the UK and USA, this practice is illegal, and carries criminal (not just statutory) penalties.
"The studios" is not a copyright holder. TFA points out that employees from one studio were downloading content from another. However, as I pointed out elsewhere, that doesn't really matter, as they aren't going to sue their accomplices (and they're not legally bound to).
as long as the person at the company is downloading the items on the behalf of the company who is the copyright holder
But has any evidence come to light that, say, Warner Bros. employees have permission from Universal?
No, but I'm sure they'll have it before something like this goes to court.
That's the thing... copyright holders can grant free access to anyone they want for almost any reason. And they can do it whenever they want.
I see... this entire invention is designed to make tinfoil hats illegal....
Aside from the basement jokes, I'm pretty sure the ancient Greeks generally built single story structures. You could make it multilevel if you want to compartmentalize the various bits, or even split-level or bi-level if you have arguments that are slightly off-tangent.
Another useful trick is to attach different bits of the speech to different objects in the room you're planning to present the speech in... with the downside that the janitorial staff can easily misplace an entire paragraph, or get your arguments all out of order between memorization and presentation.
This is exactly what one of the X-Prize contenders set out to do; I never did hear how that team fared in the long run.
The other great thing is that to bring the rig back down, you just compress the helium (instead of letting it loose).
Isn't that the argument regarding calling someone a hacker (but in reverse, of course)?