The rovers have made important discoveries about wet and violent environments on ancient Mars. They also have returned a quarter-million images, driven more than 21 kilometers (13 miles), climbed a mountain, descended into craters, struggled with sand traps and aging hardware, survived dust storms, and relayed more than 36 gigabytes of data via NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. To date, the rovers remain operational for new campaigns the team has planned for them
To be subtle, they added the leap second to the one time in the entire year when everyone (at least in that time zone) is watching the clock and counting along with it.
I have decades of experience. Would you please tell me the name of the company you are hiring for so I don't accidentally end up working with someone as pompous and patronizing as you?
Your problem isn't others who "might (think they) know" things. It's the guy you see in the mirror who thinks he knows the "real world." I won't shed a tear if the responses to one of your oh-so-clever questions is a lawsuit for age discrimination.
Maybe MTV can do for the web what it did for television...
"Abbreviation for Music Television. (More like Reality Television, amirite?) This name was chosen ironically after MTV's most hated enemy, music...
Since its inception no more than 99 years ago, MTV has attempted to systematically exterminate music, and to date, they have been reasonably successful in this regard. Some argue that the key to their victory was their outright refusal to have music videos played on their channel, or even to acknowledge the existence of music in any way (as evidenced by the various award shows they host every year).
Responsible for the successful careers of such shit bands and artists as 50 Cent, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, My Chemical Romance, Lil' Jon, Coldplay and James Blunt. Indeed, rumor has it that MTV's official policies require them to have one of the aforementioned on screen at all times. But obviously they should never actually play any of their songs. That would be severely damaging to their popularity."
Why do I have the feeling that in cases of violation of the GPL and Creative Commons licenses -- which are grounded in copyright -- these guys would just stand around and do nothing?
FTA: "Initially, delivered with basic behaviors, the robot will be, at its market introduction, the ideal introduction to robots. Eventually, with many improved behaviors, it will become an autonomous family companion. Finally, with more sophisticated functions, it will adopt a new role, assisting with daily tasks (monitoring, etc.)"
How much of the copyrighted material would still be allowed to be watched because it is covered under fair use? Youtube has a lot of short bits that would almost certainly be covered by fair use, but I'm sure Viacom would claim wouldn't be.
The limits of fair use often require court cases.
How can Viacom get reasonable statistics if they can't determine on their own what copyrighted materials are allowed to be posted and watched legally anyway?
Not that Viacom should get the data to run the statistics. Hopefully this question helps prevent that from happening, since it undermines the usefulness of the data.
* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
* Freedom 1: The freedom to study and modify the program.
* Freedom 2: The freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor.
* Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Seems like you'll eventually get all the others if you have these.
"The content is compelling. It notes that we've entered the Age of the Petabyte, "where one can collect intense amounts of data that is paradigm agnostic. It goes on to add a comment from the head of Google's R&D, that we need an "update to George Box's maxim: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them." Have we reached a time where all of our tool-sets are now made moot by vast clouds of information and strictly applied maths?"
Or as the rest of Slashdot interpreted it: WTF?
I can't imagine why an idea of his wouldn't be totally logically consistent and compelling.
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If Microsoft releases their software under a free software license I will like them as much as any other multinational corporation.
Sure, they'll take time to change their business practices, but once the source code is free as in speech, I can be patient.
For now, their proprietary code motivates them to restrict my freedom. Cost, features, and performance are secondary.
98 Euros isn't such a bad price. I paid $699 for my whole Linux distribution.
This was predicted a while ago:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Yes, but do they run linux?
Blue Zune Of Death!
To be subtle, they added the leap second to the one time in the entire year when everyone (at least in that time zone) is watching the clock and counting along with it.
In other news several Dutch legal firms were visited by executives from Epson, HP, and Lexmark, muttering about theft of lost revenues.
Adam Kissel
Director, Individual Rights Defense Program
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Hey Adam, just out of curiosity...
Why did you post anonymously?
"Young pups?" Please.
I have decades of experience. Would you please tell me the name of the company you are hiring for so I don't accidentally end up working with someone as pompous and patronizing as you?
Your problem isn't others who "might (think they) know" things. It's the guy you see in the mirror who thinks he knows the "real world." I won't shed a tear if the responses to one of your oh-so-clever questions is a lawsuit for age discrimination.
> "Thule" is from the Latin word with the same spelling meaning "northernmost part of the inhabitable world."
"Thule?" More like Cthulu, I'd say.
If you didn't vote for him last Tuesday, Cthulu's going nuclear. Prepare to pay the price!
Election? What election?
I pride myself on keeping apprised of current events, but I wasn't aware of an election today.
Who is running and for what position?
Srsly, whoever this CmdrTaco is who posted the story should at least give us this basic information in the summary.
I paid Diebold good money for thousands of votes in those districts in that election.
If they don't deliver I expect my money back!
Maybe MTV can do for the web what it did for television...
"Abbreviation for Music Television. (More like Reality Television, amirite?) This name was chosen ironically after MTV's most hated enemy, music...
Since its inception no more than 99 years ago, MTV has attempted to systematically exterminate music, and to date, they have been reasonably successful in this regard. Some argue that the key to their victory was their outright refusal to have music videos played on their channel, or even to acknowledge the existence of music in any way (as evidenced by the various award shows they host every year).
Responsible for the successful careers of such shit bands and artists as 50 Cent, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, My Chemical Romance, Lil' Jon, Coldplay and James Blunt. Indeed, rumor has it that MTV's official policies require them to have one of the aforementioned on screen at all times. But obviously they should never actually play any of their songs. That would be severely damaging to their popularity."
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday...
George W. Bush to be declared winner Saturday.
Why do I have the feeling that in cases of violation of the GPL and Creative Commons licenses -- which are grounded in copyright -- these guys would just stand around and do nothing?
Skynet's become active!
What a bunch of grammar nazis!
Can we get back to Godwin now?
FTA: "Initially, delivered with basic behaviors, the robot will be, at its market introduction, the ideal introduction to robots. Eventually, with many improved behaviors, it will become an autonomous family companion. Finally, with more sophisticated functions, it will adopt a new role, assisting with daily tasks (monitoring, etc.)"
Will, it, have, full, comma, functionality?
The Slashdot community is more familiar with Richard Stallman. Could you compare and contrast your views and his with regard to beards?
Bonus question: What is your favorite ZZ Top song?
From the article: "Why would we ever buy a book when we can buy a computer? Textbooks are often obsolete before they are even printed"
Nothing holds its value like a computer. That's why I threw out my obsolete copy of Strunk and White and got out my Babbage difference engine.
When will people ever learn?!?!
It's not piracy. It's copyright infringem...
Oh wait...
Nevermind.
How much of the copyrighted material would still be allowed to be watched because it is covered under fair use? Youtube has a lot of short bits that would almost certainly be covered by fair use, but I'm sure Viacom would claim wouldn't be.
The limits of fair use often require court cases.
How can Viacom get reasonable statistics if they can't determine on their own what copyrighted materials are allowed to be posted and watched legally anyway?
Not that Viacom should get the data to run the statistics. Hopefully this question helps prevent that from happening, since it undermines the usefulness of the data.
How about:
* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
* Freedom 1: The freedom to study and modify the program.
* Freedom 2: The freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor.
* Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Seems like you'll eventually get all the others if you have these.
Well, here's the root of Chris Anderson's logic:
"The content is compelling. It notes that we've entered the Age of the Petabyte, "where one can collect intense amounts of data that is paradigm agnostic. It goes on to add a comment from the head of Google's R&D, that we need an "update to George Box's maxim: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them." Have we reached a time where all of our tool-sets are now made moot by vast clouds of information and strictly applied maths?"
Or as the rest of Slashdot interpreted it: WTF?
I can't imagine why an idea of his wouldn't be totally logically consistent and compelling.
How hard can it be to increase the budget or add more servers?
Just go to the Wikipedia page with those numbers and change them. You don't even need to have an account.