It would be great if he would spend at least a comparable amount of money to plant trees or something else to help the environment for the amount of CO2 and other pollution he's going to cause to be put into the atmosphere.
I guess he has the right to pollute all he wants, but launching yourself into orbit dwarfs the effect on the environmental most people would ever cause. People get the value of protecting the Earth from viewing it from space. Usually that perspective ends up happening afterward. I hope Brin gets it beforehand.
"...From up there, it looks finite and it looks fragile and it really looks like just a tiny little place on which we live in a vast expanse of space. It gave me the feeling of really wanting us all to take care of the Earth. I got more of a sense of Earth as home, a place where we live. And of course you want to take care of your home. You want it clean. You want it safe." -- Winston Scott, two-time shuttle astronaut
"You change because you see your life differently than when you live on the surface everyday.... We are so involved in our own little lives and our own little concerns and problems. I don't think the average person realizes the global environment that we really live in. I certainly am more aware of how fragile our Earth is, and, frankly, I think that I care more about our Earth because of the experiences I've had traveling in space." -- Eileen Collins, first female space shuttle commander.
I'm sure he has friends who read Slashdot. If you are one of them, could you ask him to think and do something about how his actions will affect the rest of us?
It sounds funny now, but wait until the giant flying lizard starts fighting the giant flying turtle. By that point, not even the giant robot with the missiles shooting from its fingers can save Tokyo.
It's clear evidence the EU lawyers are leet and MS is suxxxorz who got pwned. I can see the court transcript:
EU Lawyers: We get signal MS Lawyers: What! EU Lawyers: Main screen turn on MS Lawyers: It's you!! EU Lawyers: How are you gentlemen!! EU Lawyers: All your base are belong to us!! MS Lawyers:... EU Lawyers: 1.337 billion Profit!
> Space exploration is not a drain on the economy; it generates infinitely more than wealth than it spends.
Infinite return on investment? At least if you are going to ask people whose livelihood depends on the answer, don't ask ones who don't know the difference between finite and infinite. You have to scan the posts by responders to find the term "opportunity cost."
On the whole, the blog post is a good read if you want to lose respect for Freakonomics.
> ``We have proved our world-class ability in cloning animals that have modified characteristics,'' said Kong.
Kong is king of genetic modification! I wonder what huge surprise "King" Kong will unleash next. Will he bring it to New York City and proclaim it from the tallest building?
Boy, did you miss the boat on this one. When the grandparent said federal prison is like a series of tubes, the humor wasn't that Stevens is and old man or misused lingo. GP expressed anger at a power-hungry, influence-peddling, democracy-subverting, tax-and-spend person. GP may not have been polite or subtle, but you missed the point.
It's too bad when you appreciate the money he helped bring into Alaska you don't realize where it came from. I probably paid more for the bridge to nowhere than you did. Or did you think he created money magically? It came from someone else who is now poorer. They just didn't have a representative who was as good at undermining our democratic principals.
Yes, the irony of misusing lingo was funny, but you didn't get it. You got dirty money from a guy with an ethics problem and then prefered to look the other way.
What marketing are you talking about for MySpace? MySpace is growing because users share their experiences with each other, not because it's marketed. I would tend to call that usability.
If you want to create products that your users use more, you might want to think about that.
Some guys on TV figured out a way to project the image of a pirate ship onto a fog. It was realistic enough that just about everyone believed it.
Then a few meddling kids and their dog showed up and showed how they were doing it. The guys turned out to be criminals in masks and got mad at the kids and the dog.
One of the kids was a stoner type, really liked the dog's snacks, and kept fighting him for them.
EbenMoglen co-wrote the GPL and is probono counsel to the Free Software Foundation.
What makes free software free is how its creators choose to share it with the rest of the world. That's a social agreement. The GPL codifies that contract and it's held up admirably all this time.
When people say the GPL hasn't been challenged it's a good thing. It means the GPL was written well.
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Developers developers developers developers.
And keeping the chairs locked down. Once they started throwing chairs around Google started eating their lunch.
It would be great if he would spend at least a comparable amount of money to plant trees or something else to help the environment for the amount of CO2 and other pollution he's going to cause to be put into the atmosphere.
... We are so involved in our own little lives and our own little concerns and problems. I don't think the average person realizes the global environment that we really live in. I certainly am more aware of how fragile our Earth is, and, frankly, I think that I care more about our Earth because of the experiences I've had traveling in space."
I guess he has the right to pollute all he wants, but launching yourself into orbit dwarfs the effect on the environmental most people would ever cause. People get the value of protecting the Earth from viewing it from space. Usually that perspective ends up happening afterward. I hope Brin gets it beforehand.
"...From up there, it looks finite and it looks fragile and it really looks like just a tiny little place on which we live in a vast expanse of space. It gave me the feeling of really wanting us all to take care of the Earth. I got more of a sense of Earth as home, a place where we live. And of course you want to take care of your home. You want it clean. You want it safe."
-- Winston Scott, two-time shuttle astronaut
"You change because you see your life differently than when you live on the surface everyday.
-- Eileen Collins, first female space shuttle commander.
I'm sure he has friends who read Slashdot. If you are one of them, could you ask him to think and do something about how his actions will affect the rest of us?
From the article:
> However, Apple's licence agreement does state that Mac OS X should only be installed on Apple hardware...
Free software's freedom zero (from fsf.org):
> The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
For those of us into free software because of the freedom part, it sounds like Apple is having a hard time even getting to the starting line.
It sounds funny now, but wait until the giant flying lizard starts fighting the giant flying turtle. By that point, not even the giant robot with the missiles shooting from its fingers can save Tokyo.
This is Slashdot. The data wasn't stolen. It was copyright infringed.
When will everyone learn the difference?
The solution is obvious: sic the Mafiaa on the attackers.
A lot of people worry about the risk of robots taking over, like they'll start running the world as robotic overlords.
Not a problem. If anything goes wrong, just set off a nuclear weapon in the bay. The giant lizards and flying turtles will solve everything.
The robots seem powerful, but once they've shot off all the missiles that are their fingers, they're mostly harmless.
1.337 billion just can't be a coincidence.
...
It's clear evidence the EU lawyers are leet and MS is suxxxorz who got pwned. I can see the court transcript:
EU Lawyers: We get signal
MS Lawyers: What!
EU Lawyers: Main screen turn on
MS Lawyers: It's you!!
EU Lawyers: How are you gentlemen!!
EU Lawyers: All your base are belong to us!!
MS Lawyers:
EU Lawyers: 1.337 billion Profit!
Now that's great justice!
The witness is fully incompetent.
He's doing that in Soviet Russia!
I don't live in his district, but I sent a check to Diebold and they said they registered my vote.
Let's see, you called a bunch of people you don't know extreme, strident, unforgiving, tediously sanctimonious, lacking humor, and prone to preaching.
Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder to be so extreme, strident, unforgiving, tediously sanctimonious, and lacking humor to preach like that.
You must be fun at parties.
Would you lighten up if they just said you were going to burn in hell for eternity?
> Space exploration is not a drain on the economy; it generates infinitely more than wealth than it spends.
Infinite return on investment? At least if you are going to ask people whose livelihood depends on the answer, don't ask ones who don't know the difference between finite and infinite. You have to scan the posts by responders to find the term "opportunity cost."
On the whole, the blog post is a good read if you want to lose respect for Freakonomics.
Tase him, bro!
> ``We have proved our world-class ability in cloning animals that have modified characteristics,'' said Kong.
Kong is king of genetic modification! I wonder what huge surprise "King" Kong will unleash next. Will he bring it to New York City and proclaim it from the tallest building?
I give the community one month from release to working hack or workaround. Actually, I think that may be too long.
Let's take up a pool for how long Apple's "protection" lasts. Anyone else predict something different?
... reporting that too much television may be linked to a bad attention span ...
Wait until they study the effects of too much internet!
"Oh the biting nerd humor! The wit!"
Boy, did you miss the boat on this one. When the grandparent said federal prison is like a series of tubes, the humor wasn't that Stevens is and old man or misused lingo. GP expressed anger at a power-hungry, influence-peddling, democracy-subverting, tax-and-spend person. GP may not have been polite or subtle, but you missed the point.
It's too bad when you appreciate the money he helped bring into Alaska you don't realize where it came from. I probably paid more for the bridge to nowhere than you did. Or did you think he created money magically? It came from someone else who is now poorer. They just didn't have a representative who was as good at undermining our democratic principals.
Yes, the irony of misusing lingo was funny, but you didn't get it. You got dirty money from a guy with an ethics problem and then prefered to look the other way.
The system works fine. I voted for the other guy 18 times and each time the machines worked perfectly.
And the count came out correct. I don't see the problem.
How about a site listing the pages Google participates in being censored from Google.cn, in China?
but marketing trumps usability every time
What marketing are you talking about for MySpace? MySpace is growing because users share their experiences with each other, not because it's marketed. I would tend to call that usability.
If you want to create products that your users use more, you might want to think about that.
First it was 1/5.
Then it was 1/4.
Then it was 1/37.
Now it's down to 1/56,000.
Check again in 2029.
They were using a cluster of Nintendo NES's.
It was working fine until someone told them they could overclock them.
Even then there were only minor glitches until someone pushed the overclocking to 6MHz.
Some guys on TV figured out a way to project the image of a pirate ship onto a fog. It was realistic enough that just about everyone believed it.
Then a few meddling kids and their dog showed up and showed how they were doing it. The guys turned out to be criminals in masks and got mad at the kids and the dog.
One of the kids was a stoner type, really liked the dog's snacks, and kept fighting him for them.
Eben Moglen co-wrote the GPL and is probono counsel to the Free Software Foundation.
What makes free software free is how its creators choose to share it with the rest of the world. That's a social agreement. The GPL codifies that contract and it's held up admirably all this time.
When people say the GPL hasn't been challenged it's a good thing. It means the GPL was written well.
It must be the "You must understand there is no spoon" kid talking. But it is only he that bends.
Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no GNU/Linux.
Neo: There is no GNU/Linux?
Boy: Then you'll see that it is not the GNU/Linux that bends, it is only yourself.