When I lived in Brazil, it was counted per click or unit by Embratel. You usually got about one unit per minute on a local call, but every call to a cell phone would eat units away quickly (about one every seven - ten seconds). Your phone bill would come based on the number of units you used, or the calling card you used on the street was based on units instead of minutes. So, in the end, you paid more for cell calls because they used more units.
In the Reuters article linked below, the picture caption says a glass integrated with 8-bit central processing unit (CPU). I'm a bit confused, therefore, of their usage of the word "screen" later on. Do they mean to call the piece of glass a screen, so to say that the piece of glass is acting like a computer, or that it really is a screen and actually displays something?
Just so you know, if it gets slashdotted, there are two wonderful full-text pages here and here... Wait a second... oh yeah, I guess that's this site, huh?:)
I think it's funny how you magically moded your post to be rated interesting just based on your subject line of "interesting"...
Back to the topic, I think you're right. If you look at musical history, you'll notice a lot of borrowing going on. I mean, even now. Danny Elfman's Batman theme resembles in no small way a piece of music for piano and orchestra by Rachmoninoff. I forget which one, but I think it's the 2nd...
An interesting point of the suppression of ideas created by this: Mozart was accused and had to stand in front of the king (mebbey) when he was a younger child. His crime? He had copied the mass music at church by keeping it in his head and writing it out when he got home. So, could we give Mozart the credit for being the first person to violate some form of artistic licensing? I would've liked to see the RIAA there on that one...
Now, let's think. If artists of that time period weren't allowed to copy from each other (Mozart was commended after he demonstrated how he did it) would we have even heard of any classical European master outside of the Bach family? I'm probably exaggerating (and I'm sure anyone who thinks so will prove me wrong) but the point of the matter is: the same technology (music in their days, computer in ours) that is supposed to bring us together can either do so, or can seriously put a cramp in my style.
Actually, it doesn't. A sperm by itself cannot become human, nor can an egg by itself. Easy to overlook, I know, but it's the fact that the two together form a human that is the case.
I must agree with the Devil's Advocate poster, and disagree with you. The question is entirely ethical in nature, not religious. "it boil down to the definition of what is a "human being"." The definition of what is human is what has the capability of forming a human. I don't believe we've advanced so far as to create tangible humans out of computer renderings (despite what you can do on Linux, it's not there yet), and our ability is falling quite short of creating entire humans out of an organ or a few skin cells (only skin cells). On the other hand, we have proven over the centuries that human embryos in fact create humans. Not only this, but the sole purpose of this combination between an egg and a sperm cell is the creation of a human being. Nothing more, nothing less. The human embryo creates a human. "Religion come to define What is a human or When it is a human." Read the preceeding paragraph again. Did I indicate when it was human? Did I use religion to prove it? "Religious people tend to say the moment the ovula is fertilised with the spermatozoid. Others tend to say it is far later in the developpement, when at least there is a viable diferianciated central nervous system recognozable as an organ." Doesn't one stage lead to another? And if I'm not mistaken, in about nine months time, a human is formed. Following logical steps, it is easy to see why this is an ethical question. You just need to look at the sequence of events over a period of time.
"While we seem to find that the news is objective, we fail to understand that instant news is as subjective as possible, as instant coverage of an even often presents only one side to the story."
That reminds me of an interesting situation I had while visiting some friends in Brazil. We were talking about the airplane (I don't know why) and one of my American friends told me he'd show me something interesting. So, he asked our friend Douglas who invented the airplane. To my suprise he didn't say the brothers Wright, but some other name that escapes me at the moment. I asked others we visited as well, and most of them confirmed it wasn't the Wrights, but it was some guy who flew around in France. I don't remember the details exactly (this being some time ago), but the idea was present that history is not always as we are taught it. *sigh* I know, it's off topic...
Did this remind anyone else about Neuromancer? When Case entered that one girl's mind and could feel what she was saying when she just made the movements with her mouth, wouldn't it be kind of like how the thing is supposed to 'read' your words by your muscle movements?
I might be a little off-topic, I'll admit. But practically speaking, it could be really nice to hold conversations without disturbing the silence of a library... but I'm getting ahead of the article.
Of course, it'd be cooler if I cared about jeopardy. The song is so annoying. Anyhoo, great to know the answer to one of the questions on that show, FINALLY...
Well, beyond the first posters who always get it wrong... What will this do to me, the average geek? Or rather, to my friend at the University who has his own site that uses the now patented Yahoo technology? Will the Yahoo Police come beat down his door and kick his small dog? Will he spend twenty years in prison where he can write MORE code violating said patents? Who knows? And more importantly, who cares? A patent is a patent is a patent. If you call it by any other name, it's not quite as mysterious. Say good day to the patent life style. I'm sure that someone somewhere used it before Yahoo did. That's the pattern of technology, isn't it? Nearly all of the whizzbang ideas of today are based on two or three not so whizzbang ones of yesterday. And isn't proof of prior existence all that you need to call a patent stupid and null it? Or am I just rambling because it's so early?
That's just sick. Of course, beyond that, it's really just another `Microsoft Sucks... Bill Sucks... Plungers Suck' Type of an article. With the exception that now Microsoft has insulted the best chess player in the world of course. To me, that's a little like giving the pope a melvin.
"The problems are basic ones of the art of storytelling, and I guarantee you, that the further from mainstream experience something is, be it hacking, neuroscience, or astronomy, the more it will be altered in the art of storytelling. "
I read an article (can't remember where) about the differences between SETI and what was used in the movie. Sure it was dramatic to have her out there listening for aliens, but that stuff is actually processed in the computers (seti@home... aherm...) It may be cool that she would call them on a dinky radio, but seriously, could anyone understand her with the interference coming off those dishes? It makes the movies look good, but anyone who knows anything about the field they're portraying knows it's rediculous! My father is an attorney, and I went to a couple of land disputes with him in this small town called Moccassin, Arizona. I thought we were going to be involved in a big heated battle "Objection!" here "Overruled!" there, but after the court case, which was conducted as if they were all reading off stock tickers, the two attorneys and one of the clients got together for a dinner at the diner. The only reason the defending client didn't come is because he had to get back to his wife. That kind of stuff happens in movies, but real life is a lot more boring than that.
Seriously, this whole thing with any company able to get away with thinking they're the center of the universe gets to me. It happens in this small town I live in with the radio stations and theatre companies, it happens nation-wide with corporations like Microsoft constantly giving themselves pats on the back. Someone once said 'It is better go on foot than ride in a carriage under false pretenses'. Microsoft is riding in a carriage not their own, and any company doing this will ultimately loose the respect they may have held and whither away to oblivion. Microsoft says that they're better, but where did these Linux users come from? I would be willing to guess that at least 33% of the people who use Linux come from a Microsoft OS background. Why? Because they were sick of not knowing what was going on in their system, sick of the OS behaving like a bad employee on the verge of being fired, and sick of being told by Microsoft that they were using the best software anyone in the world had to offer, when deep down they knew something had to be better. And so, having finished that rant, I'll go eat some soggy cheerios, so I can be annoyed enough to post on something else I hate:)
I've never had it happen to me before, but one of the kids in our band did. He would just go to sleep where his room used to be, looking up at the stars... Good luck with this one. If you need any help, I can't give much, mebbey an old 486dx processor is all:)
Well, hey, you did ask. Stuff on my home system tends to be Glen Miller or Wynton Marsalis; Anything more than HTML for my web page (or anything my dad wants on his site) always ends up as Garbage or the Matrix soundtrack...
"they suggest that a modest, temporary rise in calcium levels results in growth and proliferation of these important brain cells, while a larger and more prolonged rise causes the cells to collapse."
So, I guess if you drink a lot of caffeine you won't be remembering too much, hmm?
I was wondering where you could get so many long cords to hook everything up to the monitor, but then, looking closer, it's not even plugged in for any of the shots!
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When I lived in Brazil, it was counted per click or unit by Embratel. You usually got about one unit per minute on a local call, but every call to a cell phone would eat units away quickly (about one every seven - ten seconds). Your phone bill would come based on the number of units you used, or the calling card you used on the street was based on units instead of minutes. So, in the end, you paid more for cell calls because they used more units.
In the Reuters article linked below, the picture caption says a glass integrated with 8-bit central processing unit (CPU). I'm a bit confused, therefore, of their usage of the word "screen" later on. Do they mean to call the piece of glass a screen, so to say that the piece of glass is acting like a computer, or that it really is a screen and actually displays something?
Just so you know, if it gets slashdotted, there are two wonderful full-text pages here and here... :)
Wait a second... oh yeah, I guess that's this site, huh?
I think it's funny how you magically moded your post to be rated interesting just based on your subject line of "interesting"...
Back to the topic, I think you're right. If you look at musical history, you'll notice a lot of borrowing going on. I mean, even now. Danny Elfman's Batman theme resembles in no small way a piece of music for piano and orchestra by Rachmoninoff. I forget which one, but I think it's the 2nd...
An interesting point of the suppression of ideas created by this: Mozart was accused and had to stand in front of the king (mebbey) when he was a younger child. His crime? He had copied the mass music at church by keeping it in his head and writing it out when he got home. So, could we give Mozart the credit for being the first person to violate some form of artistic licensing? I would've liked to see the RIAA there on that one...
Now, let's think. If artists of that time period weren't allowed to copy from each other (Mozart was commended after he demonstrated how he did it) would we have even heard of any classical European master outside of the Bach family? I'm probably exaggerating (and I'm sure anyone who thinks so will prove me wrong) but the point of the matter is: the same technology (music in their days, computer in ours) that is supposed to bring us together can either do so, or can seriously put a cramp in my style.
Target
of what they would not teach in college, apparently...
(from the article)
``Why should we be blamed for pursuing knowledge?'' a student protester said on television.
(and reading up above, the point of the article is...)
copyrights on works including earlier Walt Disney movies
I *suppose* you can't be blamed for pursuing knowledge, but you surely can be blamed for choosing poor sources to cite in your term paper...
Target
Actually, it doesn't.
A sperm by itself cannot become human, nor can an egg by itself. Easy to overlook, I know, but it's the fact that the two together form a human that is the case.
I must agree with the Devil's Advocate poster, and disagree with you.
The question is entirely ethical in nature, not religious.
"it boil down to the definition of what is a "human being"."
The definition of what is human is what has the capability of forming a human. I don't believe we've advanced so far as to create tangible humans out of computer renderings (despite what you can do on Linux, it's not there yet), and our ability is falling quite short of creating entire humans out of an organ or a few skin cells (only skin cells).
On the other hand, we have proven over the centuries that human embryos in fact create humans. Not only this, but the sole purpose of this combination between an egg and a sperm cell is the creation of a human being. Nothing more, nothing less. The human embryo creates a human.
"Religion come to define What is a human or When it is a human."
Read the preceeding paragraph again. Did I indicate when it was human? Did I use religion to prove it?
"Religious people tend to say the moment the ovula is fertilised with the spermatozoid. Others tend to say it is far later in the developpement, when at least there is a viable diferianciated central nervous system recognozable as an organ."
Doesn't one stage lead to another? And if I'm not mistaken, in about nine months time, a human is formed.
Following logical steps, it is easy to see why this is an ethical question. You just need to look at the sequence of events over a period of time.
"While we seem to find that the news is objective, we fail to understand that instant news is as subjective as possible, as instant coverage of an even often presents only one side to the story."
That reminds me of an interesting situation I had while visiting some friends in Brazil.
We were talking about the airplane (I don't know why) and one of my American friends told me he'd show me something interesting. So, he asked our friend Douglas who invented the airplane. To my suprise he didn't say the brothers Wright, but some other name that escapes me at the moment.
I asked others we visited as well, and most of them confirmed it wasn't the Wrights, but it was some guy who flew around in France. I don't remember the details exactly (this being some time ago), but the idea was present that history is not always as we are taught it.
*sigh* I know, it's off topic...
Did this remind anyone else about Neuromancer? When Case entered that one girl's mind and could feel what she was saying when she just made the movements with her mouth, wouldn't it be kind of like how the thing is supposed to 'read' your words by your muscle movements?
I might be a little off-topic, I'll admit. But practically speaking, it could be really nice to hold conversations without disturbing the silence of a library... but I'm getting ahead of the article.
Of course, it'd be cooler if I cared about jeopardy. The song is so annoying. Anyhoo, great to know the answer to one of the questions on that show, FINALLY...
Target Practice
Well, beyond the first posters who always get it wrong...
What will this do to me, the average geek? Or rather, to my friend at the University who has his own site that uses the now patented Yahoo technology? Will the Yahoo Police come beat down his door and kick his small dog? Will he spend twenty years in prison where he can write MORE code violating said patents? Who knows? And more importantly, who cares? A patent is a patent is a patent. If you call it by any other name, it's not quite as mysterious. Say good day to the patent life style. I'm sure that someone somewhere used it before Yahoo did.
That's the pattern of technology, isn't it? Nearly all of the whizzbang ideas of today are based on two or three not so whizzbang ones of yesterday. And isn't proof of prior existence all that you need to call a patent stupid and null it? Or am I just rambling because it's so early?
Target
So much as now it's just broken. Wow, you peoples know how to kill something, I'd say...
Target Practice
That's just sick. Of course, beyond that, it's really just another `Microsoft Sucks... Bill Sucks... Plungers Suck' Type of an article. With the exception that now Microsoft has insulted the best chess player in the world of course. To me, that's a little like giving the pope a melvin.
Target Practice
"The problems are basic ones of the art of storytelling, and I guarantee you, that the further from mainstream experience something is, be it hacking, neuroscience, or astronomy, the more it will be altered in the art of storytelling. "
I read an article (can't remember where) about the differences between SETI and what was used in the movie. Sure it was dramatic to have her out there listening for aliens, but that stuff is actually processed in the computers (seti@home... aherm...)
It may be cool that she would call them on a dinky radio, but seriously, could anyone understand her with the interference coming off those dishes?
It makes the movies look good, but anyone who knows anything about the field they're portraying knows it's rediculous! My father is an attorney, and I went to a couple of land disputes with him in this small town called Moccassin, Arizona. I thought we were going to be involved in a big heated battle "Objection!" here "Overruled!" there, but after the court case, which was conducted as if they were all reading off stock tickers, the two attorneys and one of the clients got together for a dinner at the diner. The only reason the defending client didn't come is because he had to get back to his wife.
That kind of stuff happens in movies, but real life is a lot more boring than that.
Target Practice
Seriously, this whole thing with any company able to get away with thinking they're the center of the universe gets to me. It happens in this small town I live in with the radio stations and theatre companies, it happens nation-wide with corporations like Microsoft constantly giving themselves pats on the back. :)
Someone once said 'It is better go on foot than ride in a carriage under false pretenses'. Microsoft is riding in a carriage not their own, and any company doing this will ultimately loose the respect they may have held and whither away to oblivion.
Microsoft says that they're better, but where did these Linux users come from? I would be willing to guess that at least 33% of the people who use Linux come from a Microsoft OS background. Why? Because they were sick of not knowing what was going on in their system, sick of the OS behaving like a bad employee on the verge of being fired, and sick of being told by Microsoft that they were using the best software anyone in the world had to offer, when deep down they knew something had to be better.
And so, having finished that rant, I'll go eat some soggy cheerios, so I can be annoyed enough to post on something else I hate
Target Practice
I've never had it happen to me before, but one of the kids in our band did. He would just go to sleep where his room used to be, looking up at the stars... :)
Good luck with this one. If you need any help, I can't give much, mebbey an old 486dx processor is all
Target
Well, hey, you did ask.
Stuff on my home system tends to be Glen Miller or Wynton Marsalis; Anything more than HTML for my web page (or anything my dad wants on his site) always ends up as Garbage or the Matrix soundtrack...
"they suggest that a modest, temporary rise in calcium levels results in growth and proliferation of these important brain cells, while a larger and more prolonged rise causes the cells to collapse."
So, I guess if you drink a lot of caffeine you won't be remembering too much, hmm?
Target
I was wondering where you could get so many long cords to hook everything up to the monitor, but then, looking closer, it's not even plugged in for any of the shots!