The religious community (at least the rightmost half of them) are ALREADY going bonkers about the "endorsement" of witchcraft in the Harry Potter series, so I can't see that "Small Gods" would do all that much more to irritate them.
One problem with making films is that the very best of TP's works depend heavily on the sense of continuity of characters (everyone from Sam Vimes to Granny Weatherwax to Ol' Foul Ron and his Smell) to give them structure. I fear a lot would be lost in the translation.
One of the provisions of the Act prohibits disclosure of its use in the more egregious circumstances, as for example when it is used to gather information on an individual's medical, library, or reading records without that person's knowledge. So the fact is, we don't KNOW to what extent it has been used egregiously to spy on people whose "crimes" may be limited to opposing the administration's policies on the Iraq war, for example. We just don't know.
The thing I find ironic about this whole Sony thing is that Sony was the "white knight" in the last generation's battle over fair use and intellectual property, in the Betamax case.
I would think that one "buys" software the way one "buys" a book. The buyer owns the physical media, but the ideas and thier expressions are and remain the intellectual property of the author of his/her assignees. And the author/publisher obviously have the right to sell other copies of that same book to more people.
Libertarian capitalism opposes the concept of corporations, which are after all artificial "persons" created solely by governments. If you want to attack the libertarians, at least you might be consistent in your message.
They offer Business Rate SDSL and T1 at 384 to 1.5. I didn't ask about the prices because I'm not really all that interested in that class of service right now. The service rep I talked to said it was because the provider they resell from does not have ADSL available in my area, just the higher end business services. It's a business and tech decision on the part of their wireline provider.
Go to their web site and enter your address and you can see what thay can provide in your area. They even offer you on-line chat with a service rep via a drop-down window.
I just checked with Speakeasy, and they can only offer Business services in my area, so I'm stuck with SBC.
But so far I've been very happy with the service I've had from SBC. The speed has exceeded their advertised rate, and I've almost always been able (eventually) to get through to someone in customer service with more than a room temperature IQ who can actually THINK their way through a problem.
Of course I haven't wanted to set up any serious services of my own yet either.
Besides the cost, there's the convenience factor. I have at least half a dozen routine bills charged to my MasterCard debit card every month. If they change that number, I have to (a)remember which bills they are and (b)notify all of them of the new number. Of course, I guess that's better than having a few EXTRA unauthorized bills charged to that number every month.
The glories of outsourcing, coming home to roost on the idiots that gave up end to end cocntrol of their data streams. Too bad that those idiots will never have to pay the price. It's the rest of us who will have to pony up.
>No cooperation that deserves that name and a clear sign
>that Apple still hasn't understood how Open Source works.
>They could have done better.
As a Mac devotee since I ordered my first one in 1984, I'm sad to say that I'm afraid that Apple is straying from the path of the righteous in too many areas lately. Those lawsuits, and now this failure to cooperate with open source, are both symptomatic of thinking diametrically opposed to the spirit that nurtured the cult of the Mac in the first place.
In my experience (reaching back a couple of decades now) when I was totally involved in a development project, I would not only feel guilty about abandoning my code, I would feel downright resentful. My (VERY understanding) wife would pack me a lunch so I didn't have to leave my office until she came to drag me home. The rest of the world adopted a "lock him in a room and feed him raw meat through the bars" attitude toward me.
Needless to say, I virtually always worked alone on these projects. I never even noticed that it was 80 hours.
There hasn't been a Presidential candidate in my memory (going back to the first Eisenhower campaign) who was NOT sold "like a packaged product".
And as for Karl Rove, he's just today's equivalent of Jim Farley with 21st century technology. And Karl's involvement is about to make this election the best attended in many years, it looks like.
Reminds me of a solution from a decade ago when the airport security thing was just getting serious. Some people were planning to go through airport security at Orlando, FL during the Chistmas season (lots of kids in the airport) wearing metal underwear. ("You want me to take it off? OK" {flash!})
People have been looking for the OODBMS "holy grail" for decades, and there STILL isn't one that measures up to what SQL can accomplish. OOA&D just CRIES for a good object data base, but the realities are far short of the needs and the promise. If these people can change that, good for them!
If a person shoots a felon in his home, it's rather likely that even if the intruder flees evidence (e.g. lots of blood that can be typed to the dead intruder) will be found INSIDE the home, strongly suggesting that the intruder was shot indoors. That was a key fact when a relative of mine shot a man who broke into my relative's house brandishing a machete. The would-be burglar (or whatever) probably would have survived if he'd had someone call 911 right away, but he made his way 2 miles to his girlfriend's house and changed clothes before calling an ambulance. DOA at the hospital.
Actually, Illinois used to have a system where, if you had a "clean" record when you renewed your license, you got a little printed card in recognition of your good driving. Now that they've stopped giving out renewal licenses (and just give you a little sticker for the back of the old one), I don't think they do this any more. I've moved to Indiana, so I really can't say.
There was a small craze when 1 meg memory chips got cheap, to glue the old 256K simms together to use as a pencil holder for your desk. I had one for a while, but I don't know where it is anymore.
Although Nash was prominent, the seminal work I believe was von Neumann and Morganstern's "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior".
Nash's autobiography http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash- autobio.html
mentions that his interest in the field was stimulated by their work when he was a graduate student, although his Dissertation took a very different approach to the subject from what he calls the "party line" of the earlier studies.
The question of "fatherhood", though, is fairly open to interpretation, and I would certainly have no arguement with anyone claiming that title for Nash, whose work is certainly very important.
Actually, I think it was John Von Neumann, the father of game theory, who siad that chess was not really a game, in the strategic sense, but really just a computational problem. Enormously complex, but still just a computational problem
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The religious community (at least the rightmost half of them) are ALREADY going bonkers about the "endorsement" of witchcraft in the Harry Potter series, so I can't see that "Small Gods" would do all that much more to irritate them.
One problem with making films is that the very best of TP's works depend heavily on the sense of continuity of characters (everyone from Sam Vimes to Granny Weatherwax to Ol' Foul Ron and his Smell) to give them structure. I fear a lot would be lost in the translation.
One of the provisions of the Act prohibits disclosure of its use in the more egregious circumstances, as for example when it is used to gather information on an individual's medical, library, or reading records without that person's knowledge. So the fact is, we don't KNOW to what extent it has been used egregiously to spy on people whose "crimes" may be limited to opposing the administration's policies on the Iraq war, for example. We just don't know.
To me, that's egregious enough.
The thing I find ironic about this whole Sony thing is that Sony was the "white knight" in the last generation's battle over fair use and intellectual property, in the Betamax case.
I would think that one "buys" software the way one "buys" a book. The buyer owns the physical media, but the ideas and thier expressions are and remain the intellectual property of the author of his/her assignees. And the author/publisher obviously have the right to sell other copies of that same book to more people.
Libertarian capitalism opposes the concept of corporations, which are after all artificial "persons" created solely by governments. If you want to attack the libertarians, at least you might be consistent in your message.
Go to their web site and enter your address and you can see what thay can provide in your area. They even offer you on-line chat with a service rep via a drop-down window.
But so far I've been very happy with the service I've had from SBC. The speed has exceeded their advertised rate, and I've almost always been able (eventually) to get through to someone in customer service with more than a room temperature IQ who can actually THINK their way through a problem.
Of course I haven't wanted to set up any serious services of my own yet either.
Well said. And me with no mod points today.
The glories of outsourcing, coming home to roost on the idiots that gave up end to end cocntrol of their data streams. Too bad that those idiots will never have to pay the price. It's the rest of us who will have to pony up.
You have my deepest sympathy.
>No cooperation that deserves that name and a clear sign
>that Apple still hasn't understood how Open Source works.
>They could have done better.
As a Mac devotee since I ordered my first one in 1984, I'm sad to say that I'm afraid that Apple is straying from the path of the righteous in too many areas lately. Those lawsuits, and now this failure to cooperate with open source, are both symptomatic of thinking diametrically opposed to the spirit that nurtured the cult of the Mac in the first place.
Sad.
http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/doc/vinge
and then chose the html document.
Needless to say, I virtually always worked alone on these projects. I never even noticed that it was 80 hours.
>It's not like Bill Gates is holding a gun to your head
Not, that would be the corporate software standards organization doing THAT. But then, they have to pay the bills and support the stuff.
There hasn't been a Presidential candidate in my memory (going back to the first Eisenhower campaign) who was NOT sold "like a packaged product". And as for Karl Rove, he's just today's equivalent of Jim Farley with 21st century technology. And Karl's involvement is about to make this election the best attended in many years, it looks like.
Pppppffff! That's nothing. In 10 years we'll all have at least that much on our desktops. And five years after that, in our wristwatches.
Reminds me of a solution from a decade ago when the airport security thing was just getting serious. Some people were planning to go through airport security at Orlando, FL during the Chistmas season (lots of kids in the airport) wearing metal underwear. ("You want me to take it off? OK" {flash!})
People have been looking for the OODBMS "holy grail" for decades, and there STILL isn't one that measures up to what SQL can accomplish. OOA&D just CRIES for a good object data base, but the realities are far short of the needs and the promise. If these people can change that, good for them!
If a person shoots a felon in his home, it's rather likely that even if the intruder flees evidence (e.g. lots of blood that can be typed to the dead intruder) will be found INSIDE the home, strongly suggesting that the intruder was shot indoors. That was a key fact when a relative of mine shot a man who broke into my relative's house brandishing a machete. The would-be burglar (or whatever) probably would have survived if he'd had someone call 911 right away, but he made his way 2 miles to his girlfriend's house and changed clothes before calling an ambulance. DOA at the hospital.
So you're saying that ANY problem can now be mapped to an NP-Complete problem, for the purposes of solution? I assume that mapping is non-reversible.
Actually, Illinois used to have a system where, if you had a "clean" record when you renewed your license, you got a little printed card in recognition of your good driving. Now that they've stopped giving out renewal licenses (and just give you a little sticker for the back of the old one), I don't think they do this any more. I've moved to Indiana, so I really can't say.
There was a small craze when 1 meg memory chips got cheap, to glue the old 256K simms together to use as a pencil holder for your desk. I had one for a while, but I don't know where it is anymore.
Although Nash was prominent, the seminal work I believe was von Neumann and Morganstern's "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior". Nash's autobiography http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash- autobio.html
mentions that his interest in the field was stimulated by their work when he was a graduate student, although his Dissertation took a very different approach to the subject from what he calls the "party line" of the earlier studies.
The question of "fatherhood", though, is fairly open to interpretation, and I would certainly have no arguement with anyone claiming that title for Nash, whose work is certainly very important.
Actually, I think it was John Von Neumann, the father of game theory, who siad that chess was not really a game, in the strategic sense, but really just a computational problem. Enormously complex, but still just a computational problem