The birth of play back TV, with such products as real play and TiVo mark the end of the commercial. This products give power to a dumb TV set, let the end user have some say, and all have the ability to fast forward or jump 30secs ahead. Therefore interruption-based commercials will die. But, these products cant filter ads, thus any advertising In the show is seen.
The computer is one of the most (or the most) programmable and powerful tool for the average person. While banner ads have been unsuccessful, why would more annoying interruption based ads be better? if giving power causes the death of interruption based ads for TV, how could it work on an amazingly more powerful machine? the logic behind all this is flawed. all a user would need to do is store the feed on their hard drive, and either filter out the ads somehow or just fastforward.
My guess is that these ads will grow very quickly, but once there is an easy to use tool for the general public, pop, the ads will be gone.
does no one else have a little box that shows all the science news? This story was already posted:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/16/145222 9
its even the exact same news source!
and how do you plan to do that? Mars direct? remember, WE ARE STILL NEWBIES TO SPACE EXPLORATION. The point of the space station is to do tons of experiments, they got 15 years to do as many experiments as they want, not 2 weeks like most shuttle missions. plus, the iss is not U.S. only, many countries have put in tons of money, to dump it now that it is OPERATIONAL would just be idiotic.
and most prestigious black newspapers, the Chicago Defender, is about to be sold -- probably to a large corporation -- because of the stupid estate tax.
what, are they printed on a farm? i have only heard about farmers with lots of land be hit hard, anyone who doesn't require the land/mansion to work can merely sell off parts untill they go beneath the required limit.
i'll admit that i haven't done the numbers my self, if you can show step by step that i am wrong, then i will change my view. I am merely quoting from the article
This so far that i have seen is the only real problem with the 'death tax' just revise it to exclude farmers. Problem solved. Require that farming must be primary source of income to qualify.
The rich get a larger proportional piece of the cut because they pay a much larger proportion of the federal tax bill.
The top 1% in this country pay 23% of
the federal tax bill.
hmmm... someone didn't read carefully (from the first page)
That proposal, which gives a staggering 43 percent of its largess to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans (though they pay *less than a quarter* of the taxes)
A black hole isn't the dot of mass in the center (all blackhol's have same volume sized dot in middle) the size of blak hole is the diameter between the event horizen (or radius, you get the idea). So i more massive black hole would have the event horizon be further away from the center.
letting tons of nitrogen a day escape into the atmosphere?
Well, first off, 80%of the atmisphere is nitrogen (if 100% was O2, then air would be ignitable).
If we have plants that purify the N2 in the air, and change that to fuel, well theres no bad impact.
The river will merely find a new path, and this time the path won't be a single set of servers, or one company that people are dependant upon for MP3s. This time the water will flow in many directions, over many very distributed and varying forms of trading that we've been building all this time.
That is the problem. If we ever want to get laymen into this stuff (fight corporate giants). Then they want a single easy to understand/find/use source. They don't want to scour the internet trying to find some place with more than 100 people. And if we lose the laymen, we become unimportant (to the eyes of corporations)
If you think violence in videogames doesn't affect children, then you are living in a fantasy world.
I play Counter-strike, a realistic mod for half-life, i play that a lot (i do play other games, but not nearly as much as this one). Everyday i play for at least an hour, maybe 4 (summer, wasted time). And i know playing has affected me. Ever since i got good, my reflexes are much faster, i can spot hidden things. I KNOW there is a difference between real-life and games, While i play violent games, i still support gun control in real world. Violent games are fun, but i still wouldn't touch a gun unless my life depended on it. So, if you think that children are affected, ask them and find out.
On the subject of drugs, I should start by mentioning that I spent a great deal of my life Straight Edge. Meaning, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no meat, no cheese etc. In later years I have loosened up on alcohol, but drugs is something I still will not touch.
OT- Wow, that's same with me, except i eat cheese
But what I need to know, what is the arbitrary decider that makes marijuana more dangerous (Reefer Madness!) than alcohol? I've never seen a stoned individual beat his wife, or drive his car into a group of people. On the other hand, we've heard of alcohol-influenced wife-abuse and drunk drivers.
2 reasons Money Money Money. Alcohol (and tabacoo) comps are huge and super powerful, but no other drugs have become as popular, leading to big corps. So, big corps can pay to make sure no laws hurt them. 2nd. There were very few native drugs in U.S. Most drugs they got had to be imported, and U.S. gov't did not want it's subjects paying money to some other country (this is why cocaine is illegal (its from China)).
Your correct in your first sentences, i was just saying that, not because i belive it, but because so many of my peers do. Your correct that i can study science on my own, but many big shot places wouldn't accepted people if they went to some junky community-college.
Without reason to excel, there would be no advancement in science. Without advancement in science, there would be dark ages, regress, malaise, death (yes doctors need science, agriculture needs science to help booming countries outside the US to help feed them, oppression cf anywhere there is stifling regulation of arms and trade
Have you ever heard of people that wanted to study science just to know more? well i'm one of them, i don't plan on being rich, or compete against anyone, i wish to expand my knowledge. It is true that science and Everything would be much slower in a society where the drive to get rich isn't overwhelming, but is that bad? (i'm a student) all i have time for at night is Homework, games, and dinner, with 7.5 hours of sleep. I would love to be able to slow down, but i can't because no one else is, and if i do then i wont get into a good college, which will destroy the rest of my life. Society (U.S.) is controlled by the most power hungry people, whoever is willing to work more, or hurt competitiors wins, these are the types of people society are creating. And parents wonder why their kids don't share.
But then we have career politicians that stay in congress for LONG periods of time. As we have. When system to try out is limiting the serving period to 1 or 2 years, for the representative,s and senators respectivly, and be able to be realected for up to 10 years, (10 times for repres, 5 times for senate)
However there was NEVER a REAL Communist society on this planet, since Communism is a utopia and can not be created, the people are too corrupt and power-hungry. What the former Soviet Union and the current China were and are still basically dictatorship societies with of socialistic nature.
You must mean Communists countries, there have been many communist societies that flurished, they worked together and shared the wealth. in the 1830s? there were many in America, most of them were religious in nature, and had permanet celibacy. Its easy to see how they died. The people weren't oppressed, all working together, they died because america was becoming greedier, and less people joined these places. Also, Communism is a type of gov't and thus related to democracy not, capitalism, a market system.
this is how they figured out that dark matter should be 90% of the universe (not 80% like the post said [of course they could have changed the number since last i learned])
There are three different settings the Universe could be in.
1. closed universe there is enough gravity so that eventually the universe will recollapse. The universe would expand in ball form and then stop and shink (thus making a limit to how far you can go: closed)
2. open universe there is not enough matter, universe expands forever. In this form the shape of the universe would be all wacky and weird, like a ball that blew up, but still in one piece.
3. the middle path there is just enough matter for there to be an equalimbrium, this is the smallest amount so that the universe will always expand. The form of this universe would be flat.
So far, the universe have followed the middle path, but the observable universe only has about 10% of the needed matter for this to be the case.
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The birth of play back TV, with such products as real play and TiVo mark the end of the commercial. This products give power to a dumb TV set, let the end user have some say, and all have the ability to fast forward or jump 30secs ahead. Therefore interruption-based commercials will die. But, these products cant filter ads, thus any advertising In the show is seen.
The computer is one of the most (or the most) programmable and powerful tool for the average person. While banner ads have been unsuccessful, why would more annoying interruption based ads be better?
if giving power causes the death of interruption based ads for TV, how could it work on an amazingly more powerful machine? the logic behind all this is flawed. all a user would need to do is store the feed on their hard drive, and either filter out the ads somehow or just fastforward.
My guess is that these ads will grow very quickly, but once there is an easy to use tool for the general public, pop, the ads will be gone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/weekinreview/25J OHN.html?pagewanted=all
there you go
does no one else have a little box that shows all the science news? This story was already posted: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/16/145222 9
its even the exact same news source!
www10.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/science/08SUPE.html (just has a '10' in there)
get on with the job of exploring space.
and how do you plan to do that? Mars direct? remember, WE ARE STILL NEWBIES TO SPACE EXPLORATION. The point of the space station is to do tons of experiments, they got 15 years to do as many experiments as they want, not 2 weeks like most shuttle missions. plus, the iss is not U.S. only, many countries have put in tons of money, to dump it now that it is OPERATIONAL would just be idiotic.
and most prestigious black newspapers, the Chicago Defender, is about to be sold -- probably to a large corporation -- because of the stupid estate tax.
what, are they printed on a farm? i have only heard about farmers with lots of land be hit hard, anyone who doesn't require the land/mansion to work can merely sell off parts untill they go beneath the required limit.
i'll admit that i haven't done the numbers my self, if you can show step by step that i am wrong, then i will change my view. I am merely quoting from the article
This so far that i have seen is the only real problem with the 'death tax' just revise it to exclude farmers. Problem solved. Require that farming must be primary source of income to qualify.
The rich get a larger proportional piece of the cut because they pay a much larger proportion of the federal tax bill. The top 1% in this country pay 23% of the federal tax bill.
hmmm... someone didn't read carefully (from the first page) That proposal, which gives a staggering 43 percent of its largess to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans (though they pay *less than a quarter* of the taxes)
its called ellipsis, when the verb is left out (commonly the vert is to be) thats what you get for not taking AP Latin (I hate that class)
A black hole isn't the dot of mass in the center (all blackhol's have same volume sized dot in middle) the size of blak hole is the diameter between the event horizen (or radius, you get the idea). So i more massive black hole would have the event horizon be further away from the center.
http://www 10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles /28code.html
replace www with www10
letting tons of nitrogen a day escape into the atmosphere? Well, first off, 80%of the atmisphere is nitrogen (if 100% was O2, then air would be ignitable). If we have plants that purify the N2 in the air, and change that to fuel, well theres no bad impact.
bzzzzzz, wrong, i'm watching it right now, (Me fail english? that unpossible!
The river will merely find a new path, and this time the path won't be a single set of servers, or one company that people are dependant upon for MP3s. This time the water will flow in many directions, over many very distributed and varying forms of trading that we've been building all this time.
That is the problem. If we ever want to get laymen into this stuff (fight corporate giants). Then they want a single easy to understand/find/use source. They don't want to scour the internet trying to find some place with more than 100 people. And if we lose the laymen, we become unimportant (to the eyes of corporations)
but remember, which attacked and destroyed which?
If you think violence in videogames doesn't affect children, then you are living in a fantasy world.
I play Counter-strike, a realistic mod for half-life, i play that a lot (i do play other games, but not nearly as much as this one). Everyday i play for at least an hour, maybe 4 (summer, wasted time). And i know playing has affected me. Ever since i got good, my reflexes are much faster, i can spot hidden things. I KNOW there is a difference between real-life and games, While i play violent games, i still support gun control in real world. Violent games are fun, but i still wouldn't touch a gun unless my life depended on it. So, if you think that children are affected, ask them and find out.
duh, i really should have catched that, well the at least everything else is right.
On the subject of drugs, I should start by mentioning that I spent a great deal of my life Straight Edge. Meaning, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no meat, no cheese etc. In later years I have loosened up on alcohol, but drugs is something I still will not touch.
OT- Wow, that's same with me, except i eat cheese
But what I need to know, what is the arbitrary decider that makes marijuana more dangerous (Reefer Madness!) than alcohol? I've never seen a stoned individual beat his wife, or drive his car into a group of people. On the other hand, we've heard of alcohol-influenced wife-abuse and drunk drivers.
2 reasons
Money Money Money. Alcohol (and tabacoo) comps are huge and super powerful, but no other drugs have become as popular, leading to big corps. So, big corps can pay to make sure no laws hurt them. 2nd. There were very few native drugs in U.S. Most drugs they got had to be imported, and U.S. gov't did not want it's subjects paying money to some other country (this is why cocaine is illegal (its from China)).
Your correct in your first sentences, i was just saying that, not because i belive it, but because so many of my peers do. Your correct that i can study science on my own, but many big shot places wouldn't accepted people if they went to some junky community-college.
Without reason to excel, there would be no advancement in science. Without advancement in science, there would be dark ages, regress, malaise, death (yes doctors need science, agriculture needs science to help booming countries outside the US to help feed them, oppression cf anywhere there is stifling regulation of arms and trade
Have you ever heard of people that wanted to study science just to know more? well i'm one of them, i don't plan on being rich, or compete against anyone, i wish to expand my knowledge. It is true that science and Everything would be much slower in a society where the drive to get rich isn't overwhelming, but is that bad? (i'm a student) all i have time for at night is Homework, games, and dinner, with 7.5 hours of sleep. I would love to be able to slow down, but i can't because no one else is, and if i do then i wont get into a good college, which will destroy the rest of my life.
Society (U.S.) is controlled by the most power hungry people, whoever is willing to work more, or hurt competitiors wins, these are the types of people society are creating. And parents wonder why their kids don't share.
But then we have career politicians that stay in congress for LONG periods of time. As we have. When system to try out is limiting the serving period to 1 or 2 years, for the representative,s and senators respectivly, and be able to be realected for up to 10 years, (10 times for repres, 5 times for senate)
However there was NEVER a REAL Communist society on this planet, since Communism is a utopia and can not be created, the people are too corrupt and power-hungry. What the former Soviet Union and the current China were and are still basically dictatorship societies with of socialistic nature.
You must mean Communists countries, there have been many communist societies that flurished, they worked together and shared the wealth. in the 1830s? there were many in America, most of them were religious in nature, and had permanet celibacy. Its easy to see how they died. The people weren't oppressed, all working together, they died because america was becoming greedier, and less people joined these places.
Also, Communism is a type of gov't and thus related to democracy not, capitalism, a market system.
I just reread the article slowly, and either i'm missing it or i can't imagine hick + computers, please show me somewhere where it hicky, like.
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this is how they figured out that dark matter should be 90% of the universe (not 80% like the post said [of course they could have changed the number since last i learned])
There are three different settings the Universe could be in.
1. closed universe
there is enough gravity so that eventually the universe will recollapse. The universe would expand in ball form and then stop and shink (thus making a limit to how far you can go: closed)
2. open universe
there is not enough matter, universe expands forever. In this form the shape of the universe would be all wacky and weird, like a ball that blew up, but still in one piece.
3. the middle path
there is just enough matter for there to be an equalimbrium, this is the smallest amount so that the universe will always expand. The form of this universe would be flat.
So far, the universe have followed the middle path, but the observable universe only has about 10% of the needed matter for this to be the case.