Not sure what your point is? Gene is complaining about people file sharing etc and he isn't getting his royalties. All those songs they (Kiss) perform that are written by others, Kiss has to get permission to use. The song writers get paid their royalties from the sales.
If the Kiss corporate machine wasn't getting permission to perform those songs or weren't paying the royalties due, then I could see you having a point. As Symmons et al are paying to use those songs and not using them for free or illegally, he really is practising what he preaches.
... it still amazes me that MS is so bashed on/. and Apple so celebrated. You would think the opposite would be true here. Are we still longing to sit at the cool kids' table or something, or have we just bought into that "lifestyle" shit too?
From the article:
'The legendary statement about Microsoft, which is mostly true, is that they get it right the third time. Microsoft’s philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve would never do that. He doesn’t get anything out there until it is perfected.'
Microsoft gets bashed because they don't get it right... and then they try again and still get it wrong... and then they try again and finally get it right and the world has moved on. Bashing Apple for their marketing? MS are actually bigger on marketing. They spend more on marketing and they use a lot of dirty tactics to try to get others out of the market rather than compete. I was at an MS conference a few years ago where they practically claimed they'd invented the Open Source community *shock horror* and said they openly encourage it *shock horror* and it was all done by them for the benefit of MS consumers! The thing that upset me was a lot of the audience thought it was true. (If only Richard Stallman was there to kick some ass).
To use a car analogy, you can go to one company and get a well designed car that will work, or you can go to another one and buy their first car, which keeps breaking down often, then upgrade to their second, which also breaks down often and finally get their third car, which works, but is now out of date and you have to upgrade to a new car anyway.
One of my old computer illiterate flatmates that I got into computing switched to Mac's because as he put it, 'It just works'.
The Internet is secularizing the Finnish with increasing speed; over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular, non-religious state.
Storm in a tea cup. I think the owners of the site are trying to play up their role in the 'secularisation' of Finland. People who use the site to resign from the 'Lutheran Evangelical Church of Finland' are not necessarily giving up religion, there are some who are going to other religions/denominations. (Note the growth is smaller than those who are becoming secularised, but the point is, to assume that because someone resigned from a specific church does not equate to them giving up religion all together. See link further down for the stats.)
Non-religious state? Finland is a representative democracy, not a religious state. Their national church is not a 'compulsory' church that people are automatically members of that they need to resign from. It is a national church in the sense that it gets to preside over any 'official' ceremony etc performed for the state, but it is still a separate entity to the state. In order to resign from it you had to become a member to begin with (probably due to your parents making you a member), but it is not a 'state church'.
'... the Lutheran "folk churches" of Scandinavia, characterized as "national churches" in the ethnic sense as opposed to the idea of a "state church"...'
- Dag Thorkildsen, 'Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity', in World Christianities, c. 1815-1914, vol. 8 of The Cambridge history of Christianity, eds. Sheridan Gilley, Brian Stanley, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780521814560, 342-358
Yes, Finland is increasingly becoming more 'secularised' but the trend has been happening for quite some time now and started before the internet. I see the 'Gay panel' as having more to do with this than the site. The internet is not 'dismantling' the church so much as providing an easier way to resign from it. Nothing is stopping these people writing a letter of resignation to the church once they decide to leave. Claiming the internet is 'dismantling' the church is a bit like saying the Internet is making it sunnier just because you can get a weather report off it. These people have already become 'secularised' whether they use the website, send a letter or even don't resign from the church at all.
Link for the stats that show the church has been in decline for quite some time without the aid of the internet or the website:
You're talking about different translations into English. As there are more than one translation of the Iliad and Odyssey etc and even modern texts from other languages it shouldn't really amuse anyone. At one time for Catholics there was only 'one' version and that was the Latin Vulgate, which was neither in the original language of the Bible nor the language of the lay people of many countries.
It is one of the reasons many Muslims say that people should learn to read Arabic if they want to read the Koran properly. The only problem with that is there are still different ways to interpret what is written, which is why there are more translations than just one.
The KJV is also old, written in a language used at the same time as Shakespeare was still writing. Languages change and get antiquated and words change meanings. Reading the KJV today is difficult when people misinterpret a words meaning because it has changed, or find a word they don't understand, or even the word order seems grammatically incorrect.
So translators chose the word at the time that they think gets the gist of the original ancient foreign word, and later someone comes along and decides a different word had a better fit and so translates it differently. Thus, a new version is born that people hope is more accurate.
Of course, there are also versions which aren't even translations. I believe that the 'Living Bible' version was a paraphrase a guy made up to teach his kids using language they could understand. In it is the phrase that Saul went into a cave to use the bathroom. A poor choice of words (haven't seen an ancient cave with a bathroom yet), but the general gist of the meaning is still relevant.
There are a lot of words in each version that are almost identically translated. I had an interesting argument with a Catholic once who claimed I had misquoted the Bible because I hadn't used a specific version of the Bible that he used. I later went to a Christian bookshop and looked at the quote in the version he preferred and it was word perfect to my quote.
I know a guy at work who claims his version of the Koran starts with 'Kill all Christians', which I find very hard to believe as I've never seen a version of the Koran that says that anywhere (and I've seen a few versions of the Koran - all English translations. I can't be bothered learning Arabic).
But, I've also read a few different versions of The Iliad. Penguin has one version and Wordsworth has another, and there are plenty of other translations, all of which are different 'versions' of the same book.
The point I'm trying to make here is 1. Lots of different books from other languages have different 'versions'. 2. Just because there is more than one version doesn't mean that the general meaning of the work is different from one version to another (at least not dramatically... just don't expect to find bathrooms in every cave you enter).
One other point. Things like 'The Bible', 'The Koran' and other books deemed to be of particular importance to a group of people and huge sellers word wide will get more attention, and thus more 'versions' than a poor selling book that gets translated only once. It's to be expected.
Also similar to the stuff the British had during WWII, (a group dubbed 'A Force') where they even created a fake 'Alexandria' in Egypt for the Germans to keep dropping bombs on, as well as their plywood tanks, canvas tanks, tank track making machine, fake Operation centres etc etc. Which were used in Africa. They also had a fake pipeline & Railroad they were building to the fake Operation Centre which fooled the Germans into thinking the British were months off being able to launch an attack.
One of the officers was an ex-magician/illusionist, Jasper Maskelyne... better than serving as an entertainer during the war I think.:-)
I discovered my ex-wife around about 24 years ago. She was a swamp beast carnivorous thing. She wasn't from Madagascar though, she was from Sydney, Australia!
First, not sure which definition of 'Milestone' you are using, but in Project Management a milestone usually just marks the end of an identifiable section of project, and that includes a final one for the end of the project. In the development of encryption it certainly marks an identifiable point that can be considered a milestone.
Second, how do we know others in Britain haven't built on their results in a secretive fashion? It is true it isn't public, so the general public can't build on it, but for all we know they are way ahead in this field and we won't know until the next similar event.
Agree with your point that they weren't written out of history. Opted out might not be correct as much as they were not given a choice of opting in or opting out due to the secretive nature of their work. It is like a spy who can't comment on secret missions they have been on whilst it is still classified. Yes, others also got their under their own power, so is like Newton and Liebniz with Calculus.
While rossdee was clearly trolling with his comment, his subject line actually does hit the nail right on the head. The reason why giant penguins aren't around today is precisely because the climate has changed to one that isn't suitable for them.
Do you have any evidence for that? It might be that they moved too slow on land and made excellent meals for predators at the time. Or perhaps they even evolved into the Emperor penguins of today, because they might have started to get smaller (they only need to lose a foot in size). The article does state '...evidence of a rich diversity of giant penguin species in the late Eocene period of low-latitude Peru.' so there may have been competition amongst penguin species for food supplies which ended up with smaller species that need less food surviving the Eocene period. They could have been wiped out by an epidemic
that spread through the larger penguin species. There are plenty of other possibilities as to why these penguins are now extinct without it being necessarily due to a change in climate.
Slashdot Mirror
http://webcast.aph.gov.au/livebroadcasting/ This site contains a large group of masturbators showing the sort of thing you shouldn't bring into the country.
Bugger! I'd already scheduled my self in not to have an apocalypse party that night!
Not sure what your point is? Gene is complaining about people file sharing etc and he isn't getting his royalties. All those songs they (Kiss) perform that are written by others, Kiss has to get permission to use. The song writers get paid their royalties from the sales.
If the Kiss corporate machine wasn't getting permission to perform those songs or weren't paying the royalties due, then I could see you having a point. As Symmons et al are paying to use those songs and not using them for free or illegally, he really is practising what he preaches.
... it still amazes me that MS is so bashed on /. and Apple so celebrated. You would think the opposite would be true here. Are we still longing to sit at the cool kids' table or something, or have we just bought into that "lifestyle" shit too?
From the article:
'The legendary statement about Microsoft, which is mostly true, is that they get it right the third time. Microsoft’s philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve would never do that. He doesn’t get anything out there until it is perfected.'
Microsoft gets bashed because they don't get it right ... and then they try again and still get it wrong ... and then they try again and finally get it right and the world has moved on. Bashing Apple for their marketing? MS are actually bigger on marketing. They spend more on marketing and they use a lot of dirty tactics to try to get others out of the market rather than compete. I was at an MS conference a few years ago where they practically claimed they'd invented the Open Source community *shock horror* and said they openly encourage it *shock horror* and it was all done by them for the benefit of MS consumers! The thing that upset me was a lot of the audience thought it was true. (If only Richard Stallman was there to kick some ass).
To use a car analogy, you can go to one company and get a well designed car that will work, or you can go to another one and buy their first car, which keeps breaking down often, then upgrade to their second, which also breaks down often and finally get their third car, which works, but is now out of date and you have to upgrade to a new car anyway.
One of my old computer illiterate flatmates that I got into computing switched to Mac's because as he put it, 'It just works'.
The Internet is secularizing the Finnish with increasing speed; over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular, non-religious state.
Storm in a tea cup. I think the owners of the site are trying to play up their role in the 'secularisation' of Finland. People who use the site to resign from the 'Lutheran Evangelical Church of Finland' are not necessarily giving up religion, there are some who are going to other religions/denominations. (Note the growth is smaller than those who are becoming secularised, but the point is, to assume that because someone resigned from a specific church does not equate to them giving up religion all together. See link further down for the stats.)
Non-religious state? Finland is a representative democracy, not a religious state. Their national church is not a 'compulsory' church that people are automatically members of that they need to resign from. It is a national church in the sense that it gets to preside over any 'official' ceremony etc performed for the state, but it is still a separate entity to the state. In order to resign from it you had to become a member to begin with (probably due to your parents making you a member), but it is not a 'state church'.
' ... the Lutheran "folk churches" of Scandinavia, characterized as "national churches" in the ethnic sense as opposed to the idea of a "state church"...'
- Dag Thorkildsen, 'Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity', in World Christianities, c. 1815-1914, vol. 8 of The Cambridge history of Christianity, eds. Sheridan Gilley, Brian Stanley, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780521814560, 342-358
Yes, Finland is increasingly becoming more 'secularised' but the trend has been happening for quite some time now and started before the internet. I see the 'Gay panel' as having more to do with this than the site. The internet is not 'dismantling' the church so much as providing an easier way to resign from it. Nothing is stopping these people writing a letter of resignation to the church once they decide to leave. Claiming the internet is 'dismantling' the church is a bit like saying the Internet is making it sunnier just because you can get a weather report off it. These people have already become 'secularised' whether they use the website, send a letter or even don't resign from the church at all.
Link for the stats that show the church has been in decline for quite some time without the aid of the internet or the website:
http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_vaesto_en.html
Not that though. I vote it hits anything housing politicians. :-)
Title needs a little revision - "New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean"
That's a lot of deep ocean digging to get to it.
It says, 'No Entry. Exit Only.'
John Carter of Mars never wore tights ... or anything else for that matter.
You're talking about different translations into English. As there are more than one translation of the Iliad and Odyssey etc and even modern texts from other languages it shouldn't really amuse anyone. At one time for Catholics there was only 'one' version and that was the Latin Vulgate, which was neither in the original language of the Bible nor the language of the lay people of many countries.
It is one of the reasons many Muslims say that people should learn to read Arabic if they want to read the Koran properly. The only problem with that is there are still different ways to interpret what is written, which is why there are more translations than just one.
The KJV is also old, written in a language used at the same time as Shakespeare was still writing. Languages change and get antiquated and words change meanings. Reading the KJV today is difficult when people misinterpret a words meaning because it has changed, or find a word they don't understand, or even the word order seems grammatically incorrect.
So translators chose the word at the time that they think gets the gist of the original ancient foreign word, and later someone comes along and decides a different word had a better fit and so translates it differently. Thus, a new version is born that people hope is more accurate.
Of course, there are also versions which aren't even translations. I believe that the 'Living Bible' version was a paraphrase a guy made up to teach his kids using language they could understand. In it is the phrase that Saul went into a cave to use the bathroom. A poor choice of words (haven't seen an ancient cave with a bathroom yet), but the general gist of the meaning is still relevant.
There are a lot of words in each version that are almost identically translated. I had an interesting argument with a Catholic once who claimed I had misquoted the Bible because I hadn't used a specific version of the Bible that he used. I later went to a Christian bookshop and looked at the quote in the version he preferred and it was word perfect to my quote.
I know a guy at work who claims his version of the Koran starts with 'Kill all Christians', which I find very hard to believe as I've never seen a version of the Koran that says that anywhere (and I've seen a few versions of the Koran - all English translations. I can't be bothered learning Arabic).
But, I've also read a few different versions of The Iliad. Penguin has one version and Wordsworth has another, and there are plenty of other translations, all of which are different 'versions' of the same book.
The point I'm trying to make here is 1. Lots of different books from other languages have different 'versions'. 2. Just because there is more than one version doesn't mean that the general meaning of the work is different from one version to another (at least not dramatically ... just don't expect to find bathrooms in every cave you enter).
One other point. Things like 'The Bible', 'The Koran' and other books deemed to be of particular importance to a group of people and huge sellers word wide will get more attention, and thus more 'versions' than a poor selling book that gets translated only once. It's to be expected.
I must agree. My computer can not only beat me at Shogi, but also Chinese Chess and Western Chess and has been doing so for a long time.
Stupid is as stupid does!
But my password is '********' !!!! I changed it to that because I got tired of not knowing if I made a spelling mistake!
Unfortunately the planet got slashdotted and if you look its way an error pops up:
404 Error: Planet Not Found.
The planet you requested was not found.
Did you mean to look at LB4-26? You will be redirected there in five seconds.
Also similar to the stuff the British had during WWII, (a group dubbed 'A Force') where they even created a fake 'Alexandria' in Egypt for the Germans to keep dropping bombs on, as well as their plywood tanks, canvas tanks, tank track making machine, fake Operation centres etc etc. Which were used in Africa. They also had a fake pipeline & Railroad they were building to the fake Operation Centre which fooled the Germans into thinking the British were months off being able to launch an attack.
One of the officers was an ex-magician/illusionist, Jasper Maskelyne ... better than serving as an entertainer during the war I think. :-)
And if we had of listened to Gartner we wouldn't be in the mess we are today!!! We'd be in a different mess ... um ... can I be excused?
I discovered my ex-wife around about 24 years ago. She was a swamp beast carnivorous thing. She wasn't from Madagascar though, she was from Sydney, Australia!
It might be if scientists were talking about it and made it's ears burn!! :-)
I think it's just melting because the solar system is warming up. Of course, I might have just said that to be silly. :-)
I have a shark on my dashboard specifically for my laser heads up display!
Wanted, lots of mylar bags to make sure it is all preserved in mint condition!!! :-)
First, not sure which definition of 'Milestone' you are using, but in Project Management a milestone usually just marks the end of an identifiable section of project, and that includes a final one for the end of the project. In the development of encryption it certainly marks an identifiable point that can be considered a milestone.
Second, how do we know others in Britain haven't built on their results in a secretive fashion? It is true it isn't public, so the general public can't build on it, but for all we know they are way ahead in this field and we won't know until the next similar event.
Agree with your point that they weren't written out of history. Opted out might not be correct as much as they were not given a choice of opting in or opting out due to the secretive nature of their work. It is like a spy who can't comment on secret missions they have been on whilst it is still classified. Yes, others also got their under their own power, so is like Newton and Liebniz with Calculus.
No wonder you posted as 'Anonymous Coward'. You read the article rather than just the summary, didn't you!!!!!!!
In 6,000 years we have gone from the dawn of history to a worldwide information network and space travel.
10,000 years if we include Chinese written texts. (Not sure about Indian history, but I assume it might be about 10,000 years old too).
In 9 times that time, we should be much further along!
What would those constellations look like from our new homes near other star systems?
Google Space/Streetview will tell us! :-)
While rossdee was clearly trolling with his comment, his subject line actually does hit the nail right on the head. The reason why giant penguins aren't around today is precisely because the climate has changed to one that isn't suitable for them.
Do you have any evidence for that? It might be that they moved too slow on land and made excellent meals for predators at the time. Or perhaps they even evolved into the Emperor penguins of today, because they might have started to get smaller (they only need to lose a foot in size). The article does state '...evidence of a rich diversity of giant penguin species in the late Eocene period of low-latitude Peru.' so there may have been competition amongst penguin species for food supplies which ended up with smaller species that need less food surviving the Eocene period. They could have been wiped out by an epidemic that spread through the larger penguin species. There are plenty of other possibilities as to why these penguins are now extinct without it being necessarily due to a change in climate.