You don't have to used iTunes at all, If you have an iPod shuffle - you can use the "rebuild_db.exe" 9k application and simple drag and drop your music onto the player.
I wonder if you could get an equivilant standalone app for other mp3 players? It would be really cool if I could just keep a simple executable on the player (Sony's NWA3000 in my case) which allowed me to access songs without needing a program to be installed. Its definitely one thing I miss about my old iRiver. Anyone know of any such apps?
Some of the mice hung themselves, while some others shot themselves; the scientists still haven't figured out where they got the ropes and guns, which only underlines how painful the treatment is.
Cutscene to a group of mice of mice sitting around the twisted remains of a mouse wheel.
Lead mouse: "Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!".
To be fair, even if he did believe that he still has a valid point. Maybe:
********** Wake me when the world demonstrates... -tolerance of others -respect for others -respect for human life
(These things have already been invented. I'm just looking for some confirmation of their existence from certain members in every region of the world.) ***********
would be a better description. Regarding the article, as has been said many times before, religion didn't create these inventions (although I suppose it may have been a source of motivation and therefore aided the discoveries) people from a region where Islam is very prevalent now a days did. Then again, "1001 inventions from people a long time ago" wouldn't have been very sensational frontpage news now would it.
Also, the attacks in Madrid and London happened while the Patriot Act was in full force (and the illegal wiretapping was already going on). How come they were not prevented?
Oh! Oh! I know! I know!... because Spain and England aren't subject to US legislation yet?!
I don't know how reliable this data is, I've seen a few similar studies from Gallup a couple of time, but nothing would make me happier than if someone can point me to a thorough debunking, because this makes me rather terrified.
From Yes Prime Minister
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do they respond to a challenge? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service? Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes or no? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions. [survey two] Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will? Bernard Woolley: Yes. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription? Bernard Woolley: Yes. [does a double-take] Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.
I'm sure if you word the polls properly you could create virtually any data you wish to show, I know someone on/. posted an evolution vs ID version of the Yes Prime Minister conversation, but I can't find it at the mo.
When it is more compatible with numerous other bits of software out there, allows for easy itergration between them, and the users of it don't try to convert everyone who uses a different operating system because they believe their one is better.
Before I say anything else, I agree with your opinion society in general is too scared to tell people to do better/what they have done is wrong and they should try again etc and that some universities are determined to keep lowering standards until a resonable percentage of people passes each year. However not all universities are like this. Where I studied (University of Glasgow) (and am still studying for my postgrad) we did some school level maths as well (in 1st year that is) however it was more of a crash course in 4 weeks covering everything that we did in the final 3 years worth of school and was basically a refresher given summer holidays etc. There were prerequisits for every module that you had to meet, and if you didn't your adviser of studies which every student had assigned to them suggested alternatives that would help you as much as they could, such as finding out what part of the subject that you had problems with, style of lecturing/style of learning or notetaking etc to suggesting alternative courses (foundation maths for non scientists, followed by a change of degree path into another field). As everyone had to take modules in at least one other field for the first two years this opened up possibilites if you had problems with your initial field of choice. Having small numbers of people move between years (we started with about 400 people in first year, about 200 in second year, 150ish in 3rd year and about 80 in the honours year) isn't a bad thing in my opinion as people who aren't confident in their abilities can try the course as a second choice in first year and if they and their advisor of studies feel they are good enough to stay the course then they can join, otherwise they can see (or their advisor of studies can suggest) that this course is not for them. Either way the standard isn't lowered for everyone (at least not to the level that you describe) unless many people continually fail a module year after year (different generations of students that is).
Putting a price tag on computer crime is as about as useful as that sort of statement. How about companies that don't disclose losses because they fear it damages their reputation? How about companies that exagerate losses to get more money from insurance companies? The values are pretty meaningless. Stupidly large amounts of unquantifiable things can be linked to being computer crime related, for example slanderous comments made via email destroying reputations of a business, is it a computer crime?
Regarding first instances of worms, in the 1970's a program called "Creeper" was created and spread across networked computers running TENEX spreading independantly of user interaction. A second program called "Reaper" was then released to find copies of the first program and delete it. See The VirusList.com and digitalcraft.org for more information.
That being said the Morris worm was the first to get serious public attention, and a paper called "The Morris worm: a fifteen-year perspective" by Orman and Streak has an interesting analysis of it. Unfortunately it (appears) only to be available through IEEE so a subscription is required to view it.
Ironically the development of technology such as email probably is better described as being intelligently designed rather than evolving. I mean, if you can get system to mutate and suddenly start working over night it would be great! *Opens book on genetic algorithms*
What about close friends and family who know that an event occured and possibly end up knowing more than the original person themselves. Take for example a senario where a person was raped, and the culprit was caught and convicted. Everyone would know what he looks like and who he is. The victim takes the pill to "forget" the event, and therefore doesn't make the association with that persons face and what happened.
Later that person and a group of friends go out and see a person who looks very simlar to the rapist which stirs emotional responses in everyone else except the victim. If that person enquires as to what everyone else is uneasy about what do they say? "Sorry, it is for your own good we don't explain it to you" "Nothing, you are just imagining it"?
It is kinda on a different scale though, 25% of India's population are below the poverty line, or 270 million people in the US it is 12% or 36 million and in the UK it is 17% or 10.2 million (All from the CIA world fact book btw, didn't google for other sources) As such comparing over the numbers of starving and homless people probably isn't a good metric, although I would say that investment in sending things into space if only for the technological fallout and the knowledge gained is a good thing.
What about other sources of sexual or violent content? If people are really concerned about certain content being harmful then maybe they should start banning other information streams as well, such as books? Sexually themed? "The player of games" by Iain M. Banks had some seriously disturbing sexual scenes.. "The Gap Series" by Steven Donaldson is probably one of the most disturbed series of books I've ever read with a major theme around the repeated rape of a womem. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" maybe?
Hmmm violent themes, books? Nope can't think of any.. they are obviously all peaceful without any descriptions of battles, torture, murder etc..
Also, and probably more importantly, books rely on imagery painting a picture that the reader can build up for themselves given the description because *gasp* different people view things DIFFERENTLY.
Finally, one could argue that children would not read these books, because strangely enough, they are designed for adults. Not like these games that have no age reccomendations saying what target market they are aimed at.
I really do not know why HOST files are not a more common theme
Maybe because "From time to time I get pages that aren't found.....but I can review these as the HOST file is of course text."
For you, me and the technically inclined this is no biggy, can you see your Gran doing this? As far as they know the site they want to view doesn't work but it was fine before you set up this funny named file.
Maybe it could be possible to design a two tier security model that flagged up if a site was being blocked, and you could allow it to run under limited privilages, just so you could view the page and no more.
Slashdot Mirror
there is nothing wrong with trying to make a living from your cretins
Am I the only one who misread that and still thought that seemed to describe the RIAA perfectly accurately?
You don't have to used iTunes at all, If you have an iPod shuffle - you can use the "rebuild_db.exe" 9k application and simple drag and drop your music onto the player.
I wonder if you could get an equivilant standalone app for other mp3 players? It would be really cool if I could just keep a simple executable on the player (Sony's NWA3000 in my case) which allowed me to access songs without needing a program to be installed. Its definitely one thing I miss about my old iRiver. Anyone know of any such apps?
Some of the mice hung themselves, while some others shot themselves; the scientists still haven't figured out where they got the ropes and guns, which only underlines how painful the treatment is.
Cutscene to a group of mice of mice sitting around the twisted remains of a mouse wheel.
Lead mouse: "Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!".
To be fair, even if he did believe that he still has a valid point. Maybe:
**********
Wake me when the world demonstrates...
-tolerance of others
-respect for others
-respect for human life
(These things have already been invented. I'm just looking for some confirmation of their existence from certain members in every region of the world.)
***********
would be a better description. Regarding the article, as has been said many times before, religion didn't create these inventions (although I suppose it may have been a source of motivation and therefore aided the discoveries) people from a region where Islam is very prevalent now a days did. Then again, "1001 inventions from people a long time ago" wouldn't have been very sensational frontpage news now would it.
They did it in Carmageddon, replacing people with zombies and green blood...
I can't believe all of the people I hear saying they'll get an Intel Mac as soon as it can run Windows
I find that most people (myself included) would be more than happy to switch to a Mac and OS X the day that it plays all the games that I own.
Also, the attacks in Madrid and London happened while the Patriot Act was in full force (and the illegal wiretapping was already going on). How come they were not prevented?
Oh! Oh! I know! I know!... because Spain and England aren't subject to US legislation yet?!
I don't know how reliable this data is, I've seen a few similar studies from Gallup a couple of time, but nothing would make me happier than if someone can point me to a thorough debunking, because this makes me rather terrified.
/. posted an evolution vs ID version of the Yes Prime Minister conversation, but I can't find it at the mo.
From Yes Prime Minister
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do they respond to a challenge?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?
Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes or no?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions.
[survey two]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
[does a double-take]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.
I'm sure if you word the polls properly you could create virtually any data you wish to show, I know someone on
I suppose papermaking, the compass, gunpowder and printing never were that noteworthy anyway...
Oh the irony! (They also invented cast iron making by mixing tin and copper back around the 6th century AD)
and I don't think it's appropriate for ME to see the goatse guy any more often than strictly nessesary.
You mean you have occasions when you find it nessesary to view the goatse guy?
If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:
So when will it be ready for the desktop?
When it is more compatible with numerous other bits of software out there, allows for easy itergration between them, and the users of it don't try to convert everyone who uses a different operating system because they believe their one is better.
Great, now all I have to do is figure out what the "sweet" is in "sweet and cat pork". :)
Blackadder: "One thing still puzzles me Baldrick, how did you get so much custard out of such a small cat"
Before I say anything else, I agree with your opinion society in general is too scared to tell people to do better/what they have done is wrong and they should try again etc and that some universities are determined to keep lowering standards until a resonable percentage of people passes each year. However not all universities are like this. Where I studied (University of Glasgow) (and am still studying for my postgrad) we did some school level maths as well (in 1st year that is) however it was more of a crash course in 4 weeks covering everything that we did in the final 3 years worth of school and was basically a refresher given summer holidays etc.
There were prerequisits for every module that you had to meet, and if you didn't your adviser of studies which every student had assigned to them suggested alternatives that would help you as much as they could, such as finding out what part of the subject that you had problems with, style of lecturing/style of learning or notetaking etc to suggesting alternative courses (foundation maths for non scientists, followed by a change of degree path into another field). As everyone had to take modules in at least one other field for the first two years this opened up possibilites if you had problems with your initial field of choice.
Having small numbers of people move between years (we started with about 400 people in first year, about 200 in second year, 150ish in 3rd year and about 80 in the honours year) isn't a bad thing in my opinion as people who aren't confident in their abilities can try the course as a second choice in first year and if they and their advisor of studies feel they are good enough to stay the course then they can join, otherwise they can see (or their advisor of studies can suggest) that this course is not for them. Either way the standard isn't lowered for everyone (at least not to the level that you describe) unless many people continually fail a module year after year (different generations of students that is).
This is a lot like the war on terra.
Boy, the enviromentalists are going to be angry about that!
Why has this been modded redundent?
Putting a price tag on computer crime is as about as useful as that sort of statement. How about companies that don't disclose losses because they fear it damages their reputation? How about companies that exagerate losses to get more money from insurance companies? The values are pretty meaningless. Stupidly large amounts of unquantifiable things can be linked to being computer crime related, for example slanderous comments made via email destroying reputations of a business, is it a computer crime?
How about Creeper and Rabbit created early 1970's and 1974 respectivly? Info here and here
Regarding first instances of worms, in the 1970's a program called "Creeper" was created and spread across networked computers running TENEX spreading independantly of user interaction. A second program called "Reaper" was then released to find copies of the first program and delete it. See The VirusList.com and digitalcraft.org for more information.
That being said the Morris worm was the first to get serious public attention, and a paper called "The Morris worm: a fifteen-year perspective" by Orman and Streak has an interesting analysis of it. Unfortunately it (appears) only to be available through IEEE so a subscription is required to view it.
Ironically the development of technology such as email probably is better described as being intelligently designed rather than evolving. I mean, if you can get system to mutate and suddenly start working over night it would be great! *Opens book on genetic algorithms*
I won't give away the ending, but my favorite part is:
ctattggacttggaatcggatattggacacttggaatcggata
Great, thats another twist in the story ruined!
What about close friends and family who know that an event occured and possibly end up knowing more than the original person themselves. Take for example a senario where a person was raped, and the culprit was caught and convicted. Everyone would know what he looks like and who he is. The victim takes the pill to "forget" the event, and therefore doesn't make the association with that persons face and what happened.
Later that person and a group of friends go out and see a person who looks very simlar to the rapist which stirs emotional responses in everyone else except the victim. If that person enquires as to what everyone else is uneasy about what do they say? "Sorry, it is for your own good we don't explain it to you" "Nothing, you are just imagining it"?
Isn't it a coffee cup holder?
It is kinda on a different scale though, 25% of India's population are below the poverty line, or 270 million people in the US it is 12% or 36 million and in the UK it is 17% or 10.2 million (All from the CIA world fact book btw, didn't google for other sources) As such comparing over the numbers of starving and homless people probably isn't a good metric, although I would say that investment in sending things into space if only for the technological fallout and the knowledge gained is a good thing.
What about other sources of sexual or violent content? If people are really concerned about certain content being harmful then maybe they should start banning other information streams as well, such as books? Sexually themed? "The player of games" by Iain M. Banks had some seriously disturbing sexual scenes.. "The Gap Series" by Steven Donaldson is probably one of the most disturbed series of books I've ever read with a major theme around the repeated rape of a womem. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" maybe?
Hmmm violent themes, books? Nope can't think of any.. they are obviously all peaceful without any descriptions of battles, torture, murder etc..
Also, and probably more importantly, books rely on imagery painting a picture that the reader can build up for themselves given the description because *gasp* different people view things DIFFERENTLY.
Finally, one could argue that children would not read these books, because strangely enough, they are designed for adults. Not like these games that have no age reccomendations saying what target market they are aimed at.
I really do not know why HOST files are not a more common theme
Maybe because "From time to time I get pages that aren't found.....but I can review these as the HOST file is of course text."
For you, me and the technically inclined this is no biggy, can you see your Gran doing this? As far as they know the site they want to view doesn't work but it was fine before you set up this funny named file.
Maybe it could be possible to design a two tier security model that flagged up if a site was being blocked, and you could allow it to run under limited privilages, just so you could view the page and no more.
Next the government will start copyrighting statistics they do not want to get out.
What are the odds of that?