Can we say that any property rights - intellectual or otherwise - for the ingredients of Cheetos, ramen and anime are unenforceable. Then I we can all watch free anime DVDs and eat Cheetos and ramen. Also the telco should give me unlimited download bandwidth and stores that deliver ramen and Cheetos should be prevented from charging.
If you served in the US military, you swore an oath to uphold the US Constitution. Using force to disenfranchise non veterans - and that is the only way to do it - is not doing that.
Hermione Granger is a Author Avatar. So it's quite OK for her to be as attractive as JK Rowling is rather than as attractive as JK Rowling thinks she is.
Paul Verhoeven said "We always called action movies fascist, so we thought it would be interesting to make a real fascist movie" and that "the point of this movie is that war makes fascists of us all". He said he read part of the book but hated it. Still the society in the movie has the same rules as the society in the book. The fact that he portays that society as fascist means the movie is a satire of the book, and also of the American idea that war can be won without a moral cost for the victors. This last one is a key thing to Verhoeven - films like Black Book show how corrupting war can be, even for the most morally justified side.
Of course if you have a sense of humour and an ability to see the flaws in plans for utopian society whilst still being able to appreciate the good ideas you can enjoy both. Like Marx Heinlein gets in some good jabs at democratic societies, and like Marx the alternative he suggests would be a nightmare if implemented.
Still it's interesting that people that believe in Heinlein's blueprint for a society seem to always be viscerally hostile to the movie that satirizes them. That makes me think the movie's point that the society described in the book is fascist has some truth to it. It seems very unlikely that the society that Heinlein describes would allow a movie like Starship Troopers to be made.
Actually Starship Troopers the movie seems scarily prescient of the War On Terror.
"Some say that western incursions into the Middle East have provoked the muslims and a live and let live policy would be preferrable"
"I'M FROM NEW YORK AND I SAY KILL 'EM ALL!"
Of course, luckily we lived in a good old fashioned democracy with universal suffrage. And democracies are quite happy with films that poke fun at them.
Naah, *never* stand up for what you believe in. Software is about passive aggression. Rather than telling someone to stop clicking, spend the afternoon arguing about why you won't tell him on Slashdot.
People that stand up for what they believe in a trouble makers. We need people people in this team. Oh, and I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday. Remember what I just said. Slashdot isn't blocked by the corporate firewall BTW.
>Although the original poster was being a little slow in the head. I mean, ALL creatures modify their environment. You have to in order to reproduce and eat.
We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that beaver civilization, not human, dominates this planet *now and always*!
I think the Oil Age happened because oil was incredibly cheap and convenient. My guess is that won't be the case in future. In fact oil could get a lot cheaper and still alternatives will take over.
I read somewhere that Saudi policy was to keep the price of oil below $30 per barrel to try to prevent this. Now - even during a very serious recession - that's not possible
Mostly because China, India and so on are still growing and they have a huge need for oil. Plus there are worries about CO2, or that supplies may be interrupted in future and so on. Most countries are putting serious money into feed in tariffs for wind and solar and I suspect for algae biodiesel if it proves practical. More nuclear power plants are being built. Canadian oil shales are now economically viable.
All these things together means that the world economy is adapting to become less dependent on Saudi oil, just like it did during the 1973 oil crisis.
In February 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that the U.S. military was about to begin large-scale production oil from algal ponds into jet fuel. After extraction at a cost of $2 per gallon, the oil will be refined at less than $3 a gallon. A larger-scale refining operation, producing 50 million gallons a year, is expected to go into production in 2011, with the possibility of lower per gallon costs so that algae-based fuel would be competitive with fossil fuels. The projects, run by the companies SAIC and General Atomics, are expected to produce 1,000 gallons of oil per acre per year from algal ponds
Or how about a solar based petro chemicals industry? Today, oil is almost exclusively used as a liquid fuel or input, it is rarely converted to electricity (except by the Saudis themselves), so solar generated electricity is actually a poor substitute. This is actually a bigger threat to coal, nuclear, and gas.
From the Algae Fuel article.
The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (40,000 km^2).[8] This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000
Once solar becomes ubiquitous they'll need to swap their imported cars for camels. And we won't have to worry about spoiled idiots funding Jihad as a hobby.
Tools to create new worlds and art with. For the fans with Macs, Windows or Linux and time to dream. The game may only support Windows but let other OS users help, then dual boot to play.
We can game if we want to We can leave your OS behind 'Cause your OS don't game and if it don't game Well it's no OS of mine
I say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can game.
A table in Ram keeping the addresses of the blocks of the mapping table is feasibly small as I mentioned.
E.g. a 4 byte integer could tell you the address of a block that contains 2048/4=512 mapping table entries, each of which contains the address of one 2048 byte block. So each 4 byte integer lets you find 1MB of data. A 1KByte table lets you track a GB of flash data.
You'd need to scan on startup to find this - or maybe you'd write the table to flash on a controlled shutdown to make the startup faster.
Incidentally the only special block I know of is the first one. That's guaranteed to be good and usually to have more write resilience. It's meant for boot code though - typically NAND controllers read that block into internal Ram at startup and code in the block is used to boot the system. If the first block were bad, many NAND based systems would fail to boot.
You'd don't need specially resistant blocks for the wear levelling scheme I discussed though - every structure can be anywhere in flash. In fact the systems I've seen usually have a write pointer that cycles through the flash - i.e. start at the beginning (well you'd skip the boot blocks) and wrap back to the beginning at the end. This guarantees good wear levelling.
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Can we say that any property rights - intellectual or otherwise - for the ingredients of Cheetos, ramen and anime are unenforceable. Then I we can all watch free anime DVDs and eat Cheetos and ramen. Also the telco should give me unlimited download bandwidth and stores that deliver ramen and Cheetos should be prevented from charging.
If you served in the US military, you swore an oath to uphold the US Constitution. Using force to disenfranchise non veterans - and that is the only way to do it - is not doing that.
Hermione Granger is a Author Avatar. So it's quite OK for her to be as attractive as JK Rowling is rather than as attractive as JK Rowling thinks she is.
Paul Verhoeven said "We always called action movies fascist, so we thought it would be interesting to make a real fascist movie" and that "the point of this movie is that war makes fascists of us all". He said he read part of the book but hated it. Still the society in the movie has the same rules as the society in the book. The fact that he portays that society as fascist means the movie is a satire of the book, and also of the American idea that war can be won without a moral cost for the victors. This last one is a key thing to Verhoeven - films like Black Book show how corrupting war can be, even for the most morally justified side.
Of course if you have a sense of humour and an ability to see the flaws in plans for utopian society whilst still being able to appreciate the good ideas you can enjoy both. Like Marx Heinlein gets in some good jabs at democratic societies, and like Marx the alternative he suggests would be a nightmare if implemented.
Still it's interesting that people that believe in Heinlein's blueprint for a society seem to always be viscerally hostile to the movie that satirizes them. That makes me think the movie's point that the society described in the book is fascist has some truth to it. It seems very unlikely that the society that Heinlein describes would allow a movie like Starship Troopers to be made.
Actually Starship Troopers the movie seems scarily prescient of the War On Terror.
"Some say that western incursions into the Middle East have provoked the muslims and a live and let live policy would be preferrable"
"I'M FROM NEW YORK AND I SAY KILL 'EM ALL!"
Of course, luckily we lived in a good old fashioned democracy with universal suffrage. And democracies are quite happy with films that poke fun at them.
I read in Soldier of Fortune that in a disaster situation you can eat the dead. Except of course in a zombie outbreak, then the dead eat you.
Naah, *never* stand up for what you believe in. Software is about passive aggression. Rather than telling someone to stop clicking, spend the afternoon arguing about why you won't tell him on Slashdot.
People that stand up for what they believe in a trouble makers. We need people people in this team. Oh, and I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday. Remember what I just said. Slashdot isn't blocked by the corporate firewall BTW.
And looks like ass until you install mscorefonts.
>Although the original poster was being a little slow in the head. I mean, ALL creatures modify their environment. You have to in order to reproduce and eat.
Hippies don't.
All of the senior engineers in that firm are beavers.
We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that beaver civilization, not human, dominates this planet *now and always*!
I think the Oil Age happened because oil was incredibly cheap and convenient. My guess is that won't be the case in future. In fact oil could get a lot cheaper and still alternatives will take over.
I read somewhere that Saudi policy was to keep the price of oil below $30 per barrel to try to prevent this. Now - even during a very serious recession - that's not possible
http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm
Mostly because China, India and so on are still growing and they have a huge need for oil. Plus there are worries about CO2, or that supplies may be interrupted in future and so on. Most countries are putting serious money into feed in tariffs for wind and solar and I suspect for algae biodiesel if it proves practical. More nuclear power plants are being built. Canadian oil shales are now economically viable.
All these things together means that the world economy is adapting to become less dependent on Saudi oil, just like it did during the 1973 oil crisis.
Is this because solar airplanes are right around the corner?
Yes, actually
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel#Jet_fuel
In February 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that the U.S. military was about to begin large-scale production oil from algal ponds into jet fuel. After extraction at a cost of $2 per gallon, the oil will be refined at less than $3 a gallon. A larger-scale refining operation, producing 50 million gallons a year, is expected to go into production in 2011, with the possibility of lower per gallon costs so that algae-based fuel would be competitive with fossil fuels. The projects, run by the companies SAIC and General Atomics, are expected to produce 1,000 gallons of oil per acre per year from algal ponds
Or how about a solar based petro chemicals industry? Today, oil is almost exclusively used as a liquid fuel or input, it is rarely converted to electricity (except by the Saudis themselves), so solar generated electricity is actually a poor substitute. This is actually a bigger threat to coal, nuclear, and gas.
From the Algae Fuel article.
The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (40,000 km^2).[8] This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000
Then they must be embargoed until they accept that "DNA is God and Dawkins is her prophet".
Time is running out for the House of Saud.
Once solar becomes ubiquitous they'll need to swap their imported cars for camels. And we won't have to worry about spoiled idiots funding Jihad as a hobby.
Tools to create new worlds and art with. For the fans with Macs, Windows or Linux and time to dream. The game may only support Windows but let other OS users help, then dual boot to play.
We can game if we want to
We can leave your OS behind
'Cause your OS don't game and if it don't game
Well it's no OS of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can game.
And to be fair you get unlimited slashdot time.
Not if he's watching Big Bang Theory.
Actually he's done a lot more than that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Serafinowicz
Well you'll need a H.264 plugin to play those H.264 videos.
Filesystems are just bloatware. Your text file is at sectors 0x13450-0x13451 and 0x13561-0x13562. Not so hard to remember is it?
Here, take a Postit Note to write it down on.
Goddamn kids.
He's a Cyberman in disguise! GET HIM!
My mother was Tuscanese
I think we're supposed to call the Sand People now.
A table in Ram keeping the addresses of the blocks of the mapping table is feasibly small as I mentioned.
E.g. a 4 byte integer could tell you the address of a block that contains 2048/4=512 mapping table entries, each of which contains the address of one 2048 byte block. So each 4 byte integer lets you find 1MB of data. A 1KByte table lets you track a GB of flash data.
You'd need to scan on startup to find this - or maybe you'd write the table to flash on a controlled shutdown to make the startup faster.
Incidentally the only special block I know of is the first one. That's guaranteed to be good and usually to have more write resilience. It's meant for boot code though - typically NAND controllers read that block into internal Ram at startup and code in the block is used to boot the system. If the first block were bad, many NAND based systems would fail to boot.
You'd don't need specially resistant blocks for the wear levelling scheme I discussed though - every structure can be anywhere in flash. In fact the systems I've seen usually have a write pointer that cycles through the flash - i.e. start at the beginning (well you'd skip the boot blocks) and wrap back to the beginning at the end. This guarantees good wear levelling.
The mapping table isn't at a fixed location - like data blocks, mapping table blocks can be written anywhere in flash.
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