How's "Been there, done that" as a foreign policy? We even have t-shirts, which unfortunately were mostly made in China. I say we dust off the plans for the Apollo capsule and Saturn V rocket, slap an Athlon in there, and go open a McDonalds on the moon so the Chinese have somewhere to eat when they get there.
If I buy a VCR, am I only allowed to watch stuff I buy straight from the corporations creating videotapes? Or can I take a camcorder, record my kids, and watch it at my leisure? Computers and other tech toys are just playback devices for the software inside. In this case, the guy wrote his own software and distributed it. Sony doesn't like it, tough beans. As for the programming kit, he clearly didn't need one. I agree that his backups of the AiboWare from Sony are questionable at best, but his own intellectual property designed to run on the Aibo platform should be allowed. Or can Intel sue us all for writing stuff for their proprietary 8086 and derivative processors?
Examples of real world use of attrition as a strategy. See Japanese kamikaze, WW2. See Russians at (I believe) Stalingrad, or virtually any other reasonably modern Russian conflict. See current Chinese military theories. If you have the ability to create the resources, you can usually spend them - ESPECIALLY in a dictatorship.
I wrote an email saying that I'd not be shopping there anymore.. this is the text of what I got back.
Thank you very much for your expression of concern regarding the Glasgow
Herald article ('Big Borders bookshop is watching you," Sunday 26 August).
In common with most large retailers, we use security cameras throughout our
stores as part of a range of security and loss prevention tools. We have
overt cameras installed in public areas throughout the store, as well as
behind the tills etc., for the protection of staff and customers. We do not
use cameras in any private space.
Borders (UK) Ltd. was approached by Dectel, the British distributors of
SmartFace, to pilot its security system that is designed to identify known
shoplifters. The device scans visitors entering a store and measures the
distances between 80 facial features to create a unique digital "face map."
The digital image is then converted to a mathematical formula and searches
the database for a match. Visionics, the USA manufacturer of this system
reports that images that are not matched on the database are discarded.
Borders was offered a trial of this system in our two London store locations
on Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street. We will not participate in a trial
of the technology and have made no commitment to implement this security
system.
Borders strongly values the human rights and privacy of our staff and our
customers. At Borders, we feel we have an obligation to provide a safe
environment for our customers and staff. Just as important is our obligation
to respond fully and honestly to customers' concerns. We promise to continue
to do so, while offering the best range and service available anywhere.
I don't know if Roosevelt KNEW of the attack or not, but the signals were certainly in place. However, one thing which is often not mentioned -- in the late thirties a US Navy exercise explored a carrier battle group attacking Pearl Harbor, in a virtually exact situation as to the Japanese attack. The 'attack' was conducted by several waves of mixed type bombers, on a Sunday morning, and it was brutally successful. The after action reports recommended air coverage for Pearl, barrage nets strung from barrage balloons, and the separation of Battleship Row and airfield parking setups to minimize collateral damage. None of these things happened.
Many directors today are forgetting that the good, classic movies try to draw the audience into the story with every technique they can. This movie is an example of a director or producer or probably both getting a great demo of what CGI can do, and going to town with it. It wouldn't pass a chapter exam at film school, unless that was the 'special effects' chapter. Thanks for telling it like it is, Jon.
Personally, I hate RTS games. Generals have huge staffs to coordinate battles, and so far I've not seen an AI intelligent enough to make a tactical decision I approved of or that even fit my battle plans. I hate trying to scoll over an entire front, or even two fronts, and see/control everything. This is why I love games like X-Com and Alpha Centauri.. because I can take my sweet time making sure everything is going as I would have it if I had the ability to delegate to an adjutant, and then I can hit the button. PS -- Multiplayer on AC is great, because if you have two computers networked both people can take their turn at the same time. Then you both hit the button, it thinks for a moment, and then comes back with results.
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The schools mostly get around the concept of what would be considered 'illegal' locker searches by saying that the lockers are theirs anyway. I remember a teacher telling us to just keep everything in bookbags or duffels in our locker, because anything that was in the open they could search for and see... but anything in a closed container is personal property, and if they open my personal property to find something then lawsuits can fall like rain.
This story comes up every few years... and it's not happened yet. Don't hold your breath. Sega is bucking to become the Atari of the late ninties/early zeros, and it's not because their hardware is bad -- it's because their software consistently doesn't keep up with that hardware, combined with a crappy and inconsistent marketing scheme. They should have quit while they were ahead with Genesis.
He missed something somewhere.... this culture is largely accepting of wearable technology, ranging from the Gerber knife that rides on my belt to the two or three pagers I am forced to carry to my current cell which has a belt clip... the list goes on. Personally, if the thing had a good user interface and was functional as a watch as well, I'd welcome the consolidation so I look a little less like Batman out for a stroll.
Um, no it hasn't.... Sony is currently hovering around a hundred. Figure in the stock split that happened a few months ago, and you get that it is down forty points from the year high. It grew hugely to that point, but that point was early in 2000 before the split.
I seriously hope that this sort of innovation continues, because Sony's stock price has been in the crapper lately. I also wonder if this thing is possibly hackable, although then from the looks of it the thing might just be useful as it sells. Another question -- will it require a monthly fee or subscription?
Tom Clancy's newest book explores this concept, too... in that case, a CIA operative uses something that was programmed for the government that images the hard disk, compresses it, and sends it out to America from a Chinese government official's personal system. It sounded plausible last week in the book, it sounds plausible now...although I wonder about this guy's motivation and timing.
Virginia Tech so far has gone unmolested by these morons, but I guarantee a college tour would have them strung up like Mussolini's bastard stepchildren.
Yes, Harvard Law has some good minds, but remember -- as with almost every other major university, Harvard is mostly selling their program based on the credibility of the name. While stopping Metallica's idiocy is a good thing in principle, most of the parents that see this lawsuit and the entangling issues won't understand, and possibly would get a negative image of the school overall for getting sued in the first place. Cause only bad people get sued, right?
That interview annoyed me enough to provoke a letter to the editors of Salon. Ms. Minkowitz was completely biased, interjecting her personal agenda into everything that she wrote. Note: Not everything she SAID, everything she wrote. She distinctly mentions in the article that she saves her barbs and asides for after the interview, because she doesn't have the courage to say those things during the conversation. That technique is completely unprofessional, and her little asides detract from the conversation. I thought Card's responses without her comments were level headed, if a little conservative.
Scuse me, but AOL also distributes the software needed to get onto their network... and there are literally thousands of mp3s floating around on AOL, including no less than 10 mp3 dedicated chat rooms each night. Yet, AOL will be the first to duck behind the DMCA... so where's the difference to Napster?
Except that MP3.com just lost that lawsuit to the RIAA, so that whole convenience is probably going to go away too. I'm reminded of an old saying... "They came for the Polish and I'm not Polish, so I didn't say anything... then they came for the homosexuals and I'm not homosexual, so I didn't say anything... then they came for the Jews and I'm not Jewish, so I didn't say anything... and then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak up."
I've played with several different brands/models of camera, and the one uniting factor that I found is that they will all run a standard set of batteries flat in no time at all. This is exacerbated if you use the LCD screen to aim for long periods of time, or if you need the flash on every shot. I finally ended up with a Kodak DC215 (good quality, cheap deal ) and I am right now examining what battery options I have.. because this sucker will kill a set of 4 alkaline AAs in ten pictures or less.
I would just like to mention that you can have an Athlon on your desk in under a week, whereas many of the P3s (especially the higher mhz) are backordered until the next millenium.
I am wholeheartedly for publishing this book. When those articles came out, I sent emails to every person I knew who worked with children/young adults in hopes they would see and understand. Many of them did, and thanked me. Now, instead of having to see it on a screen (which many people dislike for long reading) I can simply hand them a book, a brief explanation, and leave knowing that I at least tried. On one hand, I wish that the screen names could have been included with the poster. Then again, perhaps not -- my screen name is the one I use for many different things, and it would quite possibly be recognized by someone who knows me. So maybe that's not the best course. For people with screen names like "Sexybunny33" or something, it's not a big deal, but people who have something different enough to stand out it could be a problem. Overall, what we as a subculture need is understanding. Right now many schools are running the equivalent of an Aktion against kids that don't deserve it, and this whole Pinkerton thing is an example. It's good to know that we can be heard as well, especially in a more mainstream media form than/.
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How's "Been there, done that" as a foreign policy? We even have t-shirts, which unfortunately were mostly made in China. I say we dust off the plans for the Apollo capsule and Saturn V rocket, slap an Athlon in there, and go open a McDonalds on the moon so the Chinese have somewhere to eat when they get there.
First scene of the exterior of the Death Star...
"Ooh, somebody has a nasty slice, but he can still chip it back onto the fairway."
If I buy a VCR, am I only allowed to watch stuff I buy straight from the corporations creating videotapes? Or can I take a camcorder, record my kids, and watch it at my leisure? Computers and other tech toys are just playback devices for the software inside. In this case, the guy wrote his own software and distributed it. Sony doesn't like it, tough beans. As for the programming kit, he clearly didn't need one. I agree that his backups of the AiboWare from Sony are questionable at best, but his own intellectual property designed to run on the Aibo platform should be allowed. Or can Intel sue us all for writing stuff for their proprietary 8086 and derivative processors?
Examples of real world use of attrition as a strategy. See Japanese kamikaze, WW2. See Russians at (I believe) Stalingrad, or virtually any other reasonably modern Russian conflict. See current Chinese military theories. If you have the ability to create the resources, you can usually spend them - ESPECIALLY in a dictatorship.
I wrote an email saying that I'd not be shopping there anymore.. this is the text of what I got back.
Thank you very much for your expression of concern regarding the Glasgow
Herald article ('Big Borders bookshop is watching you," Sunday 26 August).
In common with most large retailers, we use security cameras throughout our
stores as part of a range of security and loss prevention tools. We have
overt cameras installed in public areas throughout the store, as well as
behind the tills etc., for the protection of staff and customers. We do not
use cameras in any private space.
Borders (UK) Ltd. was approached by Dectel, the British distributors of
SmartFace, to pilot its security system that is designed to identify known
shoplifters. The device scans visitors entering a store and measures the
distances between 80 facial features to create a unique digital "face map."
The digital image is then converted to a mathematical formula and searches
the database for a match. Visionics, the USA manufacturer of this system
reports that images that are not matched on the database are discarded.
Borders was offered a trial of this system in our two London store locations
on Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street. We will not participate in a trial
of the technology and have made no commitment to implement this security
system.
Borders strongly values the human rights and privacy of our staff and our
customers. At Borders, we feel we have an obligation to provide a safe
environment for our customers and staff. Just as important is our obligation
to respond fully and honestly to customers' concerns. We promise to continue
to do so, while offering the best range and service available anywhere.
Thank you for contacting us.
I don't know if Roosevelt KNEW of the attack or not, but the signals were certainly in place. However, one thing which is often not mentioned -- in the late thirties a US Navy exercise explored a carrier battle group attacking Pearl Harbor, in a virtually exact situation as to the Japanese attack. The 'attack' was conducted by several waves of mixed type bombers, on a Sunday morning, and it was brutally successful. The after action reports recommended air coverage for Pearl, barrage nets strung from barrage balloons, and the separation of Battleship Row and airfield parking setups to minimize collateral damage. None of these things happened.
Many directors today are forgetting that the good, classic movies try to draw the audience into the story with every technique they can. This movie is an example of a director or producer or probably both getting a great demo of what CGI can do, and going to town with it. It wouldn't pass a chapter exam at film school, unless that was the 'special effects' chapter. Thanks for telling it like it is, Jon.
Personally, I hate RTS games. Generals have huge staffs to coordinate battles, and so far I've not seen an AI intelligent enough to make a tactical decision I approved of or that even fit my battle plans. I hate trying to scoll over an entire front, or even two fronts, and see/control everything. This is why I love games like X-Com and Alpha Centauri.. because I can take my sweet time making sure everything is going as I would have it if I had the ability to delegate to an adjutant, and then I can hit the button. PS -- Multiplayer on AC is great, because if you have two computers networked both people can take their turn at the same time. Then you both hit the button, it thinks for a moment, and then comes back with results.
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The schools mostly get around the concept of what would be considered 'illegal' locker searches by saying that the lockers are theirs anyway. I remember a teacher telling us to just keep everything in bookbags or duffels in our locker, because anything that was in the open they could search for and see... but anything in a closed container is personal property, and if they open my personal property to find something then lawsuits can fall like rain.
Wasn't that why we all got so pissed at Microsoft? Bill Gates' vision of his ubercompany solving all your computing needs?
This story comes up every few years... and it's not happened yet. Don't hold your breath. Sega is bucking to become the Atari of the late ninties/early zeros, and it's not because their hardware is bad -- it's because their software consistently doesn't keep up with that hardware, combined with a crappy and inconsistent marketing scheme. They should have quit while they were ahead with Genesis.
He missed something somewhere.... this culture is largely accepting of wearable technology, ranging from the Gerber knife that rides on my belt to the two or three pagers I am forced to carry to my current cell which has a belt clip... the list goes on. Personally, if the thing had a good user interface and was functional as a watch as well, I'd welcome the consolidation so I look a little less like Batman out for a stroll.
Um, no it hasn't.... Sony is currently hovering around a hundred. Figure in the stock split that happened a few months ago, and you get that it is down forty points from the year high. It grew hugely to that point, but that point was early in 2000 before the split.
I seriously hope that this sort of innovation continues, because Sony's stock price has been in the crapper lately. I also wonder if this thing is possibly hackable, although then from the looks of it the thing might just be useful as it sells. Another question -- will it require a monthly fee or subscription?
Tom Clancy's newest book explores this concept, too... in that case, a CIA operative uses something that was programmed for the government that images the hard disk, compresses it, and sends it out to America from a Chinese government official's personal system. It sounded plausible last week in the book, it sounds plausible now...although I wonder about this guy's motivation and timing.
Virginia Tech so far has gone unmolested by these morons, but I guarantee a college tour would have them strung up like Mussolini's bastard stepchildren.
Yes, Harvard Law has some good minds, but remember -- as with almost every other major university, Harvard is mostly selling their program based on the credibility of the name. While stopping Metallica's idiocy is a good thing in principle, most of the parents that see this lawsuit and the entangling issues won't understand, and possibly would get a negative image of the school overall for getting sued in the first place. Cause only bad people get sued, right?
That interview annoyed me enough to provoke a letter to the editors of Salon. Ms. Minkowitz was completely biased, interjecting her personal agenda into everything that she wrote. Note: Not everything she SAID, everything she wrote. She distinctly mentions in the article that she saves her barbs and asides for after the interview, because she doesn't have the courage to say those things during the conversation. That technique is completely unprofessional, and her little asides detract from the conversation. I thought Card's responses without her comments were level headed, if a little conservative.
Scuse me, but AOL also distributes the software needed to get onto their network... and there are literally thousands of mp3s floating around on AOL, including no less than 10 mp3 dedicated chat rooms each night. Yet, AOL will be the first to duck behind the DMCA... so where's the difference to Napster?
Most buses have a computerized sign that tells what route it's on...
Except that MP3.com just lost that lawsuit to the RIAA, so that whole convenience is probably going to go away too. I'm reminded of an old saying...
"They came for the Polish and I'm not Polish, so I didn't say anything... then they came for the homosexuals and I'm not homosexual, so I didn't say anything... then they came for the Jews and I'm not Jewish, so I didn't say anything... and then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak up."
I've played with several different brands/models of camera, and the one uniting factor that I found is that they will all run a standard set of batteries flat in no time at all. This is exacerbated if you use the LCD screen to aim for long periods of time, or if you need the flash on every shot. I finally ended up with a Kodak DC215 (good quality, cheap deal ) and I am right now examining what battery options I have.. because this sucker will kill a set of 4 alkaline AAs in ten pictures or less.
I would just like to mention that you can have an Athlon on your desk in under a week, whereas many of the P3s (especially the higher mhz) are backordered until the next millenium.
I am wholeheartedly for publishing this book. When those articles came out, I sent emails to every person I knew who worked with children/young adults in hopes they would see and understand. Many of them did, and thanked me. Now, instead of having to see it on a screen (which many people dislike for long reading) I can simply hand them a book, a brief explanation, and leave knowing that I at least tried. /.
On one hand, I wish that the screen names could have been included with the poster. Then again, perhaps not -- my screen name is the one I use for many different things, and it would quite possibly be recognized by someone who knows me. So maybe that's not the best course. For people with screen names like "Sexybunny33" or something, it's not a big deal, but people who have something different enough to stand out it could be a problem.
Overall, what we as a subculture need is understanding. Right now many schools are running the equivalent of an Aktion against kids that don't deserve it, and this whole Pinkerton thing is an example. It's good to know that we can be heard as well, especially in a more mainstream media form than