Do you mean is it ok if she eats shit and dies? If she's stupid enough to eat shit then there's a small chance she could choke on a peanut... http://my.boss.was/a/stupid/fucking/bitch/she/ate/shit/and/died.com in which case, as far as I know, you can't really libel the dead now can you?
Is it possible to retrofit current concrete plants?
Retro-fitting is am important point - there will potentially be considerable environmental costs involved with rejigging the concrete industry. Sometimes (usually) it is better to keep hold of an old car rather than scrap it an buy a new one. While the new car will be more efficient the environmental costs involved with producing a new car can be so substantial to often wipe out any gains from greater fuel efficiency. So if substantial changes to existing plants are required we'd have to carefully think about the viability of introducing new production systems.
Perhaps the Chinese are confident that their games industry can come up with games that are both fun, engaging and yet do not glorify reckless murder. And I'm sorry to all you hand wavers out there decrying this decision because "the Chinese should be able to discern reality from fiction" - unfortunately there is a significant number of people in this world who cannot and these games contribute to a normative environment that condones violence. Just look at how easily kids are convinced that they should wear the latest clothes from brand X, drink coke, eat macdonalds, listen to hip hop, walk with a swagger... you sincerely believe some of these kids are not influenced by these games? I think it is a sad indictment of the moral state of our society when people argue for the right to murder - real or imagined.
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At the risk of being modded a troll... I completely agree. I've been looking for something like this for my daughter for some time. She's nine, just got her first laptop (and old one, but decent enough) and is really taking an interest. I know that writing a simple game would give her a real buzz. Next stop Amazon.
Well, sort of - I have windows variants on most of my machines, mostly because I use software that is specifically written for windows but also because it is what I am familar with. BUT, I now have Ubuntu on one machine. The reason is very simple. I want to set up a basic web server to start seeing what can be done with mysql and so forth. It was the natural choice. And now I'm kind of curious why more people don't switch - Ubuntu is a nice place to be. So my thoughts are that "good with tech" users would happily switch if there's a reason to switch (otherwise why bother?) and the "not good with tech" crowd should just have it forced on them - perhaps throw in a buffet and a nice presentation on how they are saving rain forests by switching. Seriously.
Surely making the subject fun, interesting would be a better way of encouraging students? I guess if you're a parent who can't be bothered and a teacher that can't teach then, sure, get the stocks out... but really. This must be a joke.
I happily pay for quality publications, broadsheets, the Economist, etc. I am also attracted to publications where jounalistic integrity is promoted and someones job is on the line when inaccuracies emerge. So, for me at least, it seems trivial to switch from printed to electronic content. However, I do not like subscribing - I like to browse and purchase magazines/newspapers that appeal to what I'm interested in at the time and what they might be covering - I occasionally buy publications that are far from where I am philosophically just to see what the other guys are saying. My worry is that proprietary formats will reduce choice and investing in whatever gadget electronic media is piped through will effectively coral me into just one segment of the news circus. So to attract customers like me they'll have to come up with an open format and one that offers me the same selection as a decent newspaper shop.
A study has released figures suggesting 99% of US kids regularly brush their teeth. Said the researchers desparate for research funds "it is clearly outrageous that kids are spending so much time in the bathroom!!11"
Not really. In fact I would say that it couldn't be better. There is an EUelection comming up soon and if file sharers gets the same punishment as a sombody that robs you in the street, people may change their votes, and vote for parties that care for personal freedom.
Or perhaps the majority of the electorate will think that, in the grand scheme of things, people who download content for free when they really ought to pay for it are not that important. Linking TPB to personal freedom makes little sense. We are not free to do as we please. There's a social contract here that obliges people to not rob, steal and the like and to pay for what they use. Compare Wikileaks with TPB - one site supports freedom of expression TPB however, depending on who you listen to, either provides access to copyrighted content or serves meaningless text files of no particular value. So if TPB were shut then we'd either lose the right to break copyright, and we never had that right in the first place, or the right to download meaningless text files of no inherent value. Wikileak's content is of significant value and therefore could be linked with freedom of expression. Whereas TPB's content is either illegal of of no value - either way hardly associated with freedom in any shape of form.
I completely agree with you. I don't personally think that the issue here is whether TPB were right or wrong to do what they did. More that there's a demand for easily downloaded material and the trick is creating a means to compensate those meeting that demand in such a way as to insure the continued supply of digital content. The reality is that if everyone who fancied watching a given film was able to do so without compensating those that created that film then eventually suppliers will dwindle and there'll be no more films. Ably summarised in your comment
I mean, if people don't pay for the apps I make, then my kids don't eat (well, or I have to go find something else to do that I'd probably enjoy less).
If people don't get paid for what they do then they'll stop doing it and go find something that pays for food, the mortgage, etc., etc.. That's the real world - all this nonsense about copyright, theft, googles next!!1!, is just a diversion. There's plenty of people working in the music/film industry who don't get paid hansomely and will very likely lose their jobs if/when the market contracts.
So a while back I was chatting to a maths guy over coffee and we started wondering about the brain. He figured that the average number of synapses between any two purkinje cells was just over three - now that would seem to be pretty interconnected, to the extent that cortical differentiation really isn't all that.
I don't think I agree - the internet is very transient and it is all to easy for people to forget those who have contributed more than most. In other walks of life people have statues built, roads, buildings and hospitals named after them. Their portrait painted posthumously. And so on.
Surely there's enough reason for a site that extols the virtues of those who have contributed significantly, dead or alive, to what is possibly one of the most important technological changes in recent years? Somewhere that people could go and understand something of the history of the internet and find out more on the personalitites that helped take things forward.
Without it there's the chance that effort, intelligence and creativity will just be forgotten and all people will remember is Tim Berners-Lee.
Why on earth would you want to make your netbook more manly? You've already lured them in - so pounce! Buy them a skinny mocha chino latte, gaze into their eyes and suggest 10 inches is enough for most people.
I think this is fantastic and that the guys who achieved this deserve all the (positive) attention they are getting. I wish more people thier age could get into sending stuff into space... actuially forget that last bit, we'll just end up with empty cans of lager and unsuspecting victims hanging in the sky over the UK.
Just for one moment imagine that the "fix" they used really was one of "gran's" recipes. And now, after all these years, imagine the seminar where they bring back retired engineers and hear, for the first time=, how they fudged the design using a cupcake. And that the reason they described it as highly flamable, toxic and all the rest was because they didn't want anyone else to know what they'd done. Man, that would be funny. But what might be more hilarious is the potential response of the US invading tea parties, church fetes and the like across the world for harbouring and supplying weapons of mass destruction!
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http://my.boss.is/a/stupid/fucking/bitch/i/hope/she/eats/shit/and/dies Is that ok or not?
Do you mean is it ok if she eats shit and dies? If she's stupid enough to eat shit then there's a small chance she could choke on a peanut... http://my.boss.was/a/stupid/fucking/bitch/she/ate/shit/and/died.com in which case, as far as I know, you can't really libel the dead now can you?
...not to mention the dozens of satellites beaming down microwave radiation as well
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Is it possible to retrofit current concrete plants?
Retro-fitting is am important point - there will potentially be considerable environmental costs involved with rejigging the concrete industry. Sometimes (usually) it is better to keep hold of an old car rather than scrap it an buy a new one. While the new car will be more efficient the environmental costs involved with producing a new car can be so substantial to often wipe out any gains from greater fuel efficiency. So if substantial changes to existing plants are required we'd have to carefully think about the viability of introducing new production systems.
Perhaps the Chinese are confident that their games industry can come up with games that are both fun, engaging and yet do not glorify reckless murder. And I'm sorry to all you hand wavers out there decrying this decision because "the Chinese should be able to discern reality from fiction" - unfortunately there is a significant number of people in this world who cannot and these games contribute to a normative environment that condones violence. Just look at how easily kids are convinced that they should wear the latest clothes from brand X, drink coke, eat macdonalds, listen to hip hop, walk with a swagger... you sincerely believe some of these kids are not influenced by these games? I think it is a sad indictment of the moral state of our society when people argue for the right to murder - real or imagined.
Now get off my lawn
At the risk of being modded a troll... I completely agree. I've been looking for something like this for my daughter for some time. She's nine, just got her first laptop (and old one, but decent enough) and is really taking an interest. I know that writing a simple game would give her a real buzz. Next stop Amazon.
Now I can cross Panasonic off my TV short-list - thanks for making life a little easier Panasonic!
How do they prevent abuse? Say unifying Pizza Express with someone's landline - or Sarah Palin with PETA... and so on
How did this get through the peer review process??! oh... It didn't
I am not a bio-chemist... but... couldn't they use it as a last chance therapy? If successful then blast them with some anti-viral drugs?
I didn't know that rats "spontaneously" consume alcohol when it is freely available to them.
Not beer - they have trouble climbing the side of the glass. Most other drinks are ok though.
Well, sort of - I have windows variants on most of my machines, mostly because I use software that is specifically written for windows but also because it is what I am familar with. BUT, I now have Ubuntu on one machine. The reason is very simple. I want to set up a basic web server to start seeing what can be done with mysql and so forth. It was the natural choice. And now I'm kind of curious why more people don't switch - Ubuntu is a nice place to be. So my thoughts are that "good with tech" users would happily switch if there's a reason to switch (otherwise why bother?) and the "not good with tech" crowd should just have it forced on them - perhaps throw in a buffet and a nice presentation on how they are saving rain forests by switching. Seriously.
The right to opt out of phorm and similar scams. And an obligation for computer users across the world to keep their networked machines patched.
Surely making the subject fun, interesting would be a better way of encouraging students? I guess if you're a parent who can't be bothered and a teacher that can't teach then, sure, get the stocks out... but really. This must be a joke.
If everyone involved flicked a pebble at the RIAA and their cousins around the world they'd very quickly become buried under a mountain.
I happily pay for quality publications, broadsheets, the Economist, etc. I am also attracted to publications where jounalistic integrity is promoted and someones job is on the line when inaccuracies emerge. So, for me at least, it seems trivial to switch from printed to electronic content. However, I do not like subscribing - I like to browse and purchase magazines/newspapers that appeal to what I'm interested in at the time and what they might be covering - I occasionally buy publications that are far from where I am philosophically just to see what the other guys are saying. My worry is that proprietary formats will reduce choice and investing in whatever gadget electronic media is piped through will effectively coral me into just one segment of the news circus. So to attract customers like me they'll have to come up with an open format and one that offers me the same selection as a decent newspaper shop.
So... you'll just need to buy yourself 1280x1024 steam cameras?
A study has released figures suggesting 99% of US kids regularly brush their teeth. Said the researchers desparate for research funds "it is clearly outrageous that kids are spending so much time in the bathroom!!11"
Not really. In fact I would say that it couldn't be better. There is an EUelection comming up soon and if file sharers gets the same punishment as a sombody that robs you in the street, people may change their votes, and vote for parties that care for personal freedom.
Or perhaps the majority of the electorate will think that, in the grand scheme of things, people who download content for free when they really ought to pay for it are not that important. Linking TPB to personal freedom makes little sense. We are not free to do as we please. There's a social contract here that obliges people to not rob, steal and the like and to pay for what they use. Compare Wikileaks with TPB - one site supports freedom of expression TPB however, depending on who you listen to, either provides access to copyrighted content or serves meaningless text files of no particular value. So if TPB were shut then we'd either lose the right to break copyright, and we never had that right in the first place, or the right to download meaningless text files of no inherent value. Wikileak's content is of significant value and therefore could be linked with freedom of expression. Whereas TPB's content is either illegal of of no value - either way hardly associated with freedom in any shape of form.
I mean, if people don't pay for the apps I make, then my kids don't eat (well, or I have to go find something else to do that I'd probably enjoy less).
If people don't get paid for what they do then they'll stop doing it and go find something that pays for food, the mortgage, etc., etc.. That's the real world - all this nonsense about copyright, theft, googles next!!1!, is just a diversion. There's plenty of people working in the music/film industry who don't get paid hansomely and will very likely lose their jobs if/when the market contracts.
So a while back I was chatting to a maths guy over coffee and we started wondering about the brain. He figured that the average number of synapses between any two purkinje cells was just over three - now that would seem to be pretty interconnected, to the extent that cortical differentiation really isn't all that.
Surely there's enough reason for a site that extols the virtues of those who have contributed significantly, dead or alive, to what is possibly one of the most important technological changes in recent years? Somewhere that people could go and understand something of the history of the internet and find out more on the personalitites that helped take things forward.
Without it there's the chance that effort, intelligence and creativity will just be forgotten and all people will remember is Tim Berners-Lee.
Why on earth would you want to make your netbook more manly? You've already lured them in - so pounce! Buy them a skinny mocha chino latte, gaze into their eyes and suggest 10 inches is enough for most people.
I think this is fantastic and that the guys who achieved this deserve all the (positive) attention they are getting. I wish more people thier age could get into sending stuff into space... actuially forget that last bit, we'll just end up with empty cans of lager and unsuspecting victims hanging in the sky over the UK.
Just for one moment imagine that the "fix" they used really was one of "gran's" recipes. And now, after all these years, imagine the seminar where they bring back retired engineers and hear, for the first time=, how they fudged the design using a cupcake. And that the reason they described it as highly flamable, toxic and all the rest was because they didn't want anyone else to know what they'd done. Man, that would be funny. But what might be more hilarious is the potential response of the US invading tea parties, church fetes and the like across the world for harbouring and supplying weapons of mass destruction!
Jethro Tull?! Now that would be an interesting stand-on-one-leg kind of game.