Even if only 20% of the Windows users are paying for their software (a claim which, of course, came flying straight from your anus), the market that Adobe and just about everyone else cares about - seats in the enterprise - are going to be much higher. And even if that weren't the case, 20% of the Windows market is still far larger than 90% of the unix/Open Source market.
The answer to your question is "of course no one read the article." Otherwise, they wouldn't be making the misinformed, half-cocked assumptions that they are now reciting like a chorus.
I just wish that a Region 1 DVD of Stalker would be released. Or, fantasy of fantasies, a good print for the repetory theater circuit (what's left of it, anyway.)
The novel is somewhat quicker-moving, although it may well be Lem's most somber piece. It was the first of Lem's writings that I'd read, and I was surprised to find out how humourous and warm his writing often was. (Lem is pretty much my favorite science-fiction writer, along with Samuel Delaney, at this point.) I think Soderbergh can do the novel justice - probably better than Tarkovsky could
It may be better. Tarkovsky himself was not fond of his own version of the film - he made it in order to get funding for his other films. Stalker is a better film.
In light of Soderburgh's career, Solaris, with its anxious, looming regret for the failures of relationships past and poignant sense of human limitation, is an ideal film for him.
It's not as if there haven't been enough abuses of civil liberties in the name of the war on some terrorists. Just as I was inclined to believe any story that depicted Bill Clinton as wily horndog, I'm inclined to give some credibility to any story that indicated that Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, and friends took another big bite out of civil rights, privacy, and the presumption of innocence.
Finally got through, and... Nothing to worry about yet. Apparently, this is from a misreading of the report. No data retention requirements, these aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.
Article seems slashdotted, so I haven't read it yet... but what does this mean for those of us who run our own mail servers? Do we know have retention and reporting requirements on our systems at home?
Maybe people who want to download put mainstream, copyrighted material online, but those of us who would like to share usually share music we're excited about to get people interested in them. The leeches who just want to download the lastest Tool or Britney Spears or what have you are already well served by Usenet and IRC and have little to fear. But the group of people left out of the equation are the sharers - they are the ones who brought a dynamism to music listening and P2P, and they are the ones that the music industry is really frightened of - not (only) because of possible threats to their revenue model, but because it's a way of creating channels of listenership that threaten the top-forty-money-machine that they know and manipulate.
Because many people who look for files look for obscure music. They already have the Top 40 pap and Classic Rock cliches if they want them - and you know that that's exactly what the RIAA is going to release. Will they explicitly share, say, a Louis Andriessen composition? Nurse with Wound? Almost forgotten German pop-punk 70's group Trio? The brilliant Art Bears? The Ruins? Melt Banana? No, they won't. Those are just a tip of the iceburg of things I found on Napster in its heyday - now, these sorts of things get traded in relatively fugitive communities (Gnutella has been a disappointment for me.)
For one thing, I'm not judging Buddhism at all. I'm making an observation that a perspective informed by a straightforward neuroscientific perspective on consciousness and the self resembles Buddhism in some ways - and the Buddhist doctrine of the skandas, to which I was referring, is universal in Buddhism, not just to Chan/Zen schools or even the Mahayana.
Memory is an iffy way of defending the unity of the self over time. It is frequently wrong. Memories are reconstructions based on reactivation of neural paths, and are flawed, selective, and distorting. It is possible to remember things that didn't happen, and experimental psychology is filled with such cases (giving rise to the false-memory phenomenon of the past couple decades.)
I'm capable of saying "I am." I'm also capable of saying "I am not," "I am the king of France," and the like. The question is what endures from moment to moment.
The answer to this dilemna is to realize that the person we were 10 minutes ago is dead. The person you were 10 years ago is very very dead. Each second that passes, what we were passes out of existence, and the the self that seems to be the unitary point of existence is just a collection of modalities and a small amount of working-memory. It sounds Buddhist, but it's more informed by neuroscience: there is no self as such.
The trouble is that it's not a matter of who's best for the job - it's not a job like that - but who among the people competing for it represents whose interests. Misreading conflicts between competing interests as simple screens for the best candidate is a fast-track to being completely frozen out.
Incidentally, I'm sure that they are capable of running a.org.
You have to at least forge enough of a social connection to communicate your ability to code, submit a resume, get hired, and pick up your paycheck. And your ability to pick up a bigger paycheck could be informed by your employer's sense that you could go elsewhere - so the more people that you knew, the more opportunities you would have access to. Additionally, the more people you know, the more things you know - you want to use the standard templates library, right? That's a social network effect.
Another way to put it is that some movies are fantastic by their very depiction and style, and that violations of physics - or psychology, or history - are acceptable and even expected parts of those genres. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is part of two well established traditions in film and literature: the Hong Kong action movie and the pre-industrial fantasy. Perhaps the problem with Hollywood bad physics is that Hollywood films otherwise make an appeal to realism - we'd object less (on a reflexive level) if that initial appeal to realism was never made.
You didn't actually click on the specific film reviews, did you?
7 Years In Tibet had a very accurate representation of the physics of a pendulum, as well as bullets that didn't spark. His complaint with the Matrix wasn't about the physics within the Matrix, it was primarily about the humans-as-batteries nonsense.
I use Mozilla on Windows for 90 percent of what I have to do. But 10 percent simply requires IE. Mozilla is a luxury of principle - I use it as much as I can, and it does a somewhat better job of it than IE. But there's just too many things that I've come across that require IE. I could do without them, of course - I could also live off the land, do without ice cream, or in any one of a number of ways arbitrarily constrain my activities - but at a certain point that just degenerates into pure masochism.
1. Slashdot, despite the "News for Nerds" subtitle, isn't a news site. The standards for tradition journalistic objectivity don't apply. And anyway,
2. it's questionable just how much they apply to traditional news outlets. Most newspapers and TV news shows are quite free with the editorializing, and usually far less honestly than above. And besides,
3. No specific course of action is advised by the comment. It's just an objective piece of information: a reminder that Blizzard is currently suing the authors of bnetd. Insofar as any product announcement implies an imperative to go out and buy the product (what, you think it's world news?) they are simply providing more information about the product - that the company making it is engaged in a lawsuit against open source developers.
Remove LA from that list. Public transit is an utter nightmare, or a joke, or a joke that's a nightmare, or some other fusion between joke and nightmare. Add Boston. Boston's public transit system is quite serviceable, as is DC's. Chicago and New York rule the roost, it's true. San Francisco is a split decision - BART is quite nice for commuting across the Bay, but just about everything else is pretty bad, and Muni is a disaster.
"Poorly" modifies implemented in a way to suggest it is less than ideal - it negates the adequacy of implementation. In a strictly logical analysis, it's a modifier, not a negation of "poorness." But human semantic potential is based on the activation of nodes, not on the parsing of context-free grammar. The difficulties in immediately coming up with a correct interpretation of that string have to do with the fact that "poorly" is going to generate inhibitory activation into the "implemented" reading.
Another way to look at it is to see a progressive scale of implementation, which is a natural reaction to seeing words of gradation such as "poorly" or "well." "Not" implemented will be one extreme, "perfectly" will be another. An unqualified "implemented" would appear in the middle of that line. Between that unqualified "implementation" (say, a 0.5 on the implementation grade) and "not" (say, 0.0) "poorly" might appear as 0.2 or 0.3. If there's a threshold value for negative that might be influenced, say, by a perception of the need to re-do a task, and "poorly" is below that threshold, then it will be "parsed" as a negative (or, more accurately, there will be some activation of the node for negation.)
Even people who are fluent at parsing utterances as logical propositions will show difficulties when you task them with, say, coming up with the correct inferences within (x) amount of time (this is a very common form of experimentation for cognitive science research). Remember, human brains are parallel processors which can, in some context, emulate serial ones, but at a cost of effiency.
The stature he enjoys currently is so clearly the product of the public need to have an admirable figure during a time of crisis (as was, I believe, the esteem accorded the Kennedy administration - I always felt he was overrated as a President) that I consider the Great Man theory of history to have taken yet another mortal blow.
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Even if only 20% of the Windows users are paying for their software (a claim which, of course, came flying straight from your anus), the market that Adobe and just about everyone else cares about - seats in the enterprise - are going to be much higher. And even if that weren't the case, 20% of the Windows market is still far larger than 90% of the unix/Open Source market.
The answer to your question is "of course no one read the article." Otherwise, they wouldn't be making the misinformed, half-cocked assumptions that they are now reciting like a chorus.
I believe those are Region 5 encoded - I've encountered them elsewhere. I'd be delighted to learn I was wrong.
I just wish that a Region 1 DVD of Stalker would be released. Or, fantasy of fantasies, a good print for the repetory theater circuit (what's left of it, anyway.)
The novel is somewhat quicker-moving, although it may well be Lem's most somber piece. It was the first of Lem's writings that I'd read, and I was surprised to find out how humourous and warm his writing often was. (Lem is pretty much my favorite science-fiction writer, along with Samuel Delaney, at this point.) I think Soderbergh can do the novel justice - probably better than Tarkovsky could
In light of Soderburgh's career, Solaris, with its anxious, looming regret for the failures of relationships past and poignant sense of human limitation, is an ideal film for him.
Hah. I bet the military wishes that they could have military-grade security on the Microsoft product it uses.
It's not as if there haven't been enough abuses of civil liberties in the name of the war on some terrorists. Just as I was inclined to believe any story that depicted Bill Clinton as wily horndog, I'm inclined to give some credibility to any story that indicated that Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, and friends took another big bite out of civil rights, privacy, and the presumption of innocence.
Finally got through, and ... Nothing to worry about yet. Apparently, this is from a misreading of the report. No data retention requirements, these aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.
Article seems slashdotted, so I haven't read it yet... but what does this mean for those of us who run our own mail servers? Do we know have retention and reporting requirements on our systems at home?
Maybe people who want to download put mainstream, copyrighted material online, but those of us who would like to share usually share music we're excited about to get people interested in them. The leeches who just want to download the lastest Tool or Britney Spears or what have you are already well served by Usenet and IRC and have little to fear. But the group of people left out of the equation are the sharers - they are the ones who brought a dynamism to music listening and P2P, and they are the ones that the music industry is really frightened of - not (only) because of possible threats to their revenue model, but because it's a way of creating channels of listenership that threaten the top-forty-money-machine that they know and manipulate.
Because many people who look for files look for obscure music. They already have the Top 40 pap and Classic Rock cliches if they want them - and you know that that's exactly what the RIAA is going to release. Will they explicitly share, say, a Louis Andriessen composition? Nurse with Wound? Almost forgotten German pop-punk 70's group Trio? The brilliant Art Bears? The Ruins? Melt Banana? No, they won't. Those are just a tip of the iceburg of things I found on Napster in its heyday - now, these sorts of things get traded in relatively fugitive communities (Gnutella has been a disappointment for me.)
Memory is an iffy way of defending the unity of the self over time. It is frequently wrong. Memories are reconstructions based on reactivation of neural paths, and are flawed, selective, and distorting. It is possible to remember things that didn't happen, and experimental psychology is filled with such cases (giving rise to the false-memory phenomenon of the past couple decades.)
I'm capable of saying "I am." I'm also capable of saying "I am not," "I am the king of France," and the like. The question is what endures from moment to moment.
Saying "mu" is pretentious. This ain't no zendo.
The answer to this dilemna is to realize that the person we were 10 minutes ago is dead. The person you were 10 years ago is very very dead. Each second that passes, what we were passes out of existence, and the the self that seems to be the unitary point of existence is just a collection of modalities and a small amount of working-memory. It sounds Buddhist, but it's more informed by neuroscience: there is no self as such.
Yes! Vindicated!
Incidentally, I'm sure that they are capable of running a .org.
You have to at least forge enough of a social connection to communicate your ability to code, submit a resume, get hired, and pick up your paycheck. And your ability to pick up a bigger paycheck could be informed by your employer's sense that you could go elsewhere - so the more people that you knew, the more opportunities you would have access to. Additionally, the more people you know, the more things you know - you want to use the standard templates library, right? That's a social network effect.
Another way to put it is that some movies are fantastic by their very depiction and style, and that violations of physics - or psychology, or history - are acceptable and even expected parts of those genres. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is part of two well established traditions in film and literature: the Hong Kong action movie and the pre-industrial fantasy. Perhaps the problem with Hollywood bad physics is that Hollywood films otherwise make an appeal to realism - we'd object less (on a reflexive level) if that initial appeal to realism was never made.
7 Years In Tibet had a very accurate representation of the physics of a pendulum, as well as bullets that didn't spark. His complaint with the Matrix wasn't about the physics within the Matrix, it was primarily about the humans-as-batteries nonsense.
I use Mozilla on Windows for 90 percent of what I have to do. But 10 percent simply requires IE. Mozilla is a luxury of principle - I use it as much as I can, and it does a somewhat better job of it than IE. But there's just too many things that I've come across that require IE. I could do without them, of course - I could also live off the land, do without ice cream, or in any one of a number of ways arbitrarily constrain my activities - but at a certain point that just degenerates into pure masochism.
I would rephrase that slightly to "Mozilla should just be a little friendlier with its insane, bloated psychotic of a mentally-handicapped valet, X."
2. it's questionable just how much they apply to traditional news outlets. Most newspapers and TV news shows are quite free with the editorializing, and usually far less honestly than above. And besides,
3. No specific course of action is advised by the comment. It's just an objective piece of information: a reminder that Blizzard is currently suing the authors of bnetd. Insofar as any product announcement implies an imperative to go out and buy the product (what, you think it's world news?) they are simply providing more information about the product - that the company making it is engaged in a lawsuit against open source developers.
Remove LA from that list. Public transit is an utter nightmare, or a joke, or a joke that's a nightmare, or some other fusion between joke and nightmare. Add Boston. Boston's public transit system is quite serviceable, as is DC's. Chicago and New York rule the roost, it's true. San Francisco is a split decision - BART is quite nice for commuting across the Bay, but just about everything else is pretty bad, and Muni is a disaster.
Another way to look at it is to see a progressive scale of implementation, which is a natural reaction to seeing words of gradation such as "poorly" or "well." "Not" implemented will be one extreme, "perfectly" will be another. An unqualified "implemented" would appear in the middle of that line. Between that unqualified "implementation" (say, a 0.5 on the implementation grade) and "not" (say, 0.0) "poorly" might appear as 0.2 or 0.3. If there's a threshold value for negative that might be influenced, say, by a perception of the need to re-do a task, and "poorly" is below that threshold, then it will be "parsed" as a negative (or, more accurately, there will be some activation of the node for negation.)
Even people who are fluent at parsing utterances as logical propositions will show difficulties when you task them with, say, coming up with the correct inferences within (x) amount of time (this is a very common form of experimentation for cognitive science research). Remember, human brains are parallel processors which can, in some context, emulate serial ones, but at a cost of effiency.
The stature he enjoys currently is so clearly the product of the public need to have an admirable figure during a time of crisis (as was, I believe, the esteem accorded the Kennedy administration - I always felt he was overrated as a President) that I consider the Great Man theory of history to have taken yet another mortal blow.