I use eMusic, which has a subscription model. No DRM, which is nice. Smaller music selection than iTunes, though, which is annoying. Luckily most of the music I like is on eMusic.
So...subscription with no DRM works fine for me. I think it's a bit unfair to damn the whole subscription model on the basis of Napster's implementation (although that I appreciate that's the topic.
UKNova and co. are superior methods of distribution because they conveniently bypass all the intellectual property legal problems. The BBC, as a massive, publicly-funded institution, can't do this. So they're going to have to edit out any content in shows where they don't have the right to sell it on (as they do now with podcasts where films clips are played, for instance), and they're going to have to make sure that they're at least trying to make sure that licence-holders and only licence-holders can view the stuff. Some DRM is going to be necessary to at least make it look like they're trying to do this.
This way, they're trying to jump through all the necessary legal hoops, and hopefully the legal grey area of UKNova can continue to be quietly ignored / indulgently tolerated.
Bohmian mechanics is not a "different" theory to quantum physics. The predictions are identical, and in fact the Hamiltonian governing quantum system is just re-organised to give the Bohmian mechanics by using the position operator as a preferred operator.
Dammit, and I was hoping this was going to be an announcement that an updated Elite game was going to be released on the 360. That could almost have tempted me to buy one.
It's a little annoying for those of us in Europe who like PC gaming, and were looking forward to DirectX 10. I was going to upgrade my whole system (move from AGP to PCIe, DDR to DDR2, Single Core to Dual Core) once Vista was ready to ship. I accept all the arguments about how Microsoft is an evil monopolist etc. but does that get me playing Crysis on the highest resolution with all the bells and whistles running?
Presumably it's not going to make much difference, though, given that Europeans will just be able to buy it direct from the States, I guess.
It's more general than that. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that any two non-commuting operators can't be simultaneously measured with arbitrary accuracy. As it happens, position and momentum don't commute, but there are plenty of others, x axis spin and y axis spin for instance.
I think the easiest way to think about the paradox is that one of the twins "turns around" (i.e. experiences all the acceleration effects). If you could find a way to "turn around" in time, then one of the twins would come back much shorter, so rather than a time dilation effect, you'd have a length contraction effect. Obviously this would require going backwards in time etc. with its consequent side effects of causes happening before effects etc. I'm just making the point that one twin "turns around" absolutely, you can't think of either twin turning around and returning relative to the other, because one notices his dinner flying across the spaceship when he's turning.
Yes, but times that you bought equities for their dividends are long gone! Now it's all earnings and capital growth! Hence the less you give to your shareholders the more you can invest in the growth of the company...because company management always knows how to invest your money much better than you do...
Exactly. I don't know where I am with regard to average Slashdot readership, but I certainly never learned Windows at school. The computers all used RISC OS. Aaaah, the memories. The knowledge learned (although I remember a lot of people whinging about potential obsolescence) was completely translatable.
I can see that it might still be difficult to sell to the parents though. The rationale is honourable and everything, but parents could quite sensibly think it was all a bit of a white elephant in comparison to training that they themselves might find useful in the workplace...
Is anyone else getting a bit tired of pundits talking about "paradigm shifts"? Tom Kuhn came up with the idea that scientific progress is made incrementally most of the time, and occasionally the whole apple cart is completely upset with a new way of looking at things. Sounds great, but doesn't really sound like how science progressed.
Timothy Taylor's slightly bizarre axe-grinding about cannibalism and slavery manages to wangle it into his rant as a bolster to his belief that he's going to change anthropology so fundamentally that everyone's going to have to rethink the entire science.
You almost have to admire the arrogance of the guy, though.
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I use eMusic, which has a subscription model. No DRM, which is nice. Smaller music selection than iTunes, though, which is annoying. Luckily most of the music I like is on eMusic. So...subscription with no DRM works fine for me. I think it's a bit unfair to damn the whole subscription model on the basis of Napster's implementation (although that I appreciate that's the topic.
Don't you mean "Goodbye eMusic"?
UKNova and co. are superior methods of distribution because they conveniently bypass all the intellectual property legal problems. The BBC, as a massive, publicly-funded institution, can't do this. So they're going to have to edit out any content in shows where they don't have the right to sell it on (as they do now with podcasts where films clips are played, for instance), and they're going to have to make sure that they're at least trying to make sure that licence-holders and only licence-holders can view the stuff. Some DRM is going to be necessary to at least make it look like they're trying to do this. This way, they're trying to jump through all the necessary legal hoops, and hopefully the legal grey area of UKNova can continue to be quietly ignored / indulgently tolerated.
Bohmian mechanics is not a "different" theory to quantum physics. The predictions are identical, and in fact the Hamiltonian governing quantum system is just re-organised to give the Bohmian mechanics by using the position operator as a preferred operator.
Dammit, and I was hoping this was going to be an announcement that an updated Elite game was going to be released on the 360. That could almost have tempted me to buy one.
It's a little annoying for those of us in Europe who like PC gaming, and were looking forward to DirectX 10. I was going to upgrade my whole system (move from AGP to PCIe, DDR to DDR2, Single Core to Dual Core) once Vista was ready to ship. I accept all the arguments about how Microsoft is an evil monopolist etc. but does that get me playing Crysis on the highest resolution with all the bells and whistles running? Presumably it's not going to make much difference, though, given that Europeans will just be able to buy it direct from the States, I guess.
Nice one, that's superb. Best post all day, I think.
It's more general than that. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that any two non-commuting operators can't be simultaneously measured with arbitrary accuracy. As it happens, position and momentum don't commute, but there are plenty of others, x axis spin and y axis spin for instance.
I think the easiest way to think about the paradox is that one of the twins "turns around" (i.e. experiences all the acceleration effects). If you could find a way to "turn around" in time, then one of the twins would come back much shorter, so rather than a time dilation effect, you'd have a length contraction effect. Obviously this would require going backwards in time etc. with its consequent side effects of causes happening before effects etc. I'm just making the point that one twin "turns around" absolutely, you can't think of either twin turning around and returning relative to the other, because one notices his dinner flying across the spaceship when he's turning.
Yes, but times that you bought equities for their dividends are long gone! Now it's all earnings and capital growth! Hence the less you give to your shareholders the more you can invest in the growth of the company...because company management always knows how to invest your money much better than you do...
Exactly. I don't know where I am with regard to average Slashdot readership, but I certainly never learned Windows at school. The computers all used RISC OS. Aaaah, the memories. The knowledge learned (although I remember a lot of people whinging about potential obsolescence) was completely translatable. I can see that it might still be difficult to sell to the parents though. The rationale is honourable and everything, but parents could quite sensibly think it was all a bit of a white elephant in comparison to training that they themselves might find useful in the workplace...
Is anyone else getting a bit tired of pundits talking about "paradigm shifts"? Tom Kuhn came up with the idea that scientific progress is made incrementally most of the time, and occasionally the whole apple cart is completely upset with a new way of looking at things. Sounds great, but doesn't really sound like how science progressed. Timothy Taylor's slightly bizarre axe-grinding about cannibalism and slavery manages to wangle it into his rant as a bolster to his belief that he's going to change anthropology so fundamentally that everyone's going to have to rethink the entire science. You almost have to admire the arrogance of the guy, though.