I don't know much about the subject, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but in that scenario, if the data for a file becomes corrupted on the hard drive, say a critical system file, doesn't that mean that all vm's using it are pooched?
Unfortunately the people doing the renaming didn't understand that the sound of the name counts for a lot. There wouldn't be as much resistance if they used moga instead of mebi.
Mega (and I would argue moga) sound more manly, and like it or not males dominate IT. Mebi sounds like the name of a magic pixie who has gender issues.
Hard drive manufacturers understood marketing when choosing to use base 10. Too bad the people who came up with the new terms didn't.
Even if one only considers A grade undergraduate papers, there is a shitload of good stuff which would make great additions to Wikipedia just being stuck in boxes or worse trashed at the end of semester.
And to those potential authors I would say don't ever mention that you're an undergrad, or people with this sort of attitude won't give your work fair consideration. Just let the work speak for itself.
Narrator: [in movie] Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last-minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
[The movie cuts to a shot of a aircraft dropping a large ice cube into the ocean and then cuts back to the classroom.]
Suzie: [in movie] Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning. And then he gets mad.
Narrator: [in movie] Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. [There are shots of bigger ice cubes being dropped into the ocean.] Thus solving the problem once and for all.
You seem to be assuming that the superior people will continue to believe that capitalism is the bee's knees and that genetic enhancement should cost a lot. What if instead they rejected capitalism and created a utopian society and extended genetic enhancement to anyone who wanted it?
I've hoped we'd get there one day, and our current time of gross socioeconomic inequality would be looked back upon the same way we look back at slavery, but I figured it would take evolution not revolution to get there -- in other words sometime thousands of years into the future. You can have a revolution in the name of an ideal society and wind up with Stalin. It ain't gonna happen until humans become better people. In the meantime we're stuck with capitalism, because it kinda sorta works to establish order, imperfect though it is. If anyone can come up with a better system that won't produce Stalins or stifle progress, then let us know.
But with genetic enhancement, perhaps a utopian society could emerge not in millennia, but merely several generations.
Making people more like the average, for example, curing colour blindness, is free, but enhancement costs you your balls. Making enhancement always cost and never allowing it to be got for free from parents' dna doesn't eliminate, but does reduce, some of the social implications. The rich still have an advantage, of course, but that's hardly new.
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There are lady astronauts as well. Perhaps it could be a make out pad. They could put a sign on the door that says "Don't come a knockin' if the module's a rockin'".
Numerous American employers, including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Symantec, PayPal, eBay, McAfee, American Express, Mastercard and Visa, as well as Facebook, are supporting the Senators' legislation."
What, no Disney? No Sony? No RIAA and MPAA members? Did the others tell them to hide in the back and not to come out until the law is passed?
I'm all for going after the spammers and shit, but I sure as hell don't trust the US Gov't to use a very narrow definition of "cyber criminal" when big media pull out their cheque books.
Good to know. If you're in the UK and you ever have to make an emergency response for someone who has fallen down some stairs, if it looks serious then lie. Not sure what though. Perhaps fallen down stairs into pool of crocodiles, that sounds pretty serious.
"I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't felt sexually attracted to mice. I know I have. I mean, most normal adolescents go through a stage of squeaking two or three times a day. Some youngsters on the other hand, are attracted to it by its very illegality. It's like murder - make a thing illegal and it acquires a mystique. Look at arson - I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have. The only way to bring the crime figures down is to reduce the number of offenses - get it out in the open - I know I have."
No-one is taking it seriously yet, but the iPod generation is putting in train what will be a massive public health issue some twenty-thirty years from now.
Expect the price of hearing aids to drop significantly twenty to thirty years from now due to volume sales. Those models will also feature wireless connection to iPods and won't make much of a difference to users already accustomed to having things in their ears all day.
There needs to be an alternative for small businesses and regular folk to collect money, something that has no monthly fee and only takes a small percentage (the smaller the better, obviously) of the transaction. No one has come up with anything to replace paypal for this. Why, I don't know, given that paypal seems to be inviting competition by pissing so many people off.
It seems to be buggy in the opinion of a lot of people, but according to cannonical it isn't, so quit yer bitchin.
I reverted to 9.04 because of vid issues, but even in 9.04 I can't get the microphone input on my audigy 2 to work. Seriously thinking of setting up a Windows machine for audio stuff, as regressive as that would feel. I've been using Linux for about 10 years now, and the novelty of screwing around to get stuff working wore off quite some time ago.
For day to day stuff though, I would never go back to using Windows routinely. Never, never, never. When I do have to use a Windows machine for any extended period, it makes me feel so sad that I have to uncheck boxes to show me stuff it thinks it should hide, like file extensions. It's such a horrible OS in so many ways, but it has hardware support like Linux will never have, especially when a major distro like Ubuntu says "You think there are problems? There are no problems. Don't worry. Be happy."
Yep, if there's a positive effect then perhaps they should fund placebos. Homeopathy involves a lot of fuss diluting and diluting and so on, but a placebo could be a simple sugar pill.
Trouble is the psychological factor, I don't think you can give someone a sugar pill saying, "here, have a nice placebo" and still have it be effective, but if you can get them to believe a story about the essence of a substance left after repeated dilution being efficacious, then you get your placebo effect. Essentially, they're already funding it.
If there's a problem it would be with professional ethics (I'm not sure you can say "truth is irrelevant") and credibility of medicine. It might be better to leave faith based effects to the spirtual institutions, even though that's kind of unfair to secular materialists. Though if desperate enough, even a secular materialist humanist might be able to convince himself of something irrational. I knew one who believed he could come up with winning lottery numbers through dream analysis.
Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, Mexico.
I wonder who that someone is who leaked it. It could be part of a strategy to scare the crap out of people so that when they come out with something no more than an international DMCA people will breath a sigh of relief instead of getting all up in arms. What they've leaked is so bad as to almost seem not credible.
The chapter on the internet from the draft treaty was shown to the IDG News Service by a source close to people directly involved in the talks, who asked to remain anonymous. Although it was drawn up last October, it is the most recent negotiating text available, according to the source.
So is this a real leak, or something they want disseminated?/paranoia
Yup. The term "intellectual property" is ridiculous, unless the property is understood to be that of the public. It's all public domain essentially, but authors of recently created stuff get a monopoly on what they've created for a limited duration as both reward and incentive, that was the deal. But as the duration is repeatedly extended, you are absolutely right, the deal has been broken, and it was they who broke it, not some citizen grabbing a copy of Steamboat Willy via bittorrent.
That said, support independent artists, not because some broken copyright laws say you have to, but because you should.
My vid would show a blank desktop, with apps opening as I stabbed at the keyboard (custom keyboard shortcuts for my most used apps), or for less used apps, using the keyboard to bring up the run dialogue or the keyboard shortcut for the terminal.
Perhaps one shot of revealing the hidden taskbar by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. It would show logging in to remote servers using ssh on the command line, transferring files with scp, and using the multimodal vim editor to edit code and configuration files.
I think "my" Linux would scare most Windows users. If this is a Linux advocacy thing, maybe I should refrain from making a vid.
Bloody brilliant, though there is a small risk that someone might be disappointed if they attended expecting to see a superb owl. And possibly embarrassed if they came dressed as one.
It's a little more complicated than that. From the article:
To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.
So not eat, but perhaps get transfusions from a much younger sibling. It would probably have to be the same blood type. Simply sucking the blood of random babies is unlikely to be effective and won't be appreciated by their parents or society, so probably best not to.
If you click the graphic in the summary, you get a diagram of the translation. It takes a short economical phrase, then expands it into a longer one. What's wrong with economy? Ok, perhaps there's some vocab learning that has to take place first, but I'm still doing that with English perpetually anyway -- I'll run across a word for which I'm uncertain of the meaning and I'll look it up in an online dictionary. It's also safer to leave be, otherwise those poor parishioners at the Lord of Love church are going to have to change it's name to the Laughing Out Loud church. Completely different vibe, though I think personally I would be more inclined to attend the latter.
It's as you say, obviously no phone company is going to take a loss, so you're locked in by a contract in some form that allows them to make it back over time. Where I live one of the big boys, Telus, has created a spin off mobile phone company, Koodo, for all the hep young people which advertises no contract, but then they have what they call a "tab", against which 10% of your bill payments go. If you leave them before your tab is paid off, you have to pay the balance. But at least it's not an evil old contract!
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I don't know much about the subject, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but in that scenario, if the data for a file becomes corrupted on the hard drive, say a critical system file, doesn't that mean that all vm's using it are pooched?
Unfortunately the people doing the renaming didn't understand that the sound of the name counts for a lot. There wouldn't be as much resistance if they used moga instead of mebi.
Mega (and I would argue moga) sound more manly, and like it or not males dominate IT. Mebi sounds like the name of a magic pixie who has gender issues.
Hard drive manufacturers understood marketing when choosing to use base 10. Too bad the people who came up with the new terms didn't.
Even if one only considers A grade undergraduate papers, there is a shitload of good stuff which would make great additions to Wikipedia just being stuck in boxes or worse trashed at the end of semester.
And to those potential authors I would say don't ever mention that you're an undergrad, or people with this sort of attitude won't give your work fair consideration. Just let the work speak for itself.
Narrator: [in movie] Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last-minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
[The movie cuts to a shot of a aircraft dropping a large ice cube into the ocean and then cuts back to the classroom.]
Suzie: [in movie] Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning. And then he gets mad.
Narrator: [in movie] Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. [There are shots of bigger ice cubes being dropped into the ocean.] Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: [in movie] But--
Narrator: [angry; in movie.] Once and for all!
You seem to be assuming that the superior people will continue to believe that capitalism is the bee's knees and that genetic enhancement should cost a lot. What if instead they rejected capitalism and created a utopian society and extended genetic enhancement to anyone who wanted it?
I've hoped we'd get there one day, and our current time of gross socioeconomic inequality would be looked back upon the same way we look back at slavery, but I figured it would take evolution not revolution to get there -- in other words sometime thousands of years into the future. You can have a revolution in the name of an ideal society and wind up with Stalin. It ain't gonna happen until humans become better people. In the meantime we're stuck with capitalism, because it kinda sorta works to establish order, imperfect though it is. If anyone can come up with a better system that won't produce Stalins or stifle progress, then let us know.
But with genetic enhancement, perhaps a utopian society could emerge not in millennia, but merely several generations.
Making people more like the average, for example, curing colour blindness, is free, but enhancement costs you your balls. Making enhancement always cost and never allowing it to be got for free from parents' dna doesn't eliminate, but does reduce, some of the social implications. The rich still have an advantage, of course, but that's hardly new.
as if you could place a price on Shakespeare or a price-tag on Emily Dickinsons' poems.
Shakespeare : $26.40
Emily Dickinson : $14.95
There are lady astronauts as well. Perhaps it could be a make out pad. They could put a sign on the door that says "Don't come a knockin' if the module's a rockin'".
Numerous American employers, including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Symantec, PayPal, eBay, McAfee, American Express, Mastercard and Visa, as well as Facebook, are supporting the Senators' legislation."
What, no Disney? No Sony? No RIAA and MPAA members? Did the others tell them to hide in the back and not to come out until the law is passed?
I'm all for going after the spammers and shit, but I sure as hell don't trust the US Gov't to use a very narrow definition of "cyber criminal" when big media pull out their cheque books.
Good to know. If you're in the UK and you ever have to make an emergency response for someone who has fallen down some stairs, if it looks serious then lie. Not sure what though. Perhaps fallen down stairs into pool of crocodiles, that sounds pretty serious.
"I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't felt sexually attracted to mice. I know I have. I mean, most normal adolescents go through a stage of squeaking two or three times a day. Some youngsters on the other hand, are attracted to it by its very illegality. It's like murder - make a thing illegal and it acquires a mystique. Look at arson - I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have. The only way to bring the crime figures down is to reduce the number of offenses - get it out in the open - I know I have."
(from Monty Python's The Mouse Problem sketch)
No-one is taking it seriously yet, but the iPod generation is putting in train what will be a massive public health issue some twenty-thirty years from now.
Expect the price of hearing aids to drop significantly twenty to thirty years from now due to volume sales. Those models will also feature wireless connection to iPods and won't make much of a difference to users already accustomed to having things in their ears all day.
At those speeds perhaps you've discovered a better method.
There needs to be an alternative for small businesses and regular folk to collect money, something that has no monthly fee and only takes a small percentage (the smaller the better, obviously) of the transaction. No one has come up with anything to replace paypal for this. Why, I don't know, given that paypal seems to be inviting competition by pissing so many people off.
It seems to be buggy in the opinion of a lot of people, but according to cannonical it isn't, so quit yer bitchin.
I reverted to 9.04 because of vid issues, but even in 9.04 I can't get the microphone input on my audigy 2 to work. Seriously thinking of setting up a Windows machine for audio stuff, as regressive as that would feel. I've been using Linux for about 10 years now, and the novelty of screwing around to get stuff working wore off quite some time ago.
For day to day stuff though, I would never go back to using Windows routinely. Never, never, never. When I do have to use a Windows machine for any extended period, it makes me feel so sad that I have to uncheck boxes to show me stuff it thinks it should hide, like file extensions. It's such a horrible OS in so many ways, but it has hardware support like Linux will never have, especially when a major distro like Ubuntu says "You think there are problems? There are no problems. Don't worry. Be happy."
Yep, if there's a positive effect then perhaps they should fund placebos. Homeopathy involves a lot of fuss diluting and diluting and so on, but a placebo could be a simple sugar pill.
Trouble is the psychological factor, I don't think you can give someone a sugar pill saying, "here, have a nice placebo" and still have it be effective, but if you can get them to believe a story about the essence of a substance left after repeated dilution being efficacious, then you get your placebo effect. Essentially, they're already funding it.
If there's a problem it would be with professional ethics (I'm not sure you can say "truth is irrelevant") and credibility of medicine. It might be better to leave faith based effects to the spirtual institutions, even though that's kind of unfair to secular materialists. Though if desperate enough, even a secular materialist humanist might be able to convince himself of something irrational. I knew one who believed he could come up with winning lottery numbers through dream analysis.
From the article:
Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, Mexico.
I wonder who that someone is who leaked it. It could be part of a strategy to scare the crap out of people so that when they come out with something no more than an international DMCA people will breath a sigh of relief instead of getting all up in arms. What they've leaked is so bad as to almost seem not credible.
From the computerworld.co.nz article:
The chapter on the internet from the draft treaty was shown to the IDG News Service by a source close to people directly involved in the talks, who asked to remain anonymous. Although it was drawn up last October, it is the most recent negotiating text available, according to the source.
So is this a real leak, or something they want disseminated? /paranoia
Yup. The term "intellectual property" is ridiculous, unless the property is understood to be that of the public. It's all public domain essentially, but authors of recently created stuff get a monopoly on what they've created for a limited duration as both reward and incentive, that was the deal. But as the duration is repeatedly extended, you are absolutely right, the deal has been broken, and it was they who broke it, not some citizen grabbing a copy of Steamboat Willy via bittorrent.
That said, support independent artists, not because some broken copyright laws say you have to, but because you should.
My vid would show a blank desktop, with apps opening as I stabbed at the keyboard (custom keyboard shortcuts for my most used apps), or for less used apps, using the keyboard to bring up the run dialogue or the keyboard shortcut for the terminal.
Perhaps one shot of revealing the hidden taskbar by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. It would show logging in to remote servers using ssh on the command line, transferring files with scp, and using the multimodal vim editor to edit code and configuration files.
I think "my" Linux would scare most Windows users. If this is a Linux advocacy thing, maybe I should refrain from making a vid.
Can I call it a Superb Owl party?
Bloody brilliant, though there is a small risk that someone might be disappointed if they attended expecting to see a superb owl. And possibly embarrassed if they came dressed as one.
I'll live forever if I eat babies?
It's a little more complicated than that. From the article:
To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.
So not eat, but perhaps get transfusions from a much younger sibling. It would probably have to be the same blood type. Simply sucking the blood of random babies is unlikely to be effective and won't be appreciated by their parents or society, so probably best not to.
with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as a desk.
Yes, the desk please. I expect John Cleese will be sitting at it saying, "And now for something completely different."
The real battle is between Google and Microsoft. Google's OS/hardware initiatives may incidentally have negative effects for Apple iPhone and Linux on netbooks.
If you click the graphic in the summary, you get a diagram of the translation. It takes a short economical phrase, then expands it into a longer one. What's wrong with economy? Ok, perhaps there's some vocab learning that has to take place first, but I'm still doing that with English perpetually anyway -- I'll run across a word for which I'm uncertain of the meaning and I'll look it up in an online dictionary. It's also safer to leave be, otherwise those poor parishioners at the Lord of Love church are going to have to change it's name to the Laughing Out Loud church. Completely different vibe, though I think personally I would be more inclined to attend the latter.
It's as you say, obviously no phone company is going to take a loss, so you're locked in by a contract in some form that allows them to make it back over time. Where I live one of the big boys, Telus, has created a spin off mobile phone company, Koodo, for all the hep young people which advertises no contract, but then they have what they call a "tab", against which 10% of your bill payments go. If you leave them before your tab is paid off, you have to pay the balance. But at least it's not an evil old contract!