Dad would know who was sick in the neighborhood or who was going to stop by for a visit. From where do these pieces of wisdom/knowledge come for I do not know.
Still just intuition. Intuition just knows somehow, without reasoning it out. When it's highly developed it can seem spooky, but it shouldn't be anymore than would be highly developed reasoning, empathy, or physical skills.
You sound like James Taggart. Greed may be motivating the Labels to be douches now, but it is also what will compel them to change.
It might if 'Label' were a rational, sentient being who wisely observed that there is a value people would be willing to pay for in fast, efficient, no-surprises downloads, providing the price was not too high. And it's not just theoretical, it existed once as allofmp3.com (now mp3sparks.com, if you know how to fund your account).
But Label isn't a rational sentient being. It is run in large part by middle men who provide little additional value, yet collect big money and live lavish life styles. It is entirely possible that they would rather 'go down fighting' than survive on less money.
While greed can potentially be of value IF it can be harnessed as a motive power by a governing rationality, that is a big IF. Left on its own it is not rational, and potentially very destructive.
because 8 million people finally understood that they could buy single tracks online and not have to waste 20$ to get the two or three tunes they really wanted.
And they still believe it's a good thing to pay for music rather than get it for free, and are well enough off that a buck a song doesn't seem like a rip off. If price per song were to drop to 25 cents I don't know if there would be an increase of 32 million, but there would be an increase.
I don't believe as some do that the music industry is screwed and that the only way musicians will make money in the future is from concerts and t-shirts, but I do think prices will have to come way down, delivery will have to be a joy (fast download of good quality files with no surprises), and that the golden age of big houses, swimming pools, and blow for record company execs is completely and utterly over.
There will alway be money in the recorded music biz, but never like there was. And those who have lived that life will go down howling before they do anything to change.
30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
Also very strange, people considered it normal for their show to be interrupted periodically by attempts to sell you crap. After watching shows downloaded, going back to regular television is strange and depressing. Ads can spoil the best of programs. Yet I grew up with television and ads and it all seemed perfectly normal for years and years. Interesting how little time it takes viewing stuff without ads for it to become completely unacceptable.
Damn straight. Without internet and TV those heathen Aussies can get their arses back to church, though a church with a slimmer, censored Bible that has all the bits that "offend against the standards of morality" removed. Including St. Paul's obsession with circumcision. Why was Paul so interested in other guys' dicks? See, offensive questions like that should never arise in anyone's mind. Liberal application of censorship has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of bad thoughts.
Android based phones, just one of the many amazing things that exist in other lands, like that race of one legged people. Please post more stories about these rare and amazing beasts!
Shhh, it's really the end times, earthquakes and fireballs in the sky and all that, but they don't want to alarm anybody. At least until the dead all rise and walk again by which point it should be obvious what's going on.
Might make for an interesting slashdot poll, how many workspaces do you use? Would it be a big deal if Red Hat 'turned off' this feature? There would emerge unofficial ways to turn it back on easily applied by geeks, but by officially not having it Red Hat could get around the patent.
After a long time of being derided as a useless waste of space, Idle finally comes up with a story that slashdotters relate to. There's your key, Samzenpus, more porn!
My cat will chase and play with mice, but seems to have no clue with regard to killing, or any awareness of mice being edible. When I find her with one, it's me who has to kill the poor damaged little thing to put it out of its misery. Perhaps her mom never never showed her -- "Yum! It's a tasty treat!" And I'm sure as hell not going to demonstrate that to her.
He should use the time to learn violin. Depending on how thin his office walls are, they may send him out on investigations soon enough. Otherwise, if he's got years to spend and it takes years to learn the violin, seems like a good match.
Many distros such as SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat are still around in various incarnations
Mandrake started out well, but then suffered some sort of identity crisis, had a sex change, and become the totally flakey bitch named Mandriva. Some say she's been to rehab and is much nicer now, but she is ancient history as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps you would like some Sugar, the original Desktop for the OLPC XO before Negroponte sold out to MS. They shifted from the file/folder model to a model based on activities recorded in a journal. Many grups complained because it didn't conform to their conception of a general purpose operating system, but then the designers of Sugar never intended for it to be a general pupose OS.
The utility of phononic circuits stretches into areas where most electric circuits would not thrive.
For example, Hell, where things have all eternity to happen.
"Satan, my laptop is taking forever to boot!"
"Yes, and by the time it's finished, Windows will insist on telling you that all the thousand icons on your desktop are stale and should be deleted! And there will be a ton of updates that have to downloaded and installed! Bwah ha ha ha ha!"
Much like those rare occasions when I fire up Windows in a virtual machine. You know they use Windows in Hell.
So I stopped 'spreading the word', advocating for them, and didn't participate in the second G1G1. I'm sure many others felt as I did.
Yup. Exactly. For me it was the move from Sugar to Windows which effectively turns the XO into a netbook, and not even the best one out there. It's like they just jumped off a cliff. Suicide.
King Bhumibol, I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a binturong and your father smelt of durians!
That's his real name, I just looked it up in case you were joking. I guess with a name like that as a kid he took all the teasing that he's going to take and he's not going to be teased by anyone anymore ever! Nyah!
The genome is only a code that generaly states how the hell the thingie will look, what diseases it inherits, what inheritable strenghts can it inherit.
But there are also elements of personality which are genetic. No, a clone won't be the same dog, but it will be effectively its identical twin and more like the old dog than any new dog could be.
It's decent now, so even if it was frozen as is it would still be a valuable resource. And edit approval won't freeze it, it can still grow just more slowly.
Besides, there's enough dissatisfaction already with Wikipedia's policies to warrant a fork. This will just increase the likelihood of someone forking off a better wikipedia, a wikipedia for the masses with no notability bullshit, fewer rampaging herds of deletionists, and commitment to the original idea of an online encyclopedia which everyone can contribute to and edit.
IMHO we shouldn't be teaching it until it gains the support of the majority of the scientific community.
Leave the debate on alternative theories of gravity to the Ph.D's who (probably) know what they are talking about.
Hear, hear, leave it to the Science Lords. They will tell us what is true.
That's so not what science is about and is precisely the problem with the whole stupid creationism debate, namely who gets to say, who is the authority. Sagan makes that point well in one of his books (The Demon Haunted World?). When it gets reduced down to a choice of authorities, science loses. Science has to be more than that, a philosophy and a method, and it needs to be introduced early, in elementary school.
That's because they don't teach philosophy of science or scientific method, but instead science 'believe it or not'. Except for the 'not' part, more like 'you'd better believe it because teacher says and it's going to be on the test'. That's why the conflict exists in the first place, it's a battle over authority.
The blinders that rich people in the US use to not see the large percentage of the population which isn't well off are are amazing. There are a shitload of people for whom a 60" HDTV is just not an option, and for whom lack of health care insurance is a real hardship.
I read somewhere that they would be so small that even if they started to grow it would be ages before they became visible, plenty of time for those physicists to invent a black hole collapser. Hopefully the collapser won't have any galaxy threatening properties of its own.
In fairness, the Britannica one is just a 'taste'. When I click on it, a login appears informing me that I'm attempting to access 'premium content' (mmmmm, premium content...). But even there is the potential for a free 'taste' by signing up for a 'free trial'. After that, they expect you'll be hooked.
Were it not for the fact that you can, as you point out, get a load of free information on the topic at wikipedia. Poor Britannica. How can they sell what others are giving away for free?
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Dad would know who was sick in the neighborhood or who was going to stop by for a visit. From where do these pieces of wisdom/knowledge come for I do not know.
Still just intuition. Intuition just knows somehow, without reasoning it out. When it's highly developed it can seem spooky, but it shouldn't be anymore than would be highly developed reasoning, empathy, or physical skills.
You sound like James Taggart. Greed may be motivating the Labels to be douches now, but it is also what will compel them to change.
It might if 'Label' were a rational, sentient being who wisely observed that there is a value people would be willing to pay for in fast, efficient, no-surprises downloads, providing the price was not too high. And it's not just theoretical, it existed once as allofmp3.com (now mp3sparks.com, if you know how to fund your account).
But Label isn't a rational sentient being. It is run in large part by middle men who provide little additional value, yet collect big money and live lavish life styles. It is entirely possible that they would rather 'go down fighting' than survive on less money.
While greed can potentially be of value IF it can be harnessed as a motive power by a governing rationality, that is a big IF. Left on its own it is not rational, and potentially very destructive.
because 8 million people finally understood that they could buy single tracks online and not have to waste 20$ to get the two or three tunes they really wanted.
And they still believe it's a good thing to pay for music rather than get it for free, and are well enough off that a buck a song doesn't seem like a rip off. If price per song were to drop to 25 cents I don't know if there would be an increase of 32 million, but there would be an increase.
I don't believe as some do that the music industry is screwed and that the only way musicians will make money in the future is from concerts and t-shirts, but I do think prices will have to come way down, delivery will have to be a joy (fast download of good quality files with no surprises), and that the golden age of big houses, swimming pools, and blow for record company execs is completely and utterly over.
There will alway be money in the recorded music biz, but never like there was. And those who have lived that life will go down howling before they do anything to change.
30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
Also very strange, people considered it normal for their show to be interrupted periodically by attempts to sell you crap. After watching shows downloaded, going back to regular television is strange and depressing. Ads can spoil the best of programs. Yet I grew up with television and ads and it all seemed perfectly normal for years and years. Interesting how little time it takes viewing stuff without ads for it to become completely unacceptable.
If anything, they'll go after the people selling the discs in the first place. Confused grandmothers are not known for their deep pockets.
That wouldn't stop the RIAA. The Embroidery Inustry Association of America is obviously not made of the same stuff.
Damn straight. Without internet and TV those heathen Aussies can get their arses back to church, though a church with a slimmer, censored Bible that has all the bits that "offend against the standards of morality" removed. Including St. Paul's obsession with circumcision. Why was Paul so interested in other guys' dicks? See, offensive questions like that should never arise in anyone's mind. Liberal application of censorship has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of bad thoughts.
Android based phones, just one of the many amazing things that exist in other lands, like that race of one legged people. Please post more stories about these rare and amazing beasts!
Shhh, it's really the end times, earthquakes and fireballs in the sky and all that, but they don't want to alarm anybody. At least until the dead all rise and walk again by which point it should be obvious what's going on.
Might make for an interesting slashdot poll, how many workspaces do you use? Would it be a big deal if Red Hat 'turned off' this feature? There would emerge unofficial ways to turn it back on easily applied by geeks, but by officially not having it Red Hat could get around the patent.
After a long time of being derided as a useless waste of space, Idle finally comes up with a story that slashdotters relate to. There's your key, Samzenpus, more porn!
My cat will chase and play with mice, but seems to have no clue with regard to killing, or any awareness of mice being edible. When I find her with one, it's me who has to kill the poor damaged little thing to put it out of its misery. Perhaps her mom never never showed her -- "Yum! It's a tasty treat!" And I'm sure as hell not going to demonstrate that to her.
He should use the time to learn violin. Depending on how thin his office walls are, they may send him out on investigations soon enough. Otherwise, if he's got years to spend and it takes years to learn the violin, seems like a good match.
4. Finally, the year of Linux on the desktop will be known as 'Year Zero'.
Many distros such as SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat are still around in various incarnations
Mandrake started out well, but then suffered some sort of identity crisis, had a sex change, and become the totally flakey bitch named Mandriva. Some say she's been to rehab and is much nicer now, but she is ancient history as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps you would like some Sugar, the original Desktop for the OLPC XO before Negroponte sold out to MS. They shifted from the file/folder model to a model based on activities recorded in a journal. Many grups complained because it didn't conform to their conception of a general purpose operating system, but then the designers of Sugar never intended for it to be a general pupose OS.
The utility of phononic circuits stretches into areas where most electric circuits would not thrive.
For example, Hell, where things have all eternity to happen.
"Satan, my laptop is taking forever to boot!"
"Yes, and by the time it's finished, Windows will insist on telling you that all the thousand icons on your desktop are stale and should be deleted! And there will be a ton of updates that have to downloaded and installed! Bwah ha ha ha ha!"
Much like those rare occasions when I fire up Windows in a virtual machine. You know they use Windows in Hell.
So I stopped 'spreading the word', advocating for them, and didn't participate in the second G1G1. I'm sure many others felt as I did.
Yup. Exactly. For me it was the move from Sugar to Windows which effectively turns the XO into a netbook, and not even the best one out there. It's like they just jumped off a cliff. Suicide.
King Bhumibol, I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a binturong and your father smelt of durians!
That's his real name, I just looked it up in case you were joking. I guess with a name like that as a kid he took all the teasing that he's going to take and he's not going to be teased by anyone anymore ever! Nyah!
The genome is only a code that generaly states how the hell the thingie will look, what diseases it inherits, what inheritable strenghts can it inherit.
But there are also elements of personality which are genetic. No, a clone won't be the same dog, but it will be effectively its identical twin and more like the old dog than any new dog could be.
It's decent now, so even if it was frozen as is it would still be a valuable resource. And edit approval won't freeze it, it can still grow just more slowly.
Besides, there's enough dissatisfaction already with Wikipedia's policies to warrant a fork. This will just increase the likelihood of someone forking off a better wikipedia, a wikipedia for the masses with no notability bullshit, fewer rampaging herds of deletionists, and commitment to the original idea of an online encyclopedia which everyone can contribute to and edit.
IMHO we shouldn't be teaching it until it gains the support of the majority of the scientific community.
Leave the debate on alternative theories of gravity to the Ph.D's who (probably) know what they are talking about.
Hear, hear, leave it to the Science Lords. They will tell us what is true.
That's so not what science is about and is precisely the problem with the whole stupid creationism debate, namely who gets to say, who is the authority. Sagan makes that point well in one of his books (The Demon Haunted World?). When it gets reduced down to a choice of authorities, science loses. Science has to be more than that, a philosophy and a method, and it needs to be introduced early, in elementary school.
That's because they don't teach philosophy of science or scientific method, but instead science 'believe it or not'. Except for the 'not' part, more like 'you'd better believe it because teacher says and it's going to be on the test'. That's why the conflict exists in the first place, it's a battle over authority.
The blinders that rich people in the US use to not see the large percentage of the population which isn't well off are are amazing. There are a shitload of people for whom a 60" HDTV is just not an option, and for whom lack of health care insurance is a real hardship.
I read somewhere that they would be so small that even if they started to grow it would be ages before they became visible, plenty of time for those physicists to invent a black hole collapser. Hopefully the collapser won't have any galaxy threatening properties of its own.
In fairness, the Britannica one is just a 'taste'. When I click on it, a login appears informing me that I'm attempting to access 'premium content' (mmmmm, premium content...). But even there is the potential for a free 'taste' by signing up for a 'free trial'. After that, they expect you'll be hooked.
Were it not for the fact that you can, as you point out, get a load of free information on the topic at wikipedia. Poor Britannica. How can they sell what others are giving away for free?