What if you don't want to "look" at the particle but want to determine if anyone ELSE has "looked" at it? How do you tell if its quantum state has collapsed due to illicit observation? Isn't observing an indeterminate state the same as observing a determinate one, thus causing a determination?
Sure, it's a non-profit entity whose function is to assist corporations in centralizing wealth by direct tax-funded grants and legislation altering market conditions to exclude competition. This particular form of corporation is called a "government".
There are a lot of people with 8-bit ISA slots that would really like to have a comparo of MGA, CGA, EGA, VGA, and Hercules mono video cards. Everyone nowadays is reviewing these newfangled "accelerated" cards instead of olde fashioned frame buffer cards.
Yes, the Chinese yuan is supposedly overvalued 40% versus the dollar, thanks to Chinese monetary policy. They could float the yuan and cause riots in the US when people find they can't even afford to shop at Walmart.
Took this long for people to notice? They don't include "default" and "best" compressions; I only use "best" myself. If I'm bothering to compress, it's to save space, not time, otherwise I'd save even more time and not bother.
I hope they wait for the dupe until after they actually finish the article.
This reminds me when LANs became more common they were touting the eventual "paperless office", with all documents handled electronically. Well, guess what, computers have caused a paper explosion as anyone can churn out thousands of pages of drivel at a click. Documents today look prettier but little things like proper speling, grammer and, punctuation, are far worser and also content sux0r hehe omfgwtf jamez joice wud be prawd strm of conciousnes watever crap u think come out cuz u dont haf to be rite just run spelchekr and all good too easy to write stuff so all the crap come out ppl just doan givafux0r since evryone else duz it it dont look bad lol gawlly mah nutz itch gotta scratchum ma beer almost spilt dangit blah blha loll SORRY MY CAPSLOCK WAS OFF I ONLY BIN ON INTERWEB YESTARDAY LOL FORGOT U GOTTA KEEP CAPSLOCK ON ROFL;) >:P DIGG????/?!///!!1
You need a meta-metadata tag to set your metadata as "private". And in case your g/f gets wise and enables searching for "private" tagged metadata, you need a meta-meta-metadata tag to mark things "private for reals". If she gets wise to THAT, you just need a meta-meta-meta-metadata tag labelled "k biotch, i'm busted, just don't delete mah tubgirl pr0n".
XML databases? What kind of idiot defines their DB technology on a static data format (and a merely heirarchical one at that)? Do you mean that you use a DOM to manipulate data? If so, that's just stuffing a heirarchical DB inside a relational one, which is stupid 2 teh maxx0rz.
It's not a contract because clicking a button is not intent to contract. It's not a signature, it's not a handshake. I have no obligation to read their EULA legalese, which presumably defines their interpretation of the semantics of clicking certain buttons. Just because a button has text on it doesn't mean I have an intent to "Accept" or "Cancel" or even "OK" when I click it. It means I want to continue installing the software, at most.
If they wanted their legal ducks in a row, they would require you to sign a contract at the store, with the store as the agent for $MEGA_CORP. The problem even with that is most software is warranted to be "suitable for no purpose whatsoever" in the legalese. That means you would be paying money for something which the vendor apparently claims is useless, which means once again it isn't a contract because it nominally enriches only one party (mutual benefit is an absolute requirement for a contract).
Um...what are you going to do once your right to privacy and other rights are taken? Sign a petition? Shake your fist? Get drunk and punch people up at football games?
The right to bear arms is to protect your sovereign, unalienable rights (not, as implied disingenuously in the Second Amendment, to field a militia). The right to keep arms is the right to rebel. When you lack that right, you've abdicated your sovereignty to those who retain their own right to bear arms (i.e., the government).
The US is probably distinct from most of Europe in that the federal government actually has no sovereignty. The only sovereigns are the states and the people, and the national government is their de jure servant. Sovereignty implies self determination. All fascist/dictatorial-type regimes exist to serve themselves. You must keep government enslaved to your sovereign will and not vice versa, erst you become the slave.
A trademark holder might pepper their missives with (R) and TM to assert their trademark. In my non-lawyerly opinion, you have no obligation to preserve someone else's trademark; you just can't use it on your own products/services. I can mention Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse all I want without such qualification. Disney, however, might refer to "Mickey Mouse (TM)" to let you know they claim a trademark on the name and to prevent you from claiming ignorance of the claim in court.
A similar foolishness runs through the media with the term "allegedly". Yes, they don't want to make a false accusation. But when you have a headline such as "Cops Arrest Man for Allegedly Smoking Crack", it's stupid. Allegedly smoking crack is not a crime and would not be a cause for arrest; smoking crack would be.
The DMCA would also apply if you put a sticky on your office doorknob saying "don't open" and some shlub opens it (thus tampering with the sticky). Nice to know you can manufacture a felon so simply.
Although I bet GPS can be jammed in some fashion, that article reeks of hoaxiness through and through. In fact, all it needs is references to "qi" or government coverups to complete the effect.
...entire self-assembling DNA-based organisms. Scientists are working hard on the technology, but research is hampered by a mysterious and poorly understood preliminary stage called "sex".
Old school would be Wizardry, or Ultima. Japanese games are not old school. Preschool, maybe. And no, I'm not forgetting the text games; they are in a different genre (adventure games, like Myst or King's Quest).
It's better to hire half a dozen fresh-faced noobs from college than have to pay for a seasoned pro. That's what management thinks--because THIS quarter is the only one that matters (plus you can bill out 6 warm bodies instead of 1). Sure, next quarter your project flounders and the company sinks, but for management, this is a promotion opportunity. Heck, run enough businesses into the ground and you might become President!
Simply because an application emerges does not mean that it represents an advancement. The ability to run digital signals to various devices over digital transmission media doesn't represent an advancement. I personally find it as interesting as installing Windows 3.1 on Dosbox on Linux on a PPC Mac. Which is, I think, interesting to some small degree, but not really progress.
Sounds good. I hear the former East German government had a lot of information to organize, and from what I hear the EU is about to have plenty as well.
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What if you don't want to "look" at the particle but want to determine if anyone ELSE has "looked" at it? How do you tell if its quantum state has collapsed due to illicit observation? Isn't observing an indeterminate state the same as observing a determinate one, thus causing a determination?
My head hurts.
What he doesn't clarify is that the planet in question is the NPC Democratus from Anachronox. The movie makes this somewhat clearer.
Sure, it's a non-profit entity whose function is to assist corporations in centralizing wealth by direct tax-funded grants and legislation altering market conditions to exclude competition. This particular form of corporation is called a "government".
There are a lot of people with 8-bit ISA slots that would really like to have a comparo of MGA, CGA, EGA, VGA, and Hercules mono video cards. Everyone nowadays is reviewing these newfangled "accelerated" cards instead of olde fashioned frame buffer cards.
Yes, the Chinese yuan is supposedly overvalued 40% versus the dollar, thanks to Chinese monetary policy. They could float the yuan and cause riots in the US when people find they can't even afford to shop at Walmart.
...slogging?
Took this long for people to notice? They don't include "default" and "best" compressions; I only use "best" myself. If I'm bothering to compress, it's to save space, not time, otherwise I'd save even more time and not bother.
I hope they wait for the dupe until after they actually finish the article.
This reminds me when LANs became more common they were touting the eventual "paperless office", with all documents handled electronically. Well, guess what, computers have caused a paper explosion as anyone can churn out thousands of pages of drivel at a click. Documents today look prettier but little things like proper speling, grammer and, punctuation, are far worser and also content sux0r hehe omfgwtf jamez joice wud be prawd strm of conciousnes watever crap u think come out cuz u dont haf to be rite just run spelchekr and all good too easy to write stuff so all the crap come out ppl just doan givafux0r since evryone else duz it it dont look bad lol gawlly mah nutz itch gotta scratchum ma beer almost spilt dangit blah blha loll SORRY MY CAPSLOCK WAS OFF I ONLY BIN ON INTERWEB YESTARDAY LOL FORGOT U GOTTA KEEP CAPSLOCK ON ROFL ;) >:P DIGG????/?!///!!1
You need a meta-metadata tag to set your metadata as "private". And in case your g/f gets wise and enables searching for "private" tagged metadata, you need a meta-meta-metadata tag to mark things "private for reals". If she gets wise to THAT, you just need a meta-meta-meta-metadata tag labelled "k biotch, i'm busted, just don't delete mah tubgirl pr0n".
"ever" must mean something like "until after next quarter".
You will one day curse Google just like you do AOL, Microsoft, and Gator. Mark my words.
XML databases? What kind of idiot defines their DB technology on a static data format (and a merely heirarchical one at that)? Do you mean that you use a DOM to manipulate data? If so, that's just stuffing a heirarchical DB inside a relational one, which is stupid 2 teh maxx0rz.
It's not a contract because clicking a button is not intent to contract. It's not a signature, it's not a handshake. I have no obligation to read their EULA legalese, which presumably defines their interpretation of the semantics of clicking certain buttons. Just because a button has text on it doesn't mean I have an intent to "Accept" or "Cancel" or even "OK" when I click it. It means I want to continue installing the software, at most.
If they wanted their legal ducks in a row, they would require you to sign a contract at the store, with the store as the agent for $MEGA_CORP. The problem even with that is most software is warranted to be "suitable for no purpose whatsoever" in the legalese. That means you would be paying money for something which the vendor apparently claims is useless, which means once again it isn't a contract because it nominally enriches only one party (mutual benefit is an absolute requirement for a contract).
Um...what are you going to do once your right to privacy and other rights are taken? Sign a petition? Shake your fist? Get drunk and punch people up at football games?
The right to bear arms is to protect your sovereign, unalienable rights (not, as implied disingenuously in the Second Amendment, to field a militia). The right to keep arms is the right to rebel. When you lack that right, you've abdicated your sovereignty to those who retain their own right to bear arms (i.e., the government).
The US is probably distinct from most of Europe in that the federal government actually has no sovereignty. The only sovereigns are the states and the people, and the national government is their de jure servant. Sovereignty implies self determination. All fascist/dictatorial-type regimes exist to serve themselves. You must keep government enslaved to your sovereign will and not vice versa, erst you become the slave.
A trademark holder might pepper their missives with (R) and TM to assert their trademark. In my non-lawyerly opinion, you have no obligation to preserve someone else's trademark; you just can't use it on your own products/services. I can mention Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse all I want without such qualification. Disney, however, might refer to "Mickey Mouse (TM)" to let you know they claim a trademark on the name and to prevent you from claiming ignorance of the claim in court.
A similar foolishness runs through the media with the term "allegedly". Yes, they don't want to make a false accusation. But when you have a headline such as "Cops Arrest Man for Allegedly Smoking Crack", it's stupid. Allegedly smoking crack is not a crime and would not be a cause for arrest; smoking crack would be.
Pardon me, there's a knock on the door, brb...
The DMCA would also apply if you put a sticky on your office doorknob saying "don't open" and some shlub opens it (thus tampering with the sticky). Nice to know you can manufacture a felon so simply.
...that he favors the "cathedral" model.
Perl--APL for a new generation of dyslexics!
Although I bet GPS can be jammed in some fashion, that article reeks of hoaxiness through and through. In fact, all it needs is references to "qi" or government coverups to complete the effect.
...entire self-assembling DNA-based organisms. Scientists are working hard on the technology, but research is hampered by a mysterious and poorly understood preliminary stage called "sex".
Software has not thrown off the yoke of determinism yet...although hardware certainly has.
Old school would be Wizardry, or Ultima. Japanese games are not old school. Preschool, maybe. And no, I'm not forgetting the text games; they are in a different genre (adventure games, like Myst or King's Quest).
You want old school? You got it.
...to call blog content "data".
It's better to hire half a dozen fresh-faced noobs from college than have to pay for a seasoned pro. That's what management thinks--because THIS quarter is the only one that matters (plus you can bill out 6 warm bodies instead of 1). Sure, next quarter your project flounders and the company sinks, but for management, this is a promotion opportunity. Heck, run enough businesses into the ground and you might become President!
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm? story_id=5300835
for a more recent opinion from that journal.
Simply because an application emerges does not mean that it represents an advancement. The ability to run digital signals to various devices over digital transmission media doesn't represent an advancement. I personally find it as interesting as installing Windows 3.1 on Dosbox on Linux on a PPC Mac. Which is, I think, interesting to some small degree, but not really progress.
So when do we get Skypeblogcasttoothing?
Sounds good. I hear the former East German government had a lot of information to organize, and from what I hear the EU is about to have plenty as well.