... when the next version comes out. A novel won't change, it is static. BUT, a textbook such as a history book or economics or marketing or on IT will have several editions after the first. If you buy an online version of the 2nd Edition of a Systems Analysis book that expires in 6 months, you lose a lot less compared to the hardcover version of the same book, when the 3rd Edition comes out in 12 months and you can't resell the 2nd Edition anyway.
As a reference, the 2nd edition may become obsolete in five years, the money you save going toward the 6th or 7th Edition or a new and better book.
Yes, and it doesn't. The death penalty is a misnomer since most people on death row sit there for 20 years or more ('rot in jail.')
I read in Steven Levitt's nonpartisan Freakonomics book that 'you are more likely to die driving to work than you are sitting on death row' or some similar comparison.
As for the guy with the i'd rather a million guilty rot in jail than one innocent get killed (never heard that one before!) how about if three of those million rotting in jail escapes and kills five innocent people? Sigh. Nevermind.
One would say that "God" exists outside of our universe, but I cannot prescribe to that. That cannot be proven.
Another way to go about it is to say "God" is the "Big Bang." Well, ok, what created that? Maybe something 'evolved' into the big bang. Well, where did the thing that 'evolved' into the big bang come from?
And if we prescribe to a universe in constant change now, can there be a time when there were things, but they were just static forever, and then something happened and now there are 'bangs' and 'evolution' and 'change' and how can that be?
I think education is the only answer, but how can you educate people when part of them learn that ID/creationism must be thaught in their class with the same footing than evolutionism
I may start a flare-up, but evolution does not explain away all of creation, as something must first be created to eventually evolve.
When I am thinking about medicine on the web, I am giving surfers the benefit of the doubt that they are going to WebMD or pharma home pages, Pfizer, etc; and not Joe Schmo site with no credibility.
These are good sources to double check a doctor, or find cheap/generic alternatives. Bargain shopping is another benefit of the Internet, as it may involve an entirely different style of treatment - spray instead of pill, a cream instead of a spray, etc.
After watching House (Tues, 9pm, Fox) a few times, I have been known to go to WebMD to look up diseases. The issue here is that many serious or fatal diseases have very common symptoms, and a less than discerning reader will think a pimple is cancer or a bug bite means they have three months to live.
A scare story on the news, a recommendation by so-called 'experts' to give self-exams for lumps or an ad campaign by big pharma can also contribute to public overreaction. I don't think doctors mind a surge in business, albeit being wasteful, as much as the public's lack of confidence in their diagnosis. I guess, the point is "just because you read it on the Internet, it doesn't make you an M.D."
but rather, refers to improvements that can be made and sustained within a society without external input.
Oh, of course. I understand. Here, America has the perfect model - capitalism - and yet where do we look to create a sustained society? The ChiComs! That is rich!
This ice cream and puppy dogs idealism fails to incorporate that the universe is in constant change. (Take for instance, a tsunami or other natural disaster's effects on the sustainable city.) Neither can the city sustain itself in the face of global technological change.
I see this as akin to trying to freeze time in place. Sorry, can't do. You gotta let nature takes it course, and try to adjust as best you can. Because, well, its gonna change over time, anyway, despite efforts to the contrary.
Too many schools don't teach a lot of basic PC skills, such as word processing, spreadsheets and simple database theory. If they do, without sufficient depth. This should be taught at the high school level at least.
As an alternative to French and Spanish, students could have the option to learn HTML, VB, Jscript, XML?
Also, economics and basic investing should be taught at the high school level. Investing is a fact of life nowadays, and if you can't tell me the difference between a stock and a bond by high school graduation, you are at a serious disadvantage.
Absolutely. If I live in an apartment, turn on my pc that automatically connects to the Internet upon startup, but instead of connecting to my apartment wifi, it connects to my neighbors - it may be a stronger signal, whatever the reason - I may not know, I may be in the bathroom; then throw me in jail I say!
I wonder if an ISP will come in and say that individual subscribers cannot open their lines up to the public, or the ISP will try to define subscriber networks/ accounts as private, as the service is provided by the ISP to a subscriber without the intention of the subscriber turning around, creating a secondary market and providing the Internet as free (or reselling) to the general public as the subscriber so wanted; regardless of whether the subscriber encrypts their network or not.
ISP's have an interest to reduce Wifi freeriders as much as possible.
...to secure his/her own network. By not securing your network, you are putting yourself at risk.
Obviously, if I use your Wifi, I am not paying for a service that I otherwise would have to pay for. Second, you may not even realize I am using your bandwidth.
I find this hard to enforce, and also quite rampant. I have several buddies who live in apartment buildings in dense metropolitan areas. They are saving some cash.
In 1988, the Dr. James E. Hansen mentioned global warming was here and predicted that by 1998, temperatures would have increased.35 degrees Celsius, whereas the actual increase was.11 degrees. By the time that the decade had elapsed (and by the time he made the comment that long term climate forecast is impossible- even TV meteorologists don't try to predict the weather ten days from now), the increase had only been.11 degrees. He was wrong by more than three hundred percent.
NASA launched the Mars Rover claiming that it would land on Mars in 253 days at 8:11 PM, Pacific time. The margin of error was a few thousandths of a percent: it landed at 8:35. An estimate has to be an "educated guess". When a leading scientist in a field is off by three hundred percent, that casts doubt onto the whole field.
...being shared may exceed copyrighted sharing.
As the growth of rich media follows the growth of blogs - each of which are largely uncopyrighted material produced by ordinary schlubs, could the majority of files being shared be uncopyrighted and the website no longer liable?
i see this decision being reversed.
Yeah, the government way of messing things up is their solution and it is much worse. Who is actually the one physically passing the law? The legislators. They are writing the law, signing the law - their name is on it. The record companies don't get a cent unless the laws get passed.
I won't even go into the immigration problems over there.
But in the end, the government has the ultimate power of coercion.
The money would not be going to these records companies if the politicians didn't pass these ludicrous laws.
The problem isn't that the record companies attempt these extortion schemes - its that stupid governments like Holland let them get away with it.
By taxing their citizens, the Dutch limit the choices of products their citizens can buy, discourages new businesses to move to their country and reduces the amount of commerce that takes place in their country. And in the end, that is why you get a whole lot of socialism across the pond.
And these problems are more widespread than just portable MP3 players or storage media.
Video games ask for more cognitive ability out of the player than the Simpsons; but a parent would rather their kid watched the history or discovery channel than play Grand Theft Auto. I see that caveat.
I scroll down and I am reading entries that say that Bush wanted this country to be attacked and wanted Americans to die. The President of the United States coordinating an attack against us, perhaps in meetings with the Saudis!
These are valid arguments?
Do you expect people to just sit here and listen to this rubbish and not defend it?
The views espoused here IS the Michael Moore wing. That's all it is. Michael Moore, maybe a little Jane Fonda. If you don't want to be called a Michael Moore liberal, stop reciting his movie's talking points.
Everyone uses email, so even if you lose 10 points or whatnot, wouldn't that be uniform with everyone except maybe a grandmother scared of computers.
Not everyone smokes marijuana. (well maybe at Slashdot...) I don't. If I had to choose between the two - I'd take email.
In the choice between video games or tv - video games are interactive, tv is passive. Gotta prefer video games.
If a user violates the rules of this license, what are the penalties for violation?
Is it revocation of the license and denial of future media or more or less; and who would be enforcing these rules and penalties? Does this have teeth?
Slashdot Mirror
That's the first thing I thought.
Actually California has more than 150% the population of Texas, but we gotta get in the obligatory Chimpy Bushitler crack here, don't we?
CA: 34 mill total people versus TX: 21 mill peop, 2000.
... when the next version comes out. A novel won't change, it is static. BUT, a textbook such as a history book or economics or marketing or on IT will have several editions after the first. If you buy an online version of the 2nd Edition of a Systems Analysis book that expires in 6 months, you lose a lot less compared to the hardcover version of the same book, when the 3rd Edition comes out in 12 months and you can't resell the 2nd Edition anyway.
As a reference, the 2nd edition may become obsolete in five years, the money you save going toward the 6th or 7th Edition or a new and better book.
If they let you print, hmm . . .
Yes, and it doesn't. The death penalty is a misnomer since most people on death row sit there for 20 years or more ('rot in jail.')
I read in Steven Levitt's nonpartisan Freakonomics book that 'you are more likely to die driving to work than you are sitting on death row' or some similar comparison.
As for the guy with the i'd rather a million guilty rot in jail than one innocent get killed (never heard that one before!) how about if three of those million rotting in jail escapes and kills five innocent people? Sigh. Nevermind.
One would say that "God" exists outside of our universe, but I cannot prescribe to that. That cannot be proven.
Another way to go about it is to say "God" is the "Big Bang." Well, ok, what created that? Maybe something 'evolved' into the big bang. Well, where did the thing that 'evolved' into the big bang come from?
And if we prescribe to a universe in constant change now, can there be a time when there were things, but they were just static forever, and then something happened and now there are 'bangs' and 'evolution' and 'change' and how can that be?
I may start a flare-up, but evolution does not explain away all of creation, as something must first be created to eventually evolve.
When I am thinking about medicine on the web, I am giving surfers the benefit of the doubt that they are going to WebMD or pharma home pages, Pfizer, etc; and not Joe Schmo site with no credibility.
These are good sources to double check a doctor, or find cheap/generic alternatives. Bargain shopping is another benefit of the Internet, as it may involve an entirely different style of treatment - spray instead of pill, a cream instead of a spray, etc.
After watching House (Tues, 9pm, Fox) a few times, I have been known to go to WebMD to look up diseases. The issue here is that many serious or fatal diseases have very common symptoms, and a less than discerning reader will think a pimple is cancer or a bug bite means they have three months to live.
A scare story on the news, a recommendation by so-called 'experts' to give self-exams for lumps or an ad campaign by big pharma can also contribute to public overreaction. I don't think doctors mind a surge in business, albeit being wasteful, as much as the public's lack of confidence in their diagnosis. I guess, the point is "just because you read it on the Internet, it doesn't make you an M.D."
Oh, of course. I understand. Here, America has the perfect model - capitalism - and yet where do we look to create a sustained society? The ChiComs! That is rich!
This ice cream and puppy dogs idealism fails to incorporate that the universe is in constant change. (Take for instance, a tsunami or other natural disaster's effects on the sustainable city.) Neither can the city sustain itself in the face of global technological change.
I see this as akin to trying to freeze time in place. Sorry, can't do. You gotta let nature takes it course, and try to adjust as best you can. Because, well, its gonna change over time, anyway, despite efforts to the contrary.
Too many schools don't teach a lot of basic PC skills, such as word processing, spreadsheets and simple database theory. If they do, without sufficient depth. This should be taught at the high school level at least.
As an alternative to French and Spanish, students could have the option to learn HTML, VB, Jscript, XML?
Also, economics and basic investing should be taught at the high school level. Investing is a fact of life nowadays, and if you can't tell me the difference between a stock and a bond by high school graduation, you are at a serious disadvantage.
Land on your hand awkwardly, lose you presentation.
How does this data hold up in the shower?
Absolutely. If I live in an apartment, turn on my pc that automatically connects to the Internet upon startup, but instead of connecting to my apartment wifi, it connects to my neighbors - it may be a stronger signal, whatever the reason - I may not know, I may be in the bathroom; then throw me in jail I say!
I wonder if an ISP will come in and say that individual subscribers cannot open their lines up to the public, or the ISP will try to define subscriber networks/ accounts as private, as the service is provided by the ISP to a subscriber without the intention of the subscriber turning around, creating a secondary market and providing the Internet as free (or reselling) to the general public as the subscriber so wanted; regardless of whether the subscriber encrypts their network or not.
ISP's have an interest to reduce Wifi freeriders as much as possible.
...to secure his/her own network. By not securing your network, you are putting yourself at risk.
Obviously, if I use your Wifi, I am not paying for a service that I otherwise would have to pay for. Second, you may not even realize I am using your bandwidth.
I find this hard to enforce, and also quite rampant. I have several buddies who live in apartment buildings in dense metropolitan areas. They are saving some cash.
In 1988, the Dr. James E. Hansen mentioned global warming was here and predicted that by 1998, temperatures would have increased .35 degrees Celsius, whereas the actual increase was .11 degrees. By the time that the decade had elapsed (and by the time he made the comment that long term climate forecast is impossible- even TV meteorologists don't try to predict the weather ten days from now), the increase had only been .11 degrees. He was wrong by more than three hundred percent.
NASA launched the Mars Rover claiming that it would land on Mars in 253 days at 8:11 PM, Pacific time. The margin of error was a few thousandths of a percent: it landed at 8:35. An estimate has to be an "educated guess". When a leading scientist in a field is off by three hundred percent, that casts doubt onto the whole field.
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
whereas:
the right of the people to download copyrighted music, shall not be infringed.
...being shared may exceed copyrighted sharing. As the growth of rich media follows the growth of blogs - each of which are largely uncopyrighted material produced by ordinary schlubs, could the majority of files being shared be uncopyrighted and the website no longer liable? i see this decision being reversed.
Yeah, the government way of messing things up is their solution and it is much worse. Who is actually the one physically passing the law? The legislators. They are writing the law, signing the law - their name is on it. The record companies don't get a cent unless the laws get passed.
I won't even go into the immigration problems over there.
But in the end, the government has the ultimate power of coercion.
The money would not be going to these records companies if the politicians didn't pass these ludicrous laws.
The problem isn't that the record companies attempt these extortion schemes - its that stupid governments like Holland let them get away with it.
By taxing their citizens, the Dutch limit the choices of products their citizens can buy, discourages new businesses to move to their country and reduces the amount of commerce that takes place in their country. And in the end, that is why you get a whole lot of socialism across the pond.
And these problems are more widespread than just portable MP3 players or storage media.
Video games ask for more cognitive ability out of the player than the Simpsons; but a parent would rather their kid watched the history or discovery channel than play Grand Theft Auto. I see that caveat.
I scroll down and I am reading entries that say that Bush wanted this country to be attacked and wanted Americans to die. The President of the United States coordinating an attack against us, perhaps in meetings with the Saudis!
These are valid arguments?
Do you expect people to just sit here and listen to this rubbish and not defend it?
The views espoused here IS the Michael Moore wing. That's all it is. Michael Moore, maybe a little Jane Fonda. If you don't want to be called a Michael Moore liberal, stop reciting his movie's talking points.
Everyone uses email, so even if you lose 10 points or whatnot, wouldn't that be uniform with everyone except maybe a grandmother scared of computers. Not everyone smokes marijuana. (well maybe at Slashdot...) I don't. If I had to choose between the two - I'd take email. In the choice between video games or tv - video games are interactive, tv is passive. Gotta prefer video games.
If a user violates the rules of this license, what are the penalties for violation?
Is it revocation of the license and denial of future media or more or less; and who would be enforcing these rules and penalties? Does this have teeth?
sony is the evil corp villian in this case. Apple can never be though.