What strikes me is what is obviously missing in Adbuster's paper. They say Google is bad, but don't even mention the possibility to switch to another search engine. There is none, no list could be provided. They must not hate Google in the end.
OK, the impact of n Adbusters users leaving Google may be harder to track than staying and clicking everywhere. Yes. For those who 1) use Firefox + 2) have broadband access + 3) install the extension. I'd say, 50% of/. users will do this. And, 0.003% of the rest of the world.
My advice: use Clusty. The only one that sometimes indeed is more efficient, thanks to clustering. http://clusty.com/
I'm sure absolutely nobody mentioned iCab here until now. The ones that invented ad-filtering 10 years ago (I said years).
And, as I am to it, what about Amaya?
THE W3C editor/browser, open-source, multiplatform, wysiwyg in the editor part?
http://www.icab.de/http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
When you have been famous for years, to the extend just your name is known to almost everybody, abandoning the classical publishers not only ie easy: it gives you MORE advertisement (e. g. a paper hree on/.)
OTOH, when you are a completely unknown new band, then you must be courageous. I for one will be happy when there'll be a post here listing the last ten courageous little groups trying http://magnatune.com/ .
And in case you were among the happy few knowing Magnatune, let's mention a foreign, minuscule one for classics mainly: Zig-Zag
While I intensely regret both the energy spent in locking the music and the one spent in rediffusing it... count me in...
FWIW, let me mention a small, reasonable and french-located online music reseller that doesn't encrypt anything, a bit like Magnatune in the US: Zig-Zag Territoires, http://www.zigzag-territoires.com/?lang=en (yes even in english), mainly classical and jazz.
Democracy yes, and btw this is also how a court (a legal assembly of people) judges what the truth is... So voting for what Truth is, is not really born with Wikipedia.
One could think this doesn't prevent either the main problem with democratically-elected-truths: conservatism. For any new discovery, new concept, new "truth", there will be a point in time at the beginning where the vast majority of people (and Wikipedia editors) won't believe it, and thus it'll be discarded from "the Truth".
But with Wikipedia's way of allowing "just external references" as one of their three conditions for truth, indeed here we may have an opportunity for faster creativity. Indeed, we may discover faster from now on, thanks to Wikipedia.
Big international company here, from electronics to satellites etc.; patent policy roughly the same but simpler: get some money when patent applied, get twice more when granted, in a kind of ceremony-for-the-inventors that's supposed to be gratifying (you need some dozen inventors/year to do this;-D )
Now and then some people groan that accepting the cheque is a trick that'll prevent you to benefit further from possibly miraculous patent income later (in most countries there is a law saying even paid inventors must get a "reasonable share" of the income), but as I always doubted miracle anyway I'm not in trouble. The amounts you mention are close to ours.
Indeed the European Space Agency has had such a project for years: a space optical interferometer named Darwin, with an additional twist: by using descructive interferometry instead of constructive one, they intend to switch off a star in the center of the field of view, to see the planets around (these ones being way darker you wouldn't detect them otherwise), analyse the molecules in them etc.
Needless to say, this project is still in its early phases, but indeed appears, with a schedule, in ESA's plans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(ESA)
This is very true, and other wise browsers (like iCab on macintosh, the one that invented ad filtering years before Mozilla/Firefox even were born) do this too.
Which is among other one reason to believe the announced "browser share" figures are quite uncertain (at least, the number of "actual IE" must be lower)
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Although I'll do like you and for the same reasons (plus I don't want help webapps develop) it may be worth to say Noscript may be replaced by their sandboxing feature, non?
Here in France I use to systematically attend, I undertand and do everything you say, but the person in charge of the global coordination (appointed by the mayor) usually phones the results home before we publish them on the doors...
You remind me of what Lord Kelvin was telling his students 100 years ago. Something like: "I'm sad for you, since the Physics is now complete" .
Just after that sentence, quantum physics and relativity were discovered;-)
SA was disabled in 2000 explicitly as a last attempt to cancel Europe's imminent decision to go ahead with Galileo. Funny how we forget things that were obvious at the time...
From studies in the European Space Agency a couple of years ago, I understood having a spacecraft (and a telescope) located closer to the Sun, in the inner solar system, would allow you to much better see the asteroids, because they are much better lit by the sun when seen from there. There have been very serious papers on this kind of topic, even plans for dedicated missions and spacecrafts, also passenger payloads on already planned spacecrafts (solar observers typically) but the ESA budget probably looks very much like NASA's one in this area...
There are plans for Mars, collaborating with the US, but for reasons I won't detail they are not coordinated by the Science directorate in Esa, so they are out of this "Cosmic Vision".
For Esa the Mars program is called Aurora, and the first coming mission is Exomars, planning to land in 10 years a relatively big rover (hundreds of kg) whose data relaying relies on US satellites. Later on, sample return is planned, in a clear collaboration still to be refined with Nasa which *possibly* would allocate precision landing/EU, sample packaging and placing in Mars orbit/US, sample capture in orbit/EU, sample back to Earth incl. safe Earth reentry (no biocontamination)/US. This, at least, is the European view here -maybe Nasa seees it completely upside-down;-)
... because your vote alone, is an incredibly small amount of what would be needed for your candidate to be elected, indeed, your presence is entirely undetectable in the result.
Wasn't it last week here on/. that one of us announced a paper demonstrating that Apple is drifting out of their window of opportunity to react in front of the fabulous Vista, and that OSX will soon die if no better reaction? ah, yes, I got it: " Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? ", here, at http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/16/0339226
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What strikes me is what is obviously missing in Adbuster's paper. They say Google is bad, but don't even mention the possibility to switch to another search engine. There is none, no list could be provided.
They must not hate Google in the end.
OK, the impact of n Adbusters users leaving Google may be harder to track than staying and clicking everywhere. Yes. For those who 1) use Firefox + 2) have broadband access + 3) install the extension. /. users will do this. And, 0.003% of the rest of the world.
I'd say, 50% of
My advice: use Clusty. The only one that sometimes indeed is more efficient, thanks to clustering.
http://clusty.com/
:-D really, I thought you described my OpenMoko phone...
I'm sure absolutely nobody mentioned iCab here until now. The ones that invented ad-filtering 10 years ago (I said years). And, as I am to it, what about Amaya? THE W3C editor/browser, open-source, multiplatform, wysiwyg in the editor part? http://www.icab.de/ http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Come on, Cider is french :-D
... say, a 80% gray... which is btw exactly what the ecofont will appear when considered at real-life sizes instead of their superlarge demo image...
When you have been famous for years, to the extend just your name is known to almost everybody, abandoning the classical publishers not only ie easy: it gives you MORE advertisement (e. g. a paper hree on /.)
OTOH, when you are a completely unknown new band, then you must be courageous. I for one will be happy when there'll be a post here listing the last ten courageous little groups trying http://magnatune.com/ .
And in case you were among the happy few knowing Magnatune, let's mention a foreign, minuscule one for classics mainly: Zig-Zag
While I intensely regret both the energy spent in locking the music and the one spent in rediffusing it... count me in...
FWIW, let me mention a small, reasonable and french-located online music reseller that doesn't encrypt anything, a bit like Magnatune in the US: Zig-Zag Territoires, http://www.zigzag-territoires.com/?lang=en (yes even in english), mainly classical and jazz.
Democracy yes, and btw this is also how a court (a legal assembly of people) judges what the truth is... So voting for what Truth is, is not really born with Wikipedia.
One could think this doesn't prevent either the main problem with democratically-elected-truths: conservatism. For any new discovery, new concept, new "truth", there will be a point in time at the beginning where the vast majority of people (and Wikipedia editors) won't believe it, and thus it'll be discarded from "the Truth".
But with Wikipedia's way of allowing "just external references" as one of their three conditions for truth, indeed here we may have an opportunity for faster creativity. Indeed, we may discover faster from now on, thanks to Wikipedia.
Big international company here, from electronics to satellites etc.; patent policy roughly the same but simpler: get some money when patent applied, get twice more when granted, in a kind of ceremony-for-the-inventors that's supposed to be gratifying (you need some dozen inventors/year to do this ;-D )
Now and then some people groan that accepting the cheque is a trick that'll prevent you to benefit further from possibly miraculous patent income later (in most countries there is a law saying even paid inventors must get a "reasonable share" of the income), but as I always doubted miracle anyway I'm not in trouble. The amounts you mention are close to ours.
Science doesn't help, that's for sure, but you can't shake a true believer with science.
You can. Put a lightning rod on your roof and none of the roof of the church.
In such a case, you'll just attract lightning strikes on you, which obviously is a proof that atheists are bad people, the priest will say :-)
Indeed the European Space Agency has had such a project for years: a space optical interferometer named Darwin, with an additional twist: by using descructive interferometry instead of constructive one, they intend to switch off a star in the center of the field of view, to see the planets around (these ones being way darker you wouldn't detect them otherwise), analyse the molecules in them etc. Needless to say, this project is still in its early phases, but indeed appears, with a schedule, in ESA's plans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(ESA)
This is very true, and other wise browsers (like iCab on macintosh, the one that invented ad filtering years before Mozilla/Firefox even were born) do this too. Which is among other one reason to believe the announced "browser share" figures are quite uncertain (at least, the number of "actual IE" must be lower)
Although I'll do like you and for the same reasons (plus I don't want help webapps develop) it may be worth to say Noscript may be replaced by their sandboxing feature, non?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
a sample of the original comics series: http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/archive/freerpgs/heritage/mobworld.htm#Chess%20Boxing
Here in France I use to systematically attend, I undertand and do everything you say, but the person in charge of the global coordination (appointed by the mayor) usually phones the results home before we publish them on the doors...
You remind me of what Lord Kelvin was telling his students 100 years ago. Something like: "I'm sad for you, since the Physics is now complete" . Just after that sentence, quantum physics and relativity were discovered ;-)
SA was disabled in 2000 explicitly as a last attempt to cancel Europe's imminent decision to go ahead with Galileo. Funny how we forget things that were obvious at the time...
a reference I found too late for the previous post, that leads to others --the ESA study EUNEOS: http://spaceguard.esa.int/tumblingstone/issues/num19/eng/euneos.htm
From studies in the European Space Agency a couple of years ago, I understood having a spacecraft (and a telescope) located closer to the Sun, in the inner solar system, would allow you to much better see the asteroids, because they are much better lit by the sun when seen from there. There have been very serious papers on this kind of topic, even plans for dedicated missions and spacecrafts, also passenger payloads on already planned spacecrafts (solar observers typically) but the ESA budget probably looks very much like NASA's one in this area...
I knew it in a more contorted way:
- Pork, pork, pork...
- what do you eat your soup with?
- a FFork, idiot! you didn't...now, wait a minute...
Google are innovative only on software up to now, while Apple is just all about combining hardware and software.
I'm not too much worried about a company that took, what, dozens of % of the phone market, in just months, with just a non-3G phone.
Their next one will be better, and will do better...
up to now, they were in the bad role, the attacker, and the scientists the victims. Now if "Science" attacks them in law, they will posit as victims :(
There are plans for Mars, collaborating with the US, but for reasons I won't detail they are not coordinated by the Science directorate in Esa, so they are out of this "Cosmic Vision".
/EU, sample packaging and placing in Mars orbit /US, sample capture in orbit /EU, sample back to Earth incl. safe Earth reentry (no biocontamination) /US. ;-)
For Esa the Mars program is called Aurora, and the first coming mission is Exomars, planning to land in 10 years a relatively big rover (hundreds of kg) whose data relaying relies on US satellites. Later on, sample return is planned, in a clear collaboration still to be refined with Nasa which *possibly* would allocate precision landing
This, at least, is the European view here -maybe Nasa seees it completely upside-down
... because your vote alone, is an incredibly small amount of what would be needed for your candidate to be elected, indeed, your presence is entirely undetectable in the result.
:-)
Thus, don't vote.
Just let me choose for you
Wasn't it last week here on /. that one of us announced a paper demonstrating that Apple is drifting out of their window of opportunity to react in front of the fabulous Vista, and that OSX will soon die if no better reaction?
ah, yes, I got it: " Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? ", here, at
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/16/0339226