It's not clear to me whether "Aristotlean" was meant to be a synonym for binary [contrast: fuzzy] logic, or in the narrower, medieval [contrast: Russell] sense, but parent should be modded up to ease panic.
"Other end = luteal phase" is as specific a window as the study gives. Apparently this means a couple weeks from the onset of bleeding (via "ovulation calculator," the first day of bleeding up through [cycle length - 18] days later).
You may be onto something with psychological [neurophysiological] effects--how reasonable is it to feel pretty the week after your period?--but it's not quite as trivial as your insight suggests.
It'd be nice if the study had exempted bleeding days for the reasons you listed. It'd be even nicer to look for a contrast versus, say, women taking "fewer periods" drugs. Is the hypothesized "ornamentation behavior" linked to ovulation per se, or merely the absence of PMS / menstruation-related discomfort?
If parents are honest with themselves, the "invasive surveillance" is not for protecting angelic Johnny from rapists, murderers, and grizzly bears. It's for knowing the ecstasy dealers aren't his friends. People, kids included, make stupid decisions. I'll set and adjust boundaries for mine so they learn the "viscious, hustling world" is not rewarding or necessary.
Sure there's such a thing as overparenting. But underparenting is probably worse, for the child's success and society at large.
Your Brave New World of indoctrination has nothing to do with knowing where my kid is. I need to know because I pay the bills. Not because it gives me wealth and power. And I'm not some schmuck "presuming" to be an authority figure, I'm the real deal. It's important to teach the difference, because I'm more forgiving than the legal system.
You don't need a recent scientific study from a top-tier university for knowing a _lot_ of things. Some things you just know; some things your parents taught you; and some things humans have learned over centuries. It's called "received wisdom."
Six million points for use of the word "codswallop," but I'm left wondering which category 'global climate change, international peace and security, and water resources' fall under.
Declining to omit context and argue at cross purposes seems wise to me.
You can pretend to be somebody you're not, but by and large kids in particular are really savvy to this kind of "fronting"
By other kids who aren't very good at it. It's not too hard to bust the 17 year old claiming to have bought an M3 or the 21 year old with a four-figure bar tab. The fake White House reporter pretending he's not the webmaster for a gay military porn site is harder to detect.
If every person in the country was totally honest about who they were
There's the rub...some people want to bullshit and be bullshitted. It's how dating works, how religion works, how raising kids works, and how business works...people bring that to personal and work relationships because we punish the ones who are hypocrites only some of the time. Full-time hypocrites have "strong personalities."
Correct, you can download Audioslave's video. And if you send it to your grandmother, no one will know. However: you say "videos are available to view for free a million places on the web." Most of these sites (from Youtube to ebaum) would be in violation of copyright to host that video, and will comply with a cease-and-desist rather than face legal action. "Guerilla hosting" is not reliable, as witnessed by the fact that, for every music video you can find surreptitiously hosted, there are fifty you can't.
The other aspect of GPL you've glossed over is "commercial use and derivatives." You can't wish copyright law out of existence; without this protection, General Dynamics gets to use Pearl Jam to sell nuclear warheads, maybe copyrighting its own rework of the lyrics en route. That would be disgusting.
From the horse's mouth:
That is somewhat of a misunderstanding--we cannot "ban DRM". What we can do is prevent GPL-covered software from being corrupted into an instrument for implementing DRM. --Richard Stallman
As soon as you say any form of copyright is a good idea, your technical argument ("viewing creates a copy! bits and bytes!") becomes justification for the DMCA. Fair use and common sense become casualties of digital media.
Don't be a dweeb. Free Software are still the good guys.
How about contextual use of language? I have an evil cat. He's never toppled a major world government. For a cat, he's still evil.
BTW, your hyperbole? That's "Nazi." Being a malicious shithead and/or conducting one's self in an antisocial manner for personal gain has been evil since, say, religion. Genocide is not required and I think there's little danger of confusion.
The FedEx guy asked me if I wouldn't mind dropping off some packages for him on my way to the grocery store. When I got there, the butcher needed me to hold a chicken for him. I stopped for gas on the way home and the clerk asked me to mop the bathroom. Jeez. After that I got pulled over--I made an illegal U-turn when I saw a funeral procession coming. The cop made me call the courthouse to see if they had any warrants for me.
Talk about your bad days. I need some down time, maybe I'll find one of those escort services.
Netflix: conservative renter:
$18/mo = $0.60/day, for
6 movies/mo =.2 movies/day yields (A)$3/movie, at a quality of (B)9 mbps, with a queue setup time of (C)1 hr = 1/24 day = 0.009 your life wasted per 100 movie transaction = 0.00009 per 1 movie transaction
BT: aggressive downloader:
$45/mo*1/3 = $15/mo = $0.50/day, for
8 hr/movie yields (A)$1.50/movie, at a quality of (B)0.7 mbps, with a queue setup time of (C)0.05 hr =.05/24 day = 0.00045 your life wasted per 1 movie transaction
WB: (A)$20/download + $1.50/movie in bandwidth, at a quality of (B)9 mbps, with a queue setup time of
1/10 hr = 0.1/24 day = 0.0009 your life wasted per 1 movie transaction, plus
1.188e-6 lifetime disposing of 500 "special offers" @ 6 seconds apiece, plus
1 hr = 0.009 lifetime on phone with customer support (C)= 0.001 of your life wasted per 1 movie transaction
To calculate your Personalized Viewing Index, compute, for each of the three film distribution services listed,
(A)*(B)*(C)*E*T/[S*L]
where "S" is your annual salary, "T" is the size of your television in inches, "E" is your Snellen fraction, and "L" is your life expectancy as a percentage of 80 years.
The lowest number indicates your optimal Movie Acquisition Format.
keep in mind that Apple has the BEST QA and least need for service across the entire industry
I'm sorry, I know too many people with broken iPods to let that "least need" bit slide. Sheer volume and lack of DIY'ability lay that statement flat on its face...if a consequence is the indictment of CR's numbers, they need better statisticians. Anyone who's had his electronics collection sans iPod serviced repeatedly feel free to contradict me.
If you were speaking of "tech support via phone" and not "product repair," I'll concede the point as wildly out of context.
Apple's great, go Mac, I've just driven about 10 too many university desktops to the Apple store not to get hung up on your statement. I don't have a horse in this race, only the experience that when a Mac breaks, nobody knows how to fix it.
I can't find it in my heart to be as level-headed as parent. From CNET:
Langdon pointed to the content policy for Google's AdWords sponsored links service, which broadly prohibits "promotion of child pornography or other non-consensual material." Langdon also noted that Google offers a filtering tool called SafeSearch that aims to block offensive content in search results.
The availability of such tools could mean that the suit may not go far. Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects providers and users of an "interactive computer service" from liability if it can be shown that they took good-faith measures to restrict access to obscene material. It also provides that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
The suit, which claims Google acted negligently and intentionally inflicted emotional distress on the public...
I know it's not really PC, but I hope they have a special room in hell for this guy. He knows what he's doing, and he knows that we know he knows it.
If you air the show online, you can make people sign in. This means that you can track individual viewers viewing habits. Hell, make them take a small survey
Eventually, but that's not a good way to coax people off co-ax. Anything less than marked advantage over POTV puts perceived disadvantages ("is it using up my megabytes?") in harsh relief. Worst case, they kill the goose before it's laid the golden eggs.
My gut says they're waiting on the Vista rollout to dive in. They don't lose anything by waiting since they own all the copyrights.
Isn't the conservative answer to let the market do something about it?
I mean, you link to a site that complains about college "free speech zones"...did you forget that meme was invented by the current White House to stifle speech in the most public of places [1600 Penn Ave] and the most political of contexts [anti-war protests]? How dare you complain some university doesn't let its employees or customers be homophobic enough!
I swear it almost seems like they want for controls sake, not because of any rational reason behind withholding making their content available.
How about nonexistence of a payment model? I don't know if Jack Bauer gets a dime from every ITMS download, but I doubt the sponsors are willing to jump in head-first to subsidize every actor's contract re-negotiation. There's no case study proving Joe Sixpack will watch TV online, or how much ad revenue he generates. Meanwhile, everybody involved with the show wants his cut of that question mark.
It's a fishing expedition. We're the fish. If you want fatter worms, act interested.
I fired up LOST just to see how they'd handle the advertising...first 30-second Tylenol plug is 9 minutes in. Then you click to keep watching.
The blue stripes on the progress bar tell you where the commercials are. The others are at 15:25, 24:15 (in a 43 minute program, and you aren't goosed with another one at the end!). You can seek anywhere that's been "unlocked."
Having to click "resume show" after every commercial is a feature I'd like to see "LOST." By clicking in unlocked sections, you can watch all 3 commercials in succession , then have an uninterrupted show.
You aren't forced to sit through more than 30 seconds of an ad if it runs over.
Compared to the 7-min-on, 3-off network standard, it's kind of pleasant. And seeking *works*, seamlessly, in contrast to what I've come to expect with flash video.
First, and I'm sure this has already been said, but with the exception of the use of various P2P and streaming media apps to transmit this Colbert video, how exactly is this anything other than a blatent "Bush is Evil" type post. Don't we get enough of this from every single thread, even those that aren't in any way political. Do we really need unsolicited main page postings.
Well, at the risk of wearing my politics on my sleeve, it's kind of sad and true that "for nerds" is the only filter that let this "news" through. Mayhap nerd means critical thinking, and since branded media is no longer a forum where that takes place, we have nerdy debates about things that *aren't* tech-related. It's a nice respite from worn-out meta-humor about not having a girlfriend.
isn't this a better example of the most recent trend of declineing civility in debate
No. That trend is copyright Rush Limbaugh. He moved being a deliberate jackass from Howard Stern's fringe to the mainstream. To intimate that Colbert is an example of incivility for doing a send-up of The O'Reilly Factor is to deliberately miss the point.
When was it exactly that people started losing respect for the various events they were invited to
When these events stopped being worthy of dignity. Media elite, Hollywood elite, or political elite congratulating themselves for being unfathomably rich does not, by itself, merit decorum.
The material itself may not have been all bad
The absurdism and the delivery weren't great. What Colbert was *trying* to do hung in the air; he was clearly not comfortable reading all the material he'd written. It looked like his first priority was to self-consciously decline the appearance of being gladhanded, when it should have been delivering knock-out punches. He seemed to meander in and out of character.
Now compare Colbert to the Presidents schtick, which was in perfect keeping with the self deprecating theme of the event,
If you have ever criticized the media-at-large, it is impossible to take "the event" seriously. I sorta puked when the MC said the press is called lapdogs by the left and liberal by the right, so by way of irritating everyone they must be doing their job.
I also think you're allowed to laugh with the President when he makes fun of himself only if he's had a good presidency in other respects. I don't find his personality traits and leadership style cute, or funny, in light of the damage they're responsible for.
Reminds me of Idaho's Napoleon Dynamite bill...be cute on your own time, Curly. I'm offended, as a citizen, in needing to remind you government is not a joke.
From a guy you have to address as "your honor" and to whom mouthing off is against the law, this caprice is extremely unprofessional.
A charming lawyer is called a politician. I like a hard line between my politicians and my judges, thanks.
W00t for this series as well. And the days when "journal" meant the legal pad you kept next to the chair to write down what your clues and objectives were.
Slashdot Mirror
He says this whole fiasco is libel to ruin his career.
*rimshot*
It's not clear to me whether "Aristotlean" was meant to be a synonym for binary [contrast: fuzzy] logic, or in the narrower, medieval [contrast: Russell] sense, but parent should be modded up to ease panic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha-1
"Other end = luteal phase" is as specific a window as the study gives. Apparently this means a couple weeks from the onset of bleeding (via "ovulation calculator," the first day of bleeding up through [cycle length - 18] days later).
You may be onto something with psychological [neurophysiological] effects--how reasonable is it to feel pretty the week after your period?--but it's not quite as trivial as your insight suggests.
It'd be nice if the study had exempted bleeding days for the reasons you listed. It'd be even nicer to look for a contrast versus, say, women taking "fewer periods" drugs. Is the hypothesized "ornamentation behavior" linked to ovulation per se, or merely the absence of PMS / menstruation-related discomfort?
If parents are honest with themselves, the "invasive surveillance" is not for protecting angelic Johnny from rapists, murderers, and grizzly bears. It's for knowing the ecstasy dealers aren't his friends. People, kids included, make stupid decisions. I'll set and adjust boundaries for mine so they learn the "viscious, hustling world" is not rewarding or necessary.
Sure there's such a thing as overparenting. But underparenting is probably worse, for the child's success and society at large.
Your Brave New World of indoctrination has nothing to do with knowing where my kid is. I need to know because I pay the bills. Not because it gives me wealth and power. And I'm not some schmuck "presuming" to be an authority figure, I'm the real deal. It's important to teach the difference, because I'm more forgiving than the legal system.
You don't need a recent scientific study from a top-tier university for knowing a _lot_ of things. Some things you just know; some things your parents taught you; and some things humans have learned over centuries. It's called "received wisdom."
Six million points for use of the word "codswallop," but I'm left wondering which category 'global climate change, international peace and security, and water resources' fall under.
Declining to omit context and argue at cross purposes seems wise to me.
You can pretend to be somebody you're not, but by and large kids in particular are really savvy to this kind of "fronting"
By other kids who aren't very good at it. It's not too hard to bust the 17 year old claiming to have bought an M3 or the 21 year old with a four-figure bar tab. The fake White House reporter pretending he's not the webmaster for a gay military porn site is harder to detect.
If every person in the country was totally honest about who they were
There's the rub...some people want to bullshit and be bullshitted. It's how dating works, how religion works, how raising kids works, and how business works...people bring that to personal and work relationships because we punish the ones who are hypocrites only some of the time. Full-time hypocrites have "strong personalities."
Welcome to modern American democracy, where everyone gets a voice, and the guy with the most money gets the loudest one.
that'd be the Potty Button.
R. Kelly just ordered twelve.
Correct, you can download Audioslave's video. And if you send it to your grandmother, no one will know. However: you say "videos are available to view for free a million places on the web." Most of these sites (from Youtube to ebaum) would be in violation of copyright to host that video, and will comply with a cease-and-desist rather than face legal action. "Guerilla hosting" is not reliable, as witnessed by the fact that, for every music video you can find surreptitiously hosted, there are fifty you can't.
The other aspect of GPL you've glossed over is "commercial use and derivatives." You can't wish copyright law out of existence; without this protection, General Dynamics gets to use Pearl Jam to sell nuclear warheads, maybe copyrighting its own rework of the lyrics en route. That would be disgusting.
From the horse's mouth: That is somewhat of a misunderstanding--we cannot "ban DRM". What we can do is prevent GPL-covered software from being corrupted into an instrument for implementing DRM. --Richard Stallman
As soon as you say any form of copyright is a good idea, your technical argument ("viewing creates a copy! bits and bytes!") becomes justification for the DMCA. Fair use and common sense become casualties of digital media.
Don't be a dweeb. Free Software are still the good guys.
How about contextual use of language? I have an evil cat. He's never toppled a major world government. For a cat, he's still evil.
BTW, your hyperbole? That's "Nazi." Being a malicious shithead and/or conducting one's self in an antisocial manner for personal gain has been evil since, say, religion. Genocide is not required and I think there's little danger of confusion.
The FedEx guy asked me if I wouldn't mind dropping off some packages for him on my way to the grocery store. When I got there, the butcher needed me to hold a chicken for him. I stopped for gas on the way home and the clerk asked me to mop the bathroom. Jeez. After that I got pulled over--I made an illegal U-turn when I saw a funeral procession coming. The cop made me call the courthouse to see if they had any warrants for me.
Talk about your bad days. I need some down time, maybe I'll find one of those escort services.
Netflix: conservative renter: .2 movies/day yields
.05/24 day = 0.00045 your life wasted per 1 movie transaction
$18/mo = $0.60/day, for
6 movies/mo =
(A)$3/movie, at a quality of
(B)9 mbps, with a queue setup time of
(C)1 hr = 1/24 day = 0.009 your life wasted per 100 movie transaction = 0.00009 per 1 movie transaction
BT: aggressive downloader:
$45/mo*1/3 = $15/mo = $0.50/day, for 8 hr/movie yields
(A)$1.50/movie, at a quality of
(B)0.7 mbps, with a queue setup time of
(C)0.05 hr =
WB:
(A)$20/download + $1.50/movie in bandwidth, at a quality of
(B)9 mbps, with a queue setup time of
1/10 hr = 0.1/24 day = 0.0009 your life wasted per 1 movie transaction, plus
1.188e-6 lifetime disposing of 500 "special offers" @ 6 seconds apiece, plus
1 hr = 0.009 lifetime on phone with customer support
(C)= 0.001 of your life wasted per 1 movie transaction
To calculate your Personalized Viewing Index, compute, for each of the three film distribution services listed,
(A)*(B)*(C)*E*T/[S*L]
where "S" is your annual salary, "T" is the size of your television in inches, "E" is your Snellen fraction, and "L" is your life expectancy as a percentage of 80 years.
The lowest number indicates your optimal Movie Acquisition Format.
It's OK, we've taken care of everything. Displayport will produce pictures that give pleasure to your eyes.
keep in mind that Apple has the BEST QA and least need for service across the entire industry
I'm sorry, I know too many people with broken iPods to let that "least need" bit slide. Sheer volume and lack of DIY'ability lay that statement flat on its face...if a consequence is the indictment of CR's numbers, they need better statisticians. Anyone who's had his electronics collection sans iPod serviced repeatedly feel free to contradict me.
If you were speaking of "tech support via phone" and not "product repair," I'll concede the point as wildly out of context.
Apple's great, go Mac, I've just driven about 10 too many university desktops to the Apple store not to get hung up on your statement. I don't have a horse in this race, only the experience that when a Mac breaks, nobody knows how to fix it.
*rubs sticks together to create fire*
http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/legis/LD/07 /index.html
I can't find it in my heart to be as level-headed as parent. From CNET:
Langdon pointed to the content policy for Google's AdWords sponsored links service, which broadly prohibits "promotion of child pornography or other non-consensual material." Langdon also noted that Google offers a filtering tool called SafeSearch that aims to block offensive content in search results.
The availability of such tools could mean that the suit may not go far. Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects providers and users of an "interactive computer service" from liability if it can be shown that they took good-faith measures to restrict access to obscene material. It also provides that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
The suit, which claims Google acted negligently and intentionally inflicted emotional distress on the public...
I know it's not really PC, but I hope they have a special room in hell for this guy. He knows what he's doing, and he knows that we know he knows it.
If you air the show online, you can make people sign in. This means that you can track individual viewers viewing habits. Hell, make them take a small survey
Eventually, but that's not a good way to coax people off co-ax. Anything less than marked advantage over POTV puts perceived disadvantages ("is it using up my megabytes?") in harsh relief. Worst case, they kill the goose before it's laid the golden eggs.
My gut says they're waiting on the Vista rollout to dive in. They don't lose anything by waiting since they own all the copyrights.
Isn't the conservative answer to let the market do something about it?
I mean, you link to a site that complains about college "free speech zones"...did you forget that meme was invented by the current White House to stifle speech in the most public of places [1600 Penn Ave] and the most political of contexts [anti-war protests]? How dare you complain some university doesn't let its employees or customers be homophobic enough!
I swear it almost seems like they want for controls sake, not because of any rational reason behind withholding making their content available.
How about nonexistence of a payment model? I don't know if Jack Bauer gets a dime from every ITMS download, but I doubt the sponsors are willing to jump in head-first to subsidize every actor's contract re-negotiation. There's no case study proving Joe Sixpack will watch TV online, or how much ad revenue he generates. Meanwhile, everybody involved with the show wants his cut of that question mark.
It's a fishing expedition. We're the fish. If you want fatter worms, act interested.
The blue stripes on the progress bar tell you where the commercials are. The others are at 15:25, 24:15 (in a 43 minute program, and you aren't goosed with another one at the end!). You can seek anywhere that's been "unlocked."
Having to click "resume show" after every commercial is a feature I'd like to see "LOST." By clicking in unlocked sections, you can watch all 3 commercials in succession , then have an uninterrupted show.
You aren't forced to sit through more than 30 seconds of an ad if it runs over.
Compared to the 7-min-on, 3-off network standard, it's kind of pleasant. And seeking *works*, seamlessly, in contrast to what I've come to expect with flash video.
First, and I'm sure this has already been said, but with the exception of the use of various P2P and streaming media apps to transmit this Colbert video, how exactly is this anything other than a blatent "Bush is Evil" type post. Don't we get enough of this from every single thread, even those that aren't in any way political. Do we really need unsolicited main page postings.
Well, at the risk of wearing my politics on my sleeve, it's kind of sad and true that "for nerds" is the only filter that let this "news" through. Mayhap nerd means critical thinking, and since branded media is no longer a forum where that takes place, we have nerdy debates about things that *aren't* tech-related. It's a nice respite from worn-out meta-humor about not having a girlfriend.
isn't this a better example of the most recent trend of declineing civility in debate
No. That trend is copyright Rush Limbaugh. He moved being a deliberate jackass from Howard Stern's fringe to the mainstream. To intimate that Colbert is an example of incivility for doing a send-up of The O'Reilly Factor is to deliberately miss the point. When was it exactly that people started losing respect for the various events they were invited to
When these events stopped being worthy of dignity. Media elite, Hollywood elite, or political elite congratulating themselves for being unfathomably rich does not, by itself, merit decorum. The material itself may not have been all bad
The absurdism and the delivery weren't great. What Colbert was *trying* to do hung in the air; he was clearly not comfortable reading all the material he'd written. It looked like his first priority was to self-consciously decline the appearance of being gladhanded, when it should have been delivering knock-out punches. He seemed to meander in and out of character. Now compare Colbert to the Presidents schtick, which was in perfect keeping with the self deprecating theme of the event,
If you have ever criticized the media-at-large, it is impossible to take "the event" seriously. I sorta puked when the MC said the press is called lapdogs by the left and liberal by the right, so by way of irritating everyone they must be doing their job.
I also think you're allowed to laugh with the President when he makes fun of himself only if he's had a good presidency in other respects. I don't find his personality traits and leadership style cute, or funny, in light of the damage they're responsible for.
Reminds me of Idaho's Napoleon Dynamite bill...be cute on your own time, Curly. I'm offended, as a citizen, in needing to remind you government is not a joke.
From a guy you have to address as "your honor" and to whom mouthing off is against the law, this caprice is extremely unprofessional.
A charming lawyer is called a politician. I like a hard line between my politicians and my judges, thanks.
W00t for this series as well. And the days when "journal" meant the legal pad you kept next to the chair to write down what your clues and objectives were.
would you be upset to discover they don't actually have mass, they just forgot to adjust for daylight savings time?