The character is an emotionless cyborg. There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
Are you talking about the cyborg character or Gov. Schwarzenegger? I don't think I could tell the difference. I guess this is an easier CGI effort than most.
I hope others get the reference to "A Boy and His Dog". I would mark you funny if I had mod points.
I see a lot of Harlan dislike here, but I have to say that the TV shows I have seen of his have often been some of the best shows every written. I think of a newer Twilight Zone episode -- "Palidin of the Lost Hour", and the old Outer Limits show, "Demon with a Glass Hand". These, and a lot of his Babylon-5 stuff I thought was really good.
We should wish him well in his lawsuit. He is not defending digital rights management or modern copyright law and the like, he is fighting the same set of thieving bastards who brought you the RIAA and DCMA who rip off the public and writers a-like.
You forgot to mention SCO! The people from which Unix was pirated to form Linux! Where would tech be today without great Utahnian innovators like Darl McBride and Blake Stowell?
My opinion: iTunes is a good service, the price is right, and the DRM doesn't interfere with my particular use of the product.
That was my opinion when I bought a Mac last spring and helped by daughter create a movie for a class project. We used the older iMovie 6.0 for its better special effects plugins. We bought some tunes off of iTunes to use in the Movie -- it all worked great.
Fortunately for us, we completed and burned DVDs of the completed work before the iTunes 7.6.2 update. I loaded software updates on my Mac which included this update. After that, the music sound track in iMovie 6.0 would not play. This remained the case regardless of what devices were authorized.
This could have caused me a whole lot of extra work if I had to strip out and redo the sound track with DRM free music. I have not bought another DRM encoded song since, and nothing from iTunes. iTunes is dead for me, and I have learned from this experience that you cannot trust DRM not to interfere with your legitimate "particular use of the product." Even if it is working today, it could all change tomorrow.
I know why Apple made the change -- using iMovie 6 used to be one of the ways people used to strip Fair Play DRM. But I did not use it that way. My use was fair use. Apple stomped on my fairly purchased fair use rights that I thought I had when I purchased their products with their unfair play DRM update.
I think you are correct regarding the importance of plug-ins.
What I have not seen mentioned so far is Chrome's handing of bookmarks. I believe most users depend on bookmarks quite heavily to remember and organize sites they wish to visit. Chrome's handling of bookmarks is awkward. For example, how do you add the current page as a bookmark in a couple mouse clicks? It seems that Google is trying to discourage the use of bookmarks and encourage their more googly way of doing things that relies on search and search history. I think many users drop use of Chrome because of this.
The Fed really has no choice. GPD is basically the Price of all goods times the quantity (PxQ). This value equals the total Money supply times the velocity of money (how many times it turns over). This form the well known money equation of MV=PQ (Money x Velocity = Prices x Quantity.
The current freeze up of credit is slowing money velocity markedly. The only way to compensate is by greatly increasing "M" -- the money supply. If this works, and we recover and "V" increases, then the affect will be inflationary, causing the Fed to lower the Money supply later with high interest rates -- but not now.
Your solution is what was done in the Hoover administration following the crash in 1929. It caused the great Depression. We can't do that again.
The Volt is supposed to answer that issue by having a combustion engine as a backup -- it runs and generates electricity that is used to run the car. So, in theory, you should never be in the situation you describe. You would also just fill up at the next gas station.
To suggest otherwise is just the sort of thing IDers want. ..
The effective firing of this man also plays into the hands of the "IDers". They can now decry the persecution of this individual (you know they will) and get good millage out of the argument because they would not have be totally wrong in this case. The Royal Society should not have caved in this way.
anyone who puts religious convictions or beliefs higher than their science, are not worthy of any scientific post.
royal society did the right thing.
Please RTFA. By your standard, the royal society did not do the right thing, because the professor did not advocate, putting his, "religious convictions or beliefs higher" than science. He clearly stated in his original article that creationism or intelligent design where not scientific viewpoints and should not be taught as such. He was misquoted.
You and colmore are both right. Colmore beautifuly summarized how science actually operates. Your observations reflect understandings gleaned from the philosophy of science, in particular Karl Popper's falsifiability criteria. Popper developed this idea to show how one can delineate science from pseudo-science. It is a valuable philosophical insight and is useful as a criteria of demarcation between science and unscientific ideas. But, it is not a good foundation for understanding the actual methodologies used by science. Actual science proceeds based on some assumptions such as the uniformity of natural causes that cannot be proven, but which underlay belief in the validity of probabilistic induction and the idea that science illuminates "truth" in some sense and gives us greater knowledge of reality.
Actually, the warmest year on record is 2007 (See this NASA site which includes a table of the top ten warmest temperatures. 1998 is tied for second place with 2005.
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But, it is good that you mention 1998. It was an anomalously high temperature year that skewed the temperature trend line going into the 21st century, giving rise to conservative climate change deniers assertions that temperatures have been declining in recent years. They have not.
"While 47 percent of what Obama raised last year came from donors who gave less than $200, those small contributors made up just 15 percent of Clinton's donor base.
In January, when Obama swamped Clinton by raising $32 million, compared to her $13 million, the vast majority of his total -- $28 million -- came over the Internet."
The quote is from a Washington Post Article. I am not an Obama supporter, but on Tech issues, he is vastly superior to the other two. His answers in TFA reflect an understanding of the issues. His campaign's skilled use of internet fund raising reflects real savy. His campaign is historic in this regard.
On the plus side, no one could be worse than President Bush has been on Tech issues, so either candidate is bound to be an improvement.
I have done exactly the same thing for a few websites I manage. It solved a problem for me on one of the sites which was getting hammered with backscatter. Basically, I let Google deal with the backscatter.
But it is still criminal that there are millions of sites out there that still bounce spam.
Mod Parent up. He is right about the rejection of a summary judgment not settling anything. All it means is that the legal claims are sufficiently non-trivial as to require adjudication. Nothing is settled.
Here's an option that's between doing nothing and launching a "replicating avenger":
When anti-virus software recognizes an incoming network packet as one crafted to
infiltrate a machine, it responds in kind with an infiltrating packet of its own
that will cure the infection. But there's no replication, no selecting of targets,
only self-defensive responses.
This doesn't address every legal issue, but it does have a nice "ring" to it that
I believe would sound "fair" even to non-computer savvy individuals.
Because there is no law enforcement for these matters on the net today. Sometimes, in frontier situations, a form of mob or vigilante type justice becomes necessary. In this case, it would be an expression of popular democracy when a group in a frontier setting decides that sometime of order enforcement is necessary in order for society to function. These spam bots qualify as a level of threat that would justify a defense of this kind because, in our current environment, these bots can't be stopped by other means.
There is also a discernible right to self-defense. Here is my analogy. If an ignorant neighbor has permitted some nut to put a machine gun on his front lawn that periodically shoots bullets at my front door, then taking action to disable that machine gun is a justifiable form of self-defense even though the form of the self-defensive act is an offensive act against the machine gun. Any collateral damage from the self-defensive act doesn't necessarily invalidate taking the action.
That means if the incredibly rare case that isn't going to happen of the disabling of a heart monitor does occur, the self defensive act is still justified.
Now, spam is not an imminent danger in the way bullets are, but they are a danger. For example, I do not want my 11 year old exposed to hard core porn often promoted in much of this spam. If there is no effective law enforcement, then self-defense and perhaps a group sanctioned vigilante enforcement, even if the means are offensive in some sense, is justifiable. Note, it is not justifiable if law enforcement is available to deal with the problems, but in this case no such remedies are available.
Now -- is it legal? IANAL, so I don't know, but I think a legal defense is possible -- and -- how many juries actually go after these guys anyway?
And I'm writing this from a Mac (which I switched to very recently, largely because VMware Fusion is so damned good that I can run Windows and Linux software I like on top of OSX with very very little trouble).
I just got a Mac powerbook and VMware Fusion last Saturday. I created XP Professional and Ubuntu 7.10 virtual machines on it - very easy to do and both are working great so far. I am thrilled with it.
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at least in the engineering department. We are having pie as a group at 1:59 this afternoon.
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Computers can't act.
And ... why is this important? Particularly in Arnold's case?
The character is an emotionless cyborg. There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
Are you talking about the cyborg character or Gov. Schwarzenegger? I don't think I could tell the difference. I guess this is an easier CGI effort than most.
I hope others get the reference to "A Boy and His Dog". I would mark you funny if I had mod points.
I see a lot of Harlan dislike here, but I have to say that the TV shows I have seen of his have often been some of the best shows every written. I think of a newer Twilight Zone episode -- "Palidin of the Lost Hour", and the old Outer Limits show, "Demon with a Glass Hand". These, and a lot of his Babylon-5 stuff I thought was really good.
We should wish him well in his lawsuit. He is not defending digital rights management or modern copyright law and the like, he is fighting the same set of thieving bastards who brought you the RIAA and DCMA who rip off the public and writers a-like.
You forgot to mention SCO! The people from which Unix was pirated to form Linux! Where would tech be today without great Utahnian innovators like Darl McBride and Blake Stowell?
That was my opinion when I bought a Mac last spring and helped by daughter create a movie for a class project. We used the older iMovie 6.0 for its better special effects plugins. We bought some tunes off of iTunes to use in the Movie -- it all worked great.
Fortunately for us, we completed and burned DVDs of the completed work before the iTunes 7.6.2 update. I loaded software updates on my Mac which included this update. After that, the music sound track in iMovie 6.0 would not play. This remained the case regardless of what devices were authorized.
This could have caused me a whole lot of extra work if I had to strip out and redo the sound track with DRM free music. I have not bought another DRM encoded song since, and nothing from iTunes. iTunes is dead for me, and I have learned from this experience that you cannot trust DRM not to interfere with your legitimate "particular use of the product." Even if it is working today, it could all change tomorrow.
I know why Apple made the change -- using iMovie 6 used to be one of the ways people used to strip Fair Play DRM. But I did not use it that way. My use was fair use. Apple stomped on my fairly purchased fair use rights that I thought I had when I purchased their products with their unfair play DRM update.
Yes, as you say, once I got it into my head.
That is the problem. It is too different from how IE and Firefox work. Many users simply don't get it into their head and go back to what is familiar.
I think you are correct regarding the importance of plug-ins.
What I have not seen mentioned so far is Chrome's handing of bookmarks. I believe most users depend on bookmarks quite heavily to remember and organize sites they wish to visit. Chrome's handling of bookmarks is awkward. For example, how do you add the current page as a bookmark in a couple mouse clicks? It seems that Google is trying to discourage the use of bookmarks and encourage their more googly way of doing things that relies on search and search history. I think many users drop use of Chrome because of this.
The Fed really has no choice. GPD is basically the Price of all goods times the quantity (PxQ). This value equals the total Money supply times the velocity of money (how many times it turns over). This form the well known money equation of MV=PQ (Money x Velocity = Prices x Quantity.
The current freeze up of credit is slowing money velocity markedly. The only way to compensate is by greatly increasing "M" -- the money supply. If this works, and we recover and "V" increases, then the affect will be inflationary, causing the Fed to lower the Money supply later with high interest rates -- but not now.
Your solution is what was done in the Hoover administration following the crash in 1929. It caused the great Depression. We can't do that again.
The Volt is supposed to answer that issue by having a combustion engine as a backup -- it runs and generates electricity that is used to run the car. So, in theory, you should never be in the situation you describe. You would also just fill up at the next gas station.
Look again. Even the moving cars (the ones that have not been photoshopped away) are in exactly the same place.
You make this great point when you say:.
To suggest otherwise is just the sort of thing IDers want. . .
The effective firing of this man also plays into the hands of the "IDers". They can now decry the persecution of this individual (you know they will) and get good millage out of the argument because they would not have be totally wrong in this case. The Royal Society should not have caved in this way.
anyone who puts religious convictions or beliefs higher than their science, are not worthy of any scientific post. royal society did the right thing.
Please RTFA. By your standard, the royal society did not do the right thing, because the professor did not advocate, putting his, "religious convictions or beliefs higher" than science. He clearly stated in his original article that creationism or intelligent design where not scientific viewpoints and should not be taught as such. He was misquoted.
1.100.000 people with an average life span of 80 years = 37.6 deaths / day, at 8 corpses / meat wagon that makes for 5 meat wagons per day!
No Problem! We'll just make soylent green!
You and colmore are both right. Colmore beautifuly summarized how science actually operates. Your observations reflect understandings gleaned from the philosophy of science, in particular Karl Popper's falsifiability criteria. Popper developed this idea to show how one can delineate science from pseudo-science. It is a valuable philosophical insight and is useful as a criteria of demarcation between science and unscientific ideas. But, it is not a good foundation for understanding the actual methodologies used by science. Actual science proceeds based on some assumptions such as the uniformity of natural causes that cannot be proven, but which underlay belief in the validity of probabilistic induction and the idea that science illuminates "truth" in some sense and gives us greater knowledge of reality.
He's refering to the McCain-Feingold legislation which limits what can be said in issue ads prior to an election.
Actually, the warmest year on record is 2007 (See this NASA site which includes a table of the top ten warmest temperatures. 1998 is tied for second place with 2005.
.But, it is good that you mention 1998. It was an anomalously high temperature year that skewed the temperature trend line going into the 21st century, giving rise to conservative climate change deniers assertions that temperatures have been declining in recent years. They have not.
President Bush, on the other hand is a logo man, a language not to be misunderestimated.
I found this interesting:
The quote is from a Washington Post Article. I am not an Obama supporter, but on Tech issues, he is vastly superior to the other two. His answers in TFA reflect an understanding of the issues. His campaign's skilled use of internet fund raising reflects real savy. His campaign is historic in this regard.
On the plus side, no one could be worse than President Bush has been on Tech issues, so either candidate is bound to be an improvement.
I have done exactly the same thing for a few websites I manage. It solved a problem for me on one of the sites which was getting hammered with backscatter. Basically, I let Google deal with the backscatter.
But it is still criminal that there are millions of sites out there that still bounce spam.
Mod Parent up. He is right about the rejection of a summary judgment not settling anything. All it means is that the legal claims are sufficiently non-trivial as to require adjudication. Nothing is settled.
That is a great idea!
Why?
Because there is no law enforcement for these matters on the net today. Sometimes, in frontier situations, a form of mob or vigilante type justice becomes necessary. In this case, it would be an expression of popular democracy when a group in a frontier setting decides that sometime of order enforcement is necessary in order for society to function. These spam bots qualify as a level of threat that would justify a defense of this kind because, in our current environment, these bots can't be stopped by other means.
There is also a discernible right to self-defense. Here is my analogy. If an ignorant neighbor has permitted some nut to put a machine gun on his front lawn that periodically shoots bullets at my front door, then taking action to disable that machine gun is a justifiable form of self-defense even though the form of the self-defensive act is an offensive act against the machine gun. Any collateral damage from the self-defensive act doesn't necessarily invalidate taking the action.
That means if the incredibly rare case that isn't going to happen of the disabling of a heart monitor does occur, the self defensive act is still justified.
Now, spam is not an imminent danger in the way bullets are, but they are a danger. For example, I do not want my 11 year old exposed to hard core porn often promoted in much of this spam. If there is no effective law enforcement, then self-defense and perhaps a group sanctioned vigilante enforcement, even if the means are offensive in some sense, is justifiable. Note, it is not justifiable if law enforcement is available to deal with the problems, but in this case no such remedies are available.
Now -- is it legal? IANAL, so I don't know, but I think a legal defense is possible -- and -- how many juries actually go after these guys anyway?
I'm dyslexic, you insensitive cold!
Hmm.. are you agnostic? and have insomnia? Do you stay up at night wondering if there is a dog?
I just got a Mac powerbook and VMware Fusion last Saturday. I created XP Professional and Ubuntu 7.10 virtual machines on it - very easy to do and both are working great so far. I am thrilled with it.
at least in the engineering department. We are having pie as a group at 1:59 this afternoon.
BTW, today is also Albert Einstein's birthday.