It is an interesting idea. One question, meant seriously: when dealing with external memories that belong to someone else, how do we sort out data from meta-data, or alternately, data that has rarely been accessed and must be got at through layers of meta-data?
I can imagine that there are portions of every person's memory that are rarely accessed but not so isolated as to die out entirely. Would that one spark still be raw, or would it have become re-contextualized by the act of accessing it?
Unfortunately, a number of Guardsmen have also been detained for questioning because their children download music, burn compilation discs, and watch copyrighted stuff on YouTube.
Reverse the polarity of particle flow! Reroute a phase-shifted tachyon pulse through the main deflector dish! Blow out the ramscoops! Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!
Balanced (perhaps I should say diametrically opposite) coverage on TimeCube is easy enough - a single page (perhaps even a single column) of black and white newsprint containing something dull, boring, and verifiable, like yesterday's weather for anywhere in the U.S. Granted, the weather in the US for 1/15/2007 was fairly notable and interesting, but I doubt many sane people are saying it's a conspiracy of the teacher's unions.
I blame Victorian England. Also, the Puritans. That is to say, our attitudes are not new. They're just ones that our forebears in the Old World have already dispensed with.
However, there's a basic concept of US jurisprudence that may be eluding the rest of the world: emotional competency. The rule of law is: Children are not mentally or emotionally equipped to make sound decisions regarding sex. Coercing them into sex (or depicting them sexually) is the Crime of Crimes. Involving them in sex (in a passive sort of way, like Indecency with a Minor, with or without a camera present) is Very Bad, and exposing them to passive depictions of sex (e.g., pornography) prematurely isn't much better.
These people give Texans a bad name. Is there any way I can mail these creeps a bushel of rotten tomatoes? I probably live too far away to throw them myself.
The game is as realistic as possible to best portray army tactics and day-to-day life
Not exactly. The game doesn't seem to penalize Spray and pray tactics. Also, there's no paperwork, no OERs or AARs, no PT, no mess halls, no tedium, etc. etc. etc.
FTA: Ledonne said that he bears no ill will toward the festival, but that the decision to pull the game does raise concerns about freedom of speech . . .
I'm confused. How is the decision by non-governmental entities that something is undeserving of their support or attention a threat to freedom speech?
The game developer did his talking when he made the game. If Congress was directly shutting him down, that would be a problem. Other people deciding that his game is in poor taste or too soon or just plain wrong, and taking their money with them when they leave, is perfectly normal and legal. There is no constitutional right to be heard, only to speak freely. The intended audience can blow the speaker off at will.
The KGB's name has changed many times. It remains essentially the same organization. It's called the FSB now, but it's still the KGB (previously known as the MVD, MGB, NKVD, GUGB, NKGB, OGPU, and Cheka by turns).
FTA: Consumers have no idea how reliable their cell phone service will be when they buy a phone and sign a long-term contract.
My solution is not to trust any of them. I had a contract with Cingular. Largest Network, Fewest dropped calls, blah blah. I don't buy it. Why should I trust Verizon not that it's claiming to have the largest network? If I get a prepaid phone, It'll be Cingular because most of the rest of my family is on Cingular, but I'm under no illusions that it will work more than 85% of the time away from large towns or cities.
I'm confused. What is dating advice doing in the Tech/CIO section of Forbes Online? Aren't these the people who don't know anything about Technology? More specifically, why the Technology section?
Human relationships are purely analog and atechnological. Even over digital media - IM, cell phones, etc - relationships is a analog process: highly fluid and highly variable. What is funny one day can be bitterly hurtful the next. More importantly, one can be totally right and totally wrong all at the same time. It's the opposite of boolean logic.
For example, this morning I told my wife about the new season of Futurama. She got excited. Not surprising. Then I told her about Hachiko - the Akita who kept trying to meet his master at the train station years after his master's death, because Fry's dog Seymour lives sort of the same story. I thought it was a sweet, funny story. Like a Japanese version of Greyfriar's Bobby. She started crying. To her, it was a sad story, partly because it reminded her of Odysseus' dog, who waited for him, greeting him at the end of his exile with a single wag of his tail before dying. You never know what's going to happen, even with the people you know best.
>toys out of the pram
For those of us who don't speak the Queen's English, does this refer to a baby throwing toys out of the baby carriage? I think that's what pram means, but I can't be sure.
Thanks for the information. This has been an interesting week for the space sciences, I think, between the flares, the shuttle launch (I wonder if they could have missed some of this storm if they had launched sooner), and the publication of the Mars and Titan topography stuff.
Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to the peak flux (in watts per square meter, W/m2) of 100 to 800 picometerX-rays near Earth, as measured on the GOES spacecraft. Each class has a peak flux ten times greater than the preceding one, with X class flares having a peak flux of order 10-4 W/m2. Within a class there is a linear scale from 1 to 9, so an X2 flare is twice as powerful as an X1 flare, and is four times more powerful than an M5 flare. The more powerful M and X class flares are often associated with a variety of effects on the near-Earth space environment. Although the GOES classification is commonly used to indicate the size of a flare, it is only one measure.
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It is an interesting idea. One question, meant seriously: when dealing with external memories that belong to someone else, how do we sort out data from meta-data, or alternately, data that has rarely been accessed and must be got at through layers of meta-data?
I can imagine that there are portions of every person's memory that are rarely accessed but not so isolated as to die out entirely. Would that one spark still be raw, or would it have become re-contextualized by the act of accessing it?
Just call on the folks of CSI:NY! They can squeeze useful information out of any photo.
Unfortunately, a number of Guardsmen have also been detained for questioning because their children download music, burn compilation discs, and watch copyrighted stuff on YouTube.
As do I. I'm also rather concerned about a regime established by the UN.
I wonder why the UN can't do something truly unusual in this circumstance and leave well enough alone.
Reverse the polarity of particle flow! Reroute a phase-shifted tachyon pulse through the main deflector dish! Blow out the ramscoops! Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!
Balanced (perhaps I should say diametrically opposite) coverage on TimeCube is easy enough - a single page (perhaps even a single column) of black and white newsprint containing something dull, boring, and verifiable, like yesterday's weather for anywhere in the U.S. Granted, the weather in the US for 1/15/2007 was fairly notable and interesting, but I doubt many sane people are saying it's a conspiracy of the teacher's unions.
I blame Victorian England. Also, the Puritans. That is to say, our attitudes are not new. They're just ones that our forebears in the Old World have already dispensed with.
However, there's a basic concept of US jurisprudence that may be eluding the rest of the world: emotional competency. The rule of law is: Children are not mentally or emotionally equipped to make sound decisions regarding sex. Coercing them into sex (or depicting them sexually) is the Crime of Crimes. Involving them in sex (in a passive sort of way, like Indecency with a Minor, with or without a camera present) is Very Bad, and exposing them to passive depictions of sex (e.g., pornography) prematurely isn't much better.
These people give Texans a bad name. Is there any way I can mail these creeps a bushel of rotten tomatoes? I probably live too far away to throw them myself.
The game is as realistic as possible to best portray army tactics and day-to-day life
Not exactly. The game doesn't seem to penalize Spray and pray tactics. Also, there's no paperwork, no OERs or AARs, no PT, no mess halls, no tedium, etc. etc. etc.
FTA: Ledonne said that he bears no ill will toward the festival, but that the decision to pull the game does raise concerns about freedom of speech . . .
I'm confused. How is the decision by non-governmental entities that something is undeserving of their support or attention a threat to freedom speech?
The game developer did his talking when he made the game. If Congress was directly shutting him down, that would be a problem. Other people deciding that his game is in poor taste or too soon or just plain wrong, and taking their money with them when they leave, is perfectly normal and legal. There is no constitutional right to be heard, only to speak freely. The intended audience can blow the speaker off at will.
To be more specific, they're another type altogether - Giant as opposed to Humanoid. That and they have +5 level adjustment. Gnome: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/gnome.htm Troll: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/troll.htm
He was asked, but apparently replied, "I have standards now."
I know it's an old joke, but apparently, "All your press are belong to MS!"
Why don't they just call it, "You really should own an XBox 360. Go buy one"?
FTFA: "Computer Gaming World was also renamed as Games For Windows to help drive Microsoft's new brand."
Also, it's good to know there's another gaming rag I can safely ignore.
In summation, I really enjoy watching people I don't trust announce what they'll do to shove things I don't want down my throat.
What exactly is the Challenge Rating on an army of Russian-born Bulettes? It sounds fairly horrendous.
The KGB's name has changed many times. It remains essentially the same organization. It's called the FSB now, but it's still the KGB (previously known as the MVD, MGB, NKVD, GUGB, NKGB, OGPU, and Cheka by turns).
And young children will inevitably play with the box more than the toy.
FTA: Consumers have no idea how reliable their cell phone service will be when they buy a phone and sign a long-term contract.
My solution is not to trust any of them. I had a contract with Cingular. Largest Network, Fewest dropped calls, blah blah. I don't buy it. Why should I trust Verizon not that it's claiming to have the largest network? If I get a prepaid phone, It'll be Cingular because most of the rest of my family is on Cingular, but I'm under no illusions that it will work more than 85% of the time away from large towns or cities.
I'm confused. What is dating advice doing in the Tech/CIO section of Forbes Online? Aren't these the people who don't know anything about Technology? More specifically, why the Technology section?
Human relationships are purely analog and atechnological. Even over digital media - IM, cell phones, etc - relationships is a analog process: highly fluid and highly variable. What is funny one day can be bitterly hurtful the next. More importantly, one can be totally right and totally wrong all at the same time. It's the opposite of boolean logic.
For example, this morning I told my wife about the new season of Futurama. She got excited. Not surprising. Then I told her about Hachiko - the Akita who kept trying to meet his master at the train station years after his master's death, because Fry's dog Seymour lives sort of the same story. I thought it was a sweet, funny story. Like a Japanese version of Greyfriar's Bobby. She started crying. To her, it was a sad story, partly because it reminded her of Odysseus' dog, who waited for him, greeting him at the end of his exile with a single wag of his tail before dying. You never know what's going to happen, even with the people you know best.
are belong to MS?
Thank you.
>toys out of the pram For those of us who don't speak the Queen's English, does this refer to a baby throwing toys out of the baby carriage? I think that's what pram means, but I can't be sure.
Thanks for the information. This has been an interesting week for the space sciences, I think, between the flares, the shuttle launch (I wonder if they could have missed some of this storm if they had launched sooner), and the publication of the Mars and Titan topography stuff.
I was confused by this, so I looked it up.
From the Wikipedia article on Solar Flares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Flare
Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to the peak flux (in watts per square meter, W/m2) of 100 to 800 picometer X-rays near Earth, as measured on the GOES spacecraft. Each class has a peak flux ten times greater than the preceding one, with X class flares having a peak flux of order 10-4 W/m2. Within a class there is a linear scale from 1 to 9, so an X2 flare is twice as powerful as an X1 flare, and is four times more powerful than an M5 flare. The more powerful M and X class flares are often associated with a variety of effects on the near-Earth space environment. Although the GOES classification is commonly used to indicate the size of a flare, it is only one measure.
Very informative. I didn't realize that the school might have civilianized ECM. Thank you.