It's simple economics. Gas prices are high, so your local highway patrol officers get to drive less and write more tickets whenever there is a construction speed zone of the sort you described.
It makes you wonder if the normal Google policy would apply to their military department. You get to spend a certain percentage of your work time shooting at personal targets.
"Principle" and "sorry" are the two most expensive words in the law. Arguably, in that order. That said, 4,000 videos may mean enough plaintiffs for a class action, which could have some hope of compensating a lawyer for fighting this on principle whereas the 4,000 individuals couldn't afford it on an individual basis. The EFF has also filed lawsuits over DMCA abuses in the past, so at least be sure that someone over there has a way to get in touch with the people adversely affected by this one.
Remind me... Who was in office for the Branch Davidian thing? Don't blame the Republicans for being one-half of the bad effects of a root cause. You have to pull weeds up by the roots to save your garden.
I beg to differ. In 1993 the common interconnects were 10BASE2, serial, and parallel. The common internal connections were 16-bit ISA slots, EISA, VLB, and the newly-introduced but not yet common (parallel) PCI. By 2003, from that list only serial, parallel, and PCI were still in common availability on new systems. Today, 5 years later, you can cross parallel PCI off the list and expect that serial and parallel ports will be eliminated on new motherboards to make room for more USB or Firewire connections.
For any 10-year segment of personal computing history, even with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it is hard to say exactly which one type of storage interface would have been the best choice to save something from the beginning of that segment until the end. And we're talking about a period of time 2-1/2 times as long, here, so predicting what will work in 2033 is just as hard as predicting in 1983 what would work in 2008.
Caution: Situational humor ahead. You may need to use your imagination to get a laugh out of it.
A conversation once happened to end up like this:
A: How big should I make my root partition?
B: Anywhere from 2 to 10 gigs is good.
A: I think I'll go with a nice, even 5 gigs.
Me: Five?!? Not only is that not even, it's also prime!
You don't want my opinion on this, because I'm absolutist about it. If you can ignore that a joke is offensive and come to the conclusion that it is also funny, then you shouldn't be offended by it no matter how offensive it was to begin with. I of course understand that most people draw the line somewhere else.:P
25 years ago, it was 1983. With the benefit of hindsight, what 1983 solution would you choose to make it easy to access in 2008? I can't think of one. The 3-1/2" disk was still a year off at the time, and I don't see any 5-1/4" drive son Newegg. When it comes to peripheral connections, 25 years is a very, very long time.
Devise an encoding that can accurately be read using current scanners. Write a program to take the bitmap and translate it into a digital stream. Keep the program around outside of the time capsule for 25 years and move along with each computer upgrade. Then all you need to do in 2033 is find a scanner with an automatic document feeder and start scanning.
Could a CD-ROM, DVD, or IDE, SATA, USB, FireWire, Ethernet+TCP/IP, or Ethernet+IPv6, disk survive for 25 years and be usable in 2033? Sure. Is any of these guaranteed to work? Nope. Paper is.
I didn't see your response, so I wrote my own instead of moderating yours like I should have. If anything, laughing at yourself should be easiest of all since you are more likely to get the joke given an intimate knowledge of its subject matter. =)
Mathematicians generally have a sense of humor about their field, which is the real point of that particular strip. It may be exceedingly dry, but at least it's there. Seeing an elitist attitude there is foolish: Mr. Munroe has a physics degree. Failing to acknowledge humor just because you happen to be a character in the joke is also foolish: Mr. Munroe most likely doesn't know you and most definitely was writing humor, not hate speech.
I have a breathalyzer that turns out to have a mini-USB connector. It's not for charging, as far as I can tell, but I haven't tried since I use alkaline batteries in it. I also haven't tried hooking it up to a computer, for fear of what it may say.
What I really want is to hook it up to my phone in such a way that it will lock me out of my address book if I am over 0.15%.
Are you "fairly certain" as in a wild-ass guess not based in actual market figures, or "fairly certain" as in you have documentation of market figures that reflect your statement's veracity?
Not only that, but can't sushi also contain cooked fish? That said, when the article talks about one quarter of fish with identifiable DNA, it seems obvious that he's not taking DNA from cooked seafood or from rice.
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It's simple economics. Gas prices are high, so your local highway patrol officers get to drive less and write more tickets whenever there is a construction speed zone of the sort you described.
It makes you wonder if the normal Google policy would apply to their military department. You get to spend a certain percentage of your work time shooting at personal targets.
"Principle" and "sorry" are the two most expensive words in the law. Arguably, in that order. That said, 4,000 videos may mean enough plaintiffs for a class action, which could have some hope of compensating a lawyer for fighting this on principle whereas the 4,000 individuals couldn't afford it on an individual basis. The EFF has also filed lawsuits over DMCA abuses in the past, so at least be sure that someone over there has a way to get in touch with the people adversely affected by this one.
That's Copy-paste ESQUIRE to you!
For your statistical pleasure: http://slashdot.org/tags/kdawsonsucks
They usually complement each other a lot better than they compliment each other, methinks. ;)
Remind me... Who was in office for the Branch Davidian thing? Don't blame the Republicans for being one-half of the bad effects of a root cause. You have to pull weeds up by the roots to save your garden.
And, of course, by "your gut" he means to say "your fiancee." That is, if you want her to be your fiancee.
I beg to differ. In 1993 the common interconnects were 10BASE2, serial, and parallel. The common internal connections were 16-bit ISA slots, EISA, VLB, and the newly-introduced but not yet common (parallel) PCI. By 2003, from that list only serial, parallel, and PCI were still in common availability on new systems. Today, 5 years later, you can cross parallel PCI off the list and expect that serial and parallel ports will be eliminated on new motherboards to make room for more USB or Firewire connections.
For any 10-year segment of personal computing history, even with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it is hard to say exactly which one type of storage interface would have been the best choice to save something from the beginning of that segment until the end. And we're talking about a period of time 2-1/2 times as long, here, so predicting what will work in 2033 is just as hard as predicting in 1983 what would work in 2008.
Do you really think that the editors look at anything before posting it?
It can also mean one who looses things upon others. I, for instance, am a looser of affects. ;)
Caution: Situational humor ahead. You may need to use your imagination to get a laugh out of it.
A conversation once happened to end up like this:
A: How big should I make my root partition?
B: Anywhere from 2 to 10 gigs is good.
A: I think I'll go with a nice, even 5 gigs.
Me: Five?!? Not only is that not even, it's also prime!
You don't want my opinion on this, because I'm absolutist about it. If you can ignore that a joke is offensive and come to the conclusion that it is also funny, then you shouldn't be offended by it no matter how offensive it was to begin with. I of course understand that most people draw the line somewhere else. :P
25 years ago, it was 1983. With the benefit of hindsight, what 1983 solution would you choose to make it easy to access in 2008? I can't think of one. The 3-1/2" disk was still a year off at the time, and I don't see any 5-1/4" drive son Newegg. When it comes to peripheral connections, 25 years is a very, very long time.
Devise an encoding that can accurately be read using current scanners. Write a program to take the bitmap and translate it into a digital stream. Keep the program around outside of the time capsule for 25 years and move along with each computer upgrade. Then all you need to do in 2033 is find a scanner with an automatic document feeder and start scanning.
Could a CD-ROM, DVD, or IDE, SATA, USB, FireWire, Ethernet+TCP/IP, or Ethernet+IPv6, disk survive for 25 years and be usable in 2033? Sure. Is any of these guaranteed to work? Nope. Paper is.
I didn't see your response, so I wrote my own instead of moderating yours like I should have. If anything, laughing at yourself should be easiest of all since you are more likely to get the joke given an intimate knowledge of its subject matter. =)
Mathematicians generally have a sense of humor about their field, which is the real point of that particular strip. It may be exceedingly dry, but at least it's there. Seeing an elitist attitude there is foolish: Mr. Munroe has a physics degree. Failing to acknowledge humor just because you happen to be a character in the joke is also foolish: Mr. Munroe most likely doesn't know you and most definitely was writing humor, not hate speech.
I'm just looking forward to finding the next even prime number.
I have a breathalyzer that turns out to have a mini-USB connector. It's not for charging, as far as I can tell, but I haven't tried since I use alkaline batteries in it. I also haven't tried hooking it up to a computer, for fear of what it may say.
What I really want is to hook it up to my phone in such a way that it will lock me out of my address book if I am over 0.15%.
She's also attracted to my extra T's. There I go, not proofreading myself again. :P
Not really, not. She's attracted to something she's interested in. There's a difference between a groupie and a fan.
You're right, I'd much rather have a girl who is sleeping with me for my money instead of because she's attracted to my talent.
Are you "fairly certain" as in a wild-ass guess not based in actual market figures, or "fairly certain" as in you have documentation of market figures that reflect your statement's veracity?
They meant my dog. He's a real prick.
Not only that, but can't sushi also contain cooked fish? That said, when the article talks about one quarter of fish with identifiable DNA, it seems obvious that he's not taking DNA from cooked seafood or from rice.