"Just what is the FN's "final solution" for the Islamic question?"
Let's hope it's better than Islam's "solution" for infidels. Is there a world wide war of incompatible cultures? Islam vs. the Western World? If it is war how show a cultural war be fought?
"There will be no serious consequences in my life-time. "
Comments like this really make me look forward to when DisneyWorld is underwater. Unfortunately that requires that Calcutta will also be below the new sea level.
My point was that there is a fair portion of America that wants to look good while hauling lumber, just look at the commercials for full size trucks. We don't need another design for those already wanting to drive super-green cars, we need something for the folks who say "Screw that tinfoil wrapped POS I want a HEMI"
With the way that most of/. loves the power of "the market" and hates the DRM, it would seem to demand that we buy all of our music from sites that do the most they (legally) can to provide unencumbered music. iTunes may have been strong in the formation of online music stores, but if they can't keep up with the needs and demands of the poeple, they must go down. fanboys interfere with natural selection.
Is that visual design supposed to be some sort of physically manifested sarcasm about "green" cars? How do they expect to win over the SUV crowd with the mirror plated SissyMobile? At least make the thing look respectable when pulling up to Home Depot.
So I have to take a HDCP chip out of some TV that got a Wii hole in the screen, not a big problem if I was going to go through the trouble to make some dedicated copying rig. But I think that's the real value here, to discourage the casual copies, and add another layer of "criminal activity" to anyone that does make a copy.
I'm glad that in the article they did mention other factors, such as being prone to distraction. Without my Ritalin, I often procrastiate or forget to do things. I have no deep seated fear of failure to wash my dishes, but I do have to walk past my playstation to get to the dishes.
I agree that we need to be better at pointing out that fundamentalists are still at the crude basics of the faith and often completely misunderstand important things. Having them as the figureheads of their religions is like having a kindergardener setup your college curriculum.
The "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" argument doesn't hold a lot of water either.
Isn't that how the western world got to this point of development? Sure the issues you've raised are real and quite difficult, but our forefathers went through that stuff too. Hopefully it will take the poorest countries less time if we tell them the lessons we learned along the way.
Disney huh... so when the little orphaned robot learns how to love the martians adopt it and bring it to live in their glorious underground city. (I just threw up in mouth a little)
"Terrorism comes much closer to Clausewitz's "total war". Why should any opponent restrict itself to "valid" military targets and make itself known to counterattacks? No reason, except that the end of "total war" is always the complete destruction of one side: if you engage in it you're putting lives at risk out of proportion to your goals. That will earn the world's opprobrium, and perhaps that opprobrium will increase the chance of your defeat, but beyond that it's your choice."
Yet another reason that "harmless" hacking is wrong. Just, slightly reframe the basic idea, would it be wrong for me to sneak into your house and just look around?
It's been in the works for a while now (longer than Spore!), it's called "Pirates of the Burning Sea". Maybe they will hurry up and release the game, if there is some pirate MMO competition. http://www.burningsea.com/
Unless of course they stopped useing radar, because there is no good way to stop those waves once you send them out, and so radar would be broadcasting your position to any and all potential enemies, just begging to be invaded.
Farmers and Ranchers and Contractors need pickups, fine. Most everyone else needs to either move into town, or accept that as the car culture in America changes, there will be a higher price for the comparative solitude of rural life. Sprawl is a luxury, with quickly rising costs.
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there are whole weeks when they're hardly actually needed.
So, they can be outsourced no problem, right? That might interfere with their advancement.
"Just what is the FN's "final solution" for the Islamic question?"
Let's hope it's better than Islam's "solution" for infidels. Is there a world wide war of incompatible cultures? Islam vs. the Western World? If it is war how show a cultural war be fought?
really. I'm more looking forward to nanotube capacitors that replace rechargables entirely.
"There will be no serious consequences in my life-time. "
Comments like this really make me look forward to when DisneyWorld is underwater. Unfortunately that requires that Calcutta will also be below the new sea level.
Maybe there are still consumers that remember how the music branch of Sony treats there customers. Could the "Sony" name have become a liability?
My point was that there is a fair portion of America that wants to look good while hauling lumber, just look at the commercials for full size trucks. We don't need another design for those already wanting to drive super-green cars, we need something for the folks who say "Screw that tinfoil wrapped POS I want a HEMI"
With the way that most of /. loves the power of "the market" and hates the DRM, it would seem to demand that we buy all of our music from sites that do the most they (legally) can to provide unencumbered music. iTunes may have been strong in the formation of online music stores, but if they can't keep up with the needs and demands of the poeple, they must go down. fanboys interfere with natural selection.
Is that visual design supposed to be some sort of physically manifested sarcasm about "green" cars? How do they expect to win over the SUV crowd with the mirror plated SissyMobile? At least make the thing look respectable when pulling up to Home Depot.
So I have to take a HDCP chip out of some TV that got a Wii hole in the screen, not a big problem if I was going to go through the trouble to make some dedicated copying rig. But I think that's the real value here, to discourage the casual copies, and add another layer of "criminal activity" to anyone that does make a copy.
I'm glad that in the article they did mention other factors, such as being prone to distraction. Without my Ritalin, I often procrastiate or forget to do things. I have no deep seated fear of failure to wash my dishes, but I do have to walk past my playstation to get to the dishes.
I agree that we need to be better at pointing out that fundamentalists are still at the crude basics of the faith and often completely misunderstand important things. Having them as the figureheads of their religions is like having a kindergardener setup your college curriculum.
Was that at the same time that all the glaciers around the world had expanded miles in just a few years?
education is one of the hardest of services to deliver
internet access + http://ocw.mit.edu/ = better education
The "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" argument doesn't hold a lot of water either.
Isn't that how the western world got to this point of development? Sure the issues you've raised are real and quite difficult, but our forefathers went through that stuff too. Hopefully it will take the poorest countries less time if we tell them the lessons we learned along the way.
Disney huh... so when the little orphaned robot learns how to love the martians adopt it and bring it to live in their glorious underground city. (I just threw up in mouth a little)
"Terrorism comes much closer to Clausewitz's "total war". Why should any opponent restrict itself to "valid" military targets and make itself known to counterattacks? No reason, except that the end of "total war" is always the complete destruction of one side: if you engage in it you're putting lives at risk out of proportion to your goals. That will earn the world's opprobrium, and perhaps that opprobrium will increase the chance of your defeat, but beyond that it's your choice."
5 .stm really.
Please find a way to explain that idea to these kids.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/624442
Yet another reason that "harmless" hacking is wrong. Just, slightly reframe the basic idea, would it be wrong for me to sneak into your house and just look around?
It's been in the works for a while now (longer than Spore!), it's called "Pirates of the Burning Sea". Maybe they will hurry up and release the game, if there is some pirate MMO competition. http://www.burningsea.com/
Can they become a member state of the U.N.?
I know it's not solar, but you might try this. http://www.solarpath1.com/airmfset/airmfset.htm?gc lid=CN270ezT1IkCFRR5OAodhW4yzA
Unless of course they stopped useing radar, because there is no good way to stop those waves once you send them out, and so radar would be broadcasting your position to any and all potential enemies, just begging to be invaded.
In Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" wasn't there a design requirement on biodegradablity/biologically inert, for all nanotech?
try googleing basic stamp 2. Affordable microcontrollers have been around for a while.
including my sister, whose work recently won awards for degrading nicely.
Does she know you're telling people this?
Farmers and Ranchers and Contractors need pickups, fine. Most everyone else needs to either move into town, or accept that as the car culture in America changes, there will be a higher price for the comparative solitude of rural life. Sprawl is a luxury, with quickly rising costs.
Thank you for that self correction, polar red. That "is being used" is key to understanding, and ultimately out growing, religious war.