Well, he's got one bonefied cocksure attitude sticking them with these charges. Let's hope he's got a tight enough grip on the meat of the issues to finally rub out one form of junk email that just keeps coming back. Smack'em with the penal code, then their business will be in a real poke.
Raving slashdot p2p trolls aside, we all know that pirating is not acceptable.
Not true. Believe it or not, some of us have real, moral contentions with the notion of "intellectual property." Some of us actually believe that while you can claim credit for creating art, you cannot morally exert control over what happens to that art after it is offered to the public. Some of us see a distinction between unallowed taking (theft) and unallowed distribution. Some of us actually believe that market value ought to be determined by real scarcity, not statute. Believe it or not, there's a deep schism of philosophy that goes far beyond the presumption that "p2p trolls" as you call us are simply children who want something for nothing.
Who cares if Congress enacts more federal laws that the FBI won't even take a report on?
Because when it's in the interest of big business, you better believe the FBI will act on it and exploit every tool at their disposal. Let's be clear: This bill is not for going after child pornographers, it's for busting that most treacherous of terrorists, the Music File Sharer! One of the sponsors, Howard Berman, is a notorious shill for the music and entertainment industry.
The system is rebooting no matter which flash memory is being accessed, it has the same bug both ways, so the flash ram itself looks to be OK, but the interface between the flash ram and the software looks to be causing resets...Even if there were more backup flashrams, it looks like they'd still have this problem......But then sending two rovers would also negate problems, and thats just what they've done
Except, isn't the flash interface mechanism identical on Opportunity? Is this a design flaw or a flawed instance? I wonder how they will circumvent this same scenario with Opportunity...
Because, if these are problems... boy, have we got problems.
We got problems.
Ignorance, lack of intellectual curiousity, or outright anti-intellectualism are, and have been for a long time, big problems.
They get worse the more "democratic" a society becomes.
Ray Bradbury warned us about this more than 50 years ago. ("Fahrenheit 451--which is really less about censorship than it is about the dumbing down of society, and the rising resentment of the power of knowledge by anti-intellectualists).
However, I agree with your implied point that the Internet is far from the only "underutilized" medium.
Homer: [gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics! Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs. Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
I agree with you, but I hope some of the specialized stuff sticks around as well. My best Lego memories are of being 8 or 9 and playing with sets that were vaguely themed (transportation, space, etc.), or better yet, the motorized sets (I learned all about gear ratios, torque, and angular/linear velocity playing with motorized lego!). They were similar to the Designer and Technic lines Lego now offers (but pretty much only available online:( ). I was far too old (or more accurately, adultly occupied) when the Mindstorms line came out, but they look incredibly cool and it would be a shame for older kids to miss out on that kinda geeky creativity. If they think their target market is between birth and 7 years old, they might swing their pendulum too far the other way.
In the university press release: The stars will coalesce in only approximately 85 million years, sending a ripple of gravity waves across the Universe
So...wait, 85 million years from when? Now? Or is it 85 million years from what we currently observe, which is probably several million years in the past (neither link provides the distance of the pulsars from earth)? In other words, will we observe the coalescing in 85 million years, or 85 million + time of transit?
Sheesh, it never occurred to me how dicey verb tense is in astronomy...Talking about the future of distant objects that exist in the past which we are observing presently.. Reminds me of Dr. Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations from Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
The iPod is already the leading MP3 player. If they outpositioned the rest of the line with a lower margin product, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. They don't want to detract sales from the other iPods.
Second, Apple products are always overpriced. You're paying (in their logic) for the "privelege" of owning the coolest of digital gadetry. The target market for the mini iPods are not people who thought "man, if only the iPod was $50 cheaper..." The target market is people who want the "privelege" of owning an iPod, but wanted them smaller. It's true, if capacity is the issue, and you're in the iPod price range as is, it makes no sense to go with a mini. But if you want something smaller and "hipper", the $50 savings is just icing.
And, unlike, most computer manufacturers, Apple doesn't forget that half the consumers out there are women. I think the more purse-friendly size and "fashionable" colors are part of that strategy.
At least, that's the only rationale I could come up with for that god-awful effete pallete these things come in.
Not only do the little scholarships add up, but they also fill out your academic credibility. When you have a handful of small scholarships, you look like a much better candidate for a more substantial scholarship. When you get the more substantial scholarship, you appear more worthy for something big, say, from your university your sophomore year. Merit is a recursive thing.
Oh man. Thanks for that link. Hilarious. Holy crap, that bit could've been cribbed right from any one my Saturday nights freshman year of high school. (Alas!)
And goddamnit, I did cast Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound. Stupid DM.
I'm going to gauchely reply to myself and say you must be right....doing the magic eye style reconvergence thing looks MUCH better on the second and third images (makes more optical "sense") -- the ones the page descibes as intended for "parallel approach" viewing---than on the first two, which the page describes as intended for "cross-eyed approach" viewing. I must have had my L/R info switched. And, on introspection, it makes sense that magic eye approach involves refocusing past the plane of the picture, so you're making a lateral vergence movement (eyes more "parallel"). I can even imagine doing the opposite for the cross-eyed approach.
I always thought the letting-your-eyes-relax (vergence movement) so that the two images overlap binocularly (a la random dot stereograms) WAS the cross-eyed approach. But you seem to describe it as the "parallel approach" Can you elaborate?
From article: The story of technology is the story of noble aspirations overtaken by a hard-core huckster reality.
I think that's a little too narrow of a generalization to make about all of technology. But it is a symptom of a larger truth about technology. The story of technology is the story of technical progress outpacing social progress. We have not, as a society, come to a consesus on privacy, security, information as property, and who should regulate these matters. Similar, perhaps tougher, problems in biotech. This characteristic of technology driving questions about social morality is something I don't think was ever seen before the 20th century.
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Well, he's got one bonefied cocksure attitude sticking them with these charges. Let's hope he's got a tight enough grip on the meat of the issues to finally rub out one form of junk email that just keeps coming back. Smack'em with the penal code, then their business will be in a real poke.
Willy succeed? Latest poles say yes!
Raving slashdot p2p trolls aside, we all know that pirating is not acceptable.
Not true. Believe it or not, some of us have real, moral contentions with the notion of "intellectual property." Some of us actually believe that while you can claim credit for creating art, you cannot morally exert control over what happens to that art after it is offered to the public. Some of us see a distinction between unallowed taking (theft) and unallowed distribution. Some of us actually believe that market value ought to be determined by real scarcity, not statute. Believe it or not, there's a deep schism of philosophy that goes far beyond the presumption that "p2p trolls" as you call us are simply children who want something for nothing.
It's more that we want nothing for nothing.
And oh, most computer literate people pronouce '#' as 'hash', not 'sharp' :-))
That's right, and that's why, for the other reasons you mention, C# is properly pronounced "CASH"
Who cares if Congress enacts more federal laws that the FBI won't even take a report on?
Because when it's in the interest of big business, you better believe the FBI will act on it and exploit every tool at their disposal. Let's be clear: This bill is not for going after child pornographers, it's for busting that most treacherous of terrorists, the Music File Sharer! One of the sponsors, Howard Berman, is a notorious shill for the music and entertainment industry.
Me misspell on eBay? That's unpossible!
The system is rebooting no matter which flash memory is being accessed, it has the same bug both ways, so the flash ram itself looks to be OK, but the interface between the flash ram and the software looks to be causing resets ...Even if there were more backup flashrams, it looks like they'd still have this problem... ...But then sending two rovers would also negate problems, and thats just what they've done
Except, isn't the flash interface mechanism identical on Opportunity? Is this a design flaw or a flawed instance? I wonder how they will circumvent this same scenario with Opportunity...
Because, if these are problems... boy, have we got problems.
We got problems.
Ignorance, lack of intellectual curiousity, or outright anti-intellectualism are, and have been for a long time, big problems.
They get worse the more "democratic" a society becomes.
Ray Bradbury warned us about this more than 50 years ago. ("Fahrenheit 451--which is really less about censorship than it is about the dumbing down of society, and the rising resentment of the power of knowledge by anti-intellectualists).
However, I agree with your implied point that the Internet is far from the only "underutilized" medium.
Homer: [gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!
Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.
Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
I agree with you, but I hope some of the specialized stuff sticks around as well. My best Lego memories are of being 8 or 9 and playing with sets that were vaguely themed (transportation, space, etc.), or better yet, the motorized sets (I learned all about gear ratios, torque, and angular/linear velocity playing with motorized lego!). They were similar to the Designer and Technic lines Lego now offers (but pretty much only available online
Right now we see a system 85M years from coalescing, that means in 85M years from today we will see it happen.
All right! I can't wait!
No, really, I can't.
And, oh yeah,
[futuregrammar nazi]"...that means in 85M years from today we will-be on haven been seeing it happen." [/futuregrammar nazi]
Just kidding, pal. Thanks for being my googlebitch on the actual distances, though.
In the university press release:
The stars will coalesce in only approximately 85 million years, sending a ripple of gravity waves across the Universe
So...wait, 85 million years from when? Now? Or is it 85 million years from what we currently observe, which is probably several million years in the past (neither link provides the distance of the pulsars from earth)?
In other words, will we observe the coalescing in 85 million years, or 85 million + time of transit?
Sheesh, it never occurred to me how dicey verb tense is in astronomy...Talking about the future of distant objects that exist in the past which we are observing presently.. Reminds me of Dr. Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations from Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Well said.
The iPod is already the leading MP3 player. If they outpositioned the rest of the line with a lower margin product, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. They don't want to detract sales from the other iPods.
Second, Apple products are always overpriced. You're paying (in their logic) for the "privelege" of owning the coolest of digital gadetry. The target market for the mini iPods are not people who thought "man, if only the iPod was $50 cheaper..." The target market is people who want the "privelege" of owning an iPod, but wanted them smaller. It's true, if capacity is the issue, and you're in the iPod price range as is, it makes no sense to go with a mini. But if you want something smaller and "hipper", the $50 savings is just icing.
And, unlike, most computer manufacturers, Apple doesn't forget that half the consumers out there are women. I think the more purse-friendly size and "fashionable" colors are part of that strategy.
At least, that's the only rationale I could come up with for that god-awful effete pallete these things come in.
(That's a nice way of saying that they're gay)
Not only do the little scholarships add up, but they also fill out your academic credibility. When you have a handful of small scholarships, you look like a much better candidate for a more substantial scholarship. When you get the more substantial scholarship, you appear more worthy for something big, say, from your university your sophomore year. Merit is a recursive thing.
Oh man. Thanks for that link. Hilarious. Holy crap, that bit could've been cribbed right from any one my Saturday nights freshman year of high school. (Alas!)
And goddamnit, I did cast Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound. Stupid DM.
I'm going to gauchely reply to myself and say you must be right....doing the magic eye style reconvergence thing looks MUCH better on the second and third images (makes more optical "sense") -- the ones the page descibes as intended for "parallel approach" viewing---than on the first two, which the page describes as intended for "cross-eyed approach" viewing. I must have had my L/R info switched. And, on introspection, it makes sense that magic eye approach involves refocusing past the plane of the picture, so you're making a lateral vergence movement (eyes more "parallel"). I can even imagine doing the opposite for the cross-eyed approach.
I always thought the letting-your-eyes-relax (vergence movement) so that the two images overlap binocularly (a la random dot stereograms) WAS the cross-eyed approach. But you seem to describe it as the "parallel approach" Can you elaborate?
God bless rabid moderatism.
(note to moderators: i did NOT say rabid moderation!)
"I hope your inferior NASA cameras see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can."
Anyone else get these two sites confused?
From article:
The story of technology is the story of noble aspirations overtaken by a hard-core huckster reality.
I think that's a little too narrow of a generalization to make about all of technology. But it is a symptom of a larger truth about technology. The story of technology is the story of technical progress outpacing social progress. We have not, as a society, come to a consesus on privacy, security, information as property, and who should regulate these matters. Similar, perhaps tougher, problems in biotech. This characteristic of technology driving questions about social morality is something I don't think was ever seen before the 20th century.
Maybe if you stopped sending your mother,
"Mom! The all new penis patch will get you bigger and harder than ever!" your email would go through.
Will we see more el ninjo effects
I hope so! El Ninjo is the bad-assest Mexican Ninja ever!
As a lincolnite I resent that.
We are most definately right next to nowhere, a little south of boringville.
And as a resident of Boringville, I resent that.