...Once the 'scopes cool off, there's no warping...
That heating and cooling (which would be substantial) sounds like it might do some warping of its own. Can anyone quantify that? Does Hubble have problems with heating & cooling as it falls in and out of the earth's shadow?
Nothing is more insulting that equating being technically literate with 'defending the anonymity of internet pirates'.
Welcome to slashdot.
I tend to agree with you regarding downloading (though I'm fully supportive of significant copyright reform), but what this amounts to is government monitoring in your home. As the internet grows in significance in people's lives, the information broadband providers can collect on them has too - what your read, what you say, what you buy. That data should not be collected by the government. You mention traffic cameras, but that's another balancing act - illegal driving leads to deaths, illegal filesharing may slightly undermine some commerce. I'll mention your mail. Should the government read your post to check for illegal activities? (Sure, it'll x-ray a package to make sure there are no guns, or run it past a sniffer dog for drugs, but these don't intrude to the same extent.) Should it monitor your book purchases and library use for inappropriate materials? Alternatively, we could put microphones in your house to ensure you have appropriate licenses for all of your music use. The crowd on here does tend to take an extreme libertarian perspective, but it's not as simple as saying they're wrong. Ultimately, their argument is not even that the crime shouldn't be detected and prosecuted for (though many will say just that), but rather that the tools being proposed are not suitable for a government.
A lot of slashdot regulars are PhDs. Not all of us are in computer science and IT. If he says he's an expert, well, maybe he is and maybe he isn't, but I think you're being more sceptical than is necessary here.
In 10 B.C., one Josephus Moranivus wrote on papyrus paper bemoaning the fact drawn maps destroys the ability to navigate by dead-reckoning.
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." â" Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE).
I suspect the grandparent post is from one of those US cities where the streets form a regular grid. Not being a homing pigeon or a character out of an O'Brien novel, and coming from the kind of city where roads change name every hundred yards and have random bends every fifty, I usually navigate by landmark. I can do things the other way, if it's more convenient. I can do things any logical way, but humans are visual animals.
The hulu site says it's optimized for WMC, but seems to indicate it is a standalone program. Does anyone have experience with it?
I used it while I was in the US. I found it didn't buffer nearly enough, and eventually gave up on it entirely. That was on a windows box with all the bandwidth a university provides.
I am made to think of The Tick (the animated one), where Chairface wrote "Cha" on the side of the moon before being interrupted. "Cok" woule be even better.
Once, as an undergraduate, I complained about the lack of a standard connector for mobile phone rechargers in the presence of one of my lecturers. He countered that if you standardise, you limit future innovation. USB is a much more useful connector than PS/2, and if it matters that much, there are always converters.
I'd say it's not so much religion, but more likely the English rule (or suggestion, depending on whom you ask) that you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
It appeared as a recommendation in an English grammar book perhaps 200 years ago. I think it was described as "the most elegant formulation" or some such. Winston Churchill had a nice line on it, "This is the sort of nonsense up with which I shall not put."
Well, "nothing" is a bit strong - most of his merchandise consists of posters or signed prints of a specific issue of his comic, or a t-shirt based on one of them.
That's not to say that you don't have a point, but while his work is protected by copyright, I've heard him say that he actively attempts to facilitate people reposting his work elsewhere. As long as it's sourced, he seems to think of it as free advertising. Maybe he'd make a better comic if he was given a stipend to focus on his comics, but that system has its own flaws - generally in the selection process.
I look at that horrific list, and when he says that output will be reduced all I can think is, "Good!" Maybe people will go outside instead of watching this dreck.
Better yet, maybe they'll be inspired and actually create something worthwhile.
Or even to explore the archives of existing culture to find something worthwhile. There are tens of thousands of movies, some of them genuinely excellent, millions of books and I have no idea how many songs and other musical pieces in our current records. Some of them are bloody good. I'm pretty sure I'd sooner delve further into the works of Hitchcock, Rachmaninov or Joyce than watch the latest piece of disposable rubbish from Dan Browne, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. Maybe in fifty years, people will speak of Christopher Nolan or Moby or Terry Pratchett as great artists whose work is standing the test of time (though probably not!), but I'm pretty confident that Angels and Demons will be remembered only as a footnote in a one famous actor's career. Good riddance.
There is no doubt, or at least I hope, that there will arise a new system that will allow people to, in some way shape or form, pay those that produce literature, music or other forms of entertainment or art.
"Web crawlers can collect information on the drivers of ecosystem change, rather than the resultant ecological responses," they write.
Which assumes they have a good model of what's driving the changes in the first place. Of course, I presume data miners are well aware of these problems. Are there any experts on it here who can briefly describe how effective (or not) the current techniques are at sifting gold from the silt?
Your last sentence is clearly a joke. The rest of your post is ambiguous without either knowing you or seeing or hearing non-verbal cues. The mods seems to agree with me - not a single "+1 funny". This is why people use smilies. Or you could just keep communicating ambigously and sighing that people just don't get you.
It's so humiliating, isn't it? We can only win if the machines let us. I for one welcome...
Absolutely. I find it humiliating that a Howitzer can fling a shell further and faster than me, that my car is faster than I am (and can carry more weight) and that my calculator is faster and more accurate at arithmethic than I am.
Just read the article. I don't think he has a case - he was working under a agreement where he didn't have those right. I really doubt he'll win jack shit.
Are politics in the US so right-leaning that the very idea that someone might demand a percentage of the income derived from his work is worthy of a retarded comment like, "Are you high?" An author can sell his work for anything he likes. If they unionise, they can make demands for terms they wouldn't get individually. Hence the writers strike last(?) year.
I'm not amored with the idea of IP, but it's the business model the movie industry is built on. As long as that's the case, it's not in any way unreasonable for any of the creative people involved in it to look for profit-sharing as part or all of their pay. A fee for each showing of a movie or tv show made from your script is no different from how patents work.
Now, this is slashdot, so I haven't read TFA, so I don't know the specifics here: maybe there's no legal basis for this claim. I don't really care: I'm just annoyed at the parent's attitude.
You seem to be right, based on a random assortment of numbers from this site.
Interestingly, the numbers killed seem to be higher in rural areas in spite of this, which is more in line with my guess based on news reports over the years.
I think he means honest in the sense of up front about what it was pushing. Ever seen Dragnet? There are episodes which consist largely of the main characters discussing the benefits of a certain brand of cigarettes, with its scientifically proven health benefits for the "mouth, throat and accessory organs".
I read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog, and while his time is subsidised by The Grauniad's running his column once a week, many of the related blogs, the ones he quotes when they've done some proper reporting, are not. I've seen some fairly substantial journalism on their pages. Here's a genuine random example. Yes, it's not Watergate, but it's carefully researched and not well covered by the normal media.
Slashdot Mirror
He was made to take substances to reduce his libido. I've never read that he was physically castrated though.
Yes, I think it would.
...Once the 'scopes cool off, there's no warping...
That heating and cooling (which would be substantial) sounds like it might do some warping of its own. Can anyone quantify that? Does Hubble have problems with heating & cooling as it falls in and out of the earth's shadow?
Nothing is more insulting that equating being technically literate with 'defending the anonymity of internet pirates'.
Welcome to slashdot.
I tend to agree with you regarding downloading (though I'm fully supportive of significant copyright reform), but what this amounts to is government monitoring in your home. As the internet grows in significance in people's lives, the information broadband providers can collect on them has too - what your read, what you say, what you buy. That data should not be collected by the government. You mention traffic cameras, but that's another balancing act - illegal driving leads to deaths, illegal filesharing may slightly undermine some commerce. I'll mention your mail. Should the government read your post to check for illegal activities? (Sure, it'll x-ray a package to make sure there are no guns, or run it past a sniffer dog for drugs, but these don't intrude to the same extent.) Should it monitor your book purchases and library use for inappropriate materials? Alternatively, we could put microphones in your house to ensure you have appropriate licenses for all of your music use. The crowd on here does tend to take an extreme libertarian perspective, but it's not as simple as saying they're wrong. Ultimately, their argument is not even that the crime shouldn't be detected and prosecuted for (though many will say just that), but rather that the tools being proposed are not suitable for a government.
A lot of slashdot regulars are PhDs. Not all of us are in computer science and IT. If he says he's an expert, well, maybe he is and maybe he isn't, but I think you're being more sceptical than is necessary here.
The literal translation is "The Soldiers of Destiny".
As an Irish man, may I just say this: fuck religion, and all its works.
In 10 B.C., one Josephus Moranivus wrote on papyrus paper bemoaning the fact drawn maps destroys the ability to navigate by dead-reckoning.
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." â" Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE).
I suspect the grandparent post is from one of those US cities where the streets form a regular grid. Not being a homing pigeon or a character out of an O'Brien novel, and coming from the kind of city where roads change name every hundred yards and have random bends every fifty, I usually navigate by landmark. I can do things the other way, if it's more convenient. I can do things any logical way, but humans are visual animals.
The hulu site says it's optimized for WMC, but seems to indicate it is a standalone program. Does anyone have experience with it?
I used it while I was in the US. I found it didn't buffer nearly enough, and eventually gave up on it entirely. That was on a windows box with all the bandwidth a university provides.
I am made to think of The Tick (the animated one), where Chairface wrote "Cha" on the side of the moon before being interrupted. "Cok" woule be even better.
Once, as an undergraduate, I complained about the lack of a standard connector for mobile phone rechargers in the presence of one of my lecturers. He countered that if you standardise, you limit future innovation. USB is a much more useful connector than PS/2, and if it matters that much, there are always converters.
I'd say it's not so much religion, but more likely the English rule (or suggestion, depending on whom you ask) that you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
It appeared as a recommendation in an English grammar book perhaps 200 years ago. I think it was described as "the most elegant formulation" or some such. Winston Churchill had a nice line on it, "This is the sort of nonsense up with which I shall not put."
Well, "nothing" is a bit strong - most of his merchandise consists of posters or signed prints of a specific issue of his comic, or a t-shirt based on one of them.
That's not to say that you don't have a point, but while his work is protected by copyright, I've heard him say that he actively attempts to facilitate people reposting his work elsewhere. As long as it's sourced, he seems to think of it as free advertising. Maybe he'd make a better comic if he was given a stipend to focus on his comics, but that system has its own flaws - generally in the selection process.
I look at that horrific list, and when he says that output will be reduced all I can think is, "Good!" Maybe people will go outside instead of watching this dreck.
Better yet, maybe they'll be inspired and actually create something worthwhile.
Or even to explore the archives of existing culture to find something worthwhile. There are tens of thousands of movies, some of them genuinely excellent, millions of books and I have no idea how many songs and other musical pieces in our current records. Some of them are bloody good. I'm pretty sure I'd sooner delve further into the works of Hitchcock, Rachmaninov or Joyce than watch the latest piece of disposable rubbish from Dan Browne, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. Maybe in fifty years, people will speak of Christopher Nolan or Moby or Terry Pratchett as great artists whose work is standing the test of time (though probably not!), but I'm pretty confident that Angels and Demons will be remembered only as a footnote in a one famous actor's career. Good riddance.
There is no doubt, or at least I hope, that there will arise a new system that will allow people to, in some way shape or form, pay those that produce literature, music or other forms of entertainment or art.
I've taken to using Randall Munroe as an example. He gives his comics away for free, and seems to make a living from appearance fees and merchandising. Then there's this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-sufficient_webcomics
Have you seen the latest trailer?
***POSSIBLE SPOILER***
It looks to me like Kirk takes over as captain when more senior crew are killed in action.
http://www.xkcd.com/552/
From TFA:
"Web crawlers can collect information on the drivers of ecosystem change, rather than the resultant ecological responses," they write.
Which assumes they have a good model of what's driving the changes in the first place. Of course, I presume data miners are well aware of these problems. Are there any experts on it here who can briefly describe how effective (or not) the current techniques are at sifting gold from the silt?
Your last sentence is clearly a joke. The rest of your post is ambiguous without either knowing you or seeing or hearing non-verbal cues. The mods seems to agree with me - not a single "+1 funny". This is why people use smilies. Or you could just keep communicating ambigously and sighing that people just don't get you.
It's so humiliating, isn't it? We can only win if the machines let us. I for one welcome...
Absolutely. I find it humiliating that a Howitzer can fling a shell further and faster than me, that my car is faster than I am (and can carry more weight) and that my calculator is faster and more accurate at arithmethic than I am.
Just read the article. I don't think he has a case - he was working under a agreement where he didn't have those right. I really doubt he'll win jack shit.
Are politics in the US so right-leaning that the very idea that someone might demand a percentage of the income derived from his work is worthy of a retarded comment like, "Are you high?" An author can sell his work for anything he likes. If they unionise, they can make demands for terms they wouldn't get individually. Hence the writers strike last(?) year.
I'm not amored with the idea of IP, but it's the business model the movie industry is built on. As long as that's the case, it's not in any way unreasonable for any of the creative people involved in it to look for profit-sharing as part or all of their pay. A fee for each showing of a movie or tv show made from your script is no different from how patents work.
Now, this is slashdot, so I haven't read TFA, so I don't know the specifics here: maybe there's no legal basis for this claim. I don't really care: I'm just annoyed at the parent's attitude.
You seem to be right, based on a random assortment of numbers from this site.
Interestingly, the numbers killed seem to be higher in rural areas in spite of this, which is more in line with my guess based on news reports over the years.
That's a very unique definition they have there.
I think he means honest in the sense of up front about what it was pushing. Ever seen Dragnet? There are episodes which consist largely of the main characters discussing the benefits of a certain brand of cigarettes, with its scientifically proven health benefits for the "mouth, throat and accessory organs".
I read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog, and while his time is subsidised by The Grauniad's running his column once a week, many of the related blogs, the ones he quotes when they've done some proper reporting, are not. I've seen some fairly substantial journalism on their pages. Here's a genuine random example. Yes, it's not Watergate, but it's carefully researched and not well covered by the normal media.