This summary reads like something out of The Day After Tomorrow, or perhaps Star Trek: Voyager. Not-so-modest scientist-type locks himself in his lab for weeks, and when he emerges, he declares imminent danger with precise details. "You gotta believe me" drama builds up, and rather than reason about the merits and risks of an evacuation like competent professionals, the powers that be stifle free expression and rational discussion. The establishment declares the lone scientist a heretic or sadist or narcissist, while he calls the leaders fascists or ignorami or wicked. And so on, and so on.
So at what point does Captain Janeway come in to offer her assistance, in the form of a deus ex machina technobabble fix? And which city official goes mad and tries to kill everyone before sealing his own destruction, serving as a warning to everyone left alive?
What about neutronium? According to wikipedia, it can now legitimately be used to refer to neutron-degenerate matter - i.e., neutrons that are packed so densely that Pauli's exclusion principle becomes a significant factor - found in the cores of their like-named stars.
I had an old nokia brick for many (~7) years. It had a thick yet small screen, just as the phone itself was thick (maybe an inch). It supposedly had "games" and a "web browser" according to the menu, but I doubt it did anything well besides making calls and storing my contacts list, which was all I needed it for. I dropped it many times, and at one point was pushed into a pool while it was in my pocket, and it lasted and lasted. I only "upgraded" because the battery life had deteriorated down to a couple days and I wanted something with support for a bluetooth headset.
I figured I'd give Nokia another shot for my next phone. The fact that they own Trolltech made it even easier for me to give them my money. But I found that everything I liked about my old phone was a consequence of the time in which it was made, and not of the company in particular.
My new phone is a thin and light if somewhat awkward brick. The battery life is only marginally better than my old phone when it was at its worst. And it's impossible to not notice that basic tasks are less optimized for than before - when dialing a number, it's not formatted/line-wrapped in a sensible way. It takes longer to startup and shutdown and it's less responsive to button presses.
Yet I don't want to pay more money for a phone ($80 for this one), and I don't want more features or a better processor. I just want a snappier interface and longer battery life.
Hopefully in a few years the manufacturers will realize that.
I was always confused on when and even whether an openmoko phone would emerge that's suitable for use by a normal end-user in the US. Between the GSM chipset only supporting tri-band, news of various hardware defects that would require developer-grade patience to work around, and rumblings over the years suggesting that there would soon be more openness in the mobile smartphone market, I just never saw any opportunity to give them my money.
As for the base of the number, nothing in the parents post indicated its origin and I had no reason to assume it would be an odd number. The grandparent had a score of 0 and was hidden.
Ah, but what if someone posts 140 characters of text that encodes a copyrightable program? DMCA takedown time! Or should I say DMCA anti-circumvention clause time?
Is that a registered copyright for each one? According to the U.S. Copyright Office, an "Online registration of a basic claim in an original work of authorship" costs $35. So let's pull out the old adding machine and multiply 35 by 128^140, and...
We've crossed beyond the realm of the astronomical and into something else entirely. Surely you meant several orders of magnitude, aka, hundreds of thousands of times? Let's keep things on this side of the googol.
But the argument they're trying to make (having not RTFA) is atrocious, even if it has legal merit. The notion that copyright infringement online doesn't *exist*, because as a technical matter information is shared in an incremental and quantized way, offends common sense and reason. It's not even necessary to ennumerate the other kinds of bogus claims you'd be able to make if such a ruling were supported, to see the madness.
I'm not trying to say anything about iiNet or the scope of their fight, because I know nothing of it. I'm just saying that I hope that particular line of "reasoning" is never sustained.
I hope so. The summary lays it out as if this were a legitimate stand for consumer rights against evil corporations. If our best defense comes down to mincing semantics, then we're fucked, and rightfully so.
I currently have a Das Keyboard (III). I'm thinking the next time I need another board I'll give Unicomp a try for comparison.
I have a Lexmark-made IBM keyboard in my house. It's worn out a bit but it's buckling spring and thus still has its dignity. I understand this is the design that Unicomp now owns. I think the Das may be slightly better than it, but that could be psychological given that it's priced as a high-end item. Certainly the Das is sleeker in black and blue-led, but then again, one cannot possibly insult a Model M's elegance on any account.
The single best keyboard I've ever put my fingers to is the one made by IBM before Lexmark started doing them. I have one in my house from an old XT, and I used one on my uncle's Portable PC (this one actually connected with an RJ11 terminal!). This is old enough that the function keys are all on the left side. It's still made as strong as a tank. And the touch is just unbelievable, smoother than even the Das - I swear, angels sing when I type on it. It's just downright beautiful.
But I wouldn't actually use this particular board today, because of the layout differences and the fact that I'd need an adaptor for the AT connector. Does anyone know if the original Model M keyswitch design is still in use anywhere? Can anyone who's used one of the old ones weigh in as to the differences between it and the Lexmark/Unicomp ones?
It also furthers the notion that the best way to achieve results is with stronger absolutism, no matter what else is sacrificed. An depressingly appropriate moral for the political climate we live in.
I'm confused about why the strength of the prescription matters, aside for political reasons. If one of those pills is as strong as two Advil, couldn't kids just carry around two bottles of Advil, etc.? How is there a fundamental difference in the harm it's capable of inflicting, giving the policy makers the benefit of the doubt?
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This summary reads like something out of The Day After Tomorrow, or perhaps Star Trek: Voyager. Not-so-modest scientist-type locks himself in his lab for weeks, and when he emerges, he declares imminent danger with precise details. "You gotta believe me" drama builds up, and rather than reason about the merits and risks of an evacuation like competent professionals, the powers that be stifle free expression and rational discussion. The establishment declares the lone scientist a heretic or sadist or narcissist, while he calls the leaders fascists or ignorami or wicked. And so on, and so on.
So at what point does Captain Janeway come in to offer her assistance, in the form of a deus ex machina technobabble fix? And which city official goes mad and tries to kill everyone before sealing his own destruction, serving as a warning to everyone left alive?
What about neutronium? According to wikipedia, it can now legitimately be used to refer to neutron-degenerate matter - i.e., neutrons that are packed so densely that Pauli's exclusion principle becomes a significant factor - found in the cores of their like-named stars.
You didn't even refrigerate it, you spineless lobster!
I hope nobody who isn't trolling still spouts "GPL is viral".
"Watch out, there's a GPL epidemic going around. It's gonna getcha! Hide all your software and practice safe linking!"
I had an old nokia brick for many (~7) years. It had a thick yet small screen, just as the phone itself was thick (maybe an inch). It supposedly had "games" and a "web browser" according to the menu, but I doubt it did anything well besides making calls and storing my contacts list, which was all I needed it for. I dropped it many times, and at one point was pushed into a pool while it was in my pocket, and it lasted and lasted. I only "upgraded" because the battery life had deteriorated down to a couple days and I wanted something with support for a bluetooth headset.
I figured I'd give Nokia another shot for my next phone. The fact that they own Trolltech made it even easier for me to give them my money. But I found that everything I liked about my old phone was a consequence of the time in which it was made, and not of the company in particular.
My new phone is a thin and light if somewhat awkward brick. The battery life is only marginally better than my old phone when it was at its worst. And it's impossible to not notice that basic tasks are less optimized for than before - when dialing a number, it's not formatted/line-wrapped in a sensible way. It takes longer to startup and shutdown and it's less responsive to button presses.
Yet I don't want to pay more money for a phone ($80 for this one), and I don't want more features or a better processor. I just want a snappier interface and longer battery life.
Hopefully in a few years the manufacturers will realize that.
I was always confused on when and even whether an openmoko phone would emerge that's suitable for use by a normal end-user in the US. Between the GSM chipset only supporting tri-band, news of various hardware defects that would require developer-grade patience to work around, and rumblings over the years suggesting that there would soon be more openness in the mobile smartphone market, I just never saw any opportunity to give them my money.
Damnit, now all I can think of is that robot chicken sketch.
Interesting. Has there been any documented case where this knowledge has been particularly useful or of great consequence?
Entertained, please.
Also, I was modded overrated? Weak.
Isn't it a bit in poor taste to mix the April Fools reporting with a legitimate topic that is supposed to be newsworthy today?
It's still a refreshing way to realize today's date. This was the first headline I saw and it succeeded in giving me a WTF moment.
I was using the parent's word, "combinations".
As for the base of the number, nothing in the parents post indicated its origin and I had no reason to assume it would be an odd number. The grandparent had a score of 0 and was hidden.
Ah, but what if someone posts 140 characters of text that encodes a copyrightable program? DMCA takedown time! Or should I say DMCA anti-circumvention clause time?
No, it means in order for it to be an issue, people would have to give enough of a shit about it to copy.
Why can't people read?
I call shenanigans on your keyboard mashing. You made the number of combinations an odd number.
We must boost the number of pages by a factor of one to the tenth power.
(/spock)
Is that a registered copyright for each one? According to the U.S. Copyright Office, an "Online registration of a basic claim in an original work of authorship" costs $35. So let's pull out the old adding machine and multiply 35 by 128^140, and...
Oh my.
Konqueror has this feature as well. It calls them "web shortcuts".
several hundred thousand orders of magnitude
We've crossed beyond the realm of the astronomical and into something else entirely. Surely you meant several orders of magnitude, aka, hundreds of thousands of times? Let's keep things on this side of the googol.
But the argument they're trying to make (having not RTFA) is atrocious, even if it has legal merit. The notion that copyright infringement online doesn't *exist*, because as a technical matter information is shared in an incremental and quantized way, offends common sense and reason. It's not even necessary to ennumerate the other kinds of bogus claims you'd be able to make if such a ruling were supported, to see the madness.
I'm not trying to say anything about iiNet or the scope of their fight, because I know nothing of it. I'm just saying that I hope that particular line of "reasoning" is never sustained.
Brother, could you spare a downmod?
I hope so. The summary lays it out as if this were a legitimate stand for consumer rights against evil corporations. If our best defense comes down to mincing semantics, then we're fucked, and rightfully so.
I currently have a Das Keyboard (III). I'm thinking the next time I need another board I'll give Unicomp a try for comparison.
I have a Lexmark-made IBM keyboard in my house. It's worn out a bit but it's buckling spring and thus still has its dignity. I understand this is the design that Unicomp now owns. I think the Das may be slightly better than it, but that could be psychological given that it's priced as a high-end item. Certainly the Das is sleeker in black and blue-led, but then again, one cannot possibly insult a Model M's elegance on any account.
The single best keyboard I've ever put my fingers to is the one made by IBM before Lexmark started doing them. I have one in my house from an old XT, and I used one on my uncle's Portable PC (this one actually connected with an RJ11 terminal!). This is old enough that the function keys are all on the left side. It's still made as strong as a tank. And the touch is just unbelievable, smoother than even the Das - I swear, angels sing when I type on it. It's just downright beautiful.
But I wouldn't actually use this particular board today, because of the layout differences and the fact that I'd need an adaptor for the AT connector. Does anyone know if the original Model M keyswitch design is still in use anywhere? Can anyone who's used one of the old ones weigh in as to the differences between it and the Lexmark/Unicomp ones?
It also furthers the notion that the best way to achieve results is with stronger absolutism, no matter what else is sacrificed. An depressingly appropriate moral for the political climate we live in.
I'm confused about why the strength of the prescription matters, aside for political reasons. If one of those pills is as strong as two Advil, couldn't kids just carry around two bottles of Advil, etc.? How is there a fundamental difference in the harm it's capable of inflicting, giving the policy makers the benefit of the doubt?