Yeah, sure, because I'm sure there's SOOOO many people who use BitTorrent only to download free linux ISOs and never ever download movies, series, porn, games, books, music.
Translation : the number of people who only do that are insignificant. It would be dishonest or delusional to disagree.
Regarding 1 and 2, all polls use that sample size, and pretty much all polls are weighted somehow. It doesn't necessarily make them less accurate. So you're really talking out of your arse.
The reason this story is important is that it may influence governmental policy and it's flawed... That's dangerous.
Not really. This poll and its weighting gives an accurate idea of the order of magnitude of the file sharing phenomenon. It might very well be 30% off, it doesn't matter much, it doesn't change the picture a lot. Besides, I believe it's in the interests of file sharers to appear as large a movement and as ubiquitous as possible. Governments tend to think twice before coming down hard on something that one out of 6 citizens do.
So much fail. Being in a habitable zone doesn't mean it has to be habitable (hint: habitable means "can be habited"). That's like being a hobo in a rich area, it doesn't mean it's dishonest to call it a rich area just because there's hobos in it. That's like confusing "global warming" for "uniform warming".
Yeah, sure, it's not like you need any education in English or Mathematics for computer science and statistics. OK, maybe you do, but you don't need to know any geography, history, French, science. It doesn't matter if you can't put the Caribbeans on a map, if you've ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte, if you're acquainted with no foreign culture or language, if you wouldn't know the Big Dipper if it came down from the sky to hit you upside the head or if you don't really know how female anatomy works.
Knowledge is useless if it doesn't directly pay back in money. It's not like anyone (let alone a woman) is going to care if you're fluent in Italian, if you have an interest in Renaissance art, if you can discuss about Stoic philosophy or if you have any artistic skills. All that matters is that you know how to do one thing and that it gets you a check every month. It doesn't matter if it makes you a unidimensional person, all that matters is that you earn a living.
Who do you think is going to be a better engineer someday?
B, because if you don't know how to multiply young enough you can't go on to learn more about the more advanced mathematics that you cannot do without to become an engineer. Mathematics aren't something you can wait until you're older to learn, mainly when there's so much to acquire. It also helps develop a reasoning for more abstract things.
Besides, how do you teach someone to be inquisitive, and how many man-hours does it take to "teach" that? Let me guess, nowhere near the same order or magnitude as the time kids spend in school?
But a school system that sacrifices the very best students in an effort to cater to the very worst
If you were that smart they should have made you skip a grade. That's what they did for me.
No need to point out that there's no such thing as unlimited, and that unlimited can be much more limited than you may expect. Last year I struggled looking through all the bullshit until I found nearlyfreespeech. They may lack important stuff like cron but at least they don't act like you're dumb enough to believe you can have a all you can eat bandwidth buffet for $5/month. Props to them for their business model, I wish they'd have more competition that would use the same approach (that is paying for just what you use).
That's pretty cool. I've always wanted to try to implement a digital deshaking algorithm by cutting a shot in lots of short exposures (i.e. the final exposure time would be the same but instead of being a long exposure it would be cut into a thousand shorter shots added together) that would work by correlating each new sub-frame with the sum of what was previously obtain, so that you can correct the shaking by adding the new sub frame at the position and with the angle it should have with respect to the image that's been put together so far. Do you think something like this could be achieved with a camera like that? The interest of this being that this is not just a post processing algorithm that works on the final raw, but obviously for that reason it might demand a pretty low level kind of access to the captor and even be computationally demanding.
Oh and don't even pay attention to people who say it's already done before, every time someone makes something quite novel but that's already been done in a way or another before there's always going to be a significant ratio of feedback that will consist in "X already did it before", even if what you did blows X out of the water and does a lot more and a lot better.
Well, the difference between my English and other people's English stems mostly from giving a special attention to grammar/syntax, making sure not to confuse then/than or they're/their/there (actually I believe it's easier to get confused with those if you're a native speaker) and proofreading. If anyone cared as much as I do about how my English looks things wouldn't seem as bad.
Also, chatting only got me so far as to be on par with American teenagers my age, further improvements came from other sources, such as watching CNN International, reading Wikipedia, watching Blackadder or even having long-winded arguments on Slashdot (yes, all the time I spent on Slashdot was actually not completely wasted).
Yeah, we assumed it might have to do with different behaviour from people, although it must be said that we're talking about very small birds, no one eats those.
growing up in the flourishing new internet culture
No offence but that's partially bullshit. I don't even know anyone in France who's ever heard of LOLcats. It only works for everybody who speaks English, but in many countries where they're not very good at English like Spain, France or Italy they tend to be more closed to what the Internet has to offer, culturally.
Also I'd like to enjoy the use of the culmination of mankind and the best thing we've ever done to insult your intelligence by telling you, you're a dumbass. If there's something the best thing we've ever done is good for, it's calling people overseas we've never seen before dumbasses, in real time.
Actually, that reminds me, I grew up in France and I never could approach a bird within 20 feet without them flying away, until I visited England and the same kind of birds would approach as close as two feet from you as long as you didn't move too much. I never thought much of it until someone else made the same observation after visiting England.
Now I don't see how the nationality of birds could possibly influence their behaviour towards people, but has anyone else even noticed this?
I said that a general progress rate has little meaning. Or verbatim, "I personally don't think that it means anything to talk about progress rate, and I even less believe that there is any sort of general trend, just sectors that get "bursts of progress" before stabilising. I find it silly to try to bring "progress of anything" into a unidimensional variable".
What amazes me is that it would be so hard for one to conceive that it's not easy/feasible to see an aggregate rate to all progress in absolutely everything. Talk about comparing apples and oranges, how many inventions of the automobile is the invention of the telephone worth? There's no real answer to that, and that's my point, you can't say "the invention of the telephone was more/less progress than the invention of the automobile", which would be the very strict minimum to start talking about the evolution of the rate of general progress.
Either measure is balls. And by balls I mean completely arbitrary.
Oh and your way to look at what can be done is balls too. Just take books. If you wanted to know about anything you either had to own an encyclopaedia or go to the library to consult one. They were usually out of date by several years (because who changes their encyclopaedia every year?), and quite thin on what they covered. Now you have free and ubiquitous access to the largest and constantly updated encyclopaedias possible (imagine Wikipedia printed into books), but you also get to read/search tons of books for free, dictionaries included, and on top of that you can have any text in any common language translated well enough so you can understand what it says.
Same for movies. Sure, people in the 1940s could go see a movie, but what could they see? Only what was in theaters, that's what. That's pretty fucking limited if you ask me. Whereas now you can watch the most obscure Soviet movie from the 1950s without lifting your arse out of your chair or spend a penny.
So yeah, the problem is that you look at the most basic things, like people being able to watch a movie, listen to music, talk over long distance, without any regard for the fact that these things have changed radically since then (can you imagine someone in France spending his free time making phone calls to strangers in the USA? For one thing back then it could take easily half an hour before you'd get connected to the number you were calling, and then you would have had to have incredibly deep pockets to do that, in other words that would be infeasible/unpractical) to the point they compare about as well as Neanderthal cuisine with modern French cuisine.
Yep, like I said to someone else after insulting his intelligence, that's like saying that there's nothing a car does that you couldn't do with a horse carriage. Does it make the car any less revolutionary?
Well, for a few years my written English looked more like "hey sup how u doin brb g2g ttyl". Fortunately all the tell tale signs of a language learnt on AIM are now gone. lol.
lol, yeah, I'm sure that the lawyers the EFF and its billions of dollars can afford are so much more skilled than those cheap ass RIAA can afford.
When you've got tons of cash and that your business plan consists in suing people, you get the best lawyers on Earth. Period.
It smells like a definite bias in favor of protecting the media, their copy privilege, and anti-home recording.
No, it's just you, you're a just another dumbass who only sees what he wants to see. Because no one out of Slashdot and the FOSS/pirating circlejerk gives a shit who these lawyers worked for before, because it's irrelevant to their work. You cretins seem oblivious to the fact that lawyers don't give a shit about nothing except winning.
Hydrogen car Hydrogen is a very crappy way to store electricity. No, it's not held back by oil companies, it's held by the fact that it'd be even worse than electric cars.
Flying cars Yeah, there are so many technical and practical issues with having flying cars it's not even funny.
Body parts Religious groups? Are you fucking kidding? What's their impact? Oh yeah, sure, they put a minor speed bump in the way of stem cell research. Let's blame them for not being yet able to grow replacement brains.
So major things have not happen because of GOD and MONEY that's it.
No, major things haven't happened because they're not yet possible, feasible or practical.
On a side note, you know who you sound like? Hyde from That '70s Show. "There is no gaz shortage man! It's all fake. The oil companies control everything! Like there's this guy who invented this car that runs on water man!"
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, sure, because I'm sure there's SOOOO many people who use BitTorrent only to download free linux ISOs and never ever download movies, series, porn, games, books, music.
Translation : the number of people who only do that are insignificant. It would be dishonest or delusional to disagree.
Regarding 1 and 2, all polls use that sample size, and pretty much all polls are weighted somehow. It doesn't necessarily make them less accurate. So you're really talking out of your arse.
The reason this story is important is that it may influence governmental policy and it's flawed... That's dangerous.
Not really. This poll and its weighting gives an accurate idea of the order of magnitude of the file sharing phenomenon. It might very well be 30% off, it doesn't matter much, it doesn't change the picture a lot. Besides, I believe it's in the interests of file sharers to appear as large a movement and as ubiquitous as possible. Governments tend to think twice before coming down hard on something that one out of 6 citizens do.
Excellent Summery
Statistics are hard, and so is gramer.
Hope you don't mind the obligatory Redundant moderation.
If you're going to space that's not going to be thanks to an exploration agency. NASA is to space tourism as Vasco de Gama is to Atlantic cruises.
So much fail. Being in a habitable zone doesn't mean it has to be habitable (hint: habitable means "can be habited"). That's like being a hobo in a rich area, it doesn't mean it's dishonest to call it a rich area just because there's hobos in it. That's like confusing "global warming" for "uniform warming".
Yeah, sure, it's not like you need any education in English or Mathematics for computer science and statistics. OK, maybe you do, but you don't need to know any geography, history, French, science. It doesn't matter if you can't put the Caribbeans on a map, if you've ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte, if you're acquainted with no foreign culture or language, if you wouldn't know the Big Dipper if it came down from the sky to hit you upside the head or if you don't really know how female anatomy works.
Knowledge is useless if it doesn't directly pay back in money. It's not like anyone (let alone a woman) is going to care if you're fluent in Italian, if you have an interest in Renaissance art, if you can discuss about Stoic philosophy or if you have any artistic skills. All that matters is that you know how to do one thing and that it gets you a check every month. It doesn't matter if it makes you a unidimensional person, all that matters is that you earn a living.
lol, this post is so full of lose.
Who do you think is going to be a better engineer someday?
B, because if you don't know how to multiply young enough you can't go on to learn more about the more advanced mathematics that you cannot do without to become an engineer. Mathematics aren't something you can wait until you're older to learn, mainly when there's so much to acquire. It also helps develop a reasoning for more abstract things.
Besides, how do you teach someone to be inquisitive, and how many man-hours does it take to "teach" that? Let me guess, nowhere near the same order or magnitude as the time kids spend in school?
But a school system that sacrifices the very best students in an effort to cater to the very worst
If you were that smart they should have made you skip a grade. That's what they did for me.
No need to point out that there's no such thing as unlimited, and that unlimited can be much more limited than you may expect. Last year I struggled looking through all the bullshit until I found nearlyfreespeech. They may lack important stuff like cron but at least they don't act like you're dumb enough to believe you can have a all you can eat bandwidth buffet for $5/month. Props to them for their business model, I wish they'd have more competition that would use the same approach (that is paying for just what you use).
That's pretty cool. I've always wanted to try to implement a digital deshaking algorithm by cutting a shot in lots of short exposures (i.e. the final exposure time would be the same but instead of being a long exposure it would be cut into a thousand shorter shots added together) that would work by correlating each new sub-frame with the sum of what was previously obtain, so that you can correct the shaking by adding the new sub frame at the position and with the angle it should have with respect to the image that's been put together so far. Do you think something like this could be achieved with a camera like that? The interest of this being that this is not just a post processing algorithm that works on the final raw, but obviously for that reason it might demand a pretty low level kind of access to the captor and even be computationally demanding.
Oh and don't even pay attention to people who say it's already done before, every time someone makes something quite novel but that's already been done in a way or another before there's always going to be a significant ratio of feedback that will consist in "X already did it before", even if what you did blows X out of the water and does a lot more and a lot better.
They don't eat fancy fish stews? Their loss.
Well, the difference between my English and other people's English stems mostly from giving a special attention to grammar/syntax, making sure not to confuse then/than or they're/their/there (actually I believe it's easier to get confused with those if you're a native speaker) and proofreading. If anyone cared as much as I do about how my English looks things wouldn't seem as bad.
Also, chatting only got me so far as to be on par with American teenagers my age, further improvements came from other sources, such as watching CNN International, reading Wikipedia, watching Blackadder or even having long-winded arguments on Slashdot (yes, all the time I spent on Slashdot was actually not completely wasted).
Yeah, we assumed it might have to do with different behaviour from people, although it must be said that we're talking about very small birds, no one eats those.
lol what?? Aren't you confusing us with the Chinese?
growing up in the flourishing new internet culture
No offence but that's partially bullshit. I don't even know anyone in France who's ever heard of LOLcats. It only works for everybody who speaks English, but in many countries where they're not very good at English like Spain, France or Italy they tend to be more closed to what the Internet has to offer, culturally.
Also I'd like to enjoy the use of the culmination of mankind and the best thing we've ever done to insult your intelligence by telling you, you're a dumbass. If there's something the best thing we've ever done is good for, it's calling people overseas we've never seen before dumbasses, in real time.
Actually, that reminds me, I grew up in France and I never could approach a bird within 20 feet without them flying away, until I visited England and the same kind of birds would approach as close as two feet from you as long as you didn't move too much. I never thought much of it until someone else made the same observation after visiting England.
Now I don't see how the nationality of birds could possibly influence their behaviour towards people, but has anyone else even noticed this?
I said that a general progress rate has little meaning. Or verbatim, "I personally don't think that it means anything to talk about progress rate, and I even less believe that there is any sort of general trend, just sectors that get "bursts of progress" before stabilising. I find it silly to try to bring "progress of anything" into a unidimensional variable".
What amazes me is that it would be so hard for one to conceive that it's not easy/feasible to see an aggregate rate to all progress in absolutely everything. Talk about comparing apples and oranges, how many inventions of the automobile is the invention of the telephone worth? There's no real answer to that, and that's my point, you can't say "the invention of the telephone was more/less progress than the invention of the automobile", which would be the very strict minimum to start talking about the evolution of the rate of general progress.
Either measure is balls. And by balls I mean completely arbitrary.
Oh and your way to look at what can be done is balls too. Just take books. If you wanted to know about anything you either had to own an encyclopaedia or go to the library to consult one. They were usually out of date by several years (because who changes their encyclopaedia every year?), and quite thin on what they covered. Now you have free and ubiquitous access to the largest and constantly updated encyclopaedias possible (imagine Wikipedia printed into books), but you also get to read/search tons of books for free, dictionaries included, and on top of that you can have any text in any common language translated well enough so you can understand what it says.
Same for movies. Sure, people in the 1940s could go see a movie, but what could they see? Only what was in theaters, that's what. That's pretty fucking limited if you ask me. Whereas now you can watch the most obscure Soviet movie from the 1950s without lifting your arse out of your chair or spend a penny.
So yeah, the problem is that you look at the most basic things, like people being able to watch a movie, listen to music, talk over long distance, without any regard for the fact that these things have changed radically since then (can you imagine someone in France spending his free time making phone calls to strangers in the USA? For one thing back then it could take easily half an hour before you'd get connected to the number you were calling, and then you would have had to have incredibly deep pockets to do that, in other words that would be infeasible/unpractical) to the point they compare about as well as Neanderthal cuisine with modern French cuisine.
Yep, like I said to someone else after insulting his intelligence, that's like saying that there's nothing a car does that you couldn't do with a horse carriage. Does it make the car any less revolutionary?
Well, for a few years my written English looked more like "hey sup how u doin brb g2g ttyl". Fortunately all the tell tale signs of a language learnt on AIM are now gone. lol.
You're a dumbass. Your post amounts to something like "Cars? Can't you do all that they do with a horse carriage?".
lol, yeah, I'm sure that the lawyers the EFF and its billions of dollars can afford are so much more skilled than those cheap ass RIAA can afford.
When you've got tons of cash and that your business plan consists in suing people, you get the best lawyers on Earth. Period.
It smells like a definite bias in favor of protecting the media, their copy privilege, and anti-home recording.
No, it's just you, you're a just another dumbass who only sees what he wants to see. Because no one out of Slashdot and the FOSS/pirating circlejerk gives a shit who these lawyers worked for before, because it's irrelevant to their work. You cretins seem oblivious to the fact that lawyers don't give a shit about nothing except winning.
Nice try, I'm a socialist.
Hydrogen car Hydrogen is a very crappy way to store electricity. No, it's not held back by oil companies, it's held by the fact that it'd be even worse than electric cars.
Flying cars Yeah, there are so many technical and practical issues with having flying cars it's not even funny.
Body parts Religious groups? Are you fucking kidding? What's their impact? Oh yeah, sure, they put a minor speed bump in the way of stem cell research. Let's blame them for not being yet able to grow replacement brains.
So major things have not happen because of GOD and MONEY that's it.
No, major things haven't happened because they're not yet possible, feasible or practical.
On a side note, you know who you sound like? Hyde from That '70s Show. "There is no gaz shortage man! It's all fake. The oil companies control everything! Like there's this guy who invented this car that runs on water man!"