The grandparent didn't say there was anything wrong with paying for downloads, just paying the same. The costs to distribute an electronic version (i.e. no shipping, no retail staff, no retail floorspace, just bandwidth and storage), should be significantly less than a nice shiny plastic and metal version.
Thus if you're paying the same, you're paying too much.
You know things are starting to slip when it has to be explicitly pointed out in an article about an astronomic discovery that you can't drink the thing.
Other than jokingly, I wonder how many people thought "Cool, space booze!"?
It is obviously made of 5 (reasonably) identical parts, but I wonder if you can (in theory) make a robot of this type as longs as you want just by `tacking' on a new section (of course this ignores drive train problems).
That Ramanujan is refered to as `that Indian math guy'...
I thought this was news for nerds, sure maybe not everyone knows who Ramanujan was, but a good proportion should, at least enough that you don't have to demean him with a vague description.
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Don't listen to the parent!
It's part of the comspiracy! They're everywhere man!
Seriously though, it seems more likely that it was pulled because of internal reason at Google, rather than Apple playing Microsoft.
Most RPGs aren't played using miniatures, they're played using imagination, various comestibles, and if depending on the game some dice.
Once you're out of D&D land, miniatures make much less sense, as the games focus around actually playing through stories, not just hacking and slashing.
That rant aside, the map alone would be quite cool, though I've found that a piece of linoleum with hexes and a white-board marker worked particularly well, and is probably easier to edit than a computerised map.
The basic way to date ice samples is pretty similar to "endochronology"
(which is looking at tree rings to determine their age).
I think you mean dendrochronology. Unless you mean endocrinology, but that has little to do with trees. Endochronology would be a rather intriguing temporal effect, possibly involving relativistic effects.
As noted above, the article simplay says that retail stores are going out of business, nothing about a drop in sales in general. It could largely be iTunes and the like putting them out of business.
Naturally it's a mix of factors in reality.
Most people don't see any difference between the box that sits on their desktop at work today to the one that would have in 1980, let alone understand enough to make an exhibit like this interesting.
Apart from which Australia has a rather small, widely spread population, so niche markets are harder to sustain.
It's just not a viable private enterprise out here. Perhaps the Powerhouse Museum, which tends to focus on technology and industry, could aquire some of the better pieces.
Normally I think case mods are rather pointless, and really just an alternative form of masturbation, but this one impressed me. Talent, artistic flair, and attention to detail. Not your regular bunch of UV lights.
Fair use as law doesn't always exist in countries outside the U.S., for example, here in Australia, we are technically not allowed to record anything off the radio, or off television. Also we can't make any copies of a CD to protect it etc.. We can make one copy of a cassette or vinyl record, as they are easily damaged.
However these laws are generally ignored both by the citizenry and police.
...that I find scary, Australians (this admittedly being a generalisation that will attract much resistance) tend to have a much different view on things that Americans would call "Civil Liberties", that is, they tend to be more willing to sacrifice them for what is agreed to be the greater good (the "greater good" ofcourse being arguable and often transitive). This sentiment seems to be echoed in the U.K. (or is that Australia echoes the U.K?;) ). What I find most disturbing about it is that this legislation has been passed without any notification, this has not been a news item (at all to my knowledge), nor has there been any other public announcement of it. Even if I thought the legislation was a good thing, I do not wish to find out about it after the fact, when the process of reversal can be so difficult.
Read 'Data Structures and Algorithms in Java' by Goodrich and Tamassia (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/), it gives a good explanation of basic OO principles and their implementation in Java (which is what Java is supposedly for). It's about the only useful coding textbook I've encountered.
A company that doesn't exhibit the usual level of intelligence and knowledge expected in the linux community (or at least those associated with development).... a company that has no history, no accreditation of any sort... surely someone has just seen the possibility of making money out of this new fangled thing called Linux, so why not... Okay some people make a living out of offering support for Linux, but isn' this taking it a bit too far?
Does this mean we'll have to know matrix methods just to use our new X^n window managers?.....where did I put that file???.....have you checked the orthogonal plane?
I would hope that such a bill would be rejected. While there does need to be at some point some form of legally binding electronic signature, I don't think we're at the point where we have the technology to really support this. A normal signature and its individuality is based on the indiosyncrasies and mannerism of each human being and their fine motor systems, and requires a lot of practise if you ever hope to copy it, an electronic signature however, is merely a piece of data, which at this point is far too easily replicated and misused. The current technology just has too many security holes to allow it to be a viable alternative as an individual authentication device.
Recently (in an ethics course at University) we were asked if "The continued growth of the Online Society and the power it gives participants to create an augmented reality is a positive step for humankind. " I think the answer I gave in the debate is the same here, we must focus on the part that says IS a positive step, unfortunately most people seem to see one example of the usefulness and success of the internet and assume that the entire conglomeration is like this, where, in truth, there are both positives and negatives associated with it, and not just within the field. Take for example the stories found in J. Katz's Voices from the Hellmouth (somewhere on Slashdot), the internet can have a profound effect on society, unfortunately, people are slow to recognise that this isn't necessarily a good thing. The success of Silicon Valley is not the same as the success of society, or even America.
I understand what they're paying for, but if he's going to use Open Source resources, he should inform his customers that they can get it totally free, so they're completely informed of the situation. Making money isn't a sin? What if you're a Communist?
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The grandparent didn't say there was anything wrong with paying for downloads, just paying the same. The costs to distribute an electronic version (i.e. no shipping, no retail staff, no retail floorspace, just bandwidth and storage), should be significantly less than a nice shiny plastic and metal version.
Thus if you're paying the same, you're paying too much.
In an addendum to my dismay, a good chunk of the early posters don't seem to know the difference between methanol, methane and (worse) menthol.
You know things are starting to slip when it has to be explicitly pointed out in an article about an astronomic discovery that you can't drink the thing.
Other than jokingly, I wonder how many people thought "Cool, space booze!"?
How modular the design is.
It is obviously made of 5 (reasonably) identical parts, but I wonder if you can (in theory) make a robot of this type as longs as you want just by `tacking' on a new section (of course this ignores drive train problems).
That Ramanujan is refered to as `that Indian math guy'...
I thought this was news for nerds, sure maybe not everyone knows who Ramanujan was, but a good proportion should, at least enough that you don't have to demean him with a vague description.
Don't listen to the parent!
It's part of the comspiracy! They're everywhere man!
Seriously though, it seems more likely that it was pulled because of internal reason at Google, rather than Apple playing Microsoft.
Most RPGs aren't played using miniatures, they're played using imagination, various comestibles, and if depending on the game some dice.
Once you're out of D&D land, miniatures make much less sense, as the games focus around actually playing through stories, not just hacking and slashing.
That rant aside, the map alone would be quite cool, though I've found that a piece of linoleum with hexes and a white-board marker worked particularly well, and is probably easier to edit than a computerised map.
Don't desktops generally have something like that available called a spam filter?
To anyone who might know:
What is the difference between
The Meaning of Everything
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
and the book mentioned in the parent post?
I'm quite a fan of Winchester works, but he seems to have sqeezed this topic a little too much...
How are we going to maintain our separation from society (or should I say elitism) if anyone can just look up what the hell we mean??
I think you mean dendrochronology. Unless you mean endocrinology, but that has little to do with trees. Endochronology would be a rather intriguing temporal effect, possibly involving relativistic effects.
As noted above, the article simplay says that retail stores are going out of business, nothing about a drop in sales in general. It could largely be iTunes and the like putting them out of business.
Naturally it's a mix of factors in reality.
The probe is being deployed to Titan, not these two little specks (in an astronomical sense) of material.
Most people don't see any difference between the box that sits on their desktop at work today to the one that would have in 1980, let alone understand enough to make an exhibit like this interesting.
Apart from which Australia has a rather small, widely spread population, so niche markets are harder to sustain.
It's just not a viable private enterprise out here. Perhaps the Powerhouse Museum, which tends to focus on technology and industry, could aquire some of the better pieces.
Normally I think case mods are rather pointless, and really just an alternative form of masturbation, but this one impressed me. Talent, artistic flair, and attention to detail. Not your regular bunch of UV lights.
I'm fairly sure it's genuine, the paper it's based on was published in '96, and is sitting next to me right now.
At least I think that's real paper.
Fair use as law doesn't always exist in countries outside the U.S., for example, here in Australia, we are technically not allowed to record anything off the radio, or off television. Also we can't make any copies of a CD to protect it etc.. We can make one copy of a cassette or vinyl record, as they are easily damaged.
However these laws are generally ignored both by the citizenry and police.
...that I find scary, Australians (this admittedly being a generalisation that will attract much resistance) tend to have a much different view on things that Americans would call "Civil Liberties", that is, they tend to be more willing to sacrifice them for what is agreed to be the greater good (the "greater good" ofcourse being arguable and often transitive). This sentiment seems to be echoed in the U.K. (or is that Australia echoes the U.K? ;) ). What I find most disturbing about it is that this legislation has been passed without any notification, this has not been a news item (at all to my knowledge), nor has there been any other public announcement of it. Even if I thought the legislation was a good thing, I do not wish to find out about it after the fact, when the process of reversal can be so difficult.
Read 'Data Structures and Algorithms in Java' by Goodrich and Tamassia (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/), it gives a good explanation of basic OO principles and their implementation in Java (which is what Java is supposedly for). It's about the only useful coding textbook I've encountered.
A company that doesn't exhibit the usual level of intelligence and knowledge expected in the linux community (or at least those associated with development).... a company that has no history, no accreditation of any sort... surely someone has just seen the possibility of making money out of this new fangled thing called Linux, so why not... Okay some people make a living out of offering support for Linux, but isn' this taking it a bit too far?
Does this mean we'll have to know matrix methods just to use our new X^n window managers?.....where did I put that file???.....have you checked the orthogonal plane?
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I would hope that such a bill would be rejected. While there does need to be at some point some form of legally binding electronic signature, I don't think we're at the point where we have the technology to really support this. A normal signature and its individuality is based on the indiosyncrasies and mannerism of each human being and their fine motor systems, and requires a lot of practise if you ever hope to copy it, an electronic signature however, is merely a piece of data, which at this point is far too easily replicated and misused. The current technology just has too many security holes to allow it to be a viable alternative as an individual authentication device.
Recently (in an ethics course at University) we were asked if "The continued growth of the Online Society and the power it gives participants to create an augmented reality is a positive step for humankind. " I think the answer I gave in the debate is the same here, we must focus on the part that says IS a positive step, unfortunately most people seem to see one example of the usefulness and success of the internet and assume that the entire conglomeration is like this, where, in truth, there are both positives and negatives associated with it, and not just within the field. Take for example the stories found in J. Katz's Voices from the Hellmouth (somewhere on Slashdot), the internet can have a profound effect on society, unfortunately, people are slow to recognise that this isn't necessarily a good thing. The success of Silicon Valley is not the same as the success of society, or even America.
I understand what they're paying for, but if he's going to use Open Source resources, he should inform his customers that they can get it totally free, so they're completely informed of the situation. Making money isn't a sin? What if you're a Communist?