Maybe some of these people were/are looking for lucrative government contracts? I'd bet there is a lot of money being thrown around to 'consultants' over Wikileaks anyway.
I doubt they'll ever make their way here. Slash-dotters aren't against the US, but against stupidity in many forms (that just tends to be our leading export)...and Apple.
Art critics are the zealots of a religion. They look for some spark of divinity in the product of man's efforts but like all other religions fail to substantively prove their point. What is divine and what is not? What is ART and what is not? I suppose our unelected clergy might be able to tell us!
It is up to every human on the planet to decide for themselves what they consider to be art. To believe otherwise is to become sheep bound mindlessly to a misguided flock.
I might actually develop a website that takes advantage of what the IE9 has to offer, until then I'll be stuck developing for the lowest common denominator between IE/Firefox/Webkit/Opera.
If the politics can be put aside (always the gotcha with international bodies) it could work but I doubt will happen unless there is a clear unifying goal that adds some level of urgency (i.e. "some impending disaster that necessitates us going to space").
"NASA has efforts underway to develop an American-made commercial capability for crew transportation and rescue services to the station following this year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet."
Seems like a lot of people missed this part, but is there any real information on these efforts? I know there have been private-sector developments in space flight (Virgin for example), but are there any examples, prototypes, or even a rough napkin-sketches on what these new "crew transportation and rescue services" will look like?
Because that level of circular logic may eventually lead to a paradox that destroys the universe? Okay, maybe not, but when the DHS helps prosecute a case against the DHS I'll be really confused on who to root for.
Actually, my generalization (and yes, like almost all generalizations there will be edge cases) may hold true, thought not quite yet, which is why I didn't slam the door shut unequivocally. It is interesting to me that my comment triggered such emotional responses in a few people here. While being a little trollish, I really wanted to see where a lot of people would run with my admittedly obtuse statement.
To many people Moore's Law is an unalterable universal truth but many of the current projections have it falling apart soon, if it hasn't been dis-proven already. I feel the same way about the hard drive issue. In general, the majority of computer users today are not saddled with a need that demands steadily larger and larger storage mediums. People who compress large movie libraries to a single hard drive or store vast amounts of astronomical or scientific data are not the norm. With the advent of cloud computing and increasing bandwidth across the states, I just feel that eventually client-side data may even go into decline for the majority of users. There are a lot of maintenance and risk associated with storing everything locally without good fail-safes or a clear backup plan that cloud-based services will eventually offload from many users as well.
Certainly, this is a long-term theory that will be played out over the next ten years or more, but to say that we will continue to expand the need for hard drive space infinitely seems to be more obtuse (at least to me) than even my original provocative thought.
Well, I see at least that you subscribe to your own philosophies so I can't call you a hypocrite. And really, did I miss the point when I said I was going to go punch someone or simply just running to the end of moral decay where it gets really ugly. Your point was taken and returned in jest - to bad you didn't get it. We can at least agree on one thing. This conversation is going nowhere.
Was it the word "Cyber-hoarders" that managed to tick people off so much? I'm pretty sure no one is offended by being called a porn addict. Personally, I'm moving most of my data off-site but it is true I don't rip videos all that often. I generally don't buy them and streaming here is fast enough that the quality difference is negligible. Point to those with crappy bandwidth and massive (non-porn) movie collections.
...I forget what is on it all the time. Sometimes I wander across some forgotten directory and it is like discovering a secret treasure trove, but usually it is junk. I'm not prepared to say "We'll never need more than 3TBs of hard drive space," but aside from cyber-hoarders, porn addicts, and legitimate business uses, the supply of hard disk space has clearly exceeded the demand.
No, but what goes around comes around. I have no idea on whether or not the ruling is correct but people are painting him as some sort of 'nice-guy' getting victimized by a corrupt system. And yes, if he acted like an ass in court, I expect he elicited little sympathy from the jury.
Doing just 5 minutes of research, I confirmed what I suspected. Northside is a blogger-activist-vigilante. Really, he is a total jerk who spends a considerable amount of time attacking anyone he doesn't like. Basically, he is a troll who took off the mask. I'm not real happy with the legal precedence this might set but no one should think he is some perfectly innocent blogger who is getting bullied around. Really, it is the other way around - he is getting fined for his own bullying, aggressive, tactics.
If someone could figure out a technology that would allow me to forget things like "2 Girls 1 Cup" while allowing everything else to remain intact, I'd be eternally grateful.
My opinion is yes. It was a system that was never conceived to fairly handle millions of domain names. "First come first serve" sounds like a fair system, but in fact it is a poor system that encourages a land-rush mentality over something that essentially should be free. It is a false commodity that is being perpetuated by early adopters (and ICANN of course) and should be deprecated. No one should control domain names, they should be done away with entirely. If I am looking for "Bob's Deli in Washington DC", I'd rather just have a search engine figure out what I meant instead of having to remember some lame domain name like "bobsdelicatessenandbagels.us" because THIS Bob's Deli was the umpteenth deli to try to register the same domain name. Might as well just remember an IP address at that point.
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Do NOT, I repeat do NOT, outsource any of the research or implementation of the Super Large Hadron Collider to anyone living in or around Moscow.
Maybe some of these people were/are looking for lucrative government contracts? I'd bet there is a lot of money being thrown around to 'consultants' over Wikileaks anyway.
I doubt they'll ever make their way here. Slash-dotters aren't against the US, but against stupidity in many forms (that just tends to be our leading export)...and Apple.
...you should probably ignore all of those friend requests you are suddenly getting.
Art critics are the zealots of a religion. They look for some spark of divinity in the product of man's efforts but like all other religions fail to substantively prove their point. What is divine and what is not? What is ART and what is not? I suppose our unelected clergy might be able to tell us!
It is up to every human on the planet to decide for themselves what they consider to be art. To believe otherwise is to become sheep bound mindlessly to a misguided flock.
Thank you node 3. That is exactly what I meant, in fact, you said it even better.
I might actually develop a website that takes advantage of what the IE9 has to offer, until then I'll be stuck developing for the lowest common denominator between IE/Firefox/Webkit/Opera.
"I don't know how you missed the launch last year."
Thanks. I was very busy...under my rock.
In principle, yes. In practicality, probably not.
If the politics can be put aside (always the gotcha with international bodies) it could work but I doubt will happen unless there is a clear unifying goal that adds some level of urgency (i.e. "some impending disaster that necessitates us going to space").
"NASA has efforts underway to develop an American-made commercial capability for crew transportation and rescue services to the station following this year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet."
Seems like a lot of people missed this part, but is there any real information on these efforts? I know there have been private-sector developments in space flight (Virgin for example), but are there any examples, prototypes, or even a rough napkin-sketches on what these new "crew transportation and rescue services" will look like?
That is a lot to pay for economy class. Do they at least get an in-flight movie or a boxed lunch?
Because that level of circular logic may eventually lead to a paradox that destroys the universe? Okay, maybe not, but when the DHS helps prosecute a case against the DHS I'll be really confused on who to root for.
Actually, my generalization (and yes, like almost all generalizations there will be edge cases) may hold true, thought not quite yet, which is why I didn't slam the door shut unequivocally. It is interesting to me that my comment triggered such emotional responses in a few people here. While being a little trollish, I really wanted to see where a lot of people would run with my admittedly obtuse statement. To many people Moore's Law is an unalterable universal truth but many of the current projections have it falling apart soon, if it hasn't been dis-proven already. I feel the same way about the hard drive issue. In general, the majority of computer users today are not saddled with a need that demands steadily larger and larger storage mediums. People who compress large movie libraries to a single hard drive or store vast amounts of astronomical or scientific data are not the norm. With the advent of cloud computing and increasing bandwidth across the states, I just feel that eventually client-side data may even go into decline for the majority of users. There are a lot of maintenance and risk associated with storing everything locally without good fail-safes or a clear backup plan that cloud-based services will eventually offload from many users as well. Certainly, this is a long-term theory that will be played out over the next ten years or more, but to say that we will continue to expand the need for hard drive space infinitely seems to be more obtuse (at least to me) than even my original provocative thought.
I'm sure this will be a big help in identifying and prosecuting copyright infringements.
Well, I see at least that you subscribe to your own philosophies so I can't call you a hypocrite. And really, did I miss the point when I said I was going to go punch someone or simply just running to the end of moral decay where it gets really ugly. Your point was taken and returned in jest - to bad you didn't get it. We can at least agree on one thing. This conversation is going nowhere.
Yeah, you're right. Civility is a dead concept. Decent people suck! I think I'll go punch someone now.
Was it the word "Cyber-hoarders" that managed to tick people off so much? I'm pretty sure no one is offended by being called a porn addict. Personally, I'm moving most of my data off-site but it is true I don't rip videos all that often. I generally don't buy them and streaming here is fast enough that the quality difference is negligible. Point to those with crappy bandwidth and massive (non-porn) movie collections.
...I forget what is on it all the time. Sometimes I wander across some forgotten directory and it is like discovering a secret treasure trove, but usually it is junk. I'm not prepared to say "We'll never need more than 3TBs of hard drive space," but aside from cyber-hoarders, porn addicts, and legitimate business uses, the supply of hard disk space has clearly exceeded the demand.
Understood, which is why I said, "I'm not real happy with the legal precedence this might set."
No, but what goes around comes around. I have no idea on whether or not the ruling is correct but people are painting him as some sort of 'nice-guy' getting victimized by a corrupt system. And yes, if he acted like an ass in court, I expect he elicited little sympathy from the jury.
Doing just 5 minutes of research, I confirmed what I suspected. Northside is a blogger-activist-vigilante. Really, he is a total jerk who spends a considerable amount of time attacking anyone he doesn't like. Basically, he is a troll who took off the mask. I'm not real happy with the legal precedence this might set but no one should think he is some perfectly innocent blogger who is getting bullied around. Really, it is the other way around - he is getting fined for his own bullying, aggressive, tactics.
Ahhh Bill, we'll never let you live that one down ;)
*gasp* Who would have thunk it? People knew that the moment the iPhone came on the scene, and they STILL stink!
If someone could figure out a technology that would allow me to forget things like "2 Girls 1 Cup" while allowing everything else to remain intact, I'd be eternally grateful.
My opinion is yes. It was a system that was never conceived to fairly handle millions of domain names. "First come first serve" sounds like a fair system, but in fact it is a poor system that encourages a land-rush mentality over something that essentially should be free. It is a false commodity that is being perpetuated by early adopters (and ICANN of course) and should be deprecated. No one should control domain names, they should be done away with entirely. If I am looking for "Bob's Deli in Washington DC", I'd rather just have a search engine figure out what I meant instead of having to remember some lame domain name like "bobsdelicatessenandbagels.us" because THIS Bob's Deli was the umpteenth deli to try to register the same domain name. Might as well just remember an IP address at that point.