We're not talking about loosening the rules, we are talking about tightening them up.
Pronounciation drift? -> Mapping spoken to written helps stop that, adding intelligibility.
Word evolution? -> Learning the Latin roots and word fragments has always revealed greater understanding. We can pass on the same benefit by putting similar structure in English... especially if those fragments are always spoken and spelled the same way.
Impossible to validate? -> I'm not sure what you mean here, as any desktop could validate massive amounts of text. I don't think anyone is proposing ad-hoc spelling, just map 42 sounds to 42 letter combos --- done!
Although it looks funny at first, you can decipher it even if you're not used to it. Think of the benefits.
Come on moderators, insightful is when you realize WHY the US has such trouble with spelling.
We have for centuries been a melting pot. We have done quite well to memorize such a massive number of words and word fragments coming from pretty much every nation on the map.
The studies show that people recognize groups of letters, not specific sequences of letters. That's why we have to stop and think whether that 't' should be there or not when writing. There are no rules to help us spell. It is ALL rote memorization then that allows us to be 'literate'.
Now on the down side of switching, this means that we would have to re-memorize spellings, not always a pleasant task, particularly for older folks who may have slower learning curves.
OTOH, with this new system, we get the benefit of using rules. Simply learn the letter combinations that make up the 42 sounds, and off we go. We also eliminate future questions that invariably arise when translating languages. The examples in the article slowed me down to half speed, but they weren't impossible. By th tim yu get thru tu or thre Tom Clancy nawvlz, yu wownt hav enee problumz.
The secret/. handshake consists of the thumb placed over the Alt key,
the index finger curled under to hit the Ctrl key,
and the middle finger reaching out to get the Delete key.
When you become a 5th level/.'er, you simultaneously cup a left-handed mouse.
I would tell you more, but then my account would have to be killed for my indescretion.
The difference is that the image and the message are transmitted separately. This means that you can publicly send a large data set (say a CD full of images) and then privately send information that will decode a message. The private part only has meaning when applied to the proper public image. Perhaps this means one could use an image as a password...
Theo has been going the rounds with them for some time. I suspect that Hifn has made a recent change (perhaps just to toss him a bone), and that Theo's numbers were previously accurate.
The non-water molecules bounce off the screen back into the feed tank. So then the extra salty water sinks (I think) to the bottom of the tank, where an exit tube takes it back into the ocean.
I refuse to watch commercials, and product placement in your story WILL distract you. Do you want your latest Tom Clancy to include a plug for eyeglasses, there in the middle of chapter 17?
I sure as hell can't accept product placement in "The Village", it just doesn't WORK! I watch movies to escape, not to check the irrelevant list-of-things-I-haven't-bought-yet.
This reminds me of the worst virus I've dealt with. You might have heard of it, it's called WindowsXP. It has an amazing ability to propogate itself using social engineering, and Ooooohhhh it's a nasty one. It takes over your hardware and refuses to do what you need until you get "permission" from some bot in Redmond.
Lately I too am finding that all my friends are asking me to help get rid of it.
What's more surprising is that the Microsoft Marketing "Geniuses" missed the boat selling THIS four years ago instead of the BS programs they did try to shove down our throats.
I'm sorry, but as much as I would like to agree with you, "Theft" is a term with very specific legal definitions. If the **AA lobbyists get it defined in a way you don't like, then you either have to stick with the definition or be misunderstood. Another example, "to steal" means to "take without permission".
I really don't have a problem admitting that I stole some bits yesterday. I recommend that you not have a problem with it either, since the losses are only legally contrived. OTOH, if I owe someone some money for their service, I would like them to get paid.
Quit worrying whether the finger pointers call you a thief. Instead work on a better legal definition of theft. As long as the law allows **AA to convert imagined intellectual property into physical property, we have a painful imbalance. I'm happy to pay them for their services, but I'm through paying them for their money presses.
Correct! That is the key, will a person decide to be part of a society or not?
If rights are given, and nobody gave you that right, you should be punished.
You assume far too much. Forget for a moment the machine we call government or you won't be able to see the forest for the trees. There is a step that happens
before a social contract can be created.
The only "inalienable" right is the right to act. I choose to type torrent commands on this keyboard, drive home over the speed limit or assault my next door neighbor for throwing trash on my lawn. It's my neighbor's choice to respect property (or not), and it's my choice how to respond.
All the kings horses and all the kings men could use huge resources to try to force my neighbor to not throw trash on my lawn, but if he's resourceful he will still be able to do it. He might hire someone else to trash my lawn even if he were in jail. He has withdrawn (in your words: taken) my right to property. This has nothing to do with God, it only involves people who come in contact with one another.
Rights cannot be taken, they can only be given.
That's obviously wrong. Whatever authority gave you rights can obviously take them back.
Yes, you are obviously correct in YOUR context. In MY context, the only right that exists is the right to action. That right cannot be taken short of murder. All other rights are derived rights, and they are either granted or revoked by those we deal with. The idea of someone reaching out to "take back our rights" is based on complete illogic and misunderstanding.
In summary, what's really going on here, is that we the people granted a right to publishers, a temporary monopoly called copyright. The publishers then abused that right and turned around to deny us the right to enjoy knowledge and creative works.
Stop the abuse! IT IS TIME TO REVOKE THE COPYRIGHT!
I understand what you're saying, but using the phrase...
'I view as humans have "every" right to "everything".'... will be confusing to most people. Captain Jack Sparrow put it much better...
"There are only 2 things, what a man CAN do, and what a man DOES do."
The term "right to life" is a terribly truncated sound bite. What's really going on is that a nation decides that there are sufficient cons to murder that they put extensive resources into avoiding it and punishing it if it happens anyway.
At the end of the day though, no matter what others do, I choose my own actions, be it strangling someone or copying something without putting another $17 in the jar. The responses to our actions are what we collectively call rights. Rights cannot be taken, they can only be given.
Yes, there are safety issues with wireless, but...
Many have been quick to dismiss this as complete crockery. Have any of you naysayers ever hefted the cabling which goes into even a small jet?
There is a reason they got funding for such a "whacky" idea.
If you could reduce everything EXCEPT the aileron, elevator and rudder controls -- to wireless, you have saved hundreds if not thousands of pounds of wiring... even from the small jets!
This means:
Less fuel for same flight or
More people for same flight or
More cargo for same flight or
Longer flight for same configuration AND
Quicker, less expensive purchase, install and maintenance.
Those wires REALLY DO COST A LOT folks!
Quit worrying so much about the safety. Every avionics firm has dedicated safety engineers. They are expert. They know what to look for. They know which requirements are really important in order to get you home in one piece.
You might be surprised to know that it is sometimes tougher to get the hardware or the software to be qualified for safety than to harden a wireless network against attack.
the editor took a lot of "artistic liberty" in calling it water. They are actually using hydroxyl (OH) ions. Freezing won't be an issue at all here. It wouldn't surprise me if it ends up working at whatever temperature range the read/write transistors can handle.
Large arrays of nano wires seems very feasible. I'm crossing my fingers.
"and make people slave because it's "cool" and people want to be in it. Sad really."
False.
Because game programming has non-monetary benefits, the employers can indeed pay lower and pressure for more hours. Did they truly MAKE them do it though? Of course not.
If you don't like the job, then the responsibility is YOURS to renegotiate or go elsewhere.
In this case it was "aggressive legal" negotiations. I think the programmers should have left a long time ago instead of going this route, even though I also find game programming to be quite fun.
You're completely right but for one crucial detail...
There is a profitable model there - in theory. The killer is that damnable licensing hook. If you show movies FOR A FEE, you are no longer a "home viewer", and the MPAA bastards are going to sock it to you. That's right, your wonderful business model is forcibly exempted by those who own and jealously guard the rights to the movie.
So, you're worried about:
Sticky floors? ===> No money left for cleaner's wages due to MPAA-forced business model.
Overpriced concessions? ===> No other profit option due to MPAA-forced business model.
$#@!!!&*^& commercials? ===> No other profit option due to MPAA-forced business model.
Noisy neighbors? ===> Can't use smaller theaters due to (that's right) MPAA-forced business model.
Every Fri night I take my girl out. We used to go to movies all the time. We just don't go much any more, and it won't get any better until the MPAA gets their long-overdue labotomy.
I suggest we boycott and close down all mainstream theaters, and then when the MPAA feels enough pain through lost sales, they might then start considering new business models.
I would be delighted to have a place where we could:
* Get out of the house
* Make a SHORT commute
* Sit in comfort
* Bring our favorite food or buy on site at REGULAR prices
* Eliminate !#&*&@ commercials
* Have a huge library to select from
* Optionally watch trailers to help make selection
Heck, not just delighted, I'd even be willing to pay $10 a ticket.
And I would go back again, and again, and again...
Have there just been enough whiny lawyers and lazy bleeding heart judges that now even if defendant pleads the 5th, you can still force the DEFENDANT to produce evidence for the benefit of the PROSECUTOR?
Google should never have been brought into this in the first place. If a correspondant of the defendant had decided to submit evidence to the prosecutor, that would be one thing. But Google is a service provider of the defendant and should not be forced to act against customers!
We are truly on the slippery slope. Be careful my friends, if you don't loudly and carefully define "unreasonable search", then the government is quick to define it for you. "Hey, it's for your own good! We can't let that slimy crook bastard get away with it can we!"
...unskipable anti-priating ads on the DVDs I PAID FOR
About 4 years ago I carefully checked and found a make and model of player where I could get a hack for it to remove User Operations Prohibition. It cost another US $50 or so, but I was willing to pay it so that the machine would always respond to my commands, and not get taken over by the $#@@$! MPAA.
Wanting some more features, and fearing my current player may give up the ghost some day, I looked into current mod kits and players. I found an astonishing thing--- Most of the mod kits were simply to overcome region restrictions, and very few also removed UOP. I mailed one of the companies selling the kits and asked if there was a way to search their database for all kits that remove UOP.
The answer in a nutshell was "There just isn't much demand for removing UOP"
So what's up?
Do people really LIKE to review FBI warnings and threats?
Most people don't mind watching some trailers first, but aren't they going to demand that it be an option instead of forced down the throat?
Do I have to build a linux-based multimedia machine just to regain control of my own damn movie?
Does the greedy MPAA really have the right to own our time just because we show interest in a movie?
Hey, let's fix the real problems first, then concentrate on upgrades like higher resolution.
Hey no surprise here, Blizzard has taken the "Our word is law so bow down and play the way we tell you to!" approach ever since they sued their own customers for being such fans that they built their own battlenet server. (oh NO!) I haven't seen such self-righteous arrogance since the U.S. Government.
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We're not talking about loosening the rules, we are talking about tightening them up.
Pronounciation drift? -> Mapping spoken to written helps stop that, adding intelligibility.
Word evolution? -> Learning the Latin roots and word fragments has always revealed greater understanding. We can pass on the same benefit by putting similar structure in English... especially if those fragments are always spoken and spelled the same way.
Impossible to validate? -> I'm not sure what you mean here, as any desktop could validate massive amounts of text. I don't think anyone is proposing ad-hoc spelling, just map 42 sounds to 42 letter combos --- done!
Although it looks funny at first, you can decipher it even if you're not used to it. Think of the benefits.
insightful???
Come on moderators, insightful is when you realize WHY the US has such trouble with spelling.
We have for centuries been a melting pot. We have done quite well to memorize such a massive number of words and word fragments coming from pretty much every nation on the map.
The studies show that people recognize groups of letters, not specific sequences of letters. That's why we have to stop and think whether that 't' should be there or not when writing. There are no rules to help us spell. It is ALL rote memorization then that allows us to be 'literate'.
Now on the down side of switching, this means that we would have to re-memorize spellings, not always a pleasant task, particularly for older folks who may have slower learning curves.
OTOH, with this new system, we get the benefit of using rules. Simply learn the letter combinations that make up the 42 sounds, and off we go. We also eliminate future questions that invariably arise when translating languages. The examples in the article slowed me down to half speed, but they weren't impossible. By th tim yu get thru tu or thre Tom Clancy nawvlz, yu wownt hav enee problumz.
The secret
the index finger curled under to hit the Ctrl key,
and the middle finger reaching out to get the Delete key.
When you become a 5th level
I would tell you more, but then my account would have to be killed for my indescretion.
The justice department actually tried to do Microsoft a favor by forcing them to separate the browser from the OS.
But perhaps like a child saying "I don't WANNA!", they haven't yet seen the CLEAR advantages that have long been taught with the simple addage:
By the inch, it's a cinch, by the yard, it's hard.
I am sick to death of behemoth OSs. They take forever to install, they take forever to maintain, and how much of it do I regularly use?
Kudos to the OpenBSD team and similar efforts. Do one focused thing and do it well!
Come on people! K.I.S.S.!
The difference is that the image and the message are transmitted separately. This means that you can publicly send a large data set (say a CD full of images) and then privately send information that will decode a message. The private part only has meaning when applied to the proper public image. Perhaps this means one could use an image as a password...
Theo has been going the rounds with them for some time. I suspect that Hifn has made a recent change (perhaps just to toss him a bone), and that Theo's numbers were previously accurate.
The non-water molecules bounce off the screen back into the feed tank. So then the extra salty water sinks (I think) to the bottom of the tank, where an exit tube takes it back into the ocean.
Sorry but, this is a complete non-starter.
I refuse to watch commercials, and product placement in your story WILL distract you. Do you want your latest Tom Clancy to include a plug for eyeglasses, there in the middle of chapter 17?
I sure as hell can't accept product placement in "The Village", it just doesn't WORK! I watch movies to escape, not to check the irrelevant list-of-things-I-haven't-bought-yet.
[troll on]
This reminds me of the worst virus I've dealt with. You might have heard of it, it's called WindowsXP. It has an amazing ability to propogate itself using social engineering, and Ooooohhhh it's a nasty one. It takes over your hardware and refuses to do what you need until you get "permission" from some bot in Redmond.
Lately I too am finding that all my friends are asking me to help get rid of it.
[troll off]
SWEET!!!
FTA...
"It may be that if you do business with Microsoft on a regular basis, you get used to working in an ethics-free environment"
ROTFLMAO!
What's more surprising is that the Microsoft Marketing "Geniuses" missed the boat selling THIS four years ago instead of the BS programs they did try to shove down our throats.
Theft is when...
I'm sorry, but as much as I would like to agree with you, "Theft" is a term with very specific legal definitions. If the **AA lobbyists get it defined in a way you don't like, then you either have to stick with the definition or be misunderstood. Another example, "to steal" means to "take without permission".
I really don't have a problem admitting that I stole some bits yesterday. I recommend that you not have a problem with it either, since the losses are only legally contrived. OTOH, if I owe someone some money for their service, I would like them to get paid.
Quit worrying whether the finger pointers call you a thief. Instead work on a better legal definition of theft. As long as the law allows **AA to convert imagined intellectual property into physical property, we have a painful imbalance. I'm happy to pay them for their services, but I'm through paying them for their money presses.
Reading the book in the store is not rude, it is WISE!
If it's really worth paying for, then I will do so AFTER I have verified it is:
I've had enough of the pay-to-look-inside-the-box game.
There's a social contract.
Correct! That is the key, will a person decide to be part of a society or not?
If rights are given, and nobody gave you that right, you should be punished.
You assume far too much. Forget for a moment the machine we call government or you
won't be able to see the forest for the trees. There is a step that happens
before a social contract can be created.
The only "inalienable" right is the right to act. I choose to type
torrent commands on this keyboard, drive home over the speed limit or
assault my next door neighbor for throwing trash on my lawn. It's my neighbor's
choice to respect property (or not), and it's my choice how to respond.
All the kings horses and all the kings men could use huge resources to try to force
my neighbor to not throw trash on my lawn, but if he's resourceful he will still
be able to do it. He might hire someone else to trash my lawn even if he were in
jail. He has withdrawn (in your words: taken) my right to property. This has
nothing to do with God, it only involves people who come in contact with one
another.
Rights cannot be taken, they can only be given.
That's obviously wrong. Whatever authority gave you rights can obviously take them back.
Yes, you are obviously correct in YOUR context. In MY context, the only right that
exists is the right to action. That right cannot be taken short of murder. All
other rights are derived rights, and they are either granted or revoked by those
we deal with. The idea of someone reaching out to "take back our rights" is based on
complete illogic and misunderstanding.
In summary, what's really going on here, is that we the people granted a right to
publishers, a temporary monopoly called copyright. The publishers then abused
that right and turned around to deny us the right to enjoy knowledge and creative
works.
Stop the abuse! IT IS TIME TO REVOKE THE COPYRIGHT!
I understand what you're saying, but using the phrase...
... will be confusing to most people. Captain Jack Sparrow put it much better...
'I view as humans have "every" right to "everything".'
"There are only 2 things, what a man CAN do, and what a man DOES do."
The term "right to life" is a terribly truncated sound bite. What's really going on is that a nation decides that there are sufficient cons to murder that they put extensive resources into avoiding it and punishing it if it happens anyway.
At the end of the day though, no matter what others do, I choose my own actions, be it strangling someone or copying something without putting another $17 in the jar. The responses to our actions are what we collectively call rights. Rights cannot be taken, they can only be given.
Yes, there are safety issues with wireless, but...
Many have been quick to dismiss this as complete crockery. Have any of you naysayers ever hefted the cabling which goes into even a small jet?
There is a reason they got funding for such a "whacky" idea.
If you could reduce everything EXCEPT the aileron, elevator and rudder controls -- to wireless, you have saved hundreds if not thousands of pounds of wiring... even from the small jets!
This means:
Less fuel for same flight or
More people for same flight or
More cargo for same flight or
Longer flight for same configuration
AND
Quicker, less expensive purchase, install and maintenance.
Those wires REALLY DO COST A LOT folks!
Quit worrying so much about the safety. Every avionics firm has dedicated safety engineers. They are expert. They know what to look for. They know which requirements are really important in order to get you home in one piece.
You might be surprised to know that it is sometimes tougher to get the hardware or the software to be qualified for safety than to harden a wireless network against attack.
And yes, IAAAE (I am an avionics engineer)
If you happen to RTFA you'll find that...
the editor took a lot of "artistic liberty" in calling it water. They are actually using hydroxyl (OH) ions. Freezing won't be an issue at all here. It wouldn't surprise me if it ends up working at whatever temperature range the read/write transistors can handle.
Large arrays of nano wires seems very feasible. I'm crossing my fingers.
"The games industry can pay low wages"...
True.
"and make people slave because it's "cool" and people want to be in it. Sad really."
False.
Because game programming has non-monetary benefits, the employers can indeed pay lower and pressure for more hours. Did they truly MAKE them do it though? Of course not.
If you don't like the job, then the responsibility is YOURS to renegotiate or go elsewhere.
In this case it was "aggressive legal" negotiations. I think the programmers should have left a long time ago instead of going this route, even though I also find game programming to be quite fun.
You're completely right but for one crucial detail...
There is a profitable model there - in theory. The killer is that damnable licensing hook. If you show movies FOR A FEE, you are no longer a "home viewer", and the MPAA bastards are going to sock it to you. That's right, your wonderful business model is forcibly exempted by those who own and jealously guard the rights to the movie.
So, you're worried about:
Sticky floors? ===> No money left for cleaner's wages due to MPAA-forced business model.
Overpriced concessions? ===> No other profit option due to MPAA-forced business model.
$#@!!!&*^& commercials? ===> No other profit option due to MPAA-forced business model.
Noisy neighbors? ===> Can't use smaller theaters due to (that's right) MPAA-forced business model.
Every Fri night I take my girl out. We used to go to movies all the time. We just don't go much any more, and it won't get any better until the MPAA gets their long-overdue labotomy.
I suggest we boycott and close down all mainstream theaters, and then when the MPAA feels enough pain through lost sales, they might then start considering new business models.
I would be delighted to have a place where we could:
* Get out of the house
* Make a SHORT commute
* Sit in comfort
* Bring our favorite food or buy on site at REGULAR prices
* Eliminate !#&*&@ commercials
* Have a huge library to select from
* Optionally watch trailers to help make selection
Heck, not just delighted, I'd even be willing to pay $10 a ticket.
And I would go back again, and again, and again...
So, what ever happened to the burden of proof?
Have there just been enough whiny lawyers and lazy bleeding heart judges that now even if defendant pleads the 5th, you can still force the DEFENDANT to produce evidence for the benefit of the PROSECUTOR?
Google should never have been brought into this in the first place. If a correspondant of the defendant had decided to submit evidence to the prosecutor, that would be one thing. But Google is a service provider of the defendant and should not be forced to act against customers!
We are truly on the slippery slope. Be careful my friends, if you don't loudly and carefully define "unreasonable search", then the government is quick to define it for you. "Hey, it's for your own good! We can't let that slimy crook bastard get away with it can we!"
About 4 years ago I carefully checked and found a make and model of player where I could get a hack for it to remove User Operations Prohibition. It cost another US $50 or so, but I was willing to pay it so that the machine would always respond to my commands, and not get taken over by the $#@@$! MPAA.
Wanting some more features, and fearing my current player may give up the ghost some day, I looked into current mod kits and players. I found an astonishing thing--- Most of the mod kits were simply to overcome region restrictions, and very few also removed UOP. I mailed one of the companies selling the kits and asked if there was a way to search their database for all kits that remove UOP.
The answer in a nutshell was "There just isn't much demand for removing UOP"
So what's up?
Do people really LIKE to review FBI warnings and threats?
Most people don't mind watching some trailers first, but aren't they going to demand that it be an option instead of forced down the throat?
Do I have to build a linux-based multimedia machine just to regain control of my own damn movie?
Does the greedy MPAA really have the right to own our time just because we show interest in a movie?
Hey, let's fix the real problems first, then concentrate on upgrades like higher resolution.
Hey no surprise here, Blizzard has taken the "Our word is law so bow down and play the way we tell you to!" approach ever since they sued their own customers for being such fans that they built their own battlenet server. (oh NO!) I haven't seen such self-righteous arrogance since the U.S. Government.
Wait, I thought algorithm was named after the guy that created the internet...
Wow!
And which planet might you be from?
Here on planet Earth the following people believe quite firmly that literally "a metaphysical spirit created the Universe"
From: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.h
Christians = 2.1 billion
Islamic = 1.3 billion
Hindu = .9 billion
That would be 4.3 billion here on our planet. Maybe more.
Remember, just because you and everyone you know believe something, doesn't make it true!
Bill's track record is that business success matters - people do not.
He can try to buy humanitarianism if he wants, but I'm not convinced that a couple of billion will buy him his way into heaven.
</flame>
There is hope however, he did marry and have kids. If THAT doesn't make somebody into a humanitarian, then nothing will.