Obviously GP's point is that to get the true book experience, you must destroy the book. Perhaps GP is espousing Nazi-esque knowledge control techniques, not through burning, but reading the book over and over until it's unusable. While it takes a little longer, the end result is just as effective as burning.
I never took notes in college (3.25 for bachelors and 4.0 for masters degree). The textbook is supposed to be what the teacher is teaching from, so why have it written down twice? Things that aren't in the textbook are another matter, though. I never wrote in my books either.
I can see some big advantages to carrying around one 12 ounce device with all my books instead of a pile of books a foot high that weighs 15 pounds... Plus, can create your own content and upload it to the device. Sweet.
Oh? Not impossible. There's no requirement that a nuclear reactor have any moving parts that are prone to wearing out. Plus, space is a much harsher environment than the Arctic.
The Toshiba 4S reactor, on paper, can go 30 years, but realistically probably will be 8 to 10 years between refuelings.
That's assuming that the fourth dimension is actually time. Most laypersons accept the fourth dimension this way, where most physicists, mathematicians, etc., view the fourth dimension as another dimension of space.
Read John Wright's The Chronicles of Chaos series for some of the best descriptions I've ever read of traveling/manipulating/using the fourth (or higher) dimension.
That depends on where you live, doesn't it? Where I live, it's 7% state and 2% local. Not to mention taxes on where I live, what I drive, extra taxes on the gas I buy, different taxes on what I eat at a restaurant vs. what I buy in the grocery store, etc., etc.
IMO, it's just greedy state governments trying to get people to pay taxes on what's already taxed. Don't these companies have to report income in the states they operate? Isn't that taxed, too? Don't they pay taxes on their inventory?
Either that or Amazon failed to spend enough on campaign funding and some politicians are miffed.
Yeah.. But Sadam's hole looks like it was dug in 2 days by 3 guys with shovels and had a distinct "stone age" air about it.
I'm sure anywhere Bush and Cheney were hustled off to cost the tax payers millions of dollars to construct and probably had air conditioning, lights, water...
Ah, the state of corporate America these days. When the options boil down to - spending 20 minutes of a computer analysts time to put a proper robots.txt file up or spend tens of thousands of dollars to drag another company into court - and you pick the latter option?
Remember Apollo Domain/OS? That was a really great operating system for it's day (late 80's). It had a security model integrated with the filesystem and was network aware (like LDAP sort of) and the networking filesystem was better than anything I've seen since then.
Still.. Even if I have to buy a wall wart to get enough current to charge, I only have to buy one charger for the house and car and I can charge my future Nokia, wife's future Samsung, kids future phones, etc..
It's totally feasible. The only problem is the company that makes the games has an incentive not to have your old games look better. If a new machine "breathed new life" into your old games, where's your drive to spend money on new games? The gaming industry depends on people buying new games, then new platforms, then new games for the new platforms, rinse, repeat.
The use of software to remove objectionable material from broadcasts is no different than the use of the 'V-chip' in modern televisions. The FCC has rules many times on this issue. Just check out Howard Stern if you need further proof.
No.. It's actually VERY different. I decide whether or not I use the V-chip. I have no say in censorship from a radio or TV station. The only choice I have (which, by the way, most Americans seem to have forgotten about) is that if I find something offensive or not appropriate for myself or family, I have the right to change the channel.
I agree with GP that censorship is evil, but too many slack-jawed Americans seem to want somebody else to make those decisions for them rather than having an opinion and deciding for themselves. Use your brain people. Make a choice. Have an opinion. But don't try and shove your opinions down other people's throats
Given that the name of the company that's making the suits is Cyberdyne, I think that's the single most appropriate use of the "overlords" meme I've ever seen.
Yes, yes.. the HST has had issues, but all in all, it's been in almost continuous operation for over 18 years. I don't think I've had anything for that long that didn't have problems (including the first wife).
They are in the government, and they are scared of getting their budget cut, so they keep a constant state of fear in motion to grease the wheels of spending and reduction of freedom.
I don't think you understood GP at all. In his example, NSA worker would have their tag on during the day while at work and once they left work they could CHOOSE to turn their tag off for privacy (no need for the boss to know you were stopping by the nudie bar on the way home).
Wait a sec... Was the picture taken from public property? I fail to see how anyone, as a citizen or representative of a public company, could get sued for taking pictures as long as you're not trespassing or violating any laws. If you drive down a (public) street and take a picture of a house and post it on your blog you can get sued? WTF?
Maybe the morons from the lawsuit should sue their mail man and paper boy. They've SEEN the house! Obviously anybody that gazes on their house is violating their privacy. I don't see how what Google's doing is not covered by the typical photographer's rights. Another good site for photographer's rights.
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Obviously GP's point is that to get the true book experience, you must destroy the book. Perhaps GP is espousing Nazi-esque knowledge control techniques, not through burning, but reading the book over and over until it's unusable. While it takes a little longer, the end result is just as effective as burning.
Bzzzt... I can download an e-book quicker than I can drive to the library and back.
Try again.
I never took notes in college (3.25 for bachelors and 4.0 for masters degree). The textbook is supposed to be what the teacher is teaching from, so why have it written down twice? Things that aren't in the textbook are another matter, though. I never wrote in my books either.
I can see some big advantages to carrying around one 12 ounce device with all my books instead of a pile of books a foot high that weighs 15 pounds... Plus, can create your own content and upload it to the device. Sweet.
Oh? Not impossible. There's no requirement that a nuclear reactor have any moving parts that are prone to wearing out. Plus, space is a much harsher environment than the Arctic.
The Toshiba 4S reactor, on paper, can go 30 years, but realistically probably will be 8 to 10 years between refuelings.
That's assuming that the fourth dimension is actually time. Most laypersons accept the fourth dimension this way, where most physicists, mathematicians, etc., view the fourth dimension as another dimension of space.
Read John Wright's The Chronicles of Chaos series for some of the best descriptions I've ever read of traveling/manipulating/using the fourth (or higher) dimension.
Ever tried to eat a super spider web? I bet it's sticky and gummy. On the plus side, though, you don't have to floss afterwards.
That was too funny. Mod parent hilarious! Best GhostBusters reference I've heard in a decade. My hat (if I wore one) is off to you, sir.
That depends on where you live, doesn't it? Where I live, it's 7% state and 2% local. Not to mention taxes on where I live, what I drive, extra taxes on the gas I buy, different taxes on what I eat at a restaurant vs. what I buy in the grocery store, etc., etc.
IMO, it's just greedy state governments trying to get people to pay taxes on what's already taxed. Don't these companies have to report income in the states they operate? Isn't that taxed, too? Don't they pay taxes on their inventory?
Either that or Amazon failed to spend enough on campaign funding and some politicians are miffed.
Yeah.. But Sadam's hole looks like it was dug in 2 days by 3 guys with shovels and had a distinct "stone age" air about it.
I'm sure anywhere Bush and Cheney were hustled off to cost the tax payers millions of dollars to construct and probably had air conditioning, lights, water...
Ah, the state of corporate America these days. When the options boil down to - spending 20 minutes of a computer analysts time to put a proper robots.txt file up or spend tens of thousands of dollars to drag another company into court - and you pick the latter option?
What's the real motive here?
Remember Apollo Domain/OS? That was a really great operating system for it's day (late 80's). It had a security model integrated with the filesystem and was network aware (like LDAP sort of) and the networking filesystem was better than anything I've seen since then.
Still.. Even if I have to buy a wall wart to get enough current to charge, I only have to buy one charger for the house and car and I can charge my future Nokia, wife's future Samsung, kids future phones, etc..
It's totally feasible. The only problem is the company that makes the games has an incentive not to have your old games look better. If a new machine "breathed new life" into your old games, where's your drive to spend money on new games? The gaming industry depends on people buying new games, then new platforms, then new games for the new platforms, rinse, repeat.
The use of software to remove objectionable material from broadcasts is no different than the use of the 'V-chip' in modern televisions. The FCC has rules many times on this issue. Just check out Howard Stern if you need further proof.
No.. It's actually VERY different. I decide whether or not I use the V-chip. I have no say in censorship from a radio or TV station. The only choice I have (which, by the way, most Americans seem to have forgotten about) is that if I find something offensive or not appropriate for myself or family, I have the right to change the channel.
I agree with GP that censorship is evil, but too many slack-jawed Americans seem to want somebody else to make those decisions for them rather than having an opinion and deciding for themselves. Use your brain people. Make a choice. Have an opinion. But don't try and shove your opinions down other people's throats
Though I guess I should congratulate him on not fucking up the place...
Oh? Didn't Clinton start the deregulation that led us to today? See here.
CentOS and Ubuntu Server are on the same level...
Not so.. You can buy support for Ubuntu from Canonical, you can't buy support for CentOS. CentOS is a separate effort from Red Hat altogether.
Given that the name of the company that's making the suits is Cyberdyne, I think that's the single most appropriate use of the "overlords" meme I've ever seen.
This story on the same news site seems a lot more level headed on the subject...
Yes, yes.. the HST has had issues, but all in all, it's been in almost continuous operation for over 18 years. I don't think I've had anything for that long that didn't have problems (including the first wife).
Hey - when I started formal programming, it was in ISO Pascal. We didn't have any steenking strings, just arrays of characters. And we liked it!
Wow.. Readers are getting pretty lazy these days. Not only are they not RTFA, they aren't even RTFS!
Where are all of these scared people?
They are in the government, and they are scared of getting their budget cut, so they keep a constant state of fear in motion to grease the wheels of spending and reduction of freedom.
Hmm... To use a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?): if you had a car on an infinite-length track, would it be the ultimate Touring Machine?
Cue groans...
I don't think you understood GP at all. In his example, NSA worker would have their tag on during the day while at work and once they left work they could CHOOSE to turn their tag off for privacy (no need for the boss to know you were stopping by the nudie bar on the way home).
Wait a sec... Was the picture taken from public property? I fail to see how anyone, as a citizen or representative of a public company, could get sued for taking pictures as long as you're not trespassing or violating any laws. If you drive down a (public) street and take a picture of a house and post it on your blog you can get sued? WTF?
Maybe the morons from the lawsuit should sue their mail man and paper boy. They've SEEN the house! Obviously anybody that gazes on their house is violating their privacy. I don't see how what Google's doing is not covered by the typical photographer's rights. Another good site for photographer's rights.