Notwithstanding the educational possibilities of manipulating graphical algorithms and transforms in real time with the spreadsheet - the rest of the article is a joke about Excel being on the cutting edge of software development paradigms!
Mine is a fixed rate interest only (I think it's set at about 6.5% which is not ridiculously low). What your talking about is obviously an IO ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage). ARM's are just plain evil unless you expect to sell the house within the non-adjustable period.
IO (Interest Only) loans are OK - as long as you pay the principal as you go. I have one and it works fine. Obviously the temptation might be there for someone NOT to pay the principal. In that case there should be better independent counseling and advice for people before they are allowed to assume loans.
Deep Blue had a chip whose circuitry was designed to model a chess board so it could analyze the board as a whole in a clock cycle (or small number). It had a bunch of these chips working in parallel so it seems unlikely that PC's will get close to the performance of Deep Blue for a long time yet.
I've worked on a lot of nuclear processing plants and many of the control systems were controlled by PLC's containing integrated circuits. Safety systems however would never use software they would always use hardwire interlocks to ensure safe operation. So fundamentally it is OK if you are controlling the plant through software but not relying on it for the safety of the system.
I don't understand why "That is the end of the discussion?" What the hell is wrong about video blogging from an event? As long as the subject is the person blogging and NOT the event itself that would seem to be a legitimate enterprise. You keep on talking about escalating this to video of the actual event and I explicitly am not talking about that. I am not even arguing the NCAA were not within their rights to exclude blogging activities at their games - I was just trying to say it was stupid - and I don't think the discussion should end there.
This was not "live-broadcasting" of an event - this was reporting, that's why he has credentials as a journalist. Your equating of live streaming video with text interpreted by a human is laughable. Sometimes I watch sporting events on the television AND read the report the next day in the paper. The reason is because of the added value the reporter gives through their interpretation. The only other benefit from live blogging is the broadcast of the score in near real time - big effing deal.
They are not going to be able to prove that you didn't buy any software installed on your computer. They are only going to be able to prove that you, for example, downloaded software without paying, i.e. the act of downloading copyrighted material. How you are supposed to know that the material is copyrighted is another matter altogether, this would be like receiving stolen goods whereby the receiver is guilty even if they didn't know the goods were stolen. The industry is obviously trying there best to discourage any downloading except from "approved" sources we shall see over the coming few years how this pans out but I think the RIAA are fighting an unwinnable battle here, much like there is public access on open lands in England due to protest "Mass trespasses."
"As I said, it had very little to do with the religion of Christianity and everything to do with the corruption of man."
I disagree strongly. I believe it has everything to do with the religion of Christianity and little to do with the teachings of Christ.
"...Blog entries are like emails that cc: to the entire world."
No they are not because an email is sent proactively to a limited audience whereas a blog you know the audience are people who are seeking out that communication and you the sender do not necessarily know who the audience is.
So why not make it an opt in system? This is similar to absentee ballots now - so there is no difference. When I mail in my absentee ballot they definitely know who it belongs to. The parent posters online scheme is exactly the same. There is nothing stopping anybody coercing people to become an absentee balloter - why would the coercing of your actual vote be any different?
I thoroughly concur. I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 and every time it tries to hibernate (when I forget and close the lid) it hangs and I have to hard power it down. I have now disabled this "feature".
What the hell does "raving liberal" mean. I WANT there to be socially liberal politicians in power. I also want them to be fiscally conservative. I thought the political set up when clinton was in power worked quite well (apart from the inability of congress to make a national health service).
I think you're missing the point. People are criticizing him because the comment seems to be made from ignorance. It is not online distribution that is the "rathole" but the very nature of digital media that is the problem. This society has not adapted yet to the issue of having the delivery mechanism and content reproduction being so cheap and easy. One can just look at the idiocy of Record Companies wrt online distribution and see that, i.e. when will they realize that they should become the information management portals and not really manage the physical distribution anymore - a sort of A&R for the internet?
to spend $200 million on a movie. If you want lots of effects and star name actors then spend it. However, movies can be made cheaper and still be entertaining. So if George wants to get into the "story" more than the "action" then so be it but I don't know why he is complaining apart from stating the obvious.
No the parent was really saying (although not explicitly) the summary should read: mince (ground beef). I'm not convinced that supermarkets actually label their ground beef "hamburger meat" that much, at least not in my experience.
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Even more fundamentally, a mouse allows random access to any point on the screen whereas with the keyboard one has to wait for the cursor to scroll to the correct location. I find this enormously frustrating when editing lines of code, waiting for the cursor to scroll, so I just grab the mouse.
I don't get why we have to protect poor people from fuel taxation. Just factor the extra burden into anyway welfare money or tax relief - which will show up in the CPI anyway.
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Bullshit! I don't have a cellphone and I can communicate with other people fine - I have a land-line phone and a pager.
Notwithstanding the educational possibilities of manipulating graphical algorithms and transforms in real time with the spreadsheet - the rest of the article is a joke about Excel being on the cutting edge of software development paradigms!
Nice fantasy - we can't even get fiber to the home let alone deliver things to your cellar.
I agree no object oriented or procedural programming languages are hard - only the algorithms and applications. Lisp on the other hand...
Mine is a fixed rate interest only (I think it's set at about 6.5% which is not ridiculously low). What your talking about is obviously an IO ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage). ARM's are just plain evil unless you expect to sell the house within the non-adjustable period.
IO (Interest Only) loans are OK - as long as you pay the principal as you go. I have one and it works fine. Obviously the temptation might be there for someone NOT to pay the principal. In that case there should be better independent counseling and advice for people before they are allowed to assume loans.
Deep Blue had a chip whose circuitry was designed to model a chess board so it could analyze the board as a whole in a clock cycle (or small number). It had a bunch of these chips working in parallel so it seems unlikely that PC's will get close to the performance of Deep Blue for a long time yet.
I've worked on a lot of nuclear processing plants and many of the control systems were controlled by PLC's containing integrated circuits. Safety systems however would never use software they would always use hardwire interlocks to ensure safe operation. So fundamentally it is OK if you are controlling the plant through software but not relying on it for the safety of the system.
I don't understand why "That is the end of the discussion?" What the hell is wrong about video blogging from an event? As long as the subject is the person blogging and NOT the event itself that would seem to be a legitimate enterprise. You keep on talking about escalating this to video of the actual event and I explicitly am not talking about that. I am not even arguing the NCAA were not within their rights to exclude blogging activities at their games - I was just trying to say it was stupid - and I don't think the discussion should end there.
This was not "live-broadcasting" of an event - this was reporting, that's why he has credentials as a journalist. Your equating of live streaming video with text interpreted by a human is laughable. Sometimes I watch sporting events on the television AND read the report the next day in the paper. The reason is because of the added value the reporter gives through their interpretation. The only other benefit from live blogging is the broadcast of the score in near real time - big effing deal.
They are not going to be able to prove that you didn't buy any software installed on your computer. They are only going to be able to prove that you, for example, downloaded software without paying, i.e. the act of downloading copyrighted material. How you are supposed to know that the material is copyrighted is another matter altogether, this would be like receiving stolen goods whereby the receiver is guilty even if they didn't know the goods were stolen. The industry is obviously trying there best to discourage any downloading except from "approved" sources we shall see over the coming few years how this pans out but I think the RIAA are fighting an unwinnable battle here, much like there is public access on open lands in England due to protest "Mass trespasses."
It certainly was around the time of the Crusades - which is the example the original poster was using.
"As I said, it had very little to do with the religion of Christianity and everything to do with the corruption of man." I disagree strongly. I believe it has everything to do with the religion of Christianity and little to do with the teachings of Christ.
"...Blog entries are like emails that cc: to the entire world."
No they are not because an email is sent proactively to a limited audience whereas a blog
you know the audience are people who are seeking out that communication and you the sender
do not necessarily know who the audience is.
So why not make it an opt in system? This is similar to absentee ballots now - so there is no difference. When I mail in my absentee ballot they definitely know who it belongs to. The parent posters online scheme is exactly the same. There is nothing stopping anybody coercing people to become an absentee balloter - why would the coercing of your actual vote be any different?
I thoroughly concur. I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 and every time it tries to hibernate (when I forget and close the lid) it hangs and I have to hard power it down. I have now disabled this "feature".
What the hell does "raving liberal" mean. I WANT there to be socially liberal politicians in power. I also want them to be fiscally conservative. I thought the political set up when clinton was in power worked quite well (apart from the inability of congress to make a national health service).
Computer games are not passive and sometimes are very socially interactive.
Kuwait didn't have a massive army to defend itself.
I think you're missing the point. People are criticizing him because the comment seems to be made from ignorance. It is not online distribution that is the "rathole" but the very nature of digital media that is the problem. This society has not adapted yet to the issue of having the delivery mechanism and content reproduction being so cheap and easy. One can just look at the idiocy of Record Companies wrt online distribution and see that, i.e. when will they realize that they should become the information management portals and not really manage the physical distribution anymore - a sort of A&R for the internet?
to spend $200 million on a movie. If you want lots of effects and star name actors then spend it. However, movies can be made cheaper and still be entertaining. So if George wants to get into the "story" more than the "action" then so be it but I don't know why he is complaining apart from stating the obvious.
No the parent was really saying (although not explicitly) the summary should read: mince (ground beef). I'm not convinced that supermarkets actually label their ground beef "hamburger meat" that much, at least not in my experience.
Even more fundamentally, a mouse allows random access to any point on the screen whereas with the keyboard one has to wait for the cursor to scroll to the correct location. I find this enormously frustrating when editing lines of code, waiting for the cursor to scroll, so I just grab the mouse.
I don't get why we have to protect poor people from fuel taxation. Just factor the extra burden into anyway welfare money or tax relief - which will show up in the CPI anyway.
You're right probably about an hour at 1.5Mbps playback rate. But probably still comparable to a trip to the video store.