I have the same problem with using local butchers. They buy their meat on the open market, and it is possible to track that meat down to the farm where the cow came from. Those cows are kept outdoors, where anyone can see them. Lord knows what toxins people might be injecting into those cows.
That's why I only eat meat from MeatCorp. All of MeatCorp's meat is made behind closed doors, in a giant, guarded metal building. Nobody knows what happens inside, and that makes me feel safe when I eat MeatCorp brand Meat Circles.
It may not be enough to simulate global weather patterns, but surely it's powerful enough to predict the weather in my parents' basement. Drafty today? Time to pull out my electric "7 of 9" blanket and nuke a few frozen cheeseburgers.
Seriously though, I doubt that there is much demand for personal supercomputing.
A device like this communicates to your child that you don't trust it. That's why I plan to secretly have GPS trackers surgically implanted in my children's skulls.
Sure, he deserves to be punished, but not imprisoned. He was trying to monitor his ex's email. This is pretty lame and reprehensible, but I'd hardly consider him a danger to anyone. It doesn't make sense to think of this on the same level as someone who is physically stalking a person.
He needs to face some consequences, perhaps a fine and some community service. I would imagine he's already learned his lesson just from the shame and the legal hassles he is facing. There is no need to mess up his life. Prison will only make him more likely to cause problems once he is released.
Cases like these are one reason we have such vastly higher incarceration rates than any other country.
This is so typical. Someone discovers how to make a sheet of carbon nanotubes, and the first thing they do is shoot at it. Where is the study telling us how huggable these nanotube sheets might be?
The lesson here is that you once people get used to something, it's very hard to change. People are used to free paper bills, so they're going to put up a fight when T-Mobile tries to change that. On the other hand, people are used to being gouged on the pricing of text messaging, so they don't put up enough of a fight to get that changed.
The text message pricing is far more offensive, but it's not new. And besides, if you don't like it, where else are you going to go? So much for free market competition.
Then again, perhaps their scientists are thinking much the same thing about us:
"A rocky planet, similar to our own, was discovered in a nearby solar system. However, having only a fifth of our planet's mass, and being located 500 AU from its star, the planet is probably much too cold to support life. Temperatures below 800 degrees are thought to be far too low in energy for the spark of life to begin."
Anyone who is interested in this topic should watch the BBC documentary "Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World". It is fascinating and beautifully shot. You can buy it on DVD or BD, or rent it from Netflix.
I wonder if there might be a better place for creative, unconventional thinking, for risk taking, and for the willingness to not water down an idea because it might offend someone. Oh, at EA? Nevermind!
Putting astronauts in danger is not the only risk which we fearfully avoid. There is very little willingness to pour resources into cutting edge technologies. New technologies could fail, or they could revolutionize space travel, but we won't know if we're not willing to explore the possibilities. Rather than exploring something like nuclear propulsion or a launch loop, we spend billions developing another chemical rocket platform, and in some respects taking a step back from the abilities of the Space Shuttle.
It's not really NASA's fault so much as it is a lack of national will. NASA has to act as a slave to public opinion, because their funding is continually at risk of drying up. To keep the public happy, don't kill any astronauts, don't try any project without a predictable payoff, and never mention the word nuclear.
This is good news. I'm glad to hear that the American public has been doing their research about modern nuclear technology. Ha! Actually, I'm frightened that nuclear policy could be decided by public opinion. Or is the public opinion of a group who mostly don't know what they're talking about at least better than simply letting oil companies decide what we should do?
I suppose I can be glad that public opinion, in this case, seems to be trending toward a rational direction, even if it took 30 years too long to get there. (Not that I'm a nuclear engineer myself, but I've at least done some reading on the subject and made an attempt to be as objective as possible.)
This new development in the copyright arena is going to raise several important questions. Do we refer to this as "Dippy" or as "Da peepee"? Do we change the acronym to "Digital Pretend Property" or "Digital Property Penalties"? Will this technology never really take off, or will it only die after a multi-billion dollar campaign and several dozen slashdot debates? Only time will tell.
I have a suggestion for deciding if something deserves the "cloud" moniker. It is all about the potential to scale exponentially and transparently. It applies to big projects, not simple services for individuals.
If you are putting your personal file backups online, you're not doing anything related to cloud computing. You're simply using an online service.
If you are offering a backup service to the public, and you are paying another company to scale up your networking and storage needs from 10 users to 10 million users, so that you don't need to worry about the backend implementation, that would be cloud computing.
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Based on your post, I can CONCLUDE that you jump to CONCLUSIONS and emphasize your assumptions using ALL CAPS.
I have the same problem with using local butchers. They buy their meat on the open market, and it is possible to track that meat down to the farm where the cow came from. Those cows are kept outdoors, where anyone can see them. Lord knows what toxins people might be injecting into those cows.
That's why I only eat meat from MeatCorp. All of MeatCorp's meat is made behind closed doors, in a giant, guarded metal building. Nobody knows what happens inside, and that makes me feel safe when I eat MeatCorp brand Meat Circles.
It may not be enough to simulate global weather patterns, but surely it's powerful enough to predict the weather in my parents' basement. Drafty today? Time to pull out my electric "7 of 9" blanket and nuke a few frozen cheeseburgers.
Seriously though, I doubt that there is much demand for personal supercomputing.
A device like this communicates to your child that you don't trust it. That's why I plan to secretly have GPS trackers surgically implanted in my children's skulls.
(Note to the humor impaired: I'm joking.)
Their site says "True music fans play by the rules." That's so fucking metal.
I prefer the site http://musicrules.com/ (without the dash.)
Sure, he deserves to be punished, but not imprisoned. He was trying to monitor his ex's email. This is pretty lame and reprehensible, but I'd hardly consider him a danger to anyone. It doesn't make sense to think of this on the same level as someone who is physically stalking a person.
He needs to face some consequences, perhaps a fine and some community service. I would imagine he's already learned his lesson just from the shame and the legal hassles he is facing. There is no need to mess up his life. Prison will only make him more likely to cause problems once he is released.
Cases like these are one reason we have such vastly higher incarceration rates than any other country.
This is so typical. Someone discovers how to make a sheet of carbon nanotubes, and the first thing they do is shoot at it. Where is the study telling us how huggable these nanotube sheets might be?
OS/2 + OS/2 = OS
Let x = OS.
OS/2 + OS/2 = x
Multiply each side by 2*(OS/2), then subtract x^2.
4*(OS/2)^2 - x^2 = 2x*(OS/2) - x^2
Factor.
(2*OS/2 - x)*(2*OS/2 + x) = x*(2*OS/2 - x)
Divide each side by (2*OS/2 - x).
2*OS/2 + x = x
Subtracting out x, and dividing by 2, we find that
OS/2 = zero
And so we see why it failed.
I can tell you this, space travel is not a dump truck!
It wasn't an alien scientist speaking, it was an alien slashdot editor.
The lesson here is that you once people get used to something, it's very hard to change. People are used to free paper bills, so they're going to put up a fight when T-Mobile tries to change that. On the other hand, people are used to being gouged on the pricing of text messaging, so they don't put up enough of a fight to get that changed.
The text message pricing is far more offensive, but it's not new. And besides, if you don't like it, where else are you going to go? So much for free market competition.
Then again, perhaps their scientists are thinking much the same thing about us:
"A rocky planet, similar to our own, was discovered in a nearby solar system. However, having only a fifth of our planet's mass, and being located 500 AU from its star, the planet is probably much too cold to support life. Temperatures below 800 degrees are thought to be far too low in energy for the spark of life to begin."
If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
</Lewis Black>
Anyone who is interested in this topic should watch the BBC documentary "Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World". It is fascinating and beautifully shot. You can buy it on DVD or BD, or rent it from Netflix.
I wonder if there might be a better place for creative, unconventional thinking, for risk taking, and for the willingness to not water down an idea because it might offend someone. Oh, at EA? Nevermind!
Putting astronauts in danger is not the only risk which we fearfully avoid. There is very little willingness to pour resources into cutting edge technologies. New technologies could fail, or they could revolutionize space travel, but we won't know if we're not willing to explore the possibilities. Rather than exploring something like nuclear propulsion or a launch loop, we spend billions developing another chemical rocket platform, and in some respects taking a step back from the abilities of the Space Shuttle.
It's not really NASA's fault so much as it is a lack of national will. NASA has to act as a slave to public opinion, because their funding is continually at risk of drying up. To keep the public happy, don't kill any astronauts, don't try any project without a predictable payoff, and never mention the word nuclear.
I have random access to all of your data, one bit at a time. Here's a little example to prove it (sorry if this freaks you out):
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It must be a real downer to have an irrational fear of pockets and nobody to talk to about it.
Perhaps the problem is a lack of paragraphs?
This is good news. I'm glad to hear that the American public has been doing their research about modern nuclear technology. Ha! Actually, I'm frightened that nuclear policy could be decided by public opinion. Or is the public opinion of a group who mostly don't know what they're talking about at least better than simply letting oil companies decide what we should do?
I suppose I can be glad that public opinion, in this case, seems to be trending toward a rational direction, even if it took 30 years too long to get there. (Not that I'm a nuclear engineer myself, but I've at least done some reading on the subject and made an attempt to be as objective as possible.)
Is it possible to use this as a phone in the U.S.?
This new development in the copyright arena is going to raise several important questions. Do we refer to this as "Dippy" or as "Da peepee"? Do we change the acronym to "Digital Pretend Property" or "Digital Property Penalties"? Will this technology never really take off, or will it only die after a multi-billion dollar campaign and several dozen slashdot debates? Only time will tell.
Well in that case, I don't have any pirated music. I simply provide a free, anonymous backup service for other people's mp3s.
I have a suggestion for deciding if something deserves the "cloud" moniker. It is all about the potential to scale exponentially and transparently. It applies to big projects, not simple services for individuals.
If you are putting your personal file backups online, you're not doing anything related to cloud computing. You're simply using an online service.
If you are offering a backup service to the public, and you are paying another company to scale up your networking and storage needs from 10 users to 10 million users, so that you don't need to worry about the backend implementation, that would be cloud computing.
No, we need to engineer broccoli that tastes like sirloin.