This is, of course, what Disambiguation pages, and redirects to most-commonly-searched items is for... (which, btw, is exactly what London Bridge currently does... searching London Bridge brings you exactly where you want it to go - the page about the bridge - with a disambiguation link in case you're looking for, say, the Fergie song).
A truly wise man knows what tools he has at his disposal, and how to use them to best effect.
Trivia is bad because in essence it's about unimportant information. Wikipedia is first and foremost an encyclopedia, not a bunch of unimportant facts. If the information is important, then it's not trivia. If the information is not important to the subject, then it shouldn't be included. If the topic is about something trivial, then it shouldn't be on Wikipedia - go put it somewhere else. This is specious thinking in a number of different directions -
1 - who decides what is unimportant, and what is important? It is painfully clear that admins and others who have no knowledge of certain topics (and therefore no standing to determine whether something is unimportant or important) are nonetheless moving through topic spaces and AFDing everything they do not find of import - whether or not the page is actually relevant to those who have knowledge in that topic space.
2 - circular reasoning - if it's unimportant, then it's not included, but if it's included, it's not unimportant?
3 - in the end, nearly all information is trivia to somebody - by the definition of "if it's trivial, move it somewhere else" almost all information should be stored somewhere else.
Stop thinking you have a limited number of pages, o gods of Wikipedia. You don't. Your space is limitless. Trust in your readers to figure out whether they are looking for Tom Jones, singer and panty target, or Tom Jones, butcher from Aberwyvern.
If should be much, much harder to AFD an article that is not clearly spam (because there is clearly reason to delete honest-to-goshen spam) and rampant nomination of topics for AFD should be looked down upon by the Wikipedia staff and community. Spend more time promoting and developing articles, and less time looking for articles to delete.
There are some others - Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime", ELO's "Time", and Styx's "Mr. Roboto" spring to mind, and there are others as well (perhaps Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales") that while not directly linked, are thematically linked in some fashion or another, such that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Nonetheless, it is certainly true that the average album is a collection of songs, rather than a coherent whole - while there may be planning and thought that goes into designing the album (we need a ballad, a couple of rockin' tunes, some dance-y stuff, and an experimental piece...) it's not like the entire album is sculpted towards any theme other than "sell the album", in general - and in many cases, it's more "fill the album with sixty-seventy minutes of music, so the fans don't feel cheated.
But, well, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Because, of course, Apple users are utterly incapable of figuring out when it's worth it to buy the whole album on CD and burn it to ACC or MP3 format, and when they only want the two or three good songs off of an otherwise uspectacular album, and are willing to pay a slight premium per song to not have to spend more for the whole fucking album.
This is IMPORTANT INFORMATION which should be DISSEMINATED WIDELY for the GOOD OF ALL MANKIND!
Detecting psychoceramics 101; the more ALL CAPITALS they use, the more likely it is that they are nutbars.
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A whole *11* people!
Sparky, D&D 3rd edition Players Handbook has sold literally *hundreds of thousands* of copies since it was released... three months ago.
Dungeons and Dragons has been in print since the 1970s. In that time, it has literally sold millions of copies, in dozens of languages (okay, probably only a dozen languages).
Wanna try to get a bigger number?
Because quite frankly, more people die because of water every year (hell, every month than you can "prove" (and "allege" is probably too strong a word, really... correlation is not causation, first off) "died because of Dungeons & Dragons"
But I'll stop confusing you with the facts, since you clearly have your mind made up.
Scott Taylor
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The problem with dubbing is, they almost always pick the worst possible voices to replace them with. And theres also major editing involved. You don't get the full experience with the subs, either, but they're better than dubbing.
This is less true than it *used* to be (the Disney dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, for example, is really nice... and that's even taking into account my very, very low opinion of Disney in general), but I still avoid dubs unless I've heard they are really good.
The worst, of course, was an old Bubblegum Crisis dub where they not only overspoke the spoken lines, but redid the *music* as well... aiiiiee!
Scott "anime troll*" Taylor *no, not that kind of troll, you netgeek!
I haven't seen anything to indicate that this was stolen from someone else. It looks like Apple invented it. What makes you say that they stole it?
Well, of course they did. Heaven forfend anyone think that Apple actually innovated anything on their own... I mean, since way back when they stole the entire GUI, lock, stock, and trash can from PARC, they've done nothing innovative whatsoever. Just steal steal steal.
The above, in case you need to be hit with a cluexfour, is sarcasm....
When was the last time you went to McDonalds or Burgerking that they didn't have hamburgers or fries? Some items may appear or disappear, but one of the key things in the success of fast-food chains is their uniformity *and* the fact it doesn't change much. Fries are there to stay. Burgers are there to stay.
Sure, but OTOH, which is better;
A 150k chunk of ironmongery that you stick in a corner, spits out perfectly (if averagely) cooked pancakes and hamburgers and fries out at humongous rates, but can't do anything else, and if it goes down, you have no way of making pancakes, hamburgers, or fries anymore.
or
A 150k chunk of robot arm that can be wheeled out of location if it needs to be (planted normally, pull the bolts and lower the wheels and Wheee!), can be programmed to cook hamburgers, pancakes, grilled chicken, most fried foods... pretty much anything that fits on the grill or the frier, with the right programming and modular tools, does at least basic assembly, and cleans up after itself, at least to a degree, at night.
I don't know about you, but if I can get the versatile, modular, upgradable unit, I will.
For me, the more important reason to avoid voice recognition interfaces is simply this:
I do NOT want to hear all of my coworkers yammering away to their computers!!
I mean, geez, cube-land is already loud enough -- I don't need to have everybody talking to their PCs. Maybe if we all had private offices or something, but in a world where the majority of workers occupy cubes (or, hell, just big tables) there's no damn way voice recognition will take off.
And those cubes are useful... how, again? Let's face it, for a lot of us, the difference between a cubicle and a real office, in terms of space they take up, is pretty damn minimal (my current cubicle is larger than the bedroom of my first apartment!). The cubefarm is a little more modular (yipee... like anyone re-orgs cube farms on a regular, or even irregular, basis anyways), but the disadvantages; inability to talk things out, no privacy to speak of, the yammering of the cubicle prairie dogs (and the prairie dog-like head bouncing whenever anything sounds interesting, having to put up with everyone elses music... bleahh.
Hopefully, the days of massive call centers, programming teams that share one small cube area, and sundry other bullshit is soon to be behind us, at least partially, as high-bandwidth solutions become more common and using video conferencing and interactive groupware solutions to connect home offices together becomes more viable. Telecommuting is the way to go.
(Sure, you're gonna need to get together in person once in awhile, but that's why voicerec should *supplement* other interface tools and methods, not *supplant* them.)
Bring on Voice Recognition: I use IBM ViaVoice on an iMac at home, and I love it. And if it kills the cubefarm (and worse environments), more power to it.
Yeah, but that would imply that the iJellybean actually does look good (which IMO it doesn't)
Degustibus non disputandem est
I just bought an iMac DV (blue; I'da gotten purple, but they didn't have one in stock, and I needed the machine *now*, not a week from now), and I think it looks cool as hell.
But that's why they make most things in all sorts of different designs, and not just one: different people find different things appealing.
Johnathan Tweet (Over the Edge, etc.) Lead Designer
Monte Cook (many, many wonderful TSR things)
and
Skip Williams
Gary Gygax may well be involved in the creation process. He may even be listed as a designer. But he is not one of the primary designers... and I'm glad, because they team they have rocks on toast.
Food means nutrition. We need it so we don't die. Food is not about dressing up in nice clothes and going to that new Italian Bistro that the food critic in the magazine recommended.
The preceeding in no way, shape, or form represents the opinion of all (or hopefully even many) members of the/. community.
And this very attitude is why the Linux community will get blindsided by the Next Big Thing (no reference to NeXT intended), in *exactly* the same way Microsoft is getting blindsided by Linux.
"What we are doing is the coolest thing ever. Nothing can be cooler than what we are doing! Nothing will ever supplant us, we are going to Rule the World!"
So, where do you want to go tomorrow night, Brain?
In Minnesota, where I live, I can't start my car at -20F. So how does this start at -80F?!
I'm guessing here, but given that it's running a gasoline powered generator (to generate power for the inwheel electric motors) that it never actually shuts the generator down, just throttles it back to a very low idle.
As for pollution, the amount of pollution generated by this little guy (well, not so little, actually), is probably pretty low, especially when compared to all the other stuff that's already down there (helicopters, snowmobiles, tracked transports, etc.). Not something to worry about.
Similarly, the cost of gas while idling is also pretty low; city traffic sucks consumption wise because of the stop and start; an idling engine is pretty fuel efficient.
once that is mastered, we're all screwed cause artificial intelligence has never resulted in anything but evil according to all the space movies.:)
R2D2 and C3P0
Data
Holly and the toaster (okay, incompetence and annoyance... but not evil).
Twiki
H.A.R.L.I.E. 2.0
Mycroft HOLMES-4 (Mike)
Asimov's Robots
And so forth and so on. There's plenty of non-evil AIs out there: it's just that we remember the nasty evil bad ones, rather than the nice ones, in general. So everyone thinks of HAL (who wasn't evil, just driven into a psychotic episode), or the COLOSSUS, or Wintermute (not really evil, but utterly ruthless).
Obsenity is NOT protected under the first amendment. Why is it that most of slashdot disagree? It's been ruled by the Supreme Court that obsenity is not protected. Because it's *also* been established that obscenity has, in itself, no inherent definition per se, and can only be determined on a case by case basis for the most part. (The "know it when I see it" standard).
It is also considered only on a community level; what is obscene in Dubuque is perfectly legal (if disgusting) in LA, and standard behavior for the governor in Arkansas!
So basically, the problem isn't:
Porn != Free Speech
it's:
Porn does not always equal Obscenity
I Agree with McCain. Obsenity has no place in public schools in real-world media, so why should it be alowed to be accessed over the internet? Why shouldn't the same rules apply to the internet that do to paper-based media in a public library?
So how about Playboy (carried in some mainstream libraries), or D.H Lawrence, or Herman Hesse, or any of a number of other authors? What about Romance Novels, some of which are thinly veiled (usually), aimed at women stroke books? Or any other number of books that have sexually explicit material in them, but that aren't necessarily "obscene" by anyone's sense of the word (except the most insanely prudish)?
This isn't about free speach, stuff like this isn't protected.
Actually, much of it is protected... it may not be purchaseable by minors, or available in all libraries, but it is available, legally, to adults in many states.
It's about keeping the same standards that already apply to libraries to the new medium of the internet. It's not censorship if it's censoring things that aren't protected under the 1st amendment.
That could be argued. The problem seems to be that the "black list" of software that is used is encrypted. Meaning that it's not the gov't that determins what is obsecene(as is the case now), it's private companies that make the software. These companies can pick and choose what can and can not be seen. They usually block access to sites that ARE protected under the 1st amendment, shuch as anti-censorship sites, etc.
That's another, problem with the whole idea, yes. But it by no means is the only one.
Sorry, but in much of the US, despite the wishes of some majorly uptight people, www.hotsex.com is a perfectly legal site (if it exists...).
Maybe a gov't body can be set up to determine what sites fall under a general obsenity law, and open the list to all the censorware companies. The list could be made publicly avalible, and be the list that determines what and what not can be seen in a public school or library. This way, only the non-protected obscene material, which isn't premitted in a public school/library now, isn't accessable.
There we go. Let's make another governmental agency, with broad oversight capability. Let's keep in mind that obscene material is illegal in the United States; all you are doing is creating;
1: Targets for ambitous DAs to go after to score brownie points during election season.
2: Targets for the Moral Majority wannabes to rant and rave after, making them bigger targets for 1: above.
3: Yet Another Big Stick for the sometimes not-nice boys and girls who work for our government to swing at folks they don't like (sorry; there's a lot of really nice folks working for the government. There are also, however, quite a few assholes).
No, for one company (Pixar), credits are mandated by contracts, for another (Apple), they are not.
You want credits on software you help develop? Then write your own, or get it in the contract you sign when you hire on.
Otherwise, you have no right to bitch; if it ain't in the contract, or mandated by law (like OSHA regulations), the company doesn't *have* to do it. It's that simple.
My personal opinion is that it may well be a regrettable necessity. It sucks for those who are getting credit now for what they work on, but believe me (as someone who has had it happen), it sucks worse to be the guy who does a major part of the work, but gets left off of a project's credits due to some slip-up.
Gee, I dunno, you could, I suppose, call them or something....
I personally don't think this was the smartest thing Apple ever did, myself, but really, complaining about something that can be fixed with a simple phone call (admittedly, possibly with a wait on the phone) isn't exactly the greatest thing in the world either.
Missiles are really pretty fragile, and KKVs depend on this fact. You smack it with something moving fast, and it's likely to fall apart.
Rocks, comets, etc. OTOH, are not all that fragile, comparatively. Smack a rock with something moving fast, you might end up with a bunch of smaller rocks... or you might end up with a tumbling rock, or an off-course rock, or something else.
So, really, while a KKV defense system might be useful against smaller stuff (big enough to hurt, not big enough to wipe out), they won't be much use against really big ones, and especially not planet-killers. The only thing much use against a rock that big is knowing where it is, and taking steps to knock it off course well before it can intersect the Earth.
Asteroid mining may be feasible at some time in the future, for various minerals; aluminum, steel, precious metals, etc.
However, it is very unlikely we will find coal, since the most likely source is dead plant material from the Jurassic (and earlier) era, and unlikely we will find petrochemicals, unless we get lucky and Titan (?) does in fact have petrochemicals (or analogs thereof).
There are power sources to be found in space; solar power arrays could beam power back to Earth, magnetic loop generators placed in Jupiter's magnetosphere could be used to generate large amounts of power, the Moon's surface could be mined for Helium-3 for use in fusion reactors. (All of these things are, of course, still theoretical; none of them have been tried yet, for obvious reasons).
But all of these things depend on us surviving long enough to actually manage to implement them; and right now, that means both reducing the amount of power we use, and efficiently and cleanly generating the power we need.
And flat out saying "nuclear power is evilbad, and we shouldn't use it" is as asinine as saying "computers are evil tools used by bureacracies to control the Masses, and should be destroyed". Nuclear power is a tool, and one that, properly controlled and managed, is no more dangerous than any other. Sometimes it is the appropriate tool, sometimes it is not.
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This is, of course, what Disambiguation pages, and redirects to most-commonly-searched items is for... (which, btw, is exactly what London Bridge currently does... searching London Bridge brings you exactly where you want it to go - the page about the bridge - with a disambiguation link in case you're looking for, say, the Fergie song).
A truly wise man knows what tools he has at his disposal, and how to use them to best effect.
1 - who decides what is unimportant, and what is important? It is painfully clear that admins and others who have no knowledge of certain topics (and therefore no standing to determine whether something is unimportant or important) are nonetheless moving through topic spaces and AFDing everything they do not find of import - whether or not the page is actually relevant to those who have knowledge in that topic space.
2 - circular reasoning - if it's unimportant, then it's not included, but if it's included, it's not unimportant?
3 - in the end, nearly all information is trivia to somebody - by the definition of "if it's trivial, move it somewhere else" almost all information should be stored somewhere else.
Stop thinking you have a limited number of pages, o gods of Wikipedia. You don't. Your space is limitless. Trust in your readers to figure out whether they are looking for Tom Jones, singer and panty target, or Tom Jones, butcher from Aberwyvern. If should be much, much harder to AFD an article that is not clearly spam (because there is clearly reason to delete honest-to-goshen spam) and rampant nomination of topics for AFD should be looked down upon by the Wikipedia staff and community. Spend more time promoting and developing articles, and less time looking for articles to delete.
I think you should RTFA before opening your mouth...
"Mighty Mouse © Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved."
Dude, you do realize that you totally sound like an ASUS shill, as well as an Apple-basher, right?
If Information wants to be free, why are you suppressing it by posting anonymously, coward?
Scott Taylor
There are some others - Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime", ELO's "Time", and Styx's "Mr. Roboto" spring to mind, and there are others as well (perhaps Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales") that while not directly linked, are thematically linked in some fashion or another, such that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Nonetheless, it is certainly true that the average album is a collection of songs, rather than a coherent whole - while there may be planning and thought that goes into designing the album (we need a ballad, a couple of rockin' tunes, some dance-y stuff, and an experimental piece...) it's not like the entire album is sculpted towards any theme other than "sell the album", in general - and in many cases, it's more "fill the album with sixty-seventy minutes of music, so the fans don't feel cheated.
But, well, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Because, of course, Apple users are utterly incapable of figuring out when it's worth it to buy the whole album on CD and burn it to ACC or MP3 format, and when they only want the two or three good songs off of an otherwise uspectacular album, and are willing to pay a slight premium per song to not have to spend more for the whole fucking album.
Whatever, dude.
This is IMPORTANT INFORMATION which should be DISSEMINATED WIDELY for the GOOD OF ALL MANKIND!
Detecting psychoceramics 101; the more ALL CAPITALS they use, the more likely it is that they are nutbars.
A whole *11* people!
Sparky, D&D 3rd edition Players Handbook has sold literally *hundreds of thousands* of copies since it was released... three months ago.
Dungeons and Dragons has been in print since the 1970s. In that time, it has literally sold millions of copies, in dozens of languages (okay, probably only a dozen languages).
Wanna try to get a bigger number?
Because quite frankly, more people die because of water every year (hell, every month than you can "prove" (and "allege" is probably too strong a word, really... correlation is not causation, first off) "died because of Dungeons & Dragons"
But I'll stop confusing you with the facts, since you clearly have your mind made up.
Scott Taylor
This is less true than it *used* to be (the Disney dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, for example, is really nice... and that's even taking into account my very, very low opinion of Disney in general), but I still avoid dubs unless I've heard they are really good.
The worst, of course, was an old Bubblegum Crisis dub where they not only overspoke the spoken lines, but redid the *music* as well... aiiiiee!
Scott "anime troll*" Taylor
*no, not that kind of troll, you netgeek!
Well, of course they did. Heaven forfend anyone think that Apple actually innovated anything on their own... I mean, since way back when they stole the entire GUI, lock, stock, and trash can from PARC, they've done nothing innovative whatsoever. Just steal steal steal.
The above, in case you need to be hit with a cluexfour, is sarcasm....
Scott Taylor
Sure, but OTOH, which is better;
A 150k chunk of ironmongery that you stick in a corner, spits out perfectly (if averagely) cooked pancakes and hamburgers and fries out at humongous rates, but can't do anything else, and if it goes down, you have no way of making pancakes, hamburgers, or fries anymore.
or
A 150k chunk of robot arm that can be wheeled out of location if it needs to be (planted normally, pull the bolts and lower the wheels and Wheee!), can be programmed to cook hamburgers, pancakes, grilled chicken, most fried foods... pretty much anything that fits on the grill or the frier, with the right programming and modular tools, does at least basic assembly, and cleans up after itself, at least to a degree, at night.
I don't know about you, but if I can get the versatile, modular, upgradable unit, I will.
Scott Taylor
I do NOT want to hear all of my coworkers yammering away to their computers!!
I mean, geez, cube-land is already loud enough -- I don't need to have everybody talking to their PCs. Maybe if we all had private offices or something, but in a world where the majority of workers occupy cubes (or, hell, just big tables) there's no damn way voice recognition will take off.
And those cubes are useful... how, again? Let's face it, for a lot of us, the difference between a cubicle and a real office, in terms of space they take up, is pretty damn minimal (my current cubicle is larger than the bedroom of my first apartment!). The cubefarm is a little more modular (yipee... like anyone re-orgs cube farms on a regular, or even irregular, basis anyways), but the disadvantages; inability to talk things out, no privacy to speak of, the yammering of the cubicle prairie dogs (and the prairie dog-like head bouncing whenever anything sounds interesting, having to put up with everyone elses music... bleahh.
Hopefully, the days of massive call centers, programming teams that share one small cube area, and sundry other bullshit is soon to be behind us, at least partially, as high-bandwidth solutions become more common and using video conferencing and interactive groupware solutions to connect home offices together becomes more viable. Telecommuting is the way to go.
(Sure, you're gonna need to get together in person once in awhile, but that's why voicerec should *supplement* other interface tools and methods, not *supplant* them.)
Bring on Voice Recognition: I use IBM ViaVoice on an iMac at home, and I love it. And if it kills the cubefarm (and worse environments), more power to it.
Scott Taylor
Yeah, but that would imply that the iJellybean actually does look good (which IMO it doesn't)
Degustibus non disputandem est
I just bought an iMac DV (blue; I'da gotten purple, but they didn't have one in stock, and I needed the machine *now*, not a week from now), and I think it looks cool as hell.
But that's why they make most things in all sorts of different designs, and not just one: different people find different things appealing.
Scott Taylor
The primary designers for D&D3 are
Johnathan Tweet (Over the Edge, etc.) Lead Designer
Monte Cook (many, many wonderful TSR things)
and
Skip Williams
Gary Gygax may well be involved in the creation process. He may even be listed as a designer. But he is not one of the primary designers... and I'm glad, because they team they have rocks on toast.
http://www.wizards.com/3e/faq.asp
For more information on D&D 3e.
Scott Taylor
The preceeding in no way, shape, or form represents the opinion of all (or hopefully even many) members of the /. community.
Scott Taylor
Scott Taylor
And this very attitude is why the Linux community will get blindsided by the Next Big Thing (no reference to NeXT intended), in *exactly* the same way Microsoft is getting blindsided by Linux.
"What we are doing is the coolest thing ever. Nothing can be cooler than what we are doing! Nothing will ever supplant us, we are going to Rule the World!"
So, where do you want to go tomorrow night, Brain?
Scott Taylor
I'm guessing here, but given that it's running a gasoline powered generator (to generate power for the inwheel electric motors) that it never actually shuts the generator down, just throttles it back to a very low idle.
As for pollution, the amount of pollution generated by this little guy (well, not so little, actually), is probably pretty low, especially when compared to all the other stuff that's already down there (helicopters, snowmobiles, tracked transports, etc.). Not something to worry about.
Similarly, the cost of gas while idling is also pretty low; city traffic sucks consumption wise because of the stop and start; an idling engine is pretty fuel efficient.
Scott Taylor
R2D2 and C3P0
Data
Holly and the toaster (okay, incompetence and annoyance... but not evil).
Twiki
H.A.R.L.I.E. 2.0
Mycroft HOLMES-4 (Mike)
Asimov's Robots
And so forth and so on. There's plenty of non-evil AIs out there: it's just that we remember the nasty evil bad ones, rather than the nice ones, in general. So everyone thinks of HAL (who wasn't evil, just driven into a psychotic episode), or the COLOSSUS, or Wintermute (not really evil, but utterly ruthless).
Scott Taylor
It is also considered only on a community level; what is obscene in Dubuque is perfectly legal (if disgusting) in LA, and standard behavior for the governor in Arkansas!
So basically, the problem isn't:
Porn != Free Speech
it's:
Porn does not always equal Obscenity
I Agree with McCain. Obsenity has no place in public schools in real-world media, so why should it be alowed to be accessed over the internet? Why shouldn't the same rules apply to the internet that do to paper-based media in a public library?
So how about Playboy (carried in some mainstream libraries), or D.H Lawrence, or Herman Hesse, or any of a number of other authors? What about Romance Novels, some of which are thinly veiled (usually), aimed at women stroke books? Or any other number of books that have sexually explicit material in them, but that aren't necessarily "obscene" by anyone's sense of the word (except the most insanely prudish)?
This isn't about free speach, stuff like this isn't protected.
Actually, much of it is protected... it may not be purchaseable by minors, or available in all libraries, but it is available, legally, to adults in many states.
It's about keeping the same standards that already apply to libraries to the new medium of the internet. It's not censorship if it's censoring things that aren't protected under the 1st amendment.
That could be argued. The problem seems to be that the "black list" of software that is used is encrypted. Meaning that it's not the gov't that determins what is obsecene(as is the case now), it's private companies that make the software. These companies can pick and choose what can and can not be seen. They usually block access to sites that ARE protected under the 1st amendment, shuch as anti-censorship sites, etc.
That's another, problem with the whole idea, yes. But it by no means is the only one.
Sorry, but in much of the US, despite the wishes of some majorly uptight people, www.hotsex.com is a perfectly legal site (if it exists...).
Maybe a gov't body can be set up to determine what sites fall under a general obsenity law, and open the list to all the censorware companies. The list could be made publicly avalible, and be the list that determines what and what not can be seen in a public school or library. This way, only the non-protected obscene material, which isn't premitted in a public school/library now, isn't accessable.
There we go. Let's make another governmental agency, with broad oversight capability. Let's keep in mind that obscene material is illegal in the United States; all you are doing is creating;
1: Targets for ambitous DAs to go after to score brownie points during election season.
2: Targets for the Moral Majority wannabes to rant and rave after, making them bigger targets for 1: above.
3: Yet Another Big Stick for the sometimes not-nice boys and girls who work for our government to swing at folks they don't like (sorry; there's a lot of really nice folks working for the government. There are also, however, quite a few assholes).
Not a good idea, imho
Scott Taylor
You want credits on software you help develop? Then write your own, or get it in the contract you sign when you hire on.
Otherwise, you have no right to bitch; if it ain't in the contract, or mandated by law (like OSHA regulations), the company doesn't *have* to do it. It's that simple.
My personal opinion is that it may well be a regrettable necessity. It sucks for those who are getting credit now for what they work on, but believe me (as someone who has had it happen), it sucks worse to be the guy who does a major part of the work, but gets left off of a project's credits due to some slip-up.
Scott
Gee, I dunno, you could, I suppose, call them or something....
I personally don't think this was the smartest thing Apple ever did, myself, but really, complaining about something that can be fixed with a simple phone call (admittedly, possibly with a wait on the phone) isn't exactly the greatest thing in the world either.
But, I suppose, that's just me....
Much less use than you might think.
Missiles are really pretty fragile, and KKVs depend on this fact. You smack it with something moving fast, and it's likely to fall apart.
Rocks, comets, etc. OTOH, are not all that fragile, comparatively. Smack a rock with something moving fast, you might end up with a bunch of smaller rocks... or you might end up with a tumbling rock, or an off-course rock, or something else.
So, really, while a KKV defense system might be useful against smaller stuff (big enough to hurt, not big enough to wipe out), they won't be much use against really big ones, and especially not planet-killers. The only thing much use against a rock that big is knowing where it is, and taking steps to knock it off course well before it can intersect the Earth.
Asteroid mining may be feasible at some time in the future, for various minerals; aluminum, steel, precious metals, etc.
However, it is very unlikely we will find coal, since the most likely source is dead plant material from the Jurassic (and earlier) era, and unlikely we will find petrochemicals, unless we get lucky and Titan (?) does in fact have petrochemicals (or analogs thereof).
There are power sources to be found in space; solar power arrays could beam power back to Earth, magnetic loop generators placed in Jupiter's magnetosphere could be used to generate large amounts of power, the Moon's surface could be mined for Helium-3 for use in fusion reactors. (All of these things are, of course, still theoretical; none of them have been tried yet, for obvious reasons).
But all of these things depend on us surviving long enough to actually manage to implement them; and right now, that means both reducing the amount of power we use, and efficiently and cleanly generating the power we need.
And flat out saying "nuclear power is evilbad, and we shouldn't use it" is as asinine as saying "computers are evil tools used by bureacracies to control the Masses, and should be destroyed". Nuclear power is a tool, and one that, properly controlled and managed, is no more dangerous than any other. Sometimes it is the appropriate tool, sometimes it is not.