(With light parody of one of the texts) The Slashdot Community forgets its own arguments over time.
This is one particular publisher releasing its archive. It's Academia - the stuff that used to cost $200 per book, which made us all furious at the Book Scam. Now they have released every single one of their texts for download, and the whole point is that you can convert it to text from the PDF. Every one of these can become a podcast. If you and five buddies like it/them, you just have a LAN party and you each download your books.
All those Intro to X books are covered elsewhere. These are the specific topics that you have to read several of, and read between the lines, to really extract the useful parts. Ah yes, this is Slashdot, we champion the art of not reading long texts!
The bigger point is if the OTHER science publishers ALSO released their collections, you could get your favorite Intro to X books from the Houghton Mifflin branch of whoever owns it now. Then you have the best of all worlds.
We can't even tell if this is a False Flag or some semi-well-intentioned young hacker group.
The Govt is playing a pretty good chess game "establishing the pre-requisites of tyranny". Of course they have some logical fallacies built in, that's why Division by Zero is illegal in math - you then enter fantasy land.
I am only one of many who saw this coming, but all I can do is educate and hope someone with some clout notices.
Re Section3 Band "Glad you like it! Our influences are pretty broad - punk, new wave and goth mostly but there's also a lot of electronic stuff and even a smattering of ska in our shared tastes. We mostly play venues like The Underworld and Purple Turtle in Camden, and clubs like the Slimelight. We missed out on the European festivals this year, since we didn't have a promo ready in time, but should be playing some club gigs on the continent in the Autumn."
Heh you made me nuke my moderations so I could reply to you!
As a Real Live Artist why do you only have "stream playing"? Why no mp3 downloads? What is your opinion on the copyright mess?
(Don't hurt me mods, copyright tyranny is 3 degrees of separation from hacking!)
I'm seeing my comments today coming through at 0 as well when logged in, vs 1 as AC. Not sure what that is either. For a minute I thought I was getting mod bombed.
Go to any participating store and order X items according to a chart you carry with you/memorize.
It's like a substitution code, and thanks to Kurt Godel only your partner knows what the coding is. So what if you buy 12 boxes of cheerios and not 4, 3 nail clippers, 17 tissues, etc.
Then the wholesaler/etc blogs the coded message without saying what sale it came from.
It's the problem of Significant Figures for verbal data sets.
Last I recalled, you can only keep he number of significant figures equal to the fuzziest of the inputs. So you have 45.236 + 12.877 + "one million"... means your answer can only keep the one significant figure of "a little over a million".
So for these non-verbal data sets, you get too many data fields, and misc people forget to put the stuff in ref1, someone puts a date instead of an invoice number in ref2, the vendor code is wrong in ID1, someone puts an employee instead of the lumber yard in ID2 etc. So then when the boss wants "gimme the total set of cases I need to go manage", you get bad searches.
If they pass it (and a few patches), it's the Grand Slam end to all Web 2.0.
As long as the law was only about uploaders, the viewing public was safe. But if they switch it to make linking a crime, and by extension clicking unauthorized copies, all sharing will end instantly except the Johnny Mnemonic Low-Tek rebels.
It will instantly slice down YouTube to a mix of corporate accounts and little guys.
It's gotta be the bold primary colors... those seem to signal children's shows. Plus all the roundedness signals "safe" - it's kinda a meme that scary stuff has sharp angles.
Taking my cue from the summary, you might be missing the "brains" axis.
I think that cheating is very high up on the abohorrent list... because "done right" it grows epic. The media likes to parade the dumb cheaters as a cheap schadenfreude ad-click generator. The smart cheaters blend it in better. So in your examples, the never did want to be a doctor - he just needs his degree to become a senior med insurance adjuster. His knowledge is good enough to know the vocab, and then using power plays he gets to cheat some more, Robin Cook style with his cohort in Pharma.
It's like xkcd's comments on graphs without an axis or labels.
Lifetime... that's a lot of years! Let's say you "die young" at 50. You got your first car "late" at 20. So AC's figure of 4 cars = 7.x years per car, *each*. That's kinda long. Many people don't buy new anymore. So now we're asking about the quality of the used ones we get.
Americans are quite happy with the cultural tradition of the clunker to get you past a year. You pick it up for $500 and it somehow passes inspection.
The other part is the word "own" - families usually have His & Hers plus sometimes the kid's.
So I propose the figure of 12 cars closer to the mark "per lifetime".
There's The Chicago Code, a nice new entry about Cicago style corruption, Fairly Legal which breaks mild ground dealing with mediators where there's no evidence rules junk, and it's about people cutting deals to avoid bug ugly suits. Harry's Law is rather funny. Breaking In is a great geek comedy.
However you're right that some big ticket shows are winding down, and I don't yet know much about the replacements. House was iconic.
I would like to provide a counterpoint position. Borrowing echoes of "soul in the machine", let's call the body below the neck as basically "hardware". Skipping for the moment the folks with special needs, we all have quasi-comparable hardware. At our best we tweak the opportunities between short folks going for horse jockeys or maybe swimming, while the stocky types go for construction or he military (to use random examples.)
But all the excitement is in the mind. It's like a play of operating systems and distros - there's New Jersey Urban, Southern Belle, MidWest Heartland, California Coastal etc. Now within the huge variants, of course each of us is unique - the famous example is geeks who haven't yet polished up to be rounded category-killers. Then there's the All American Entrepreneurs, who find their way to defining positions of the decade.
Now of course "mind emerges from the neurons", so not everyone can be John Von Neumann. But within our raw abilities (mildly adaptable!) it's up to us to find a "software package" that gets us happily through life. I think it's fun to watch "solid" people who might not be able to flash the wild reaches of topics, but make up for it with "horse sense and steady nerves".
Thanks for replying. As you call them, "culture tax overlords", like the money they have been making and are already thrashing like wounded dinosaurs. In their death throes they are getting more favorable laws than ever before.
So when you "see no issue" with proposing a law that releases works faster than even the 28 year period, you are implicitly declaring a fight with those dead dinos and their profits. On the other hand, I went looking for where it turns into a long tail such that the materials are "unsellable" so that the dinos can keep the scraps of the few signature pieces that keep them fed, while new artists get the treasure trove of otherwise buried materials that are stuck in vaults. Check out Star Trek Phase 2 for one of the best examples of how do the licensing for hot button "IP properties".
Suppose the term is 56 years, which is the original 28 plus one renewal at 28. So in the proposal meeting you say "Sure, you can still have Star Trek. We want Cordwainer Smith".
Slashdot Mirror
(With light parody of one of the texts)
The Slashdot Community forgets its own arguments over time.
This is one particular publisher releasing its archive. It's Academia - the stuff that used to cost $200 per book, which made us all furious at the Book Scam. Now they have released every single one of their texts for download, and the whole point is that you can convert it to text from the PDF. Every one of these can become a podcast. If you and five buddies like it/them, you just have a LAN party and you each download your books.
All those Intro to X books are covered elsewhere. These are the specific topics that you have to read several of, and read between the lines, to really extract the useful parts. Ah yes, this is Slashdot, we champion the art of not reading long texts!
The bigger point is if the OTHER science publishers ALSO released their collections, you could get your favorite Intro to X books from the Houghton Mifflin branch of whoever owns it now. Then you have the best of all worlds.
The same attitude is needed to look at Higg's Wife's bosom without getting punched.
I'll reply to you.
We can't even tell if this is a False Flag or some semi-well-intentioned young hacker group.
The Govt is playing a pretty good chess game "establishing the pre-requisites of tyranny". Of course they have some logical fallacies built in, that's why Division by Zero is illegal in math - you then enter fantasy land.
I am only one of many who saw this coming, but all I can do is educate and hope someone with some clout notices.
Yeah, that's been there for ages now. I ad-blocked the spinning thingie but it's still there.
Re Section3 Band
"Glad you like it! Our influences are pretty broad - punk, new wave and goth mostly but there's also a lot of electronic stuff and even a smattering of ska in our shared tastes. We mostly play venues like The Underworld and Purple Turtle in Camden, and clubs like the Slimelight. We missed out on the European festivals this year, since we didn't have a promo ready in time, but should be playing some club gigs on the continent in the Autumn."
Heh you made me nuke my moderations so I could reply to you!
As a Real Live Artist why do you only have "stream playing"? Why no mp3 downloads? What is your opinion on the copyright mess?
(Don't hurt me mods, copyright tyranny is 3 degrees of separation from hacking!)
I'm seeing my comments today coming through at 0 as well when logged in, vs 1 as AC. Not sure what that is either. For a minute I thought I was getting mod bombed.
Mods, mod this back up, Govt doing kill switching has a lot of "innocent harm".
I have one.
Encoded sales transaction.
Go to any participating store and order X items according to a chart you carry with you/memorize.
It's like a substitution code, and thanks to Kurt Godel only your partner knows what the coding is. So what if you buy 12 boxes of cheerios and not 4, 3 nail clippers, 17 tissues, etc.
Then the wholesaler/etc blogs the coded message without saying what sale it came from.
Really bad case of 503 unavailable today.
(Lolcat)
Cuz I am in ur revolution and you can't stand it.
Long revolutions are long.
(/Lolcat)
Either that or Unity influence is at work!
Dear Al Qaeda reader,
Have a cake on us.
Yours,
MI6
It's the problem of Significant Figures for verbal data sets.
Last I recalled, you can only keep he number of significant figures equal to the fuzziest of the inputs. So you have 45.236 + 12.877 + "one million" ... means your answer can only keep the one significant figure of "a little over a million".
So for these non-verbal data sets, you get too many data fields, and misc people forget to put the stuff in ref1, someone puts a date instead of an invoice number in ref2, the vendor code is wrong in ID1, someone puts an employee instead of the lumber yard in ID2 etc. So then when the boss wants "gimme the total set of cases I need to go manage", you get bad searches.
"---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War."
Nice sig. Now the Republicans who spent too much are trying to blame it on Obama.
This is it, what I've been calling Superclick.
If they pass it (and a few patches), it's the Grand Slam end to all Web 2.0.
As long as the law was only about uploaders, the viewing public was safe. But if they switch it to make linking a crime, and by extension clicking unauthorized copies, all sharing will end instantly except the Johnny Mnemonic Low-Tek rebels.
It will instantly slice down YouTube to a mix of corporate accounts and little guys.
So if you post one comment, a lawyer can scare you into destroying your twitter account by spamming it with 100 retractions?
"I really wish that nobody would have taught the evil overlords how to read. They just keep 'stealing' ideas from dystopian authors."
Philip K. Dick's ghost sadly agrees with this.
"Class, here is an exhibit to study." *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP_SxjPLkM
Marc Seaberg - Looking for freedom
"...Father said: You'll be sorry son
if you leave your home this way
And when you realize the freedom money buys
You'll come running home some day."
* Youtube, not Netflix, not Tennessee.
Then the next story out of Redmond was "Yay. Now we can try to restrict chipmakers to one model of computer maker!"
It's gotta be the bold primary colors... those seem to signal children's shows. Plus all the roundedness signals "safe" - it's kinda a meme that scary stuff has sharp angles.
So they now looks like AI robot pets!
Taking my cue from the summary, you might be missing the "brains" axis.
I think that cheating is very high up on the abohorrent list ... because "done right" it grows epic. The media likes to parade the dumb cheaters as a cheap schadenfreude ad-click generator. The smart cheaters blend it in better. So in your examples, the never did want to be a doctor - he just needs his degree to become a senior med insurance adjuster. His knowledge is good enough to know the vocab, and then using power plays he gets to cheat some more, Robin Cook style with his cohort in Pharma.
It's like xkcd's comments on graphs without an axis or labels.
Lifetime... that's a lot of years! Let's say you "die young" at 50. You got your first car "late" at 20. So AC's figure of 4 cars = 7.x years per car, *each*. That's kinda long. Many people don't buy new anymore. So now we're asking about the quality of the used ones we get.
Americans are quite happy with the cultural tradition of the clunker to get you past a year. You pick it up for $500 and it somehow passes inspection.
The other part is the word "own" - families usually have His & Hers plus sometimes the kid's.
So I propose the figure of 12 cars closer to the mark "per lifetime".
It's not that bleak.
There's The Chicago Code, a nice new entry about Cicago style corruption, Fairly Legal which breaks mild ground dealing with mediators where there's no evidence rules junk, and it's about people cutting deals to avoid bug ugly suits. Harry's Law is rather funny. Breaking In is a great geek comedy.
However you're right that some big ticket shows are winding down, and I don't yet know much about the replacements. House was iconic.
I would like to provide a counterpoint position. Borrowing echoes of "soul in the machine", let's call the body below the neck as basically "hardware". Skipping for the moment the folks with special needs, we all have quasi-comparable hardware. At our best we tweak the opportunities between short folks going for horse jockeys or maybe swimming, while the stocky types go for construction or he military (to use random examples.)
But all the excitement is in the mind. It's like a play of operating systems and distros - there's New Jersey Urban, Southern Belle, MidWest Heartland, California Coastal etc. Now within the huge variants, of course each of us is unique - the famous example is geeks who haven't yet polished up to be rounded category-killers. Then there's the All American Entrepreneurs, who find their way to defining positions of the decade.
Now of course "mind emerges from the neurons", so not everyone can be John Von Neumann. But within our raw abilities (mildly adaptable!) it's up to us to find a "software package" that gets us happily through life. I think it's fun to watch "solid" people who might not be able to flash the wild reaches of topics, but make up for it with "horse sense and steady nerves".
Thanks for replying. As you call them, "culture tax overlords", like the money they have been making and are already thrashing like wounded dinosaurs. In their death throes they are getting more favorable laws than ever before.
So when you "see no issue" with proposing a law that releases works faster than even the 28 year period, you are implicitly declaring a fight with those dead dinos and their profits. On the other hand, I went looking for where it turns into a long tail such that the materials are "unsellable" so that the dinos can keep the scraps of the few signature pieces that keep them fed, while new artists get the treasure trove of otherwise buried materials that are stuck in vaults. Check out Star Trek Phase 2 for one of the best examples of how do the licensing for hot button "IP properties".
Suppose the term is 56 years, which is the original 28 plus one renewal at 28. So in the proposal meeting you say "Sure, you can still have Star Trek. We want Cordwainer Smith".