"Edoc repus sith edoced nac yeht fi rednow" "I thought I had it but I lost the track at the third word.
Sith... sith... maybe it has something to do with Jedi?"
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A WOOSH!
And more than just a couple of generations. To quote Wikipedia, "The term was first mentioned by St. Albertus Magnus in 1270 and was popularized by the French writer Villiers in his 1886 novel L'Ève future, although the term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature humanlike toy automations."
I have got to say that was the first time I have ever heard of St. Albertus Magnus. Turns out he was one of Thomas Aquinas's teachers and was one of the first Europeans to isolate Arsenic.
Not quite. From TFA, "Android Data, for which he was granted a trademark in October of 2002 by the US Patent and Trademark Office". It looks like Android Data have been trademarked for a number of years. It is strange that Google didn't buy the trademark in October 2007 after their application ran out, or that they didn't change it to Android OS to differentiate their product from Android Data.
OTOH, "Google countered in August, claiming that the trademark Android Data hadn't been used for over three years, that the company has been dissolved for over four years, and that there couldn't be any confusion between the two names." which does seem pretty reasonable. According to the Chilling Effects website though, the time limit for a trademark is 10 years. Although in the first ten year period you need to lodge an "Affidavit of Use" between the fifth and sixth years. Looks like Eric Spech may be receiving some money. Unless a bean counter at Google works out it will cost less to change the name.
Ha, I count myself lucky to have been born where I was born, to always have had food and shelter, an education, and the ability to make my own mistakes and get to learn from them. In your case, I would suggest mountain climbing and skydiving, possibly base jumping after a while. Adrenaline, dopamine, and the fear of death do wonders for your appreciation of life. Short though it may be. Of course, changing your life based on a/. post may not be sane, but then very little is.
MMP and is currently in use by Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Lesotho, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, United Kingdom, and Venezuela in one form or another.
Can't really talk about the other countries, but in New Zealand the biggest downfall seems to happen when the major parties are closely matched and have to form coalitions with the minors for trade offs. This appears to be both a benefit and a disadvantage, depending on who you agree on at the time.:)
Have you got a link for your stats? The time I can find the WHO having done a comparison of countries was in 2000. If New Zealand really is so far down in current rankings then I think I have some complaining to do to my minister.
"What concerned us was that the response seemed to have drained the capacity of Health to broaden its concern to other potentially affected people."
The health system isn't set up to cover pandemics. To do so would bankrupt the country. Our hospitals get overwhelmed by normal outbreaks. We just can't afford to have that many resources tied up in health.
"Having a new government committed to depleting the Civil Service will not have helped them."
Dear gods man. The government has only been in power since October? I haven't heard of any large scale lay offs in the civil service yet. The previous government happily squandered surplus's on stupidity while we were the second or third most in debted country in the world (per capita). Don't blame National. They may be a bunch of idiots but the situation isn't of their making.
"A real pandemic will overwhelm the professionals."
Yes. And then we go back to basics.
Anyway. We have no idea how big or small this will be and we can't shut down the country for every scare. Isolating population centers would collapse our economy at the present time and a lot of people would die from the indirect consequences of that. Look on the bright side. Your daughter may be in the affected area but it is close to a hospital and is in a high socio-economic neighbourhood. The chances are if it does get bad then it will get much worse elsewhere where hygiene isn't as good and more people are crowded into homes with poorer nutrition.
I have just had a fairly long search in a quest to answer your question on the long term effects of Adderall on memory. Buggered if I can find any. There appears to be some anecdotal evidence that long term usage can cause confusion, but that is about it. It does mess with the dopamine levels of your brain though, so you really wouldn't want to take it to often anyway. In response to your question about memory retention then I would say (personal belief) that if it helps you remember it for the next days exam then it must already be in their long term memory, but without repeated reinforcement it will fade and they will forget what they have learned. You are right though, it would be interesting to see a study comparing the long term retention of students;
a) Who have not taken the drug but have studied all semester.
b) Who have not taken the drug, not studied all semester and have crammed.
c) Who have taken the drug, and studied all semester.
d) Who have taken the drug, not studied all semester and have crammed.
To see whether it is of any long term benefit. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. It appears the study has not been done.
There was one on the 23rd with 2 CME's. Before that I think it was something like 47 days with none at all. Could be another 1913 I suppose but yeah, it is pretty weird.
I wouldn't exactly call it a doomsday scenario. These flares happen fairly often. The last one to disrupt power was in March 1989 but there was a bigger one in April 2001 that missed us.
Can't wait for discovery channels "doco" on the star in the east being solar flares hitting Jupiter though.:)
I would say that is fairly small when the problem is the Earths magnetic field getting pushed down far enough that it crosses the lines and induces a current. It's probably a far smaller solution than replacing the transformers, considering there isn't a surplus of transformers. I think the end of the current solar cycle is in 2012, that should be plenty of time to do this.
No. Copyright has served its term. These laws are going to be passed in every country that matters,in one way or another, just like all those other laws we didn't like were passed. Listening to music from the mass media organisations is becoming immoral. What are we supporting by enjoying their music? We are supporting the subservience of art to money. Nothing more, nothing less. Black Sabbath is my favorite band. I first heard them after sneaking into my brothers bedroom and listening to his records. I thinK (due to burglary and media changes) I have bought the entire catalog of Black Sabbath several times. Well, fuck them. There is only one way to really say this. cd Music/ mv Jamendo ~ cd.. rm -rf Music/* mv Jamendo/ Music/ Join Jamendo folks. Search, find, advertise, and promote the musicians on there. Any musician from the labels is either clueless or trying to fuck you over. That the bands that I grew up with, supported, lived with, showed me beauty, tears and life can support this situation guts me. Spineless little fucks they have become. Delete your music folks, delete your movies. If you see or hear something you like from them then email them asking for their album/movie/whatever under creative commons. Our failure to do this with lead to the death of our culture and the emotional death of ourselves. Subsumed in the search for more and more money.
If the RIAA and it's members want my remorse. It can turn it's body to a corpse.
"I think that's a pipe dream which doesn't take human nature ("why pay when I can take it for free?") into account."
Thats an interesting take on the human condition. On the radio today I heard something that would contrast nicely with your ideas on humanity. It's a restaurant that lets customers pay what they want for the food they have eaten.....or nothing at all. Its called Lentil as Anything and has been running for nine years. They also run a canteen in a college in the same manner.
Actually, it's not that weird that people want to try a game at the earliest possible moment.
The problem here was that the game was leaked."
Or perhaps the problem is that the game was advertised? Perhaps this is just a side product of good advertising. 118,000 people were on the edge of their seats waiting for this game to be released due to advertising. After it was leaked, the advertising worked so well that only 18,000 people felt they could wait until it hit the shops? Perhaps the moral of the story should be don't advertise games until you have a game.
I don't think that will work.
1) Use the phones of illegal immigrants crossing to America under the pretext of America tracking them.
2) Use the kidnapped persons phone.
3) Mug foreigners, and use their phone.
4) Make other people buy the phones.
5) Start own phone shop.
I don't understand why you would use a device that can track your position anyway to communicate a kidnapping/etc.... and those are just a few suggestions off the top of my head to circumvent the law. I would suggest that the police force in Mexico is undermanned and that is the real problem, not the cellphone usage.
"If two guys both killed someone and robbed a bank where the only difference is one wore a ski mask and the other didn't, should the stupid one get less of a sentence because he was "easier to catch." I fail to see how being easier to harder to catch weight that much on the weight of the crime itself."
Possibly because the smarter one had more chance of getting away with it, or leads the court to conclude that he/she is more dangerous because of his/her intelligence.
I am tempted to say,"I'm sorry, Dave. You can't do that". Instead I will echo your comment. I had a lot of good times playing Dnd, arguing about the rules, making maps, and most of all imagining. Thank you.
I wonder if you could splice the cable to a more powerful laser and burn out a whole line? Does anyone know if it is possible to overload a fiber optic cable?
Thats why I am still on candles. Those new bulbs don't heat my room enough, the light is the wrong colour, and they don't smell right when I blow them.:)
We had one of these CLF's in our bathroom that used to flicker a lot on startup. If you encircled it with your hands (without touching the glass) then the flickering would stop. I always meant to test if it was a magnetic field thing but I never got around to it.
"other than the safe knowledge they'd need a pretty accurate stopwatch to measure the very short span of time between them doing that and their government being vaporized as every other nation on Earth expressed their displeasure with large amounts of ordinance."
I seriously doubt China or Russia is going to attack them. I also seriously doubt anybody else will without China allowing it. We might get away with it if we swapped Taiwan for North Korea, but if Japan was already seriously wounded I doubt that would look like a good choice. The scenario as I see it would be; North Korea nukes Japan, China takes over North Korea, Japan allowed standing army (but no nukes), Taiwan safe, South Korea safe.
I would like to see anyone else's scenarios though.
Slashdot Mirror
"Edoc repus sith edoced nac yeht fi rednow"
"I thought I had it but I lost the track at the third word. Sith... sith... maybe it has something to do with Jedi?"
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A WOOSH!
And more than just a couple of generations. To quote Wikipedia, "The term was first mentioned by St. Albertus Magnus in 1270 and was popularized by the French writer Villiers in his 1886 novel L'Ève future, although the term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature humanlike toy automations."
I have got to say that was the first time I have ever heard of St. Albertus Magnus. Turns out he was one of Thomas Aquinas's teachers and was one of the first Europeans to isolate Arsenic.
Not quite. From TFA, "Android Data, for which he was granted a trademark in October of 2002 by the US Patent and Trademark Office". It looks like Android Data have been trademarked for a number of years. It is strange that Google didn't buy the trademark in October 2007 after their application ran out, or that they didn't change it to Android OS to differentiate their product from Android Data.
OTOH, "Google countered in August, claiming that the trademark Android Data hadn't been used for over three years, that the company has been dissolved for over four years, and that there couldn't be any confusion between the two names." which does seem pretty reasonable. According to the Chilling Effects website though, the time limit for a trademark is 10 years. Although in the first ten year period you need to lodge an "Affidavit of Use" between the fifth and sixth years. Looks like Eric Spech may be receiving some money. Unless a bean counter at Google works out it will cost less to change the name.
Ha, I count myself lucky to have been born where I was born, to always have had food and shelter, an education, and the ability to make my own mistakes and get to learn from them. /. post may not be sane, but then very little is.
In your case, I would suggest mountain climbing and skydiving, possibly base jumping after a while. Adrenaline, dopamine, and the fear of death do wonders for your appreciation of life. Short though it may be. Of course, changing your life based on a
MMP and is currently in use by Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Lesotho, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, United Kingdom, and Venezuela in one form or another.
:)
Can't really talk about the other countries, but in New Zealand the biggest downfall seems to happen when the major parties are closely matched and have to form coalitions with the minors for trade offs. This appears to be both a benefit and a disadvantage, depending on who you agree on at the time.
Have you got a link for your stats? The time I can find the WHO having done a comparison of countries was in 2000. If New Zealand really is so far down in current rankings then I think I have some complaining to do to my minister.
"What concerned us was that the response seemed to have drained the capacity of Health to broaden its concern to other potentially affected people."
The health system isn't set up to cover pandemics. To do so would bankrupt the country. Our hospitals get overwhelmed by normal outbreaks. We just can't afford to have that many resources tied up in health.
"Having a new government committed to depleting the Civil Service will not have helped them."
Dear gods man. The government has only been in power since October? I haven't heard of any large scale lay offs in the civil service yet. The previous government happily squandered surplus's on stupidity while we were the second or third most in debted country in the world (per capita). Don't blame National. They may be a bunch of idiots but the situation isn't of their making.
"A real pandemic will overwhelm the professionals."
Yes. And then we go back to basics.
Anyway. We have no idea how big or small this will be and we can't shut down the country for every scare. Isolating population centers would collapse our economy at the present time and a lot of people would die from the indirect consequences of that.
Look on the bright side. Your daughter may be in the affected area but it is close to a hospital and is in a high socio-economic neighbourhood. The chances are if it does get bad then it will get much worse elsewhere where hygiene isn't as good and more people are crowded into homes with poorer nutrition.
I have just had a fairly long search in a quest to answer your question on the long term effects of Adderall on memory. Buggered if I can find any. There appears to be some anecdotal evidence that long term usage can cause confusion, but that is about it. It does mess with the dopamine levels of your brain though, so you really wouldn't want to take it to often anyway. In response to your question about memory retention then I would say (personal belief) that if it helps you remember it for the next days exam then it must already be in their long term memory, but without repeated reinforcement it will fade and they will forget what they have learned. You are right though, it would be interesting to see a study comparing the long term retention of students;
a) Who have not taken the drug but have studied all semester.
b) Who have not taken the drug, not studied all semester and have crammed.
c) Who have taken the drug, and studied all semester.
d) Who have taken the drug, not studied all semester and have crammed.
To see whether it is of any long term benefit. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. It appears the study has not been done.
There was one on the 23rd with 2 CME's. Before that I think it was something like 47 days with none at all. Could be another 1913 I suppose but yeah, it is pretty weird.
I wouldn't exactly call it a doomsday scenario. These flares happen fairly often. The last one to disrupt power was in March 1989 but there was a bigger one in April 2001 that missed us.
:)
Can't wait for discovery channels "doco" on the star in the east being solar flares hitting Jupiter though.
I would say that is fairly small when the problem is the Earths magnetic field getting pushed down far enough that it crosses the lines and induces a current. It's probably a far smaller solution than replacing the transformers, considering there isn't a surplus of transformers. I think the end of the current solar cycle is in 2012, that should be plenty of time to do this.
No. Copyright has served its term. These laws are going to be passed in every country that matters ,in one way or another, just like all those other laws we didn't like were passed. Listening to music from the mass media organisations is becoming immoral. What are we supporting by enjoying their music? We are supporting the subservience of art to money. Nothing more, nothing less. Black Sabbath is my favorite band. I first heard them after sneaking into my brothers bedroom and listening to his records. I thinK (due to burglary and media changes) I have bought the entire catalog of Black Sabbath several times. Well, fuck them. There is only one way to really say this. ..
cd Music/
mv Jamendo ~
cd
rm -rf Music/*
mv Jamendo/ Music/
Join Jamendo folks. Search, find, advertise, and promote the musicians on there. Any musician from the labels is either clueless or trying to fuck you over. That the bands that I grew up with, supported, lived with, showed me beauty, tears and life can support this situation guts me. Spineless little fucks they have become. Delete your music folks, delete your movies. If you see or hear something you like from them then email them asking for their album/movie/whatever under creative commons. Our failure to do this with lead to the death of our culture and the emotional death of ourselves. Subsumed in the search for more and more money.
If the RIAA and it's members want my remorse. It can turn it's body to a corpse.
"I think that's a pipe dream which doesn't take human nature ("why pay when I can take it for free?") into account."
Thats an interesting take on the human condition. On the radio today I heard something that would contrast nicely with your ideas on humanity. It's a restaurant that lets customers pay what they want for the food they have eaten.....or nothing at all. Its called Lentil as Anything and has been running for nine years. They also run a canteen in a college in the same manner.
Actually, it's not that weird that people want to try a game at the earliest possible moment. The problem here was that the game was leaked."
Or perhaps the problem is that the game was advertised? Perhaps this is just a side product of good advertising. 118,000 people were on the edge of their seats waiting for this game to be released due to advertising. After it was leaked, the advertising worked so well that only 18,000 people felt they could wait until it hit the shops? Perhaps the moral of the story should be don't advertise games until you have a game.
"Just mark the directory as hidden, your mom will not find it."
Just make sure you aren't sharing a parent folder over a network as hidden folders may not be hidden to other operating systems.
"Idiocracy ain't far away."
Yes. Only the UN can save us now!
I don't think that will work.
1) Use the phones of illegal immigrants crossing to America under the pretext of America tracking them.
2) Use the kidnapped persons phone.
3) Mug foreigners, and use their phone.
4) Make other people buy the phones.
5) Start own phone shop.
I don't understand why you would use a device that can track your position anyway to communicate a kidnapping/etc.... and those are just a few suggestions off the top of my head to circumvent the law. I would suggest that the police force in Mexico is undermanned and that is the real problem, not the cellphone usage.
"If two guys both killed someone and robbed a bank where the only difference is one wore a ski mask and the other didn't, should the stupid one get less of a sentence because he was "easier to catch." I fail to see how being easier to harder to catch weight that much on the weight of the crime itself."
Possibly because the smarter one had more chance of getting away with it, or leads the court to conclude that he/she is more dangerous because of his/her intelligence.
I am tempted to say,"I'm sorry, Dave. You can't do that". Instead I will echo your comment. I had a lot of good times playing Dnd, arguing about the rules, making maps, and most of all imagining.
Thank you.
I wonder if you could splice the cable to a more powerful laser and burn out a whole line? Does anyone know if it is possible to overload a fiber optic cable?
Thats why I am still on candles. Those new bulbs don't heat my room enough, the light is the wrong colour, and they don't smell right when I blow them. :)
We had one of these CLF's in our bathroom that used to flicker a lot on startup. If you encircled it with your hands (without touching the glass) then the flickering would stop. I always meant to test if it was a magnetic field thing but I never got around to it.
The courts might decide that the digital container is sufficient transformation of the work to warrant a new copyright.
The courts could decide that. And the consequence could be that if I copied a .vob to .mpeg then I would be the copyright holder.
"other than the safe knowledge they'd need a pretty accurate stopwatch to measure the very short span of time between them doing that and their government being vaporized as every other nation on Earth expressed their displeasure with large amounts of ordinance."
I seriously doubt China or Russia is going to attack them. I also seriously doubt anybody else will without China allowing it. We might get away with it if we swapped Taiwan for North Korea, but if Japan was already seriously wounded I doubt that would look like a good choice. The scenario as I see it would be; North Korea nukes Japan, China takes over North Korea, Japan allowed standing army (but no nukes), Taiwan safe, South Korea safe.
I would like to see anyone else's scenarios though.
"There is another option" Mod parent funny.....or at least don't let America have anything to do with it.