Oh, I hate that phrase! Everything nowadays has to be about Web 2.0. All the people that haven't lived through the hype of the last Internet bubble are now convinced that their Web 2.0 project is bound to strike gold!
Some don't even bother to mention what the project's about. Like "it's Web 2.0" is supposed to be a magical selling point.
How about a radical departure from the West. Forget about trying to manage western-oriented cities. How about trying to rebuild war-torn cities like Kabul and Baghdad. One of the natural disaster types could be terrorist/insurgent attacks. Another could be infrastructure problems - shoddy building regulations in a fast-growing city - i.e. electric system overload, gas pipe bursts, etc.
In fact, make the whole thing fictional -- fictional troubled area in the world, fictional superpower, fictional terrorist organizations (Global Liberation Army?), fictional religious practices, etc.
With so many things that can go wrong, and so many different things that could be done that would set it apart from the old SimCitys, I can see that this idea could be one hell of an interesting challenge.
Personally, I think, they should pick swingers for the mission -- there will be no reproductive sex on board, so the partners need no particular attachment to each other (as parents-to-be should have). Swingers, who change partners easily, supposedly, can enjoy the physical aspect of it without "drama"...
Ohh sure, try selling that to the conservative crowd. I can see the headlines already: "Swingers going to the heavens"
Now, I haven't extensively looked at patents that were granted in the past, but most of the ones I have seen, were for macro-inventions or macro-processes; such as a gadget onto itself. But it seems nowadays, corporations are taking advantage of the patent system by patenting micro-inventions or micro-processes; such as one-click purchasing, or some other small cog that makes the larger system work.
Now I can understand why the small inventor would not want to dole out an arm and a leg (and a first born) trying to patent every minute detail of his invention, but it seems unfair when put against large corporations who have the deep pockets needed to dissect one of the their inventions and patent every imaginable nook and crannie in their product.
So perhaps, we should also take this into account when drafting new patent laws.
How about a dip switch to select the partition!
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Would be cool if you could get a multi-partition USB key with dip switches to select the partition of your choice!
The new third season of 24 is going to be uninterrupted by commercials, thanks to Ford. Just like season 2.
The product placements didn't work on me. I'm no more keen on buying Ford than I was before the show. But I am concerned that one of these days a product placement will come along that will really take its toll on me.
Can someone please open-source the solution (probably after winning the reward). I'd also like to see the original author's solution -- matlab code, and whatever.
I can actually feel/see my monitor flickering when it's at 60Hz. I guess this must be some indication that my eye is capable of registering at least 60 frames per second.
1947: European Powers divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states giving over half the land, and control of major resources to the minority Jewish population (roughly 1/3) which owned only 7% of the land. Fighting breaks out as Palestinian population rejects this division.
1948: Arab States join war in support of Palestinian population. Israel occupies nearly 80% of Palestine, over 750,000 Palestinians are driven from homes and not allowed to return.
1967: Israel conquers remaining 22% of Palestine, and places West Bank and Gaza under military occupation. UN declares that Israel should withdraw to pre-67 borders, allow repatriation of Palestinian refugees, and that all appropriation of lands conquered in war are illegal.
1967 - 1993: Arbitrary imprisonment, beating, torture, house demolition, appropriation of Palestinian land in occupied territories for settlers, economic subordination, and arbitrary searches become commonplace elements of life in occupied Palestine. 116,300 "settlers" move into the West Bank and Gaza in violation of international law. (The 4th Geneva convention Article 49 states that the "Occupying Power shall not transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.")
http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/issues_analysis/saddam _goodguy_030310.html "American companies were allowed to sell chemical precursors to the Iraqis. Washington in the 1980s licensed dozens of other firms to ship biologicals to Iraq - deadly viruses and toxins, the sort of stuff Washington is now demanding Iraq destroy.
It's known the U.S. provided satellite intelligence and advice to Iraq. But there have been recent reports, based on interviews with military advisers at the time, that American strategists actually helped with battle and strike plans that resulted in use of chemicals."
Shortly after the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. embassy in Ankara reports that Turkish ports have a backlog of goods awaiting transshipment to Iraq, and that a substantial amount of Israeli goods transit Turkey for "Islamic belligerents," including Israeli chemical products for Iran. It remarks on "Israeli acumen" in selling to both Iran and Iraq.
If you click on the link for Document 1, and go to the last page of the PDF file, you'll notice: "been waiting for a month to get a certificate of origin claiming U.S. provenance for a shipment of seventeen thousand tons of Israeli "chemical products" bound for Iran. He admired Israeli business acumen in selling to both sides."
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And I read somewhere that the US allowed the Pfaulder corporation to supply Iraq with blueprints for a chemical warfare plant. Try doing a search on Google.
I'd like to see Marty write a book detailing all his experiences in the growth of his software company. I've always believed in the cautious spending philosophy he embraces, and find most of his other business practices are very wise for a person without a business degree, but then again I never really expect much from a person with a business degree. I'd like to hear more about Marty's hiring practices, his selection criteria for a CEO, and anything else relevant to growing a software company around a successful piece of software.
Having given up on the X-Files a long time ago, I thought I'd at least the ending would feature some deep conspiracy, or meaning to life. BUT NOTHING!
Any of these endings, no matter how overused, would have been better than what the X-Files had: - we all live in the Matrix. - God does exist. - all elected representatives in government are aliens! - there's a UFO behind the moon waiting to take us to our home planet.
They might as well have ended it with a dog with shifty eyes (like in the Simpson episode with Mel Gibson).
Two hours of my life wasted! Two hours of my life that I will never get back! NEVER!
Well, break up the large file into 1K chunks... Send the MD5 hash for each chunk, and then apply a lossy compression algorithm on the data chunk, sending that across too...
The other side uses rebuilds the lossy data chunk, and from that point, you've reduced the search space needed to find original data, using brute force reverse MD5 hashing.
Ofcourse, you'd need to find the optimal values for the data chunk size, and whatever lossy algorithm you choose... But I have a good feeling this will work pretty well!
Then you'll see people beefing up their computers to increase download speeds... Probably even revive chip sales, and push AMD and Intel to develop faster processors. Maybe nVidia will come out with the DPU - Download Processing Unit.;-)
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Sorry to go off on a tanger, but man do I feel smart, suggesting this:
MAFIAA = Music And Film Industry Association of America
I'm probably idiot #1000 for doing a reverse acronym on this.
Oh, I hate that phrase! Everything nowadays has to be about Web 2.0. All the people that haven't lived through the hype of the last Internet bubble are now convinced that their Web 2.0 project is bound to strike gold!
Some don't even bother to mention what the project's about. Like "it's Web 2.0" is supposed to be a magical selling point.
Take their money and run!
How about a radical departure from the West. Forget about trying to manage western-oriented cities. How about trying to rebuild war-torn cities like Kabul and Baghdad. One of the natural disaster types could be terrorist/insurgent attacks. Another could be infrastructure problems - shoddy building regulations in a fast-growing city - i.e. electric system overload, gas pipe bursts, etc.
In fact, make the whole thing fictional -- fictional troubled area in the world, fictional superpower, fictional terrorist organizations (Global Liberation Army?), fictional religious practices, etc.
With so many things that can go wrong, and so many different things that could be done that would set it apart from the old SimCitys, I can see that this idea could be one hell of an interesting challenge.
And let's not forget multiplay!
Now, I haven't extensively looked at patents that were granted in the past, but most of the ones I have seen, were for macro-inventions or macro-processes; such as a gadget onto itself. But it seems nowadays, corporations are taking advantage of the patent system by patenting micro-inventions or micro-processes; such as one-click purchasing, or some other small cog that makes the larger system work.
Now I can understand why the small inventor would not want to dole out an arm and a leg (and a first born) trying to patent every minute detail of his invention, but it seems unfair when put against large corporations who have the deep pockets needed to dissect one of the their inventions and patent every imaginable nook and crannie in their product.
So perhaps, we should also take this into account when drafting new patent laws.
Would be cool if you could get a multi-partition USB key with dip switches to select the partition of your choice!
Isn't that the wave that killed Swayze in that surfing movie?
Microsoft Certified Professionals?
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* Before someone tries to corrects me, don't worry, I already know the reference to Tron the movie.
Dean and Clark, 2004!
Dean for Pres, Clark for VP.
Or, maybe they should introduce the concept of dual Presidencies??? But I'll leave this for another day...
The new third season of 24 is going to be uninterrupted by commercials, thanks to Ford. Just like season 2.
The product placements didn't work on me. I'm no more keen on buying Ford than I was before the show. But I am concerned that one of these days a product placement will come along that will really take its toll on me.
All your base are belong to us!
Can someone please open-source the solution (probably after winning the reward). I'd also like to see the original author's solution -- matlab code, and whatever.
Thx!
I second that motion.
I can actually feel/see my monitor flickering when it's at 60Hz. I guess this must be some indication that my eye is capable of registering at least 60 frames per second.
Apparently the same is true for the Bangladeshis.
Let's just blame it on the language...
I hate useless posts like this!
It's not just the few seconds it takes to read and comprehend the message, but also the half hour it takes to post a few dozen rants about the post!
This sucks!
Talk about a slow news day.
This post sucks!
Slashdot needs a "regime change"!
It's about time its citizens were allowed to vote democratically!
I agree! This post sucks!
And what about the sorry-bunch of losers that actually pay money for a subscription and get this crap?
[source: http://www.sustaincampaign.org/Ethniccleansingchro nology.pdf ]
1947:
European Powers divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states giving over half the land, and control of
major resources to the minority Jewish population (roughly 1/3) which owned only 7% of the land.
Fighting breaks out as Palestinian population rejects this division.
1948:
Arab States join war in support of Palestinian population. Israel occupies nearly 80% of Palestine,
over 750,000 Palestinians are driven from homes and not allowed to return.
1967:
Israel conquers remaining 22% of Palestine, and places West Bank and Gaza under military
occupation. UN declares that Israel should withdraw to pre-67 borders, allow repatriation of
Palestinian refugees, and that all appropriation of lands conquered in war are illegal.
1967 - 1993:
Arbitrary imprisonment, beating, torture, house demolition, appropriation of Palestinian land in
occupied territories for settlers, economic subordination, and arbitrary searches become commonplace
elements of life in occupied Palestine. 116,300 "settlers" move into the West Bank and Gaza in
violation of international law. (The 4th Geneva convention Article 49 states that the "Occupying Power
shall not transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.")
Here's my attempt to answer your question:
m _goodguy_030310.html
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/issues_analysis/sadda
"American companies were allowed to sell chemical precursors to the Iraqis. Washington in the 1980s licensed dozens of other firms to ship biologicals to Iraq - deadly viruses and toxins, the sort of stuff Washington is now demanding Iraq destroy.
It's known the U.S. provided satellite intelligence and advice to Iraq. But there have been recent reports, based on interviews with military advisers at the time, that American strategists actually helped with battle and strike plans that resulted in use of chemicals."
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Check out this site:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
Scroll all the way down to Document 1, and read the summary:
Shortly after the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. embassy in Ankara reports that Turkish ports have a backlog of goods awaiting transshipment to Iraq, and that a substantial amount of Israeli goods transit Turkey for "Islamic belligerents," including Israeli chemical products for Iran. It remarks on "Israeli acumen" in selling to both Iran and Iraq.
If you click on the link for Document 1, and go to the last page of the PDF file, you'll notice:
"been waiting for a month to get a certificate of origin claiming U.S. provenance for a shipment of seventeen thousand tons of Israeli "chemical products" bound for Iran. He admired Israeli business acumen in selling to both sides."
---------
And I read somewhere that the US allowed the Pfaulder corporation to supply Iraq with blueprints for a chemical warfare plant. Try doing a search on Google.
I'd like to see Marty write a book detailing all his experiences in the growth of his software company. I've always believed in the cautious spending philosophy he embraces, and find most of his other business practices are very wise for a person without a business degree, but then again I never really expect much from a person with a business degree. I'd like to hear more about Marty's hiring practices, his selection criteria for a CEO, and anything else relevant to growing a software company around a successful piece of software.
Man, that was CRAP!
Having given up on the X-Files a long time ago, I thought I'd at least the ending would feature some deep conspiracy, or meaning to life. BUT NOTHING!
Any of these endings, no matter how overused, would have been better than what the X-Files had:
- we all live in the Matrix.
- God does exist.
- all elected representatives in government are aliens!
- there's a UFO behind the moon waiting to take us to our home planet.
They might as well have ended it with a dog with shifty eyes (like in the Simpson episode with Mel Gibson).
Two hours of my life wasted! Two hours of my life that I will never get back! NEVER!
Isn't a ceramic magnet a non-metallic room-temperature magnet?
The other side uses rebuilds the lossy data chunk, and from that point, you've reduced the search space needed to find original data, using brute force reverse MD5 hashing.
Ofcourse, you'd need to find the optimal values for the data chunk size, and whatever lossy algorithm you choose... But I have a good feeling this will work pretty well!
Then you'll see people beefing up their computers to increase download speeds... Probably even revive chip sales, and push AMD and Intel to develop faster processors. Maybe nVidia will come out with the DPU - Download Processing Unit. ;-)