And most of those are inherited feuds passed down from father to son for hundreds of generations. A creature of an entirely different species isn't going to be camping on MY_HOLY_GROUND, unlike that MEMBER_OF_A_GROUP_I_HAVE_HATED_FOR_GENERATIONS.
Space aliens would be starting off on a blank slate.
Take a look at human history. Plenty of occasions where one group ran into another group that was at least as advanced, if not more advanced than itself... And dismissed them as inhuman or savage just because they looked a little different. Recently?
>How do you know that the CD image doesn't contain hacked software? Diffed three CDs of the same thing from widely disparate sources
>How do you know that the compiler hasn't been hacked in with a hidden precompiled message? Get the source code for a C compiler in COBOL. Pick up ten different COBOL compilers from widely disparate sources. Put the compiler in the compiler, and get ten outputs. These should all function exactly the same, even if they aren't bitwise identical, so get the code for ten different C compilers written in C. Run each of them through your ten compilers. If the output on each is identical, then you can be sure that either A) All the compilers you have are safe B) Every compiler on the planet is hacked in exactly the same way, and has been for decades, in which case you're screwed no matter what you do, so it doesn't matter.
>How do you know that the website with the MD5 summaries isn't a Man-In-The-Middle? Check from five different computers accessing the internet through different methods. Compare your ping times. Use good crypto.
So, if I say that "Snape kills Dumbledore", I'm not allowed to cite Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, but have to cite a newspaper article stating that Snape kills Dumbledore?
Actually, I think that was the original idea Threetoe had, which is why it got implemented.
Better example: some dudes on the forum started doing a challenge game to get to the top tile of every mountain peak. Next revision of the game includes an in-game tracker of which tile is highest, and adds the accomplishment to the history file.
Without units, it's pretty pointless. For example, 0.129 lbs is the weight of a mole of sodium. The possibility space of three-digit numbers is only 1000 entries, and saying that 129 is the weight of a mole of sodium in millipounds is another possible response.
So, basically, without units asking what a number means is pretty dumb.
The premise already requires humanity as a whole to be acting like idiots.
Q) An alien spacecraft, full of highly advanced technology and skilled laborers who are willing to integrate into your society, has recently crashed. Do you: A) Cordon them off in their own district, refuse to let them communicate with anyone else on the planet, and enslave them for use as manual laborers. B) Hire them as members of a government think tank, and provide them with a loan to set up housing, et cetera C) Give them access to an ebay account, and let them sell things to pay their own way. D) Just ignore them
It seems a bit weird to choose to make a twelve inch screen on a netbook, since the entire point of picking a netboo over a beefier laptop is that you highly value lightness and compactness.
That's a myth based on improper weighting of a statistical analysis. A few dozen island cultures where there were, for various reasons, large biases in the gender ratio in favor of more males than females, each of which had a small population of only a few hundred people, ended up being given far more weight than they should have.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh course, I suppose having the entire original PC dev team involved along with some Wiiware developers helps.
And most of those are inherited feuds passed down from father to son for hundreds of generations. A creature of an entirely different species isn't going to be camping on MY_HOLY_GROUND, unlike that MEMBER_OF_A_GROUP_I_HAVE_HATED_FOR_GENERATIONS.
Space aliens would be starting off on a blank slate.
I agree completely. Seriously, what's it costing them to keep it? Wiki is not paper.
You mean astroturfing, right?
Take a look at human history. Plenty of occasions where one group ran into another group that was at least as advanced, if not more advanced than itself... And dismissed them as inhuman or savage just because they looked a little different.
Recently?
>How do you know that the CD image doesn't contain hacked software?
Diffed three CDs of the same thing from widely disparate sources
>How do you know that the compiler hasn't been hacked in with a hidden precompiled message?
Get the source code for a C compiler in COBOL. Pick up ten different COBOL compilers from widely disparate sources. Put the compiler in the compiler, and get ten outputs. These should all function exactly the same, even if they aren't bitwise identical, so get the code for ten different C compilers written in C. Run each of them through your ten compilers. If the output on each is identical, then you can be sure that either
A) All the compilers you have are safe
B) Every compiler on the planet is hacked in exactly the same way, and has been for decades, in which case you're screwed no matter what you do, so it doesn't matter.
>How do you know that the website with the MD5 summaries isn't a Man-In-The-Middle?
Check from five different computers accessing the internet through different methods. Compare your ping times. Use good crypto.
Oh, come on. How is it trolling to say that Obama could probably kill a zombie?
None of the inhabitants are Barack Obama.
Prior art: http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/
Which is why the UK is making pointless kitchen knives. Duh.
You mean like Rommel?
So, if I say that "Snape kills Dumbledore", I'm not allowed to cite Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, but have to cite a newspaper article stating that Snape kills Dumbledore?
Actually, I think that was the original idea Threetoe had, which is why it got implemented.
Better example: some dudes on the forum started doing a challenge game to get to the top tile of every mountain peak. Next revision of the game includes an in-game tracker of which tile is highest, and adds the accomplishment to the history file.
Man, I tried the turret thing, but the game ended up spawning fewer turrets so I ended up with the same number.
I *did* take a vending machine through virtually all of episode one, though. Great bulletproof shield.
Discover might, although I think they top out at 4%
Without units, it's pretty pointless. For example, 0.129 lbs is the weight of a mole of sodium. The possibility space of three-digit numbers is only 1000 entries, and saying that 129 is the weight of a mole of sodium in millipounds is another possible response.
So, basically, without units asking what a number means is pretty dumb.
Oh, and recall that South Africa has to do virtually all of its military development internally.
The premise already requires humanity as a whole to be acting like idiots.
Q) An alien spacecraft, full of highly advanced technology and skilled laborers who are willing to integrate into your society, has recently crashed. Do you:
A) Cordon them off in their own district, refuse to let them communicate with anyone else on the planet, and enslave them for use as manual laborers.
B) Hire them as members of a government think tank, and provide them with a loan to set up housing, et cetera
C) Give them access to an ebay account, and let them sell things to pay their own way.
D) Just ignore them
It seems a bit weird to choose to make a twelve inch screen on a netbook, since the entire point of picking a netboo over a beefier laptop is that you highly value lightness and compactness.
In the original novel, the monolith was on a moon of Saturn.
a backwater that escapes the label "dystopian" only through lack of technological development
And this is different from the federal government how?
No, the real issue is those stupid "what's your mother's maiden name" password bypasses.
Perhaps 'meme' is a fnord.
'Meme' is a what?
You didn't finish your sentence
>What did I use to start the car?
A screwdriver. The last carjacker hotwired it.
That's a myth based on improper weighting of a statistical analysis. A few dozen island cultures where there were, for various reasons, large biases in the gender ratio in favor of more males than females, each of which had a small population of only a few hundred people, ended up being given far more weight than they should have.