..reading your post you'd think kids trying to find something to do, doing stuff together is a bad thing.
Instead of grabbing the beating stick to any problem, or legislation, why not try to understand what the problem is.
Have you actually gone up to the kids and asked them why they're there playing instead of somewhere else? Have you tried to understand what's happening from their side?
Kids aren't stupid, or evil, or trying to make your life miserable. If they show no respect, have an attitude towards you, then that's your fault and your inability as well as other adults in the neighbourhood to deal properly with the situation.
So grow up and deal properly with the problem instead of shouting "get off my lawn!"
"the ability to create synthetic, self replicating machines that produce whatever material we could need. Tailor drugs and chemicals by using "Biotechnology"."
- yep, it's already here and being used, found anywhere there are large pools of eukaryotes, latin designation "Homo Sapiens", or in layman terms "your mom".
"It's sort of an extension of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's not that your customers can't think about the problem if you lack the vocabulary, it's more that they won't want to think about the problem if they have to spend effort learning how to discuss it intelligently."
- ah, kind of like why replies to slashdot news go completely off topic? If people actually had to spend effort to RTF...
I've never understood how customers really benefits from a model of produce x-core productand sell it as x-y cores, especially as we all know that they never sell any type of the product below what it actually costs to produce, so at minimum you're paying for what it cost them to make the product anyway, and at maximum, you're paying for having the product locked in some arbitrarily stupid way.
When you're already profiting from making the product at the lowest tier.. with highest tier capability already in it...
If you people were guessing: 1) Create a single production line for your product making it cheap and affordable 2) add in arbitrary, stupid lock-in to increase perceived value of an unlocked product 3) Profit!
I'll never buy anything sold with this model, it's stupid and meaningless.
"It's like saying every crime committed is further proof that laws just don't work." - You know.. it's kind of true..
the laws only work if everyone agrees to use them as guidelines and accept the conditions of following/not following them.
Same with regulations and procedures for that matter. It's a group effort, and you can't have one tyrant (or a few small tyrants arguing amongst themselves) going against the common sense.
It's the the only real law of nature at work.. if I can take it from you, then it's mine.
- Marketing people know this rule well, they just modify it to "If I can make you buy the crap, then your money's mine"
There was an article a while back about how google published a detailed report on harddisk failure rates, and withheld any information which would point to that some disks or companies were worse than others.
I guess thoughts regarding Commercial welfare = afraid they'll sue your ass.
... But was it just me who was kind of disappointed that there's no real gameplay change from ut2004?
The pretty graphics are very pretty, but somehow I expected the gameplay to change with it, to be more real and cool. Instead I see opponents running and jumping around like cartoon-rabbits, which is very off-putting when the models are these huge, armored guys.
I love the new game engine, love the pretty, pretty graphics, but the wild-zany gameplay which is cloned exactly from ut2k4 is just a complete disappointment.
The demo is to me a classic case of why games aren't solely about graphics.. the gameplay needs to be on-par as well, and to me it isn't, I played this game almost 4 years ago and not sure why I should pay for the exact same game just a lil prettier.
"Our freedoms and rights are things that US citizens and immigrants enjoy. Else, there is no function or purpose for immigration or even borders."
- Knowing americans, you'll probably ignore my opinion, as I'm not american, but I feel the need to respond..
Guess what, freedom and human rights is what most people in most countries enjoy, and it's what most countries acknowledge is the basic inalienable right of human beings to have, and it's a damn shame not all countries governments concur.
And guess what, you don't have as much freedom and rights as most other countries, America idolizes the idea of freedom and rights, but reality is quite another.
The fact that USA ignores basic human rights to foreign people, allow themselves to imprison them without any legal recourse is just disgusting, and you're a part of this system.
I think it's interesting that a discussion regarding religion is always focused on the fantastical paradigm when discussed on an internet forum, and other parts of religion are never brought up.
For instance, in this article the head honcho behind the movement using the DMCA is in prison for tax evasion, and doing something 'not good' in the mind/eyes of the general populace is often the case with the people behind cults and religions. Why is that.
In my opinion it is because a religion has little to nothing to do with the "gimmick" itself (i.e. god) but rather the social interaction within the religious group, and only because the government isn't a part of the religion can they justify to themselves that the government isn't "good" and thus not doing good to the government is ok.
Religion throughout the ages have been an integral part of our lives as human beings, mainly because everything in society has been molded by the concept, and lots of other concepts have been molded into the "religion" concept, for instance laws, justice and judgement, proper behaviour, social interactions, respect for elders, support for the poor, cosmology, psychology, and even science was at one time or another molded into the "religion" concept.
The "god created it all" is really just a small part of what religion is all about, the gimmick so to speak (as in, if you're willing to suspend disbelief for us, then you've shown your dedication). The only reason people of belief actually do these silly things like use the DMCA to stamp on atheists beliefs is because to attack the gimmick is to attack everything else they believe in as well, their whole society, or so they believe.
What most religious people don't get is that Atheists have come to terms with that modern society with education, science, defined laws, defined social support structure, and a capable system of government which is not based on the decision making of just a single person, but rather a commune of experts is really a better way to govern human beings in the long term for everyone to profit from it, rather than having a religious figure controlling everything by the grace of god. Most religious people probably believe that the government is evil, because they think that the governments values do not reflect their values, which of course is completely wrong as the basic values of any religion concurs with the basic values of any government.
Modern society though isn't perfect, the number of religious cults in a given society should be a good indicator of how disconnected the people are, because we as human have a need to belong, and if not properly educated or cared for, the individual will find solace in religion because of the society factor and connectedness factor, not because of the gimmick.
Quick example, how afraid are you of going downtown by yourself and meeting new people (on a scale of 0 - 10)? What if you knew they would be of the same religion?
I don't think you realize that those same parents have to battle loans for their own tuition, they have to battle loans for their apartments, they have to battle medical insurance companies who refuse to pay so they have to pay for their huge medical bills.
How do most people do this? work.. they work 2-3 even 4 different jobs, good people, desperately trying to make ends meet.
I recommend you go see the movie "Sicko" - it kind of summarizes why life sucks in America and why everything is going downhill.
You have a rare opportunity with the upcoming elections to let the next president of America know that you won't stand for this anymore, you have a rare opportunity for making a difference, but you need to show the government that the people will not stand for this, that means spreading the word out, and creating something which sends a message. that takes work, that means speaking to one another.
What you could gain from this is freedom, what you stand to lose is your life. If you can save your life by displaying your objections to the current situation, by speaking and organizing people around you and making sure people elsewhere do the same, why don't you?
"Human beings are intelligent (...well, some of us, anyway...) because that's how we survived long enough to fuck."
- Intelligence is not needed to copulate, it's actually a detractor to mating.. otherwise slashdotters would have a different stigma attached, wouldn't they?
I'd also guess that there's a difference between using one 192khz/24 bit stream for the whole song, or use one 192khz/24 bit stream per instrument/microphone used.
I'd be interested in a double blind test regarding which is better: 1) a mp3 of the song 2) a 192khz/24 bit lossless version of the song 3) a 192khz/24 bit per microphone/instrument of the song 4) a vinyl recording.
I'm thinking that somehow the vinyl just manages to blend the information better together than the cd or mp3, but I'd think 3) would win it.
I've always wondered one thing regarding those experiments..
Isn't the wave-like pattern which shows up when you shoot what should be particles just showing you that there is an interaction between the particles and the material which it is bypassing? that the blocking material is what's affecting the dispersion of particles, and thus the experiment only really reveals whether there is a similar-order-of-magnitude interaction between the particles and the blocking material?
I mean order-of-magnitude as in the difference between the particles and the material it's passing is so large that there's no interaction between the 2, and thus the normal 2 lines = 2 lines, but when the material has the same order-of-magnitude as the blocking material itself, it shows the same wave function because of interactions between the materials?
Painter #1 paints a picture of an apple, and patents painting apples. He clearly was the first to paint an apple, and needs the protection of the government from all the other painters who would steal his idea of painting apples.
Painter #2 cannot paint apples. Poor painter..
Or can he? If we compare solutions to what a software developer #2 would have to do today to get patent licence to make his software available, what can painter #2 do to paint apples, if painter #1 had already patented apples?
"I kinda miss the old 'melting pot' theory of the US...where the immigrants come in to the culture, bring with them their 'gifts', but meld into the greater culture"
- Oh come in! come in! you bring differences? Great! Now let's cherry pick what we want from yours, and you then conform to ours, mkay? mkay then.
I don't get what's so dangerous about acknowledging that there are people who don't talk the same language as you, don't have the same customs, or values, but adhere to same basic human rights and laws of the country.
I'd say it's a great victory of humanity that this can happen in the same country, and one as big as the US.
I'd say leave it up to the individuals to learn more of the cultures around it, and not let yet another thing be controlled by the government which doesn't belong in their control.
I'm probably digressing a bit.. I'd like to ask a few simple question, not being much up to date on science.
1) There are 4 different discrete powers of attraction, right? Gravity (the reason why you can walk on planet earth), electro-magnetism (the reason you can use a computer), weak nuclear forces (the reason you can use a mouse) and strong nuclear forces (the reason why you're here at all).. right? By discrete I mean they completely ignore one another, you can't increase a magnetic force between 2 objects to change the force of gravity between them, same with gravity and weak nuclear forces, and electro-magnetism and strong nuclear forces and all that.. right?
2) what does the theory of electro-universe-thingy try to solve? What is it about the normal model which is failing to explain which electro universe successfully explains?
I mean models are just that.. models.. and the only 2 reasons models are useful if they enlighten us to our current situation (as in "Using our model based on research, blackholes are out there, and our solarsystem could be sucked into a passing blackhole") or help us (as in "based on research, and wanting to survive, we built this model to show how we could avoid getting sucked into a passing blackhole")
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..reading your post you'd think kids trying to find something to do, doing stuff together is a bad thing.
Instead of grabbing the beating stick to any problem, or legislation, why not try to understand what the problem is.
Have you actually gone up to the kids and asked them why they're there playing instead of somewhere else? Have you tried to understand what's happening from their side?
Kids aren't stupid, or evil, or trying to make your life miserable. If they show no respect, have an attitude towards you, then that's your fault and your inability as well as other adults in the neighbourhood to deal properly with the situation.
So grow up and deal properly with the problem instead of shouting "get off my lawn!"
K.
Just wondering, why didn't you post a link to his stuff? Post a link if you can.
"the ability to create synthetic, self replicating machines that produce whatever material we could need. Tailor drugs and chemicals by using "Biotechnology"."
- yep, it's already here and being used, found anywhere there are large pools of eukaryotes, latin designation "Homo Sapiens", or in layman terms "your mom".
K.
Spoken like a true morkdorkian.
"It's sort of an extension of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's not that your customers can't think about the problem if you lack the vocabulary, it's more that they won't want to think about the problem if they have to spend effort learning how to discuss it intelligently."
- ah, kind of like why replies to slashdot news go completely off topic? If people actually had to spend effort to RTF...
K.
I've never understood how customers really benefits from a model of produce x-core productand sell it as x-y cores, especially as we all know that they never sell any type of the product below what it actually costs to produce, so at minimum you're paying for what it cost them to make the product anyway, and at maximum, you're paying for having the product locked in some arbitrarily stupid way.
When you're already profiting from making the product at the lowest tier.. with highest tier capability already in it...
If you people were guessing:
1) Create a single production line for your product making it cheap and affordable
2) add in arbitrary, stupid lock-in to increase perceived value of an unlocked product
3) Profit!
I'll never buy anything sold with this model, it's stupid and meaningless.
K.
*looks at working temperature* "200-600"
*looks at reply title* "How about the waste heat from my CPU/GPU?"
that's one overclocked PC.
... wait, so you're saying that the linking in and of itself is not copyright theft?
So linking to torrents themselves is not copyright theft, excellent... that finally settled.
K.
"It's like saying every crime committed is further proof that laws just don't work."
- You know.. it's kind of true..
the laws only work if everyone agrees to use them as guidelines and accept the conditions of following/not following them.
Same with regulations and procedures for that matter. It's a group effort, and you can't have one tyrant (or a few small tyrants arguing amongst themselves) going against the common sense.
It's the the only real law of nature at work.. if I can take it from you, then it's mine.
- Marketing people know this rule well, they just modify it to "If I can make you buy the crap, then your money's mine"
K.
Actually, I kind of like the in-depth grammatical corrections where the error itself is abstracted away from the content, i.e.
Q: Should you place the period inside or outside quotation marks?
A: Inside.
I don't like corrections where it is specifically hinged upon the content itself, i.e.
Q: Should you place a comma in the sentence "Tutorial, continued..."?
A: Yes.
this just begs the question, why should you place a comma in the sentence specified? what condition outside the content itself is being corrected?
K.
So, when will we see green laser upgrade in GTA?
Seriously overblown. cop should STFU and stop whining over something so stupid.
"Put pressure on the test subjects and they will outperform the chimps."
- Yes.. because that's what the chimps did. Every chimp knew what Bubba the chimp would do to you if you wouldn't do your absolute best.
K.
I think most people think of piracy as free copying, whether it's lawful or not.
That's why, I'm a pirate.
arr.
There was an article a while back about how google published a detailed report on harddisk failure rates, and withheld any information which would point to that some disks or companies were worse than others.
I guess thoughts regarding Commercial welfare = afraid they'll sue your ass.
K.
... But was it just me who was kind of disappointed that there's no real gameplay change from ut2004?
The pretty graphics are very pretty, but somehow I expected the gameplay to change with it, to be more real and cool. Instead I see opponents running and jumping around like cartoon-rabbits, which is very off-putting when the models are these huge, armored guys.
I love the new game engine, love the pretty, pretty graphics, but the wild-zany gameplay which is cloned exactly from ut2k4 is just a complete disappointment.
The demo is to me a classic case of why games aren't solely about graphics.. the gameplay needs to be on-par as well, and to me it isn't, I played this game almost 4 years ago and not sure why I should pay for the exact same game just a lil prettier.
K.
"Our freedoms and rights are things that US citizens and immigrants enjoy. Else, there is no function or purpose for immigration or even borders."
- Knowing americans, you'll probably ignore my opinion, as I'm not american, but I feel the need to respond..
Guess what, freedom and human rights is what most people in most countries enjoy, and it's what most countries acknowledge is the basic inalienable right of human beings to have, and it's a damn shame not all countries governments concur.
And guess what, you don't have as much freedom and rights as most other countries, America idolizes the idea of freedom and rights, but reality is quite another.
The fact that USA ignores basic human rights to foreign people, allow themselves to imprison them without any legal recourse is just disgusting, and you're a part of this system.
Freedom? Rights? Not in USA.
K.
I think it's interesting that a discussion regarding religion is always focused on the fantastical paradigm when discussed on an internet forum, and other parts of religion are never brought up.
For instance, in this article the head honcho behind the movement using the DMCA is in prison for tax evasion, and doing something 'not good' in the mind/eyes of the general populace is often the case with the people behind cults and religions. Why is that.
In my opinion it is because a religion has little to nothing to do with the "gimmick" itself (i.e. god) but rather the social interaction within the religious group, and only because the government isn't a part of the religion can they justify to themselves that the government isn't "good" and thus not doing good to the government is ok.
Religion throughout the ages have been an integral part of our lives as human beings, mainly because everything in society has been molded by the concept, and lots of other concepts have been molded into the "religion" concept, for instance laws, justice and judgement, proper behaviour, social interactions, respect for elders, support for the poor, cosmology, psychology, and even science was at one time or another molded into the "religion" concept.
The "god created it all" is really just a small part of what religion is all about, the gimmick so to speak (as in, if you're willing to suspend disbelief for us, then you've shown your dedication). The only reason people of belief actually do these silly things like use the DMCA to stamp on atheists beliefs is because to attack the gimmick is to attack everything else they believe in as well, their whole society, or so they believe.
What most religious people don't get is that Atheists have come to terms with that modern society with education, science, defined laws, defined social support structure, and a capable system of government which is not based on the decision making of just a single person, but rather a commune of experts is really a better way to govern human beings in the long term for everyone to profit from it, rather than having a religious figure controlling everything by the grace of god. Most religious people probably believe that the government is evil, because they think that the governments values do not reflect their values, which of course is completely wrong as the basic values of any religion concurs with the basic values of any government.
Modern society though isn't perfect, the number of religious cults in a given society should be a good indicator of how disconnected the people are, because we as human have a need to belong, and if not properly educated or cared for, the individual will find solace in religion because of the society factor and connectedness factor, not because of the gimmick.
Quick example, how afraid are you of going downtown by yourself and meeting new people (on a scale of 0 - 10)? What if you knew they would be of the same religion?
K.
I don't think you realize that those same parents have to battle loans for their own tuition, they have to battle loans for their apartments, they have to battle medical insurance companies who refuse to pay so they have to pay for their huge medical bills.
How do most people do this? work.. they work 2-3 even 4 different jobs, good people, desperately trying to make ends meet.
I recommend you go see the movie "Sicko" - it kind of summarizes why life sucks in America and why everything is going downhill.
You have a rare opportunity with the upcoming elections to let the next president of America know that you won't stand for this anymore, you have a rare opportunity for making a difference, but you need to show the government that the people will not stand for this, that means spreading the word out, and creating something which sends a message. that takes work, that means speaking to one another.
What you could gain from this is freedom, what you stand to lose is your life. If you can save your life by displaying your objections to the current situation, by speaking and organizing people around you and making sure people elsewhere do the same, why don't you?
K.
"Human beings are intelligent (...well, some of us, anyway...) because that's how we survived long enough to fuck."
- Intelligence is not needed to copulate, it's actually a detractor to mating.. otherwise slashdotters would have a different stigma attached, wouldn't they?
K.
I'd also guess that there's a difference between using one 192khz/24 bit stream for the whole song, or use one 192khz/24 bit stream per instrument/microphone used.
I'd be interested in a double blind test regarding which is better:
1) a mp3 of the song
2) a 192khz/24 bit lossless version of the song
3) a 192khz/24 bit per microphone/instrument of the song
4) a vinyl recording.
I'm thinking that somehow the vinyl just manages to blend the information better together than the cd or mp3, but I'd think 3) would win it.
K.
I've always wondered one thing regarding those experiments..
Isn't the wave-like pattern which shows up when you shoot what should be particles just showing you that there is an interaction between the particles and the material which it is bypassing? that the blocking material is what's affecting the dispersion of particles, and thus the experiment only really reveals whether there is a similar-order-of-magnitude interaction between the particles and the blocking material?
I mean order-of-magnitude as in the difference between the particles and the material it's passing is so large that there's no interaction between the 2, and thus the normal 2 lines = 2 lines, but when the material has the same order-of-magnitude as the blocking material itself, it shows the same wave function because of interactions between the materials?
Just wondering out loud really.
Slashdotter reacting to his files being personalized : "They wrote my name in there! How dare they!"
Fan who buys a CD which has been personalized : "they wrote my name on the CD! How cool is that!"
Get some perspective people, this is just cool, it's marked with your name, _because_the_music_is_yours_ enjoy it.
K.
What if painters could patent paintings.
Painter #1 paints a picture of an apple, and patents painting apples. He clearly was the first to paint an apple, and needs the protection of the government from all the other painters who would steal his idea of painting apples.
Painter #2 cannot paint apples. Poor painter..
Or can he? If we compare solutions to what a software developer #2 would have to do today to get patent licence to make his software available, what can painter #2 do to paint apples, if painter #1 had already patented apples?
"I kinda miss the old 'melting pot' theory of the US...where the immigrants come in to the culture, bring with them their 'gifts', but meld into the greater culture"
- Oh come in! come in! you bring differences? Great! Now let's cherry pick what we want from yours, and you then conform to ours, mkay? mkay then.
I don't get what's so dangerous about acknowledging that there are people who don't talk the same language as you, don't have the same customs, or values, but adhere to same basic human rights and laws of the country.
I'd say it's a great victory of humanity that this can happen in the same country, and one as big as the US.
I'd say leave it up to the individuals to learn more of the cultures around it, and not let yet another thing be controlled by the government which doesn't belong in their control.
K.
I'm probably digressing a bit.. I'd like to ask a few simple question, not being much up to date on science.
1) There are 4 different discrete powers of attraction, right? Gravity (the reason why you can walk on planet earth), electro-magnetism (the reason you can use a computer), weak nuclear forces (the reason you can use a mouse) and strong nuclear forces (the reason why you're here at all).. right? By discrete I mean they completely ignore one another, you can't increase a magnetic force between 2 objects to change the force of gravity between them, same with gravity and weak nuclear forces, and electro-magnetism and strong nuclear forces and all that.. right?
2) what does the theory of electro-universe-thingy try to solve? What is it about the normal model which is failing to explain which electro universe successfully explains?
I mean models are just that.. models.. and the only 2 reasons models are useful if they enlighten us to our current situation (as in "Using our model based on research, blackholes are out there, and our solarsystem could be sucked into a passing blackhole") or help us (as in "based on research, and wanting to survive, we built this model to show how we could avoid getting sucked into a passing blackhole")
Or am I being silly?
K.