for all the negative remarks, maybe i'm the only one who wonders how awesome this would be for space travel XD we would be able to explore a meaningful part of the galaxy XD.
but how else will people come to this site if we don't explain spinning quarks via (american)football (aka handegg) metaphors?
and of course this needs to become a site for the wider audience, it's a wide open market, noone else is doing it, they'll corner the market in no time, while keeping all the technical users currently making this site a reasonable success:).
i've got the feeling the beta slashdot was designed by someone who makes websites for the elderly
huge fonts, extra pictures, tons of whitespace everywhere >__ it might be decent for a mobile version, but not for desktops, we're not reading this on 8" screens
I completely agree with you, the endless battle between left and right is really annoying me lately, because it's indeed a false choice that doesn't make any sense. If you talk with people from both sides, in the end they want exactly the same thing, so what makes them left or right? mostly their position in society.
People who like to be in control, don't need or want to rely much on others, and don't need anything from society will choose right wing, because it's in their best interest, more social people, but also people in weaker positions or who prefer to collaborate more are more likely to go left wing since it's in their best interest.
I find myself a bit in the middle knowing people from both sides well, not really feeling much affinity with either side, and just getting really annoyed with both sides >_. Since i have a masters degree, and a good job, i'm more likely to vote right (well, europe style right, which is still pretty left for america), since it's more in my day to day/financial interests, but i don't really like either side that much, and neutral territory doesn't exist (and isn't allowed to exist anymore) -_-...
I also hope this nonsense will in the near future come to an end, as more and more people must get bored of it, start seeing trough it, and will want actual meaningful discussions and get people to vote for that aren't just a living stereotype of what right/left wing is supposed to be...
isn't it just that people react emotionally to such things? the real discussion is far above the understanding of 99.99(don't know how many more nines until i only keep the real experts)% of the people, so when asked an opinion, they react more emotionally than logically. So on depending on the current weather it's logical those emotions are different.
I also hate discussions about topics like this, because it's just emotional shouting at eachother with facts only used to confirm what you feel is right. Even when people on this site would love to claim how intellectual they are, both sides are more about emotions and personal viewpoints than real science, we might now some good facts, read some interesting articles, but do we really know anything about climate science, all the subtle things,... everything that can't be easily found in popular science magazines or the few popular arguments from both sides that people keep repeating to prove their own feelings are the best.
do you really think these basic and honest emotions are so elaborate? are an actual plan of what we want to do next, and how everything should be handled? You can make it as confusing as you want, search the grayer areas, etc... Some things i can answer a bit, if you have religious reservations about it, good for you, make a will where you stipulate what you want and don't enforce it on the rest of society. But in general, he's fucking angry at people who are saying he should let his father suffer, and won't let him do what he and his family think is the most humane thing. I would be too. And i would wish similar dire things on such people. That doesn't mean i will act on them, there are luckily laws preventing this, our society won't allow this. But that doesn't mean that's not what i would feel, think and even at the moment self say. Give it a few weeks to come to a more rational, civilized point of view.
And what is the more civilized answer? stop pushing your life choices on others, if you want to live like a plant, or suffer and be kept alive even if you will never heal, good for you, but i don't want that (and I'm happy i live in Europe where this is allowed).
Let me put it this way: if others are making your family suffer, it would be wiser to wish for them to stop making your family suffer instead of wishing suffering upon them.
Yes, you are right, our emotions should always be politically correct, and in the direst of situations and pain be very much thought about and be reasonable...
It's obvious neither i nor scott adams would ever actually kill those people, but having the feeling that that is what we want to do is obvious. (even if it is as he says because of fear of consequences).
And you're completely right about how supporting certain systems makes me culprit in causing others misery. I'm actually from time to time wondering how to act on that, and it gives interesting conversations with my girlfriend:).
I hope you'll learn that feelings can rightfully be very strong, and that a big part of civilization doesn't mean not having those feelings, but learning how to act properly on them. But that still doesn't mean that deep down you don't just wish those people to also suffer horribly and realize what they're putting others through (just like dropping me in a sweatshop would make me reconsider where i buy my goods, and is probably something people are rightfully wishing upon most of the western world)
I don't agree If someone is torturing your family, are you gonna say you respectfully disagree with them, or honestly from the depths in your heart wish them a long and painful torture death too?
He's just being honest, and maybe it's hard to understand if you don't share his situation and view where he holds these people responsible for causing his father unfathomable pain. But if you look at it from that perspective, his words make perfect sense.
If someone came to your house and tortured your father to death, what would you wish upon them? Just because people are causing others a long, painful death in a less direct way, doesn't imo change the way i should feel about that. So to me his emotions make perfect sense, and i wouldn't think twice about saying the same thing in the same situation.
It's great that you have your personal beliefs, act on them for yourself, but if it makes my family suffer, please die a fuckin painful death, asap. Sounds very reasonable to me, and i wish the same on those people.
That sounds terrible... if this would become mainstream, that would mean that for 95% of the population using bitcoins safely would be too hard. If the system is so unsafe and easily to track if you use it normally, then i don't see where the anonymous claims of bitcoin come from. And if you have to create new wallets all the time to be really safe & not trackable, why the hell did they call it a wallet? a wallet is the thing you keep unchanged for years in real life, not something you throw away every day to keep your payments anonymous -_-
if you read the entire comment, you would've noticed i meant per clockpulse, and that getting information around in processors at high frequencies is becoming a problem.
That's true, there are also chips that are meant for other purposed than computing, what bottlenecks do currently exists that current chipspeeds can't handle? You give the example of wlan chipsets, what would a faster chip improve for them?
I thought one of the main issues with increasing clockspeeds on processors besides heat is also the latency. at 3 Ghz a signal can only travel 10 cm anymore, and processors already have stages in their pipelines just to get the signals around. So going 1000 fasters would have to mean some major changes in how processors work i guess? since having your signal only travel 0.1 mm per clock pulse makes it rather hard to get the data around...
seriously, this is slashdot -_- if you take a growth of 4% per year, that already reaches over 48% over 10 years (you know, it's accumulative, this nice little exponential growth) -_-
am i the only one that finds regional pricing an issue? that they can outsource everything to wherever they want to get the lowest price, is great and fantastic and logical, that a customer would be allowed to do the same thing would be horrible, and we must prevent it at all cost. I would accept regional locking, if that meant that the product was also made in my region, but if they outsource everything to the cheapest country, then i want to right to buy it there dirtcheap:p
Wouldn't 5 years be more than enough? i thought part of the goal was to stimulate artist to make new stuff. if you can ride it out for 25 years on 1 hit you once scored, it's not much motivation to create something new -_-
how they are supposed to know? i'd suggest by watching the fullscreen demo of it when you start windows 8 for the first time, that carefully shows you where they are?
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for all the negative remarks, maybe i'm the only one who wonders how awesome this would be for space travel XD
we would be able to explore a meaningful part of the galaxy XD.
i gues for the most we're producing money to go up the chain to those who deserve it?
but how else will people come to this site if we don't explain spinning quarks via (american)football (aka handegg) metaphors?
and of course this needs to become a site for the wider audience, it's a wide open market, noone else is doing it, they'll corner the market in no time, while keeping all the technical users currently making this site a reasonable success :).
it's the best marketing strategy since new coke!
"appealing to a wider audience"
i've got the feeling the beta slashdot was designed by someone who makes websites for the elderly
huge fonts, extra pictures, tons of whitespace everywhere >__
it might be decent for a mobile version, but not for desktops, we're not reading this on 8" screens
Great comment :)
I completely agree with you, the endless battle between left and right is really annoying me lately, because it's indeed a false choice that doesn't make any sense. If you talk with people from both sides, in the end they want exactly the same thing, so what makes them left or right? mostly their position in society.
People who like to be in control, don't need or want to rely much on others, and don't need anything from society will choose right wing, because it's in their best interest, more social people, but also people in weaker positions or who prefer to collaborate more are more likely to go left wing since it's in their best interest.
I find myself a bit in the middle knowing people from both sides well, not really feeling much affinity with either side, and just getting really annoyed with both sides >_. Since i have a masters degree, and a good job, i'm more likely to vote right (well, europe style right, which is still pretty left for america), since it's more in my day to day/financial interests, but i don't really like either side that much, and neutral territory doesn't exist (and isn't allowed to exist anymore) -_-...
I also hope this nonsense will in the near future come to an end, as more and more people must get bored of it, start seeing trough it, and will want actual meaningful discussions and get people to vote for that aren't just a living stereotype of what right/left wing is supposed to be...
also, breathing pure oxygen isn't so healty, so i'm wondering how they solve that without an external tank.
isn't it just that people react emotionally to such things? the real discussion is far above the understanding of 99.99(don't know how many more nines until i only keep the real experts)% of the people, so when asked an opinion, they react more emotionally than logically. So on depending on the current weather it's logical those emotions are different.
I also hate discussions about topics like this, because it's just emotional shouting at eachother with facts only used to confirm what you feel is right. Even when people on this site would love to claim how intellectual they are, both sides are more about emotions and personal viewpoints than real science, we might now some good facts, read some interesting articles, but do we really know anything about climate science, all the subtle things, ... everything that can't be easily found in popular science magazines or the few popular arguments from both sides that people keep repeating to prove their own feelings are the best.
do you really think these basic and honest emotions are so elaborate? are an actual plan of what we want to do next, and how everything should be handled? You can make it as confusing as you want, search the grayer areas, etc...
Some things i can answer a bit, if you have religious reservations about it, good for you, make a will where you stipulate what you want and don't enforce it on the rest of society.
But in general, he's fucking angry at people who are saying he should let his father suffer, and won't let him do what he and his family think is the most humane thing. I would be too. And i would wish similar dire things on such people. That doesn't mean i will act on them, there are luckily laws preventing this, our society won't allow this. But that doesn't mean that's not what i would feel, think and even at the moment self say. Give it a few weeks to come to a more rational, civilized point of view.
And what is the more civilized answer? stop pushing your life choices on others, if you want to live like a plant, or suffer and be kept alive even if you will never heal, good for you, but i don't want that (and I'm happy i live in Europe where this is allowed).
Let me put it this way: if others are making your family suffer, it would be wiser to wish for them to stop making your family suffer instead of wishing suffering upon them.
Yes, you are right, our emotions should always be politically correct, and in the direst of situations and pain be very much thought about and be reasonable...
It's obvious neither i nor scott adams would ever actually kill those people, but having the feeling that that is what we want to do is obvious. (even if it is as he says because of fear of consequences).
And you're completely right about how supporting certain systems makes me culprit in causing others misery. I'm actually from time to time wondering how to act on that, and it gives interesting conversations with my girlfriend :).
I hope you'll learn that feelings can rightfully be very strong, and that a big part of civilization doesn't mean not having those feelings, but learning how to act properly on them. But that still doesn't mean that deep down you don't just wish those people to also suffer horribly and realize what they're putting others through (just like dropping me in a sweatshop would make me reconsider where i buy my goods, and is probably something people are rightfully wishing upon most of the western world)
I don't agree
If someone is torturing your family, are you gonna say you respectfully disagree with them, or honestly from the depths in your heart wish them a long and painful torture death too?
He's just being honest, and maybe it's hard to understand if you don't share his situation and view where he holds these people responsible for causing his father unfathomable pain. But if you look at it from that perspective, his words make perfect sense.
If someone came to your house and tortured your father to death, what would you wish upon them? Just because people are causing others a long, painful death in a less direct way, doesn't imo change the way i should feel about that. So to me his emotions make perfect sense, and i wouldn't think twice about saying the same thing in the same situation.
It's great that you have your personal beliefs, act on them for yourself, but if it makes my family suffer, please die a fuckin painful death, asap. Sounds very reasonable to me, and i wish the same on those people.
A small town loses a lot when the big business that was there has left.
Not quite sure why it's worth an article, or why it matters that it was a nuclear power plant though.
That sounds terrible... if this would become mainstream, that would mean that for 95% of the population using bitcoins safely would be too hard.
If the system is so unsafe and easily to track if you use it normally, then i don't see where the anonymous claims of bitcoin come from.
And if you have to create new wallets all the time to be really safe & not trackable, why the hell did they call it a wallet? a wallet is the thing you keep unchanged for years in real life, not something you throw away every day to keep your payments anonymous -_-
thanks for mentioning where in the 328 page document you linked that is written :)
And still america isn't managing to come out better looking than them in this situation... how hard could it be for the "land of the free"
if you read the entire comment, you would've noticed i meant per clockpulse, and that getting information around in processors at high frequencies is becoming a problem.
i don't know anything about such chips, so care to explain why they would benefit from being faster? :)
That's true, there are also chips that are meant for other purposed than computing, what bottlenecks do currently exists that current chipspeeds can't handle? You give the example of wlan chipsets, what would a faster chip improve for them?
I thought one of the main issues with increasing clockspeeds on processors besides heat is also the latency. at 3 Ghz a signal can only travel 10 cm anymore, and processors already have stages in their pipelines just to get the signals around. So going 1000 fasters would have to mean some major changes in how processors work i guess? since having your signal only travel 0.1 mm per clock pulse makes it rather hard to get the data around...
seriously, this is slashdot -_-
if you take a growth of 4% per year, that already reaches over 48% over 10 years (you know, it's accumulative, this nice little exponential growth) -_-
am i the only one that finds regional pricing an issue? :p
that they can outsource everything to wherever they want to get the lowest price, is great and fantastic and logical, that a customer would be allowed to do the same thing would be horrible, and we must prevent it at all cost.
I would accept regional locking, if that meant that the product was also made in my region, but if they outsource everything to the cheapest country, then i want to right to buy it there dirtcheap
Wouldn't 5 years be more than enough? i thought part of the goal was to stimulate artist to make new stuff. if you can ride it out for 25 years on 1 hit you once scored, it's not much motivation to create something new -_-
Same here, took me ages before i understood what the title was supposed to mean.
how they are supposed to know? i'd suggest by watching the fullscreen demo of it when you start windows 8 for the first time, that carefully shows you where they are?
So, is there a new site we can go to that isn't ruined by this? XD