Drom, very interesting post. it seems to me that you guys are using some kind of heuristic to solve the problem. Which I find amazing. Can you delve a bit on it, or would it be too problematic? I got really curious about the heuristic you guys are using.
Not only that, but it is the result of laws been enacted on other countries just because the US happens to do it. Whatever the crap they do, will be tried to put on our laws. Or by multinational companies pressure, or by the US government arms wrestling, or by shoddy politicians smelling profit.
So you are saying that is ok for the government to protect the failing business model of Apple? The Auto industries and the RIAA wants to talk to you about an open position.
To sum it up - SI is not right because it's "official". SI is WRONG for computer science. And if the universe is quantum, SI is technically wrong for everything. Calculus, too.
And your rant has nothing to do with it. kilo means a factor of 1000 applied. No matter what the hell you are talking about. That is the beauty of SI, and that is how we all deal with it and where the confusion comes from. Now if you want to give another prefix for a power of 1024, go for it, just don't use what we ALL* know to be 1000.
Too say that when we move to computer kilo will stop meaning 1000 and suddenly become 1024, is the same as Microsoft implementations of a lot of things. Say it is one thing, uses the name we defined for that, and do another one completely different.
*by all I mean everywhere on the world that has heard or uses SI units.
We'd be so bored we'd finally forgive Swordfish for the blowjob hacking scene?
What? that was the only good part of the whole movie. With that "method" of creating worms, you will nitpick with a fairly gratuitous and at the same time awesome blowjob? I pray for your soul.
I hope the parents use this to throw away the charges under an illegal seizure. Although probably the defense knows this already, if someone could forward this to them it would be good.
This is definitely something that needs to be curtailed -- these are not adults making a rational decision about these pictures, these are teenagers who think it is exciting.
Please, define to me how that can't be a rational decision on their part? The girls thought it would be nice to tease the boys, I imagine, with whom they want to maintain sexual relationship, sending them pictures of themselves. I'm not sure on the law in Pa, but in most states if they 6 were having an orgy, they could give consent. But they can't consent on their pictures?
So you can see in person, but you can't see it by a picture? And more important, I can look at myself in the mirror, but I can't picture it??? WTF is wrong with that? Who in their right mind could conceive this law as reasonable????
From TFA:
Saranko indicated that authorities decided to file the child pornography charges to send a strong message to other minors who might consider sending such photos to friends.
"It's very dangerous," he said. "Once it's on a cell phone, that cell phone can be put on the Internet where everyone in the world can get access to that juvenile picture. You don't realize what you are doing until it's already done."
Let me translate it to you. We, the authorities, decided that we will screw the lives of this 6 forever, marking them as sexual offenders, so kids learn not to embarrasses themselves if those pictures hit the web. And we believe it will work...
Thanks goodness I don't live in USA, and if anyone in Brazil starting doing something similar there will be a lot of outcry for the ones I know.
I rather think CmdrTaco wants Yoko Kanno's soundtrack that she did for the TV series to return.
So do I.
np: 808 State - Marathon (Original 2 Four Pub Mix) (808 Archives Part III)
So does anyone who heard that. The Seatbelts are amazing and the soundtrack is something so unique that it stands for itself. I showed their CDs to a lot of people that hate anime, and most of them were very please.
Well, sorry, I don't feel bad. Parents are constantly bleating how "we" need to "protect the children." Well, guess what? Statistically speaking, parents ARE the biggest threat to their children. So, sorry I don't feel bad when parents are put over the coals.
Even when they are innocent? Hmmm interesting concept there.
Again one of those retards who still think in terms of "software product versions", despite calling themselves "experts".
There are no "versions". There are packagers. Companies, and other groups. A living, breathing, healthy concurrency. Each group with their own philosophy.
You know, I hope you don't have to deal with customers on your company, because you sure fail miserably in understanding their mind. There isn't any difference between a "packager", a "distribution", or a "version" in the mind of most final users. It seems to me that you have never dealt with the real world.
The moment someone someone needs help with their Linux box and you have to ask them: "which distribution you are using?" and "what version?" means that you have probably lost them. Yes, in fact the difference among distributions is usually a mater of zealotry and religious war, or how you call it, "philosophies". But that hurts for the final user, those clueless guys that just want the computer to work, and the ability to install a new shiny program.
I've said it once, and will say again. Too much options can be a disadvantage. Just think about how we teach our children in school. We give them the very basic, show some stuff and after a while we broad their topic choices. The problem with Linux is that when it comes to day-by-day use, every distribution IS different to work, has its quirks and conventions. Just get package managers. Installing a software is different if you use RPM or apt-get or something else. That puts away anyone that is used to double-click the Setup.exe and folow the instructions.
Linux is still too geeky.
Translation: "I don't like you. I've never learned to know you. I've not worked with you. But, hell, I don't like you!"
I bet he has not even tried Ubuntu.
I hope it is breezy and comfort on your high horse over there. That post is why Linux EPIC FAILS from the perspective of common users. And it is spot on on it. I used Linux on my machine, I know my ways around it (after all I started in Slack 2), and I think it is too geeky. Look, CLI is geeky, typing is bloody old and painful to a lot of users. They want click and go. Yes, Ubuntu is better, but still is geeky, if you compare it to Windows. And when you can easily get windows for free from a torrent, you see why few people move to Linux (there are other things too, like games, Microsoft Office, etc).
If you can't do that, you're not really using the computer. If there would be a computer license, this would be the major thing you would have to be able to do.
When you're only being able to eat pre-chewed food, you're dead, every time the pre-chewer has a problem.
Hmmm so, to use a car analogy since this is slashdot, you are saying that if you can't tweak your gas pedal, re-wiring your start mechanism, and installing a dedicated chip to detect traffic lights change, to help you go faster from 0 mph you are really not using your car, and shouldn't get a car license. After all, you are only using pre-chewed cars.
This kind of troll attitude is why most Linux community is an epic fail. YOU, moron, is the kind of f***** that makes windows so dominant on the market. It is post like this, that you can find on every Linux Help forums that make the go way scared. And that's why we, System Administrators have to deal with that hack of an OS that is windows, since we can't get more people to use Linux.
If they like the game enough, and want to do a flawless run, by all means, have that as one of the challenges or achievements or whatever, and those people that can and want to do that will, hell,
So what you are advocating is having difficult levels on the game. Maybe an Easy mode for those that just want to play through it once and learn the story. And a Hardcore mode for the shitbats (like myself) that want to do it the hard way. It sound like I heard it somewhere else. What ticks me off, and just bugs the hell out of me, why the f*** do I have to play through the easy bland thing to unlock the true hard mode?? I know that the devs want me to time sink in there and replay the game, but common it is stupid.
Why not make the other way? You only have the hard mode in the beginning. Now after finishing it mastering the game, you unlock the easy mode where you will only have the "fun" parts (whatever that means) and be able to watch the story unfolds.
give them a bonus cutscene or dialog or whatever even... but there is no reason for that to be how one has to play the game.
As there is no reason to make me play a nanny state game where i have an auto quick save feature that saves me from trouble just because I missed a jump. You want it? Cool, good for you. I don't. I don't want to have to play it your way to unlock my way, the same I'm sure is what you are thinking.
What the GP is complaining, and I agree with him is that games having been dumbing down recently, in the way that you don't have to master a plan for a long part, only short term solution, without having to worry that you can waste a lot of the time you spent if you make a mistake. Now, is that meant to gather a larger audience to the game? Yes. Is it a sound business strategy? The dumber the more consumer you get, so yes. Would it be too hard to allow the Hardcore mode from the beginning? No, and that's what bothers me.
Nobody normal puts up with that kind of nonsense in anything else they do, whether its biking, snowboarding, skiing, fishing... hell even programming...
I find it sad that people are playing BASKETBALL on a gaming console? Whatever happened to going outside and shooting some hoops? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
I find it sad that people are playing GTA on a gaming console. Whatever happened to going outside and shotting some hoes? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
That's where we disagree. I think the Two Towers is the worst of them as a stand alone movie. It diverges with many subplots running and not bindingly strong enough in the end. It ends pretty blend either.
Alan Moore is pretty much whining about nothing with V for Vendetta. It's not like they took his work, ripped it up, and made a mindless action movie of it. Whatever was changed from the original material, the end result is still a moving and thought provoking movie. That's hardly a failure.
One thing that was masterfully done on V, was the "update" to the story so the message would get to the new audience. Alan's work is a fierce critic to the Iron Lady, has a lot of jabs at the mechanization and computer domination of society. Those things would get to anyone that didn't live on those times. And like it or not, you have to make money. Those small changes on the story, were worth on it own, and did just to the message, while delivering it slightly different (and the new High Chancelor was awesome.)
Leaving the anal types behind a bit, the LotR trilogy was good, except The Two Tower. That movie was a deeply piece of s***, with terrible character, bad cutting, horrible scenes and direction (I'm looking at you Olympic Uruk-hai and exorcism). Except for the Fall of Gandalf on the beginning, that was amazing.
The RotK was amazing, with a sh*** Extended Version that not only added nothing good, but added some terrible other things. The FoR was very good, and the Extended version was plainly awesome.
The problem with LotR is that, more than Watchman, it is pretty unique on its setting. The way that everyone copied it latter. But not only that, the characters are extensively describe, and there is such a culture revolving around it that any slightly change is doomed to fail.
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I RTFAed, and assumed others did too. I must be new here. ;)
I know it was an obvious joke, but reading that from someone with a 4 digit UID made me LOL to the point my boss asked what was so funny.
Drom, very interesting post. it seems to me that you guys are using some kind of heuristic to solve the problem. Which I find amazing. Can you delve a bit on it, or would it be too problematic? I got really curious about the heuristic you guys are using.
Yes, yes you are. :D
Not only that, but it is the result of laws been enacted on other countries just because the US happens to do it. Whatever the crap they do, will be tried to put on our laws. Or by multinational companies pressure, or by the US government arms wrestling, or by shoddy politicians smelling profit.
Holy crap Batman, I wished I had mod points to mod you up
Here is one more: (4) If you are not in the US, US law does not apply.
I wished that was true :/
So you are saying that is ok for the government to protect the failing business model of Apple? The Auto industries and the RIAA wants to talk to you about an open position.
^ This. I can't believe people didn't post this book sooner. It is amazing, and was one of the reasons that got me interested in Mathematics.
To sum it up - SI is not right because it's "official". SI is WRONG for computer science. And if the universe is quantum, SI is technically wrong for everything. Calculus, too.
And your rant has nothing to do with it. kilo means a factor of 1000 applied. No matter what the hell you are talking about. That is the beauty of SI, and that is how we all deal with it and where the confusion comes from. Now if you want to give another prefix for a power of 1024, go for it, just don't use what we ALL* know to be 1000.
Too say that when we move to computer kilo will stop meaning 1000 and suddenly become 1024, is the same as Microsoft implementations of a lot of things. Say it is one thing, uses the name we defined for that, and do another one completely different.
*by all I mean everywhere on the world that has heard or uses SI units.
We'd be so bored we'd finally forgive Swordfish for the blowjob hacking scene?
What? that was the only good part of the whole movie. With that "method" of creating worms, you will nitpick with a fairly gratuitous and at the same time awesome blowjob? I pray for your soul.
Madness? This is not madness. This is PARTICLE PHYSICS! Please move on.
Not that I know of.
I hope the parents use this to throw away the charges under an illegal seizure. Although probably the defense knows this already, if someone could forward this to them it would be good.
This is definitely something that needs to be curtailed -- these are not adults making a rational decision about these pictures, these are teenagers who think it is exciting.
Please, define to me how that can't be a rational decision on their part? The girls thought it would be nice to tease the boys, I imagine, with whom they want to maintain sexual relationship, sending them pictures of themselves. I'm not sure on the law in Pa, but in most states if they 6 were having an orgy, they could give consent. But they can't consent on their pictures?
So you can see in person, but you can't see it by a picture? And more important, I can look at myself in the mirror, but I can't picture it??? WTF is wrong with that? Who in their right mind could conceive this law as reasonable????
From TFA:
Saranko indicated that authorities decided to file the child pornography charges to send a strong message to other minors who might consider sending such photos to friends. "It's very dangerous," he said. "Once it's on a cell phone, that cell phone can be put on the Internet where everyone in the world can get access to that juvenile picture. You don't realize what you are doing until it's already done."
Let me translate it to you. We, the authorities, decided that we will screw the lives of this 6 forever, marking them as sexual offenders, so kids learn not to embarrasses themselves if those pictures hit the web. And we believe it will work...
Thanks goodness I don't live in USA, and if anyone in Brazil starting doing something similar there will be a lot of outcry for the ones I know.
I rather think CmdrTaco wants Yoko Kanno's soundtrack that she did for the TV series to return.
So do I.
np: 808 State - Marathon (Original 2 Four Pub Mix) (808 Archives Part III)
So does anyone who heard that. The Seatbelts are amazing and the soundtrack is something so unique that it stands for itself. I showed their CDs to a lot of people that hate anime, and most of them were very please.
Do they want? If so, go for it?
Hispanic would be the most appropriate term.
Why not 'Spanish'?
Because Spanish is the term for people born in Spain and Hispanic is the term for people born on Spanish America
And let the woman jokes begin. Anyone can please pass me the coconut, this shall be a fun ride.
Well, sorry, I don't feel bad. Parents are constantly bleating how "we" need to "protect the children." Well, guess what? Statistically speaking, parents ARE the biggest threat to their children. So, sorry I don't feel bad when parents are put over the coals.
Even when they are innocent? Hmmm interesting concept there.
Too many different versions of Linux.
Again one of those retards who still think in terms of "software product versions", despite calling themselves "experts". There are no "versions". There are packagers. Companies, and other groups. A living, breathing, healthy concurrency. Each group with their own philosophy.
You know, I hope you don't have to deal with customers on your company, because you sure fail miserably in understanding their mind. There isn't any difference between a "packager", a "distribution", or a "version" in the mind of most final users. It seems to me that you have never dealt with the real world.
The moment someone someone needs help with their Linux box and you have to ask them: "which distribution you are using?" and "what version?" means that you have probably lost them. Yes, in fact the difference among distributions is usually a mater of zealotry and religious war, or how you call it, "philosophies". But that hurts for the final user, those clueless guys that just want the computer to work, and the ability to install a new shiny program.
I've said it once, and will say again. Too much options can be a disadvantage. Just think about how we teach our children in school. We give them the very basic, show some stuff and after a while we broad their topic choices. The problem with Linux is that when it comes to day-by-day use, every distribution IS different to work, has its quirks and conventions. Just get package managers. Installing a software is different if you use RPM or apt-get or something else. That puts away anyone that is used to double-click the Setup.exe and folow the instructions .
Linux is still too geeky.
Translation: "I don't like you. I've never learned to know you. I've not worked with you. But, hell, I don't like you!" I bet he has not even tried Ubuntu.
I hope it is breezy and comfort on your high horse over there. That post is why Linux EPIC FAILS from the perspective of common users. And it is spot on on it. I used Linux on my machine, I know my ways around it (after all I started in Slack 2), and I think it is too geeky. Look, CLI is geeky, typing is bloody old and painful to a lot of users. They want click and go. Yes, Ubuntu is better, but still is geeky, if you compare it to Windows. And when you can easily get windows for free from a torrent, you see why few people move to Linux (there are other things too, like games, Microsoft Office, etc).
If you can't do that, you're not really using the computer. If there would be a computer license, this would be the major thing you would have to be able to do. When you're only being able to eat pre-chewed food, you're dead, every time the pre-chewer has a problem.
Hmmm so, to use a car analogy since this is slashdot, you are saying that if you can't tweak your gas pedal, re-wiring your start mechanism, and installing a dedicated chip to detect traffic lights change, to help you go faster from 0 mph you are really not using your car, and shouldn't get a car license. After all, you are only using pre-chewed cars.
This kind of troll attitude is why most Linux community is an epic fail. YOU, moron, is the kind of f***** that makes windows so dominant on the market. It is post like this, that you can find on every Linux Help forums that make the go way scared. And that's why we, System Administrators have to deal with that hack of an OS that is windows, since we can't get more people to use Linux.
If they like the game enough, and want to do a flawless run, by all means, have that as one of the challenges or achievements or whatever, and those people that can and want to do that will, hell,
So what you are advocating is having difficult levels on the game. Maybe an Easy mode for those that just want to play through it once and learn the story. And a Hardcore mode for the shitbats (like myself) that want to do it the hard way. It sound like I heard it somewhere else. What ticks me off, and just bugs the hell out of me, why the f*** do I have to play through the easy bland thing to unlock the true hard mode?? I know that the devs want me to time sink in there and replay the game, but common it is stupid.
Why not make the other way? You only have the hard mode in the beginning. Now after finishing it mastering the game, you unlock the easy mode where you will only have the "fun" parts (whatever that means) and be able to watch the story unfolds.
give them a bonus cutscene or dialog or whatever even... but there is no reason for that to be how one has to play the game.
As there is no reason to make me play a nanny state game where i have an auto quick save feature that saves me from trouble just because I missed a jump. You want it? Cool, good for you. I don't. I don't want to have to play it your way to unlock my way, the same I'm sure is what you are thinking.
What the GP is complaining, and I agree with him is that games having been dumbing down recently, in the way that you don't have to master a plan for a long part, only short term solution, without having to worry that you can waste a lot of the time you spent if you make a mistake. Now, is that meant to gather a larger audience to the game? Yes. Is it a sound business strategy? The dumber the more consumer you get, so yes. Would it be too hard to allow the Hardcore mode from the beginning? No, and that's what bothers me.
Nobody normal puts up with that kind of nonsense in anything else they do, whether its biking, snowboarding, skiing, fishing ... hell even programming...
#define normal
I find it sad that people are playing BASKETBALL on a gaming console? Whatever happened to going outside and shooting some hoops? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
I find it sad that people are playing GTA on a gaming console. Whatever happened to going outside and shotting some hoes? You get fresh air, some exercise, and you get the REAL immersion...
That's where we disagree. I think the Two Towers is the worst of them as a stand alone movie. It diverges with many subplots running and not bindingly strong enough in the end. It ends pretty blend either.
Alan Moore is pretty much whining about nothing with V for Vendetta. It's not like they took his work, ripped it up, and made a mindless action movie of it. Whatever was changed from the original material, the end result is still a moving and thought provoking movie. That's hardly a failure.
One thing that was masterfully done on V, was the "update" to the story so the message would get to the new audience. Alan's work is a fierce critic to the Iron Lady, has a lot of jabs at the mechanization and computer domination of society. Those things would get to anyone that didn't live on those times. And like it or not, you have to make money. Those small changes on the story, were worth on it own, and did just to the message, while delivering it slightly different (and the new High Chancelor was awesome.)
Leaving the anal types behind a bit, the LotR trilogy was good, except The Two Tower. That movie was a deeply piece of s***, with terrible character, bad cutting, horrible scenes and direction (I'm looking at you Olympic Uruk-hai and exorcism). Except for the Fall of Gandalf on the beginning, that was amazing.
The RotK was amazing, with a sh*** Extended Version that not only added nothing good, but added some terrible other things. The FoR was very good, and the Extended version was plainly awesome.
The problem with LotR is that, more than Watchman, it is pretty unique on its setting. The way that everyone copied it latter. But not only that, the characters are extensively describe, and there is such a culture revolving around it that any slightly change is doomed to fail.