I like the idea of 1 person better. With that, it's very clear where the accountability lies and you don't get the groupthink that plagues many councils and meetings. Perhaps there should be a board that supports him with recommendations though.
What's the practical difference between a committee suffering from groupthink and one person whose opinion is the only one that matters?
I think you've got that totally backwards. The problem with committees that's solved by appointing a single decision maker isn't groupthink, it's gridlock.
Sorry, I don't actually watch the show, I had a roommate who was into it, so I've seen a few episodes.
I thought there was both a Canadian guy and a Scottish guy. The Canadian guy was a physicist and the Scottish guy was a medical doctor. He may have been Welsh or Irish or something, like I said, I don't watch the show, so I don't remember exactly.
They may both pronounce it "zed", though I've never heard any of the real life Canadians I know say "zed". They may just be humoring us Americans.
But the Scottish dude always pronounces it "zed-P-M". That should have given it away.
I heard that guy pronounce it first, and as an ignorant American, it actually took me a couple of minutes to figure that it was an acronym for "zero point module" and not some made up alien words.
As a total aside, how do you teach the alphabet to children? The end of the alphabet song doesn't rhyme if you pronounce it "zed".
I don't have an issue with them doing it, but let's not put them in the hall of fame for trying to cut costs.
And why not?
Technology has allowed Amazon to do away with inconvenient, expensive, wasteful packaging. This allows them and their suppliers to cut costs, while also helping consumers and the environment.
You're sitting here, on slashdot of all places, poo-pooing the idea that the internet can help us to prevent waste, inconvenience and inefficiency, helping to sustain economic freedom and prosperity while passing multiple benefits on to consumers.
You can turn your geek card in at the door on your way out.
No, because mainstream scientists believe that his speculation has enough merit that they're willing to commit time and money to find out if it's correct.
That is, I took his post to mean that he was vindicated in the sense that he was making a valid line of inquiry, rather than making up crackpot theories that deserve to be modded down by a teacher.
Microsoft actively markets to enterprise customers, PC manufacturers and developers, and always has.
They haven't marketed extensively to home users because they haven't had to. If you have Windows at work, all the programs you want to use are written for it, and it comes installed by default on any new PC, why would you even explore the possibility of getting something else?
Even now, most people don't even realize there are alternatives.
Other countries look at the USA's insanely high incarceration rate and say the exact same thing.
So do a lot of sensible Americans, by the way.
Anyway, especially in this day and age, royalty is at worst a tyranny of one family often with weird eugenical notions of bloodline purity, and at best is a grandiose leech on society with weird eugenical notions of bloodline purity.
Welcome to the American political system, where multi-generational dynasties are the norm.
I wouldn't say they have eugenical notions of bloodline purity. You can attribute the US system to simple, conscious greed and nepotism.
I'm very good at my job, and have a lot of responsibility at my company, but I still occasionally have a day where I have very little to do. I haven't recently and won't soon, but my schedule tends to be light during the summer months.
Granted, I'd generally prefer to simply be allowed to go home over getting a gaming console, but occasionally having down time doesn't necessarily mean you suck.
Not necessarily. While you're probably correct that it will be Windows only, and probably does use DirectX, at this point everything is so vague that they could simply mean that they aren't making console versions.
After all, if what they meant was, "We're using Direct3D", they could fairly easily make an Xbox 360 port.
Why don't they solve the energy crisis and give everyone a puppy while they're at it?
I'd love to believe that BioWare can make this great, story-based, WoW-killer MMO, but I don't. Sure, they'll get some players, Star Wars always does, but I'm not holding out hope that this will turn out be anything other than the same old muhmorperger mechanics, with one or two minor tweaks, in fancy new clothes.
Well, for the Puritans at least, they were "persecuted" not for holding their religious beliefs, but for trying to impose them on everyone else. They fled to America in order to find a land where they could force their beliefs and behaviors on those around them.
Beliefs you likely wouldn't agree with, even if you are, as your post implies, among the modern crop of right-wing theocracy advocates.
Curing baldness would probably be one of the evils that was abandoned after the Eugenics Wars. I'll note that Khan had a full head of hair. It's a slippery slope from Rogaine to genocide.
Oh, yeah, the animals will have a great time at first, but eventually some of them will move into the farm house and decide that they're more equal than the other animals and the less equal animals will post on animal slashdot about how awesome the plants are going to have it when the animals are gone.
Also, caffeine is actually very highly addictive and not at all good for your long-term health, but it's totally unregulated and very few people raise any kind of stink over it.
Not that it's going to amount to anything - they will still use their name, and they'll likely call themselves "The Original Mongols..." or some such nonesense...
I doubt they'd even go that far to bow the will the courts. They'll probably just keep calling themselves the plain old Mongols, and if someone disagrees or misappropriates the name, they'll probably call themselves the guys who stabbed him to death.
What would really ruin them is for someone to use their logo and release a Mongols brand sugary breakfast cereal with pink, marshmallow motorcycles.
Get tattoos of their logo/insignia. Get it someplace prominent and call out the cops to try and take it from them. I doubt law enforcement is going to start a collection of biker lampshades.
Probably not, even Mad Max would call that excessive.
Yea, but DVD is transient crap. How long will those last?
But DVD is *cheap* transient crap, and perfectly adequate for home backups.
I've got something in the area of 200GB of data on the machine which I'm currently using to type this, but very little of that data has any intrinsic or sentimental value to me. Most of it is applications and games that could easily be reinstalled from the original media or re-downloaded. A DVD or two could easily hold all of the data I *need* and even cheap optical media will outlive this machine's usefulness.
Thank you for your post! Nothing to do with UFOs but I had something very similar happen to me once or twice and I never knew what was it was. I always thought it was sleep apnea but the symptoms weren't quite right because I dream just fine, indicative of REM sleep, which is what is lacking during sleep apnea. From your post I just discovered that it's not apnea that I had, but sleep paralysis.
It's actually fairly common. Most people have an incidence of it at least once. Though it's uncommon for it to happen regularly.
I suffered from sleep paralysis nearly every night for about a year. It stopped even being traumatic for me after a while and became simply an annoyance.
Seriously is there anyone on/. that isn't a "me too, me too" Microsoft sucks, Linux is good person?
Well, most people on slashdot seem to be judged on a post to post basis, and I doubt anyone but twitter has really had their post history thoroughly examined any significant chunk of the slashdot population, so we don't see a broad overview of their positions.
Obviously slashdot has a larger than average population of Linux users, but it's got Windows users as well (*raises hand*).
While I'm perfectly content to run Windows at home and on the desktop at work and I have no ideological issues with the concept of proprietary software, I'm a passionate advocate of Linux on the server and open source code in the workplace.
If you're a staunch conservative, anyone who disagrees with you sounds like a liberal, and vice-versa. The same applies to the evangelists at the edge of any OS user base.
I've been labeled a fanboy in both camps here, as I'm sure most people who can accept the merits and flaws of both systems have been at one point or another.
Also, I notice - they're the last to switch their lights on when it starts to get dark - or when there's fog/spray on the motorways. I put that down to them assuming that everyone "can see them because they're so important, in their important car".
It could also be (and I'm not claiming that this is the case, just pointing out the possibility) that they're relying on their car to automatically turn the lights on in the dark, and the car's definition of "dark" is different from yours.
That's what my dad does in his car (not a brand you listed) and it often doesn't turn on the lights in light fog, rain or other conditions in between "bright" and "dark".
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I like the idea of 1 person better. With that, it's very clear where the accountability lies and you don't get the groupthink that plagues many councils and meetings. Perhaps there should be a board that supports him with recommendations though.
What's the practical difference between a committee suffering from groupthink and one person whose opinion is the only one that matters?
I think you've got that totally backwards. The problem with committees that's solved by appointing a single decision maker isn't groupthink, it's gridlock.
Sorry, I don't actually watch the show, I had a roommate who was into it, so I've seen a few episodes.
I thought there was both a Canadian guy and a Scottish guy. The Canadian guy was a physicist and the Scottish guy was a medical doctor. He may have been Welsh or Irish or something, like I said, I don't watch the show, so I don't remember exactly.
They may both pronounce it "zed", though I've never heard any of the real life Canadians I know say "zed". They may just be humoring us Americans.
But the Scottish dude always pronounces it "zed-P-M". That should have given it away.
I heard that guy pronounce it first, and as an ignorant American, it actually took me a couple of minutes to figure that it was an acronym for "zero point module" and not some made up alien words.
As a total aside, how do you teach the alphabet to children? The end of the alphabet song doesn't rhyme if you pronounce it "zed".
I don't have an issue with them doing it, but let's not put them in the hall of fame for trying to cut costs.
And why not?
Technology has allowed Amazon to do away with inconvenient, expensive, wasteful packaging. This allows them and their suppliers to cut costs, while also helping consumers and the environment.
You're sitting here, on slashdot of all places, poo-pooing the idea that the internet can help us to prevent waste, inconvenience and inefficiency, helping to sustain economic freedom and prosperity while passing multiple benefits on to consumers.
You can turn your geek card in at the door on your way out.
The founder of Federal Express allegedly got a "C" for the company's idea outlined in an economics project.
...and then went on to ruin Kinkos.
No, because mainstream scientists believe that his speculation has enough merit that they're willing to commit time and money to find out if it's correct.
That is, I took his post to mean that he was vindicated in the sense that he was making a valid line of inquiry, rather than making up crackpot theories that deserve to be modded down by a teacher.
Microsoft actively markets to enterprise customers, PC manufacturers and developers, and always has.
They haven't marketed extensively to home users because they haven't had to. If you have Windows at work, all the programs you want to use are written for it, and it comes installed by default on any new PC, why would you even explore the possibility of getting something else?
Even now, most people don't even realize there are alternatives.
And T-Mobile has "Magenta"
Other countries look at the USA's insanely high incarceration rate and say the exact same thing.
So do a lot of sensible Americans, by the way.
Anyway, especially in this day and age, royalty is at worst a tyranny of one family often with weird eugenical notions of bloodline purity, and at best is a grandiose leech on society with weird eugenical notions of bloodline purity.
Welcome to the American political system, where multi-generational dynasties are the norm.
I wouldn't say they have eugenical notions of bloodline purity. You can attribute the US system to simple, conscious greed and nepotism.
It sure beats cutting up your own face and filing false police reports.
I'm very good at my job, and have a lot of responsibility at my company, but I still occasionally have a day where I have very little to do. I haven't recently and won't soon, but my schedule tends to be light during the summer months.
Granted, I'd generally prefer to simply be allowed to go home over getting a gaming console, but occasionally having down time doesn't necessarily mean you suck.
new game will be PC only (must be directx)
Not necessarily. While you're probably correct that it will be Windows only, and probably does use DirectX, at this point everything is so vague that they could simply mean that they aren't making console versions.
After all, if what they meant was, "We're using Direct3D", they could fairly easily make an Xbox 360 port.
...the hype, I mean, not the game. (BioWare pretty much automatically gets my money.)
After reading TFA's, it sounds like the same promises we hear every time a new MMO is in the works.
Why don't they solve the energy crisis and give everyone a puppy while they're at it?
I'd love to believe that BioWare can make this great, story-based, WoW-killer MMO, but I don't. Sure, they'll get some players, Star Wars always does, but I'm not holding out hope that this will turn out be anything other than the same old muhmorperger mechanics, with one or two minor tweaks, in fancy new clothes.
Well, for the Puritans at least, they were "persecuted" not for holding their religious beliefs, but for trying to impose them on everyone else. They fled to America in order to find a land where they could force their beliefs and behaviors on those around them.
Beliefs you likely wouldn't agree with, even if you are, as your post implies, among the modern crop of right-wing theocracy advocates.
Curing baldness would probably be one of the evils that was abandoned after the Eugenics Wars. I'll note that Khan had a full head of hair. It's a slippery slope from Rogaine to genocide.
Oh, yeah, the animals will have a great time at first, but eventually some of them will move into the farm house and decide that they're more equal than the other animals and the less equal animals will post on animal slashdot about how awesome the plants are going to have it when the animals are gone.
Also, caffeine is actually very highly addictive and not at all good for your long-term health, but it's totally unregulated and very few people raise any kind of stink over it.
Not that it's going to amount to anything - they will still use their name, and they'll likely call themselves "The Original Mongols..." or some such nonesense...
I doubt they'd even go that far to bow the will the courts. They'll probably just keep calling themselves the plain old Mongols, and if someone disagrees or misappropriates the name, they'll probably call themselves the guys who stabbed him to death.
What would really ruin them is for someone to use their logo and release a Mongols brand sugary breakfast cereal with pink, marshmallow motorcycles.
Get tattoos of their logo/insignia. Get it someplace prominent and call out the cops to try and take it from them. I doubt law enforcement is going to start a collection of biker lampshades.
Probably not, even Mad Max would call that excessive.
Yea, but DVD is transient crap. How long will those last?
But DVD is *cheap* transient crap, and perfectly adequate for home backups.
I've got something in the area of 200GB of data on the machine which I'm currently using to type this, but very little of that data has any intrinsic or sentimental value to me. Most of it is applications and games that could easily be reinstalled from the original media or re-downloaded. A DVD or two could easily hold all of the data I *need* and even cheap optical media will outlive this machine's usefulness.
Thank you for your post! Nothing to do with UFOs but I had something very similar happen to me once or twice and I never knew what was it was. I always thought it was sleep apnea but the symptoms weren't quite right because I dream just fine, indicative of REM sleep, which is what is lacking during sleep apnea. From your post I just discovered that it's not apnea that I had, but sleep paralysis.
It's actually fairly common. Most people have an incidence of it at least once. Though it's uncommon for it to happen regularly.
I suffered from sleep paralysis nearly every night for about a year. It stopped even being traumatic for me after a while and became simply an annoyance.
ActionScript is an abomination, at best.
Why do you say that?
If you honestly feel that way I'd guess that you haven't tried using Actionscript in the last couple of years.
Seriously is there anyone on /. that isn't a "me too, me too" Microsoft sucks, Linux is good person?
Well, most people on slashdot seem to be judged on a post to post basis, and I doubt anyone but twitter has really had their post history thoroughly examined any significant chunk of the slashdot population, so we don't see a broad overview of their positions.
Obviously slashdot has a larger than average population of Linux users, but it's got Windows users as well (*raises hand*).
While I'm perfectly content to run Windows at home and on the desktop at work and I have no ideological issues with the concept of proprietary software, I'm a passionate advocate of Linux on the server and open source code in the workplace.
If you're a staunch conservative, anyone who disagrees with you sounds like a liberal, and vice-versa. The same applies to the evangelists at the edge of any OS user base.
I've been labeled a fanboy in both camps here, as I'm sure most people who can accept the merits and flaws of both systems have been at one point or another.
So that's really a long-winded: "Yes."
I'm sorry to break it to you, but he's right. Astrology is bogus.
Also, I notice - they're the last to switch their lights on when it starts to get dark - or when there's fog/spray on the motorways. I put that down to them assuming that everyone "can see them because they're so important, in their important car".
It could also be (and I'm not claiming that this is the case, just pointing out the possibility) that they're relying on their car to automatically turn the lights on in the dark, and the car's definition of "dark" is different from yours.
That's what my dad does in his car (not a brand you listed) and it often doesn't turn on the lights in light fog, rain or other conditions in between "bright" and "dark".