Yeah, because maybe his family shouldn't get a windfall from the surge in book sales his titles are about to recieve. Funerals are expensive too. Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything, but seeing as how many authors are broke most of their life, I'm sure he would just be ok with his family getting nothing. I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free? Your logic fails me. I could see maybe like 10 to 20 years or something, but jeez, copyright exists for a period of time after death for a whole bunch of reasons.
Gasp! People are not getting money for something they didn't do! Can't the state do something?
If you ask most people what today's date is, they'll say March 31, 2009.
I'm not saying it's the best way, but that's how they say it.
For example, what's your birtday?
For what it's worth - if you ask me what today's date is, I'll think "1. April 2009". Then I'll translate it into your weird reverse format.
It's a philosophical question - why do we exist? If you believe we exist for a purpose, then there is no practical difference between you and your copy. Also, there are ways to create a gradual transition to uploaded-state, without breaking consciousness. (virtualizing parts of your brain at a time)
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes.
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Am I the only one to whom this smells like the setup for some sort of Aesop about human arrogance?
"We were so prideful in these days.. we even believed we could change the very atmosphere of this planet. And we paid for our folly. "
If this leads us directly to a post-apocalyptic future where most of the Earth is frozen, allow me to say "told ya".
Ding ding ding! You win a cupie doll!
Couple the debate about anthropogenic climate change with the fact that it appears the climate is cooling, and it becomes apparent we don't know what the heck's going on. Until climatologists can come up with a model that'll accurately predict weather for a given region during a given month, at least six months out, or hell at least come up with a model that when run with past data points yields the same observed weather, then I'm going to continue ignoring the lot of them as little boys yelling "wolf". There might indeed be a wolf there this time, but the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
And my point is that this planet has a lot of unmarked levers and dials, and they don't seem to behave in any way that makes sense to us.
So we should probably leave them alone before the whole thing explodes around us.
"The human mind: 600 miles of synaptic fiber, 5 and half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter. A three pound pile of dreams. But I'll tell you what it really is! It is the ultimate battlefield and the ultimate weapon.
The wars of this modern age, the Psychic Age, are all fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous, undulations.
From this day forward, you are all psychic soldiers, paranormal paratroopers, mental marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives. THIS is our beachhead! And THIS is your landing craft! You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality! You shall chase his dreams! You shall fight his demons! You shall live his nightmares!
And those of you fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to be international secret agents. In other words:
PSYCHONAUTS!"
-Morceau Oleander
I don't care that I'm male - I want your children.
I came here to post that. If I had mod points, I'd give them to you.
Conceptually easy. Make your fork talk to OpenGL 2.1 / 3.0 for the time being, even if it is slower.. then when Larrabee comes around, write your own drivers.
Well, that actually makes no sense at all, seeing as in the above case
a) I can read the source and figure out what's going on
b) the code would obviously fail to compile on _any_ GCC
c) if it's broken that badly, there's no real expectation for it to work, whereas I'm using a bog-standard x86/sun box with the official launcher app.
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Yeah, because maybe his family shouldn't get a windfall from the surge in book sales his titles are about to recieve. Funerals are expensive too. Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything, but seeing as how many authors are broke most of their life, I'm sure he would just be ok with his family getting nothing. I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free? Your logic fails me. I could see maybe like 10 to 20 years or something, but jeez, copyright exists for a period of time after death for a whole bunch of reasons.
Gasp! People are not getting money for something they didn't do! Can't the state do something?
Oh wait.
Well, not exactly .. :smirk:
Screw the achievements, where are all the PONIES?!
StackOverflow has unicorns.
Does that count?
If you ask most people what today's date is, they'll say March 31, 2009.
I'm not saying it's the best way, but that's how they say it.
For example, what's your birtday?
For what it's worth - if you ask me what today's date is, I'll think "1. April 2009". Then I'll translate it into your weird reverse format.
a Farscape reference? :D
For some reason, this made me think of a Halo / Thief series crossover. Garrett-117?
Indeed, if you were to count three attempts per user account.
Which is of course the reason why you count attempts by IP.
It's a philosophical question - why do we exist? If you believe we exist for a purpose, then there is no practical difference between you and your copy. Also, there are ways to create a gradual transition to uploaded-state, without breaking consciousness. (virtualizing parts of your brain at a time)
Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
$34.95 or $43.75 with the PDF.
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What?
[...] and he appears the rules of Germglish not to follow.
FTFY. --Your Friendly Neighbourhood Germglish Grammar Nazi
Yahoo! Mail user here. Same problem.
I really hope they make it.
Thank you. With all this bitching about quicktime I was beginning to lose my faith in the tech-savvyness of the slashdot crowd.
Read the source, Luke.
Here's a neat one ..
/dev/mem"
sudo sh -c "DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=640:h=480
Am I the only one to whom this smells like the setup for some sort of Aesop about human arrogance? "We were so prideful in these days .. we even believed we could change the very atmosphere of this planet. And we paid for our folly. "
If this leads us directly to a post-apocalyptic future where most of the Earth is frozen, allow me to say "told ya".
Yeah right.
This is eerily similar to the "bailout" VS "let them fail" discussion.
It is Soviet Russia, poised over Satan's rectum!
(I, for one, am strictly Don't Ask Don't Tell about this)
Ding ding ding! You win a cupie doll! Couple the debate about anthropogenic climate change with the fact that it appears the climate is cooling, and it becomes apparent we don't know what the heck's going on. Until climatologists can come up with a model that'll accurately predict weather for a given region during a given month, at least six months out, or hell at least come up with a model that when run with past data points yields the same observed weather, then I'm going to continue ignoring the lot of them as little boys yelling "wolf". There might indeed be a wolf there this time, but the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
And my point is that this planet has a lot of unmarked levers and dials, and they don't seem to behave in any way that makes sense to us.
So we should probably leave them alone before the whole thing explodes around us.
"The human mind: 600 miles of synaptic fiber, 5 and half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter. A three pound pile of dreams. But I'll tell you what it really is! It is the ultimate battlefield and the ultimate weapon.
The wars of this modern age, the Psychic Age, are all fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous, undulations.
From this day forward, you are all psychic soldiers, paranormal paratroopers, mental marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives. THIS is our beachhead! And THIS is your landing craft! You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality! You shall chase his dreams! You shall fight his demons! You shall live his nightmares!
And those of you fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to be international secret agents. In other words: PSYCHONAUTS!"
-Morceau Oleander
I don't care that I'm male - I want your children.
I came here to post that. If I had mod points, I'd give them to you.
Yes. God yes. Utter agreement.
Conceptually easy. Make your fork talk to OpenGL 2.1 / 3.0 for the time being, even if it is slower .. then when Larrabee comes around, write your own drivers.
I wasn't aware Google's trade secrets were posted on large signposts carefully arranged on private property.
Well, that actually makes no sense at all, seeing as in the above case
a) I can read the source and figure out what's going on
b) the code would obviously fail to compile on _any_ GCC
c) if it's broken that badly, there's no real expectation for it to work, whereas I'm using a bog-standard x86/sun box with the official launcher app.
Hope that clears things up.
it really is n.