I was a little strange in my math and physics exams. I always scored really low on the "Knowledge and Procedures" part of the test, and highly on the "Complex Reasoning". Even stranger is that I would score highly on the Complex Reasoning section using formulae and ideas that I didn't correctly display in the Knowledge and Procedures. The difference at my school between K&P and CR was that K&P would be just straight questions like "find the derivative" or "multiply these matrices", while CR would be problems described in prose, with about five or sex questions for a near two-hour long exam period.
I guess some people just have brains that can easily reason without a traditional mathematical mindset.
On the contrary, I'm a pirate and I love DRM. Gives me further moral justification for my stance of downloading a game before I buy it. A practice which has probably saved me thousands in "I wish I hadn't bought that"s over the years.
So you skip the bulk of the game just so you can pour money into feeling good about yourself for beating people who actually enjoy the game? I normally say "to each his own", but buying game currency to get ahead is really no better than playing Diablo II with an edited character against people who actually put some effort in.
In a more general sense, it's people like you (but by your logic probably far better, since they're richer) that ruin democracies by buying the legislation they want and keeping the poor oppressed.
One of the strategies is perfectly rational, and I'd expect it from any competition, not just proprietary software. "...to judiciously improve its product features..." would benefit both open and closed source applications. In the absence of competition, there is no product growth; it only stagnates and gets reboxed year after year and labeled as a new version. If a proprietary program slowly increments features to sell the next version, then the open source rival will almost always be ahead of the game. To compete with open source software, proprietary software must always try and be noticeably better (marketing helps with this, too, of course), but if a proprietary vendor says "That will be in the next version" and "No, we aren't planning on implementing that" all the time, then the open source programmer will win out from listening to his community (though that doesn't happen always...).
Carrying all that extra weight around...
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I'd want to take a seat too, if I had all that extra weight to carry around...
I've often considered tech to be like plumbing. The users of both have no idea how it works, basic knowledge of how to use it, and only care when it stops working. Users expect it to work like magic all the time, and the tech/plumber always has to put up with the disgruntled user's shit. Both are looked down upon by most people in society, yet both are absolutely essential to today's way of life.
And just right now, I looked at the new story about another Mars mission, and lo and behold: the first post is yet another troll posting as AC. I'd probably go so far as to say no more AC posting. I already say to trolls that if they don't want to own up to something they've posted then the obviously think it's not worth reading... Problem is, it's not just trolls who post anonymous, and I'd rather not see the many punished for the actions of the few.
It's tricky ground to walk, on a site like this. Obviously the first post was a blatant troll, but with so many stories decrying the evils of censorship, how can we actually censor trolls? I had a thought that maybe moderators could send posts below -1 at double the cost of mod points (to try and curb abuse). Something that gets to -10 would require a total of 20 negative mods, and would most probably be a troll; this is hardly a perfect idea, though.
Why do I get the feeling that it's always the same pathetic loser madly hammering the refresh button just so he can make a post like this every single time? Surely his MAC ID can be banned or something...
Come on in, the water's fine in the Openmoko pool! A truly free platform, and anything compiled for Linux on an ARM CPU will run (assuming the dependencies are also present).
These things seem pretty well scalable for only the cost of the parts. The little desktop one he's got generates milliwatts, imagine what several of these, lined up on a roof would do. Put in just as many at 90 degrees to those just above them, and you're covered for winds from four directions. Work out a weather vane system that keeps the fabric edge-on into the wind all the time, and it can use any light breeze from any direction. I'd probably put up with those to light my house just to lower my power bill. Considering the size of the average roof in the developed world, I'd probably have power to spare if I lit my house with LED nests.
Another factor to consider is that it's another power source for a Mars colony. The dust storms could blot out the sun, and these would still work, assuming the coils are protected and the fabric is strong enough. I don't think the inventor has considered just how important this could be to the whole world, not just the third world countries.
Although that's one of the most overused tags on Slashdot, and it's rarely applicable, this is definitely a case where it should be tagged as that. I don't think I can since I'm not a subscriber, though.
Well... Maybe it doesn't break conservation of energy. Who knows how good a battery Aperture Science put into that gun? Judging by other Aperture Science ventures (see the wikipedia article, if that info is still there), it wouldn't surprise me if they found a clean, virtually infinite energy source and put it to an obscure use (like running a human rat through a maze) without considering the more important things it could be doing.
There's no telling what effect anything can have on an ecosystem until it's released into the wild. If it's completely unlike any currently existing life, then the life forms on a similar scale to it probably wouldn't understand it sufficiently to know how to interact with it (i.e, simple questions that don't require a great deal of sentience like 'is it predator or prey?' or 'is it a viable food source?'). I'm not a biologist, so maybe I'm not making a lick of sense, but how do you cram something totally new into the food web? Previous conservation efforts by humans (such as introducing the cane toad to Australia to eat the cane grubs) have proved disastrous, at best, because of unforeseen consequences.
Back to my original point, it's just short sighted to claim that it can't possibly compete outside a lab when anything could happen. To answer your question, it wasn't me who sent death threats to the LHC:P. My grasp of physics is much better than my limited knowledge of biology.
(P.S, about your sig, Creationists believe everything was created for them. They don't have to create anything themselves:P.)
That's the thing about scum and cream; they both end up on top eventually. I'd rather my cream not be tainted by scum, but I've bought so many crap games for my consoles in the past that I almost religiously pirate them on PC first. I buy what's worth playing, and everybody in the gaming community wins. The only people harmed by my piracy are the ones foisting shit on us for a quick buck; and we'd all be better off without them.
I thought we had leap years to take care of the discrepancy between our calendar and the actual orbit around the sun. Would a leap second even be made longer by any noticeable amount? What about sporting events? Someone who misses out on a world record by a tiny bit would complain that the record h older had more leap seconds in his race! (Okay, that one was a joke, but the rest I'm serious about)
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I was a little strange in my math and physics exams. I always scored really low on the "Knowledge and Procedures" part of the test, and highly on the "Complex Reasoning". Even stranger is that I would score highly on the Complex Reasoning section using formulae and ideas that I didn't correctly display in the Knowledge and Procedures. The difference at my school between K&P and CR was that K&P would be just straight questions like "find the derivative" or "multiply these matrices", while CR would be problems described in prose, with about five or sex questions for a near two-hour long exam period.
I guess some people just have brains that can easily reason without a traditional mathematical mindset.
On the contrary, I'm a pirate and I love DRM. Gives me further moral justification for my stance of downloading a game before I buy it. A practice which has probably saved me thousands in "I wish I hadn't bought that"s over the years.
So you skip the bulk of the game just so you can pour money into feeling good about yourself for beating people who actually enjoy the game? I normally say "to each his own", but buying game currency to get ahead is really no better than playing Diablo II with an edited character against people who actually put some effort in.
In a more general sense, it's people like you (but by your logic probably far better, since they're richer) that ruin democracies by buying the legislation they want and keeping the poor oppressed.
One of the strategies is perfectly rational, and I'd expect it from any competition, not just proprietary software. "...to judiciously improve its product features..." would benefit both open and closed source applications. In the absence of competition, there is no product growth; it only stagnates and gets reboxed year after year and labeled as a new version. If a proprietary program slowly increments features to sell the next version, then the open source rival will almost always be ahead of the game. To compete with open source software, proprietary software must always try and be noticeably better (marketing helps with this, too, of course), but if a proprietary vendor says "That will be in the next version" and "No, we aren't planning on implementing that" all the time, then the open source programmer will win out from listening to his community (though that doesn't happen always...).
I'd want to take a seat too, if I had all that extra weight to carry around...
What percentage of these executives said they'd choose their PDA over their mistress, or secretary?
I've often considered tech to be like plumbing. The users of both have no idea how it works, basic knowledge of how to use it, and only care when it stops working. Users expect it to work like magic all the time, and the tech/plumber always has to put up with the disgruntled user's shit. Both are looked down upon by most people in society, yet both are absolutely essential to today's way of life.
And just right now, I looked at the new story about another Mars mission, and lo and behold: the first post is yet another troll posting as AC. I'd probably go so far as to say no more AC posting. I already say to trolls that if they don't want to own up to something they've posted then the obviously think it's not worth reading... Problem is, it's not just trolls who post anonymous, and I'd rather not see the many punished for the actions of the few.
It's tricky ground to walk, on a site like this. Obviously the first post was a blatant troll, but with so many stories decrying the evils of censorship, how can we actually censor trolls? I had a thought that maybe moderators could send posts below -1 at double the cost of mod points (to try and curb abuse). Something that gets to -10 would require a total of 20 negative mods, and would most probably be a troll; this is hardly a perfect idea, though.
Why do I get the feeling that it's always the same pathetic loser madly hammering the refresh button just so he can make a post like this every single time? Surely his MAC ID can be banned or something...
Come on in, the water's fine in the Openmoko pool! A truly free platform, and anything compiled for Linux on an ARM CPU will run (assuming the dependencies are also present).
These things seem pretty well scalable for only the cost of the parts. The little desktop one he's got generates milliwatts, imagine what several of these, lined up on a roof would do. Put in just as many at 90 degrees to those just above them, and you're covered for winds from four directions. Work out a weather vane system that keeps the fabric edge-on into the wind all the time, and it can use any light breeze from any direction. I'd probably put up with those to light my house just to lower my power bill. Considering the size of the average roof in the developed world, I'd probably have power to spare if I lit my house with LED nests.
Another factor to consider is that it's another power source for a Mars colony. The dust storms could blot out the sun, and these would still work, assuming the coils are protected and the fabric is strong enough. I don't think the inventor has considered just how important this could be to the whole world, not just the third world countries.
Case in point, when a professional educator didn't realise Belfast was in Ireland (or at least didn't read it thoroughly) :P
I can just picture graduation. Someone doesn't pass, and he yells out "You're all COWARDS!! YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE!!!"
Trolls are notoriously hard to kill, so I'd say you're right :P.
Although that's one of the most overused tags on Slashdot, and it's rarely applicable, this is definitely a case where it should be tagged as that. I don't think I can since I'm not a subscriber, though.
US law doesn't seem to mean jackshit inside the US, unless Bush is changing it to benefit himself.
Well... Maybe it doesn't break conservation of energy. Who knows how good a battery Aperture Science put into that gun? Judging by other Aperture Science ventures (see the wikipedia article, if that info is still there), it wouldn't surprise me if they found a clean, virtually infinite energy source and put it to an obscure use (like running a human rat through a maze) without considering the more important things it could be doing.
Blizzard should sue them, for claiming the method it uses to update World of Warcraft without suffering crippling bandwidth costs is illegal.
There's no telling what effect anything can have on an ecosystem until it's released into the wild. If it's completely unlike any currently existing life, then the life forms on a similar scale to it probably wouldn't understand it sufficiently to know how to interact with it (i.e, simple questions that don't require a great deal of sentience like 'is it predator or prey?' or 'is it a viable food source?'). I'm not a biologist, so maybe I'm not making a lick of sense, but how do you cram something totally new into the food web? Previous conservation efforts by humans (such as introducing the cane toad to Australia to eat the cane grubs) have proved disastrous, at best, because of unforeseen consequences.
Back to my original point, it's just short sighted to claim that it can't possibly compete outside a lab when anything could happen. To answer your question, it wasn't me who sent death threats to the LHC :P. My grasp of physics is much better than my limited knowledge of biology.
(P.S, about your sig, Creationists believe everything was created for them. They don't have to create anything themselves :P.)
I know they aren't really Von Neuman machines, but that phrase always puts me in mind of a replicator apocalypse...
That's the thing about scum and cream; they both end up on top eventually. I'd rather my cream not be tainted by scum, but I've bought so many crap games for my consoles in the past that I almost religiously pirate them on PC first. I buy what's worth playing, and everybody in the gaming community wins. The only people harmed by my piracy are the ones foisting shit on us for a quick buck; and we'd all be better off without them.
I suppose I'd know that if I'd R'd TFA... :P
I thought we had leap years to take care of the discrepancy between our calendar and the actual orbit around the sun. Would a leap second even be made longer by any noticeable amount? What about sporting events? Someone who misses out on a world record by a tiny bit would complain that the record h older had more leap seconds in his race! (Okay, that one was a joke, but the rest I'm serious about)
Will we see DMCA Takedown notices claiming news stories like these infringe on the property of the lawyers who issued the original DMCA Takedowns? :P
Actually... I really shouldn't joke about that. It may just happen...