This 'feed the hungry' idea is nice, but that's not an agricultural problem. We are already producing enough food to feed everyone.
The idea that we can plant crops anywhere we like and have them flourish is extremely ignorant. The Sahara, were rainfall patterns to alter significantly, would not go from being sand to rich loam in any short amount of time, nor would any place that is currently tundra. Most of Canada and Siberia would become a treacherous bog.
Rapidly changing climate and weather patterns are not good news for any place.
Boot time isn't an issue, just use linux! Moblin boots in less than ten seconds! You can go from zero to NetHack in less time than it takes to display the console game developer's logo.
Yessir, you can have games on linux in any color you want, so long as it's black. Nethack, Falcon's Eye, Slash'em: It's a regular gamer's utopia!
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The rest of us see what does not exist, and think, why not?
I will not dignify that remark by asking for a citation.
Why was it that European civilizations took over large parts of the world, and not e.g. the Chinese or Indian peoples?
'Advanced' civilizations are far more dependent on horses, iron, livestock, and certain grains than innate intelligence. You can't think up iron deposits no matter how much rice you've been eating.
How did European settlers displace the Native Americans? With pigs, cows, sheep, barley, wheat, steel, and the diseases that come from living with livestock. They did not introduce agriculture to the Americas, nor did they outthink the native populations. They simply had a better set of native species to work with.
Please read Guns, Germs, and Steel, to obtain a general overview of the subject at hand. If you must justify your latent racism somehow, then I imagine any criticism of that work would provide you with a base for further argument.
Well, you could substitute high fructose corn syrup, like the current food industry likes to do, or use some nice coal-tar-derived chemicals. Down this aisle we also have what are amusingly termed 'artificial flavors'. Both of these are nice and cheap---just what you're looking for!...No? Then maybe you should investigate this radical new class of flavouring agents. They're called spices. They're very expensive, though.
The third alternative is to use drugs, which enhances the flavor of, um....what was I saying?
On the other hand, pre-agricultural tribes are generally healthier, though less numerous.
A moment's thought will produce many reasons why that might be so. Think in terms of child rearing, defense, specialization, livestock, etc.
There are of course New Guinean tribes who developed agriculture, but not large and powerful civilizations. They did not have large metal deposits or animals of the right type for livestock, both of which really help with this farming thing.
Your statement is, frankly, farcical and uninformed. Any weaker formulation of this same theory is incomplete at best.
Also do note that even if that statement were correct, it in no way contradicts the idea that low-carb diets, i.e. non-agricultural diets are healthier.
Excellent line, but I don't think it really holds up. Certainly a literal reading could be a nontrivial problem, perhaps impossible, but even just assuming the general idea that app-level code can always be used to crash the underlying OS seems fraught with troubles.
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. Ha! Just kidding." -- Linus Torvalds, original author of Conficker
"Conficker. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age." -- RMS
"...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun." -- author unknown, found on the Conficker Developer's Mailing List
You're right. I am a member of this global conspiracy. We figure that the research grants are going to be worth more than this whole 'economy' thing.
I'd tell you more, but I've got to run to a meeting. You don't think this conspiracy shit just happens by itself, do you? It seems like every week there's another mess of retarded Action Items. Distribute these talking points, falsify that data, coordinate every climate scientist all over the planet. It's hell trying to get anything done, even without people like you posting the truth about us all over slashdot.
Oh, and I wouldn't go anywhere. The black helicopters will be there shortly. Did you ever wonder what was happening to those "vanishing" polar bears up in the Arctic? You'd be amazed at how well they take to SWAT work.
I'm really really sorry. I'll never go to any of those sites in your browser history again, especially not using IE6, the devil's tool. Can I have my computer back?
I used my mod points elsewhere, or I would correct the above moderation. I've been getting 15 points twice a week for a couple of weeks now; I try to follow the guidelines as best I can. Especially in regards to downmods: there's very little reason to downmod, I find. Anything that's obviously flamebait will be ignored, and while there are occasionally trolls here, I think it's usually better to post AC to point them out.
On the whole, I think the slashdot community is a good one, mods included. I suspect that people who spend most of their mod points marking things 'troll' and 'flamebait' are less likely to get mod points in the future; if not, that might be a good feature request. The only other thing I'd wish were different about the mod system would be to return to the old system of metamoderation. quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
There are a lot of things to get frustrated about with slashdot: dupes, lame memes, and zealots of every stripe. Even at that, I think this is probably the best site on the internet (though perhaps not the universe). The dialogues here are fascinating and hugely informative. Every story on biochemistry, astronomy, or optics seems to draw out people with decades of experience to give anecdotes and wisdom that I'd never find elsewhere.
I think the most consistent thing I've noticed about slashdot moderation and comments is that anything that gets modded +5 is worth reading. And as Pliny tells us, "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read."
What you're talking about is not remotely plausible. And muscles don't store memory---did you read your link? All of that learning takes place in the brain. Do you have brains in your arms, to generate the right nerve impulses at the right time? Do your arms just decide to make the right set of motions to brush your teeth? That must be awkward during meetings.
Unless you have gray matter in some very odd places, your memory is going to reside in one location.
It's true, and a side benefit is we get a layer of water saturated with toxic hydrogen sulfide. Millions of years later, all of that sequestered carbon may be returned to us in the form of coal or oil.
There's a fair amount of evidence indicating this has happened on a global scale. Mostly we call that evidence 'Arabia'.
Reminds me of that skit, you know? I think it went something like this...
Netcraft: Bring out yer dead. [a man puts a body on the cart] Jonathan Lamy: Here's one. Netcraft: That'll be ninepence. DRM: I'm not dead. Netcraft: What? Jonathan Lamy: Nothing. There's your ninepence. DRM: I'm not dead. Netcraft: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Jonathan Lamy: Yes he is. DRM: I'm not. Netcraft: He isn't. Jonathan Lamy: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. DRM: I'm getting better. Jonathan Lamy: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. Netcraft: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. DRM: I don't want to go on the cart. Jonathan Lamy: Oh, don't be such a baby. Netcraft: I can't take him. I have to go over to the *BSDs, they've lost nine today.
None, someone else found it for me at Best Buy. I am not aware that they spent any time or effort looking for it either, they just happened across it. It's been my first experience with linux; based on that experience, I have been recommending it to a few acquaintances. Mostly those people who have had problems with viruses in the past.
I think we're done with this line of questioning; it does not seem to be headed to any useful conclusion.
Second, if distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?
Is that a trick question? The GPL says nothing about Windows, it just says that if they're distributing GPL'd binaries, you should be able to get the source code from them. Just because you don't like something does not mean it should be illegal.
You can whitelist, you can blacklist, you can disable JS entirely, or you can live with not having that layer of security.
I suspect you need to actually use noscript and dig through the options before making that pronouncement. You can, for example, have all scripting from the top-level site be allowed by default. I don't recommend that for your porn browsing, but it should work on most other sites.
In terms of having a relatively secure JS-enabled browsing experience, NoScript is about as good as you can get; there's probably not going to be a 'better way' there. There are plenty of ways to be secure on the internet, though.
I've spent approximately 300 seconds to date fiddling with NoScript. I've spent more time than I care to remember cleaning viruses off of computers and reinstalling OS's. In point of fact, I'm doing that right now. I'm getting to the point of thinking that on a Windows machine, using the internet only in a virtual machine is a reasonable option. As is I use linux, and feel extraordinarily thankful to have that option. If you wanted to be completely nuts about it, you could run firefox in a vm in a chroot jail on OpenBSD on a non-x86 processor, building all components from scratch, etc etc. It's just up to you what you want to sacrifice for security. Myself, I don't think that a few minutes of configuration spread over a period of months-to-years is all that big of a deal. But hey, it's your call.
Victor Hugo was also instrumental in getting the Berne Convention enacted.
Something tells me that the context of that quote is very important. I don't read it as being contrary to the idea of copyrights, merely an informed view of their nature.
In contrast programmers for Windows write perfect code every time. They've heard of the concept of 'debugging' but don't see a real need for it. This, and the unwavering efforts of Mr. Ballmer, have had great success in preserving the legacy handed down from Bill Gates: a bug-free OS. Viruses and exploits affect only lesser systems, those unfortunate enough to run some variant of unix.
Sometimes, when I contemplate the beauty of the Windows source code, my speech centers shut down. I think that if I were ever to meet a Windows dev, blargle blerk grop lorem ipsum bleeble warble whelk!
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This 'feed the hungry' idea is nice, but that's not an agricultural problem. We are already producing enough food to feed everyone.
The idea that we can plant crops anywhere we like and have them flourish is extremely ignorant. The Sahara, were rainfall patterns to alter significantly, would not go from being sand to rich loam in any short amount of time, nor would any place that is currently tundra. Most of Canada and Siberia would become a treacherous bog.
Rapidly changing climate and weather patterns are not good news for any place.
My netbook tried to load that image and broke down in tears.
Intelligent Design has theories? What, if anything, does it predict? How could it be falsified?
This is like that Babbage quote: I am not able rightly to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Boot time isn't an issue, just use linux! Moblin boots in less than ten seconds! You can go from zero to NetHack in less time than it takes to display the console game developer's logo.
Yessir, you can have games on linux in any color you want, so long as it's black. Nethack, Falcon's Eye, Slash'em: It's a regular gamer's utopia!
The rest of us see what does not exist, and think, why not?
I will not dignify that remark by asking for a citation.
Why was it that European civilizations took over large parts of the world, and not e.g. the Chinese or Indian peoples?
'Advanced' civilizations are far more dependent on horses, iron, livestock, and certain grains than innate intelligence. You can't think up iron deposits no matter how much rice you've been eating.
How did European settlers displace the Native Americans? With pigs, cows, sheep, barley, wheat, steel, and the diseases that come from living with livestock. They did not introduce agriculture to the Americas, nor did they outthink the native populations. They simply had a better set of native species to work with.
Please read Guns, Germs, and Steel, to obtain a general overview of the subject at hand. If you must justify your latent racism somehow, then I imagine any criticism of that work would provide you with a base for further argument.
Well, you could substitute high fructose corn syrup, like the current food industry likes to do, or use some nice coal-tar-derived chemicals. Down this aisle we also have what are amusingly termed 'artificial flavors'. Both of these are nice and cheap---just what you're looking for! ...No? Then maybe you should investigate this radical new class of flavouring agents. They're called spices. They're very expensive, though.
The third alternative is to use drugs, which enhances the flavor of, um....what was I saying?
On the other hand, pre-agricultural tribes are generally healthier, though less numerous.
A moment's thought will produce many reasons why that might be so. Think in terms of child rearing, defense, specialization, livestock, etc.
There are of course New Guinean tribes who developed agriculture, but not large and powerful civilizations. They did not have large metal deposits or animals of the right type for livestock, both of which really help with this farming thing.
Your statement is, frankly, farcical and uninformed. Any weaker formulation of this same theory is incomplete at best.
Also do note that even if that statement were correct, it in no way contradicts the idea that low-carb diets, i.e. non-agricultural diets are healthier.
Whenever I see someone criticizing someone else for being a nerd here, I just want to yell, ''THIS. IS. SLASHDOT!!'' and boot them off a cliff.
Half-crazed anti-microsoft rhetoric. It's how we (t)roll.
Excellent line, but I don't think it really holds up. Certainly a literal reading could be a nontrivial problem, perhaps impossible, but even just assuming the general idea that app-level code can always be used to crash the underlying OS seems fraught with troubles.
Yeah, well. You're an asshole and I've never seen you claim to be anything else.
Claiming an AC is a logged in user is pretty amazing, though. I guess I'm not drunk enough to be posting stuff like that on slashdot.
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. Ha! Just kidding." -- Linus Torvalds, original author of Conficker
"Conficker. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age." -- RMS
"...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun." -- author unknown, found on the Conficker Developer's Mailing List
I'm 15
What's a CD?
You're right. I am a member of this global conspiracy. We figure that the research grants are going to be worth more than this whole 'economy' thing.
I'd tell you more, but I've got to run to a meeting. You don't think this conspiracy shit just happens by itself, do you? It seems like every week there's another mess of retarded Action Items. Distribute these talking points, falsify that data, coordinate every climate scientist all over the planet. It's hell trying to get anything done, even without people like you posting the truth about us all over slashdot.
Oh, and I wouldn't go anywhere. The black helicopters will be there shortly. Did you ever wonder what was happening to those "vanishing" polar bears up in the Arctic? You'd be amazed at how well they take to SWAT work.
Have fun at your re-education camp!
Speaking of...
I'm really really sorry. I'll never go to any of those sites in your browser history again, especially not using IE6, the devil's tool. Can I have my computer back?
I used my mod points elsewhere, or I would correct the above moderation. I've been getting 15 points twice a week for a couple of weeks now; I try to follow the guidelines as best I can. Especially in regards to downmods: there's very little reason to downmod, I find. Anything that's obviously flamebait will be ignored, and while there are occasionally trolls here, I think it's usually better to post AC to point them out.
On the whole, I think the slashdot community is a good one, mods included. I suspect that people who spend most of their mod points marking things 'troll' and 'flamebait' are less likely to get mod points in the future; if not, that might be a good feature request. The only other thing I'd wish were different about the mod system would be to return to the old system of metamoderation. quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
There are a lot of things to get frustrated about with slashdot: dupes, lame memes, and zealots of every stripe. Even at that, I think this is probably the best site on the internet (though perhaps not the universe). The dialogues here are fascinating and hugely informative. Every story on biochemistry, astronomy, or optics seems to draw out people with decades of experience to give anecdotes and wisdom that I'd never find elsewhere.
I think the most consistent thing I've noticed about slashdot moderation and comments is that anything that gets modded +5 is worth reading. And as Pliny tells us, "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read."
-Tene
Yes.
What you're talking about is not remotely plausible. And muscles don't store memory---did you read your link? All of that learning takes place in the brain. Do you have brains in your arms, to generate the right nerve impulses at the right time? Do your arms just decide to make the right set of motions to brush your teeth? That must be awkward during meetings.
Unless you have gray matter in some very odd places, your memory is going to reside in one location.
It's true, and a side benefit is we get a layer of water saturated with toxic hydrogen sulfide. Millions of years later, all of that sequestered carbon may be returned to us in the form of coal or oil.
There's a fair amount of evidence indicating this has happened on a global scale. Mostly we call that evidence 'Arabia'.
Reminds me of that skit, you know? I think it went something like this...
Netcraft: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Jonathan Lamy: Here's one.
Netcraft: That'll be ninepence.
DRM: I'm not dead.
Netcraft: What?
Jonathan Lamy: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
DRM: I'm not dead.
Netcraft: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Jonathan Lamy: Yes he is.
DRM: I'm not.
Netcraft: He isn't.
Jonathan Lamy: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
DRM: I'm getting better.
Jonathan Lamy: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Netcraft: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
DRM: I don't want to go on the cart.
Jonathan Lamy: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Netcraft: I can't take him. I have to go over to the *BSDs, they've lost nine today.
Something like that :)
None, someone else found it for me at Best Buy. I am not aware that they spent any time or effort looking for it either, they just happened across it. It's been my first experience with linux; based on that experience, I have been recommending it to a few acquaintances. Mostly those people who have had problems with viruses in the past.
I think we're done with this line of questioning; it does not seem to be headed to any useful conclusion.
I bought it with linux preinstalled, so none. Sorry :(
Second, if distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?
Is that a trick question? The GPL says nothing about Windows, it just says that if they're distributing GPL'd binaries, you should be able to get the source code from them. Just because you don't like something does not mean it should be illegal.
You can whitelist, you can blacklist, you can disable JS entirely, or you can live with not having that layer of security.
I suspect you need to actually use noscript and dig through the options before making that pronouncement. You can, for example, have all scripting from the top-level site be allowed by default. I don't recommend that for your porn browsing, but it should work on most other sites.
In terms of having a relatively secure JS-enabled browsing experience, NoScript is about as good as you can get; there's probably not going to be a 'better way' there. There are plenty of ways to be secure on the internet, though.
I've spent approximately 300 seconds to date fiddling with NoScript. I've spent more time than I care to remember cleaning viruses off of computers and reinstalling OS's. In point of fact, I'm doing that right now. I'm getting to the point of thinking that on a Windows machine, using the internet only in a virtual machine is a reasonable option. As is I use linux, and feel extraordinarily thankful to have that option. If you wanted to be completely nuts about it, you could run firefox in a vm in a chroot jail on OpenBSD on a non-x86 processor, building all components from scratch, etc etc. It's just up to you what you want to sacrifice for security. Myself, I don't think that a few minutes of configuration spread over a period of months-to-years is all that big of a deal. But hey, it's your call.
Victor Hugo was also instrumental in getting the Berne Convention enacted.
Something tells me that the context of that quote is very important. I don't read it as being contrary to the idea of copyrights, merely an informed view of their nature.
In contrast programmers for Windows write perfect code every time. They've heard of the concept of 'debugging' but don't see a real need for it. This, and the unwavering efforts of Mr. Ballmer, have had great success in preserving the legacy handed down from Bill Gates: a bug-free OS. Viruses and exploits affect only lesser systems, those unfortunate enough to run some variant of unix.
Sometimes, when I contemplate the beauty of the Windows source code, my speech centers shut down. I think that if I were ever to meet a Windows dev, blargle blerk grop lorem ipsum bleeble warble whelk!
'Tis truly a paradise we live in.