I hate M$ as much as the next nerd, but I gotta say, this is pretty nifty. What with this and the IntelliMouse Exploder or whatever the gloy mouse is called, Billy's been making some cool toys in the rodent department. It might get kind of annoying to have stuff constantly blinking all the time, but if the interface was done right (yeah, right), it might be an improvement. Or maybe I'm dumb and it's just a pathetic marketing ploy.
Y'know, I agreed with you post, and I thought it was well-written, too. On the other hand, the dig at "young men in their late teens and early twenties" was pretty unfair. I agreed with your gripe about childish posts being moderated up, bit I think you misidentified the cause. I'm a young man in my late teens, and I don't think I fit your description. I do care about intellectual content, and I care about diversity, and I care about grammar, syntax, and spelling. It's unfair to stereotype people like me.As an aside, I agreed with your proposed solution to the "second problem," and I think that perhaps another solution would be to require a karma above, say, 5, to moderate. Of course, it would take a while for it to become clear whether or not this was a good plan, because people with undeserved karma would screw things up a little to start with.
I don't knw about mammoth (they died on their own), but for animals that were driven to extinction by humans, I'm entirely in favor of resurrection. Mammoth might have trouble surviving in such a climatically and environmentally different world, though.
Aside from reproductive problems, which perhaps could be solved, I don't think the mammoth is going to care much. They don't really go in for Tuesday night bridge games, from what I hear.
I love computers as much as the best nerd, but no way they're worthly of a Nobel. For one thing, pretty much everything in computing is profit-oriented except for OSS, and for another, it doesn't really improve the human condition or anything.
In my opinion, this is E 2.0. Everything before DR14 was pretty hard to use (disclaimer: no, I didn't try every single one). But 15 was pretty damn stable and everything, and 16 is likewise, and different enough from 15 to merit a new version number. I just think Rasterman has a weird idea of how version numbers work.
I've been playing with the pre-16 releases for a few weeks now, and I like 'em. The iconbox is pretty nifty (especially after the bugs in devel 6 or so got worked out), and I like the pager, too. There are a couple things I don't like, like the button-1 mouse menu on the background, but there are a bunch of cool features. More FX thingies (Raindrops and Waves), and individual control panels, f'rinstance, plus a new BrushedMetal theme.
evidence exists to back them up. No, it doesn't. And no fair using the Bible as evidence. There is no evidence for creationism, and there is abundant evidence for evolution, as much as there is for any other theory.
The European colony to which you refer is Jamestown, which was failing because most of its inhabitants were rich men, who were unwilling to work with their hands. "By January 1638, only 38 of the original colonists were still alive. Many of the first migrants were gentlemen unaccustomed to working with their hands. . . . Only when Captain John Smith. . . imposed military discipline on the colonists in 1608 was Jamestown saved from collapse." Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Page 44.
Don't mess with an AP US History student when you're giving wrong information about US History.
Why would it be so great to be able to own part of Mars? Nobody has a natural right to it, and it could easily be argued that its scientific importance, along with the fact that nobody lives there, should make it an interational colony. Ever read the RGB Mars books by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Aside from this, I think that it is a public responsiblity to explore space, and that putting the whole responsibility for space exploration on corporate shoulders is wrong, because they won't do anything that's not profitable. Science is sometimes expensive, and no one has a crystal ball that will tell them when something is likely to prove profitable in the future. Therefore, if something is scientifically signifigant, public institutions are the appropriate ones to study it. Of course, if corporations want to, they can study it too, but you can't rely on them to do things 'cause it's right.
This is kinda funny. Sounds like they really do want to make MS Linux. Which is amusing, because they've just spent about 35,000,000 FUD Points on Linus and His Commie Criminals, and now mebbe they want to make their own, to cash in on the hype.
In fact, AMD was originally a second source for Intel. In the past, before Intel owned everything, big buyers (read: the government) demanded second sources for everything, to ensure a supply and a better price, so Intel licensed x86 to AMD.
How are they "competing for the better good of all?" The're just trying to make a buck. They don't care if it's good for the consumer or not. And it's not "instead of fighting each other for short-term gain," either. AMD and Motorola are not competitors, since the chips they make are not interchangeable.
I'm not going to argue with your other points, but if you think the US is any less imperial than the USSR was, you're way off. Remember El Salvador? Chile? Vietnam? Cuba (before Castro)? The list goes on. Hell, why do you think we hate Castro so much? Because he's so terrible? In that case, why are we such great buddies with Singapore and China, neither of which has what you'd call a terrific civil and human rights record? It's because he stole Cuba from US Fruit. See Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent. It is true that the Soviets had nasty tendencies, but we are no better.
Uh, hello? Did you read the article? Teller didn't mention any kind of fallout-less bomb. He suggested using an H-bomb. Other than that, you made a couple decent points.
IANAAP (I Am Not An Atomic Physicist), but it would seem to me that blowing up six H-bombs would leave behind a considerable amount of radiation, rendering the harbor thus created unusable except by remotely-controlled robots or lead-skinned aliens.
It strikes me that governments are not the most eminently suitable entities you could pick to regulate what people say. Pretty much any regulation of the Internet is bad. Whether governments or corporations do it is not very important, although corporations are probably more likely to do a bad job. Governments (e.g. China, Singapore, U.S., Britain, Germany, France) have not exactly shown themselves to be shining examples of Liberty Showing the Way.
I'm in favor of having more moderation points, because every time I've been a moderator, I've been very parsimonious with my points. If I had more, I could demoderate the flamers and up the good posts, without having to be so stingy. One scheme I can think of is to start out with, say, 3 or 5 points, and for every karma point above 20, you get an extra moderation point.
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I hate M$ as much as the next nerd, but I gotta say, this is pretty nifty. What with this and the IntelliMouse Exploder or whatever the gloy mouse is called, Billy's been making some cool toys in the rodent department. It might get kind of annoying to have stuff constantly blinking all the time, but if the interface was done right (yeah, right), it might be an improvement. Or maybe I'm dumb and it's just a pathetic marketing ploy.
Y'know, I agreed with you post, and I thought it was well-written, too. On the other hand, the dig at "young men in their late teens and early twenties" was pretty unfair. I agreed with your gripe about childish posts being moderated up, bit I think you misidentified the cause. I'm a young man in my late teens, and I don't think I fit your description. I do care about intellectual content, and I care about diversity, and I care about grammar, syntax, and spelling. It's unfair to stereotype people like me.As an aside, I agreed with your proposed solution to the "second problem," and I think that perhaps another solution would be to require a karma above, say, 5, to moderate. Of course, it would take a while for it to become clear whether or not this was a good plan, because people with undeserved karma would screw things up a little to start with.
Gimme a break. It's not that funny. It's about a PG-13.
I don't knw about mammoth (they died on their own), but for animals that were driven to extinction by humans, I'm entirely in favor of resurrection. Mammoth might have trouble surviving in such a climatically and environmentally different world, though.
Aside from reproductive problems, which perhaps could be solved, I don't think the mammoth is going to care much. They don't really go in for Tuesday night bridge games, from what I hear.
There's also a quasi-Nobel in biology, which Seymour Benzer has won, among others.
I love computers as much as the best nerd, but no way they're worthly of a Nobel. For one thing, pretty much everything in computing is profit-oriented except for OSS, and for another, it doesn't really improve the human condition or anything.
If you read his .plan files, he is using MS InterDev.
I already did customize it. I was merely pointing out that the default things sort of screw with GNOME, which might or might not matter, depending.
In my opinion, this is E 2.0. Everything before DR14 was pretty hard to use (disclaimer: no, I didn't try every single one). But 15 was pretty damn stable and everything, and 16 is likewise, and different enough from 15 to merit a new version number. I just think Rasterman has a weird idea of how version numbers work.
I've been playing with the pre-16 releases for a few weeks now, and I like 'em. The iconbox is pretty nifty (especially after the bugs in devel 6 or so got worked out), and I like the pager, too. There are a couple things I don't like, like the button-1 mouse menu on the background, but there are a bunch of cool features. More FX thingies (Raindrops and Waves), and individual control panels, f'rinstance, plus a new BrushedMetal theme.
evidence exists to back them up.
No, it doesn't. And no fair using the Bible as evidence. There is no evidence for creationism, and there is abundant evidence for evolution, as much as there is for any other theory.
(well, not into Roman-numeral languages anyway)
Youmean Arabic numerals.
The European colony to which you refer is Jamestown, which was failing because most of its inhabitants were rich men, who were unwilling to work with their hands. "By January 1638, only 38 of the original colonists were still alive. Many of the first migrants were gentlemen unaccustomed to working with their hands. . . . Only when Captain John Smith. . . imposed military discipline on the colonists in 1608 was Jamestown saved from collapse." Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Page 44.
Don't mess with an AP US History student when you're giving wrong information about US History.
Yeah, I guess you're mebbe right. But I'd rather work for radical change. I'm afraid of what multinational corporations are doing.
Why would it be so great to be able to own part of Mars? Nobody has a natural right to it, and it could easily be argued that its scientific importance, along with the fact that nobody lives there, should make it an interational colony. Ever read the RGB Mars books by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Aside from this, I think that it is a public responsiblity to explore space, and that putting the whole responsibility for space exploration on corporate shoulders is wrong, because they won't do anything that's not profitable. Science is sometimes expensive, and no one has a crystal ball that will tell them when something is likely to prove profitable in the future. Therefore, if something is scientifically signifigant, public institutions are the appropriate ones to study it. Of course, if corporations want to, they can study it too, but you can't rely on them to do things 'cause it's right.
This is kinda funny. Sounds like they really do want to make MS Linux. Which is amusing, because they've just spent about 35,000,000 FUD Points on Linus and His Commie Criminals, and now mebbe they want to make their own, to cash in on the hype.
In fact, AMD was originally a second source for Intel. In the past, before Intel owned everything, big buyers (read: the government) demanded second sources for everything, to ensure a supply and a better price, so Intel licensed x86 to AMD.
How are they "competing for the better good of all?" The're just trying to make a buck. They don't care if it's good for the consumer or not. And it's not "instead of fighting each other for short-term gain," either. AMD and Motorola are not competitors, since the chips they make are not interchangeable.
But Teller just explained to us how non-fissile H-bombs suck.
I'm not going to argue with your other points, but if you think the US is any less imperial than the USSR was, you're way off. Remember El Salvador? Chile? Vietnam? Cuba (before Castro)? The list goes on. Hell, why do you think we hate Castro so much? Because he's so terrible? In that case, why are we such great buddies with Singapore and China, neither of which has what you'd call a terrific civil and human rights record? It's because he stole Cuba from US Fruit. See Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent. It is true that the Soviets had nasty tendencies, but we are no better.
Uh, hello? Did you read the article? Teller didn't mention any kind of fallout-less bomb. He suggested using an H-bomb. Other than that, you made a couple decent points.
IANAAP (I Am Not An Atomic Physicist), but it would seem to me that blowing up six H-bombs would leave behind a considerable amount of radiation, rendering the harbor thus created unusable except by remotely-controlled robots or lead-skinned aliens.
It strikes me that governments are not the most eminently suitable entities you could pick to regulate what people say. Pretty much any regulation of the Internet is bad. Whether governments or corporations do it is not very important, although corporations are probably more likely to do a bad job. Governments (e.g. China, Singapore, U.S., Britain, Germany, France) have not exactly shown themselves to be shining examples of Liberty Showing the Way.
I'm in favor of having more moderation points, because every time I've been a moderator, I've been very parsimonious with my points. If I had more, I could demoderate the flamers and up the good posts, without having to be so stingy. One scheme I can think of is to start out with, say, 3 or 5 points, and for every karma point above 20, you get an extra moderation point.