I'm also against state sponsored gay marriage--if they want to get married in their faith fine, but I don't think the state can or should legislate morality, I'll leave that to the churches.
To be logically consistent you would then be against state-sponsored straight marriage, too. By giving special priviledges or burdens to a straight couple who want to get married in their faith - isn't that also legislating morality?
Why not be consistent? Either allow gay couples the same rights that het couples get, or don't give couples special rights over people who freely choose to remain unmarried.
The idea of a "filter" blog is to point to interesting content, right? So someone takes time to "find interesting content" and point to it. I would rather that person spent his or her time CREATING interesting content.
As it is, we already have plenty of sites that point to other cool sites. (memepool, etc.) I think it is wrong to encourage people to create more - the truly motivated already are doing so. We need to teach people how to find something that is NOT already covered a hundred times (Why isn't there a page that tells us what charles nelson riley is doing right now?) and to make an interesting page that people will actually want to point TO.
Live journals are a cut above that, because at least they aren't just pointing to other people's works. But, again, you don't need a book telling you how to make a live journal - go to one of the live journal sites and start. The people who would possibly have an interesting live journal are already doing it.
I guess what I'm saying is that anyone who would buy this book is probably not someone who will be adding any interesting content to the web.
Giving netscape 4 users a bad experience may actually stimulate them to install something else. If enough sites ignore netscape 4, maybe it will be abandoned by users. On most platforms there are now good alternatives (e.g. opera performs better than netscape 4.x on win32).
It may stimulate them to install something else, or, more likely, it may stimulate them to go to a competitor's site. I hope you are self-employed.
If you wish to make any sort of change it has to be approved by ten different commitiees. ten commitees who know nothing about the technology. Where in private sector is driven by demand and performance.
What a silly stereotype! I've worked in both worlds and my experience was the opposite. I was a systems engineer for a Big Private Company and we were having "paradigm shifts" and Dilbert-esque reviews every day. I've also spent time working on a government-funded project where everyone involved was completely professional and we did quality work.
I know a lot of people in the private sector who do not "earn threi pay", but who just coast along the bureaucracy of a corporation.
It's so easy, if you don't want it, don't pay for it. Go rant about how you have the right to privacy, but you have no constitutionally protected right to rent movies or buy music. And I don't see how you have any right to tell someone else how to do business.
I agree with you completely. A very specific question was asked, and I gave the best answer I could. I did not say that I had the right to tell someone else how to do business. Nor do I have the right to expect you to read a thread carefully.
"As for privacy, so what? What if Sony finds out that you listen to Neil Diamond's greatest hits 10 times a day? What are they going to do, haul you into a dungeon and torture you? Are they going to take out a full-page ad in the NY Times, proclaiming that Joe-LOTR-Geek-Smith listens to Neil Diamond 10 times a day?"
A fair enough question, and one that many people don't understand the answer to.
Here is "so what:" (1) I don't have to justify my want for privacy. You have to justify your taking it away from me. I don't want Sony to find out that I listen to Neil Diamond. That's all the justification I need to give.
(2) I have a question for you, Simetra. How many times have you masturbated in the last month. How many orgasms have you had? What does your wife or girlfriend look like when she climaxes... does she grimace or smile? Please tell me and all of slashdot. Go ahead and tell - we're not going to haul you into a dungeon and torture you. Or do you think that its just none of my business?
(3) Profiling: One of the current trends in "profiling" is to ignore causation and emphasize correlation. For example, in order to get some jobs, you have to take a "personality test" and the answers you give are translated to a chance you will commit employee theft. Some of the questions are hardly relevant (most, actually) but they have found that "I like chocolate" people are three times more likely to rob than "I like strawberry" people. Nobody, not even the psychatrists, are claiming causation- they don't need to.
The United States is now requiring many data-gathering places (like libraries) to turn over their data so they can test for "potential terrorists." If it turns out that the music you like is also liked by the White Christians who were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, you may find yourself on a list you don't like. It seems farfetched... but it is not. And even if you think that it is a farfetched idea, it is not for you to make that call for me.
I have the constitution of the United States to thank for the right to call you stupid. I have the Federal Government to thank that funded the research that wound up creating the technology that allows me to call you stupid via the internet.
But I don't get why I should thank the current Supreme Court for "being able" to call you names. Maybe I'm being stupid - I certainly have been before. Why do I owe the current supreme court any thanks?
I think the ACLU is a joke, we have the supreme court to do what the ACLU thinks is their job. Oh well I guess I'm just not an American because I trust the system of government that is in America and I trust the supreme court, so that leaves no room for the ACLU.
The fact that you trust the Supreme Court does not make you unAmerican... it just makes you stupid.
Who would dare a call master chess player anything but a genius?
I would! While some master chess players are no doubt geniusess, others are probably not. An idiot savant may be an excellent chess-player, but still not a genius.
Being good at chess requires some very specific abilities that overlap, but do not encompass, "genius."
Although not chess, they hone skills of perception, opportunism, cause and effect, and forethought that would otherwise have no stimuli in our oh-so-great non-video game world.
What "perception skill" can be experienced in Civ. that has no stimulus in the real world? The ability to perceive icons? You can do that all the time in the real world.
"They are every fly-by-night artist that ever wanted to place a tiny little ad in the newspaper and get away with it," Frederick said. "I have yet to see one legitimate product advertised in an e-mail that I didn't ask for."
I received an unsolicited email, alerting me to broken links on my website. Two weeks later, I received another one. Two weeks after that, I received a third, along with an ad for the service, which would continue to so-update me in the future.
Although it is against my principles to buy from spammers, I did, in fact, subscribe to the service and have been happy with it. Now that my spam has gotten out of control (I wasn't getting very much at the time, years ago, and wasn't as aware of the issues involved) I regret having given them my money.
But I have to admit that I am happy with their service
Well, that IS how they teach people to do it in college...
Depends on the college, I suppose. I graduated from the University Of Illinois in 1986, Computer Engineering. Well organized, commented code was required in the CS classes. We used to complain that one could get a B or C on a program that "worked."
I've played HSX for two years, and never understood the above policy. Why FINE cheaters? If someone cheats, why not just close their account. They can always open a new one, under a new name, and play. But if I have H$500K, and I cheat, why should I be allowed to continue to play with H$250K?
"Plagurism" is a serious accusation to hurl at a writer. It isn't the same thing as telling him he "sucks" or is "stupid." Ultimately, it can hurt his career.
I have read several posts calling Katz a plagurist because both he and the NYT used the word "elephantine" to describe something that was, well, elephantine.
The "evidence" for the accusation? "Elephantine is a big unusual word! And NYT used it and so did Katz!" Well, for someone with an small-to-ordinary vocabulary, "Elephantine" is probably a big word. But to someone with a large vocabulary, like for example a writer, it is not that unusual.
If both Katz and the NYT challenged us to look at the film from a "heterophenominological perspective" or something like that, then I could see pointing that out as too odd to be coincidental. But I think it is irresponsible to cast a serious slur on someone just because they had the audacity to use the word "elephantine."
I think that if every lawyer who put out a crap case like this received lots of email and snail-mail, maybe they wouldn't be so eager to advise their clients to pick on people.
People like me^H^H^H that typically found themselves over the past five years or so with more money than they were capable of managing. Consequently, most of us drive nicer cars than we need to, and live in bigger homes than we need to, and have too many DVDs. The half million bucks, gross, I^H^H they've earned over the past few years is gone, gone, gone.
Oh GAWD! Take some responsibility? "More money than they were capable of managing?" Give me a break. You were perfectly capable of managing your money. If you are smart enough to hold down a job, you are smart enough to do the addition and subtraction necessary to save more than you spend.
You didn't WANT to manage your money. You were perfectly capable.
That doesn't mean we^H^H^H they're idiots. Just that they're still figuring this whole "money" thing out. In a situation like that, it's harder than you'd think to save for a rainy day.
Sorry, it does mean you are an idiot. It is not hard to figure out the "money" thing. If you are ignorant of specifics (different types of investments and so on) there are plenty of books on the subject, and you can even hire people to help you manage your money. You were perfectly capable, and it wasn't that hard. You just didn't WANT to.
The best treatment for sleepiness is SLEEPING!!! If you are engaging in an activity that is depriving you of sleep, STOP!!! There is a reason you get sleepy.
This was modded as "insightful." And I agree.
But isn't it pathetic and sad we (or at least I) have gotten to the point where a statement like "The best treatment for sleepiness is sleeping" is now insightful.
There's nothing quite like making the richest players pay over $200 per unit of food because they're starving.
Ah, you were one of THOSE people, eh?
I was one of the people who would keep holding the food out of their reach. LET THEM STARVE! I was even known to take the last M.U.L.E. out of the pen during a Smithore crisis, and just let it run free.
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I'm also against state sponsored gay marriage--if they want to get married in their faith fine, but I don't think the state can or should legislate morality, I'll leave that to the churches.
To be logically consistent you would then be against state-sponsored straight marriage, too. By giving special priviledges or burdens to a straight couple who want to get married in their faith - isn't that also legislating morality?
Why not be consistent? Either allow gay couples the same rights that het couples get, or don't give couples special rights over people who freely choose to remain unmarried.
The idea of a "filter" blog is to point to interesting content, right? So someone takes time to "find interesting content" and point to it. I would rather that person spent his or her time CREATING interesting content.
As it is, we already have plenty of sites that point to other cool sites. (memepool, etc.) I think it is wrong to encourage people to create more - the truly motivated already are doing so. We need to teach people how to find something that is NOT already covered a hundred times (Why isn't there a page that tells us what charles nelson riley is doing right now?) and to make an interesting page that people will actually want to point TO.
Live journals are a cut above that, because at least they aren't just pointing to other people's works. But, again, you don't need a book telling you how to make a live journal - go to one of the live journal sites and start. The people who would possibly have an interesting live journal are already doing it.
I guess what I'm saying is that anyone who would buy this book is probably not someone who will be adding any interesting content to the web.
The first time I saw one was in an an email from a friend.
I wondered why she typed a colon and a right paren, and thought it was a typo.
Then she made the same typo again in another email.
Time #3 I finally went "Aaaaaaaaahhh"
Giving netscape 4 users a bad experience may actually stimulate them to install something else. If enough sites ignore netscape 4, maybe it will be abandoned by users. On most platforms there are now good alternatives (e.g. opera performs better than netscape 4.x on win32).
It may stimulate them to install something else, or, more likely, it may stimulate them to go to a competitor's site. I hope you are self-employed.
"Anything with the word "government" in it means incompetence, mismanagement and waste."
Lunar landing.
Rural electrification.
Cure for polio.
Fighting back the Nazis.
The atom bomb.
If you wish to make any sort of change it has to be approved by ten different commitiees. ten commitees who know nothing about the technology. Where in private sector is driven by demand and performance.
What a silly stereotype! I've worked in both worlds and my experience was the opposite. I was a systems engineer for a Big Private Company and we were having "paradigm shifts" and Dilbert-esque reviews every day. I've also spent time working on a government-funded project where everyone involved was completely professional and we did quality work.
I know a lot of people in the private sector who do not "earn threi pay", but who just coast along the bureaucracy of a corporation.
It's so easy, if you don't want it, don't pay for it. Go rant about how you have the right to privacy, but you have no constitutionally protected right to rent movies or buy music. And I don't see how you have any right to tell someone else how to do business.
I agree with you completely. A very specific question was asked, and I gave the best answer I could. I did not say that I had the right to tell someone else how to do business. Nor do I have the right to expect you to read a thread carefully.
A fair enough question, and one that many people don't understand the answer to.
Here is "so what:"
(1) I don't have to justify my want for privacy. You have to justify your taking it away from me. I don't want Sony to find out that I listen to Neil Diamond. That's all the justification I need to give.
(2) I have a question for you, Simetra. How many times have you masturbated in the last month. How many orgasms have you had? What does your wife or girlfriend look like when she climaxes... does she grimace or smile? Please tell me and all of slashdot. Go ahead and tell - we're not going to haul you into a dungeon and torture you. Or do you think that its just none of my business?
(3) Profiling: One of the current trends in "profiling" is to ignore causation and emphasize correlation. For example, in order to get some jobs, you have to take a "personality test" and the answers you give are translated to a chance you will commit employee theft. Some of the questions are hardly relevant (most, actually) but they have found that "I like chocolate" people are three times more likely to rob than "I like strawberry" people. Nobody, not even the psychatrists, are claiming causation- they don't need to.
The United States is now requiring many data-gathering places (like libraries) to turn over their data so they can test for "potential terrorists." If it turns out that the music you like is also liked by the White Christians who were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, you may find yourself on a list you don't like. It seems farfetched... but it is not. And even if you think that it is a farfetched idea, it is not for you to make that call for me.
I have the right to privacy.
I have the constitution of the United States to thank for the right to call you stupid. I have the Federal Government to thank that funded the research that wound up creating the technology that allows me to call you stupid via the internet.
But I don't get why I should thank the current Supreme Court for "being able" to call you names. Maybe I'm being stupid - I certainly have been before. Why do I owe the current supreme court any thanks?
I think the ACLU is a joke, we have the supreme court to do what the ACLU thinks is their job. Oh well I guess I'm just not an American because I trust the system of government that is in America and I trust the supreme court, so that leaves no room for the ACLU.
The fact that you trust the Supreme Court does not make you unAmerican... it just makes you stupid.
"Are ve up?"
"Nien."
"Are ve up yet?"
"Nien."
"How about NOW?"
"Nien."
"Vill ve be comink up soon?"
"Nien."
"Vill ve be up next veek?"
"Nien."
I would! While some master chess players are no doubt geniusess, others are probably not. An idiot savant may be an excellent chess-player, but still not a genius.
Being good at chess requires some very specific abilities that overlap, but do not encompass, "genius."
Although not chess, they hone skills of perception, opportunism, cause and effect, and forethought that would otherwise have no stimuli in our oh-so-great non-video game world.
What "perception skill" can be experienced in Civ. that has no stimulus in the real world? The ability to perceive icons? You can do that all the time in the real world.
This was one of the most interesting slashdot articles that I have ever read! Bravo!
LOL
If my nephew followed some of those links, my older brother would break my arms!
I received an unsolicited email, alerting me to broken links on my website. Two weeks later, I received another one. Two weeks after that, I received a third, along with an ad for the service, which would continue to so-update me in the future.
Although it is against my principles to buy from spammers, I did, in fact, subscribe to the service and have been happy with it. Now that my spam has gotten out of control (I wasn't getting very much at the time, years ago, and wasn't as aware of the issues involved) I regret having given them my money.
But I have to admit that I am happy with their service
Depends on the college, I suppose. I graduated from the University Of Illinois in 1986, Computer Engineering. Well organized, commented code was required in the CS classes. We used to complain that one could get a B or C on a program that "worked."
I wouldn't have bothered, because frankly colleges don't teach anything you can't learn -- in a LOT more depth-- in the real world
You must have either gone to a poor college, or only taken the easy classes.
I've played HSX for two years, and never understood the above policy. Why FINE cheaters? If someone cheats, why not just close their account. They can always open a new one, under a new name, and play. But if I have H$500K, and I cheat, why should I be allowed to continue to play with H$250K?
In fact, all leadership roles on Star Trek, old and new, are white males.
Who is the silly, silly person?
Besides sisko and janeway, there were lots of female admirals, and Captain Sulu, and lots of others.
And, a digression: Why do we use the phrase "white women" but for the other gender people say "white males." Like they are some other species?
"Plagurism" is a serious accusation to hurl at a writer. It isn't the same thing as telling him he "sucks" or is "stupid." Ultimately, it can hurt his career.
I have read several posts calling Katz a plagurist because both he and the NYT used the word "elephantine" to describe something that was, well, elephantine.
The "evidence" for the accusation? "Elephantine is a big unusual word! And NYT used it and so did Katz!" Well, for someone with an small-to-ordinary vocabulary, "Elephantine" is probably a big word. But to someone with a large vocabulary, like for example a writer, it is not that unusual.
If both Katz and the NYT challenged us to look at the film from a "heterophenominological perspective" or something like that, then I could see pointing that out as too odd to be coincidental. But I think it is irresponsible to cast a serious slur on someone just because they had the audacity to use the word "elephantine."
I wish the parent was modded up.
I think that if every lawyer who put out a crap case like this received lots of email and snail-mail, maybe they wouldn't be so eager to advise their clients to pick on people.
People like me^H^H^H that typically found themselves over the past five years or so with more money than they were capable of managing. Consequently, most of us drive nicer cars than we need to, and live in bigger homes than we need to, and have too many DVDs. The half million bucks, gross, I^H^H they've earned over the past few years is gone, gone, gone.
Oh GAWD! Take some responsibility? "More money than they were capable of managing?" Give me a break. You were perfectly capable of managing your money. If you are smart enough to hold down a job, you are smart enough to do the addition and subtraction necessary to save more than you spend.
You didn't WANT to manage your money. You were perfectly capable.
That doesn't mean we^H^H^H they're idiots. Just that they're still figuring this whole "money" thing out. In a situation like that, it's harder than you'd think to save for a rainy day.
Sorry, it does mean you are an idiot. It is not hard to figure out the "money" thing. If you are ignorant of specifics (different types of investments and so on) there are plenty of books on the subject, and you can even hire people to help you manage your money. You were perfectly capable, and it wasn't that hard. You just didn't WANT to.
The best treatment for sleepiness is SLEEPING!!! If you are engaging in an activity that is depriving you of sleep, STOP!!! There is a reason you get sleepy.
This was modded as "insightful." And I agree.
But isn't it pathetic and sad we (or at least I) have gotten to the point where a statement like "The best treatment for sleepiness is sleeping" is now insightful.
Good point, toup. Thank you for the remind.
That is not a hyphen, it is a strand of webbing.
There's nothing quite like making the richest players pay over $200 per unit of food because they're starving.
Ah, you were one of THOSE people, eh?
I was one of the people who would keep holding the food out of their reach. LET THEM STARVE! I was even known to take the last M.U.L.E. out of the pen during a Smithore crisis, and just let it run free.