You're equating conservatism with libertarianism and liberalism with totalitarianism. You're wrong to do so, since it does not fit with any modern definition thereof. Conservatism is about keeping things the way they always have been, liberalism is about making beneficial changes. Obviously it's absurd to talk about either group as an absolute, but that's the essential definition.
Given how absurdly permissive their stated privacy policies usually are, they had damn well better hold to it.
I mean, it's a company. If they want to claim that there's some sort of legally binding contract that shows up just because I viewed their website, at the bare minimum they ought to be fulfilling their obligations. Does that mean they will? In many cases no, but those sites are guilty of a breach of contract, by a contract they unilaterally imposed.
Alternately, everyone you know who is under 40 is a dick.
What's polite and what isn't doesn't make sense, for the most part. It just is. Magical "bad" words are there to let people know that you not only don't care for someone/thing, but you despise it.
Halo was a clone of every shooter that came before it. The basic mechanics haven't changed much since I first took up hmm... Hexen may have been my first shooter experience. Everything has been incremental technological improvements.
If the clone doesn't offer real value, people will play the original.
I seemed to miss the part where this is a marketable product. It looks to me like standard "This research will change the world" silliness that likely won't be commercialized for years. It says as much in the linked posts.
And what is Slashdot for if not publicizing vaporware?
He was clearly talking about the architecture, not the UI.
Personally, I'm skeptical that Chrome will offer significant performance improvements over Firefox once its extension system is up to scratch. Even if Chrome's architecture is better, I would expect the extensions themselves to be of similar quality to those in Firefox.
^H or ctrl-H, is an ascii character, and the same character that backspace sends. So he was suggesting that the TSA delete^H^H^H^H^H^H fail to delete the text using escaped backspaces instead of literal backspaces, because that would be cheaper on ink.
Why? Just about every OS you just open the zip archive, then open the pdf. It's not as seamless as in-browser gzipped pdf, but it's not actually any slower either.
Actually, this is almost exactly like the original African myths. A witch-doctor supposedly could feed someone a potion to put them into a false death, they would be buried and then dug up later, a slave to the witch doctor. There's probably even a thread of truth to the tales.
The modern zombie is a more recent innovation, dating more or less to Dawn of the Dead. The real difference between this zombie and the mythic one is that here the human hopefully wakes up fully possessed of their senses.
Flash and pdf are client-side issues, and the hardware isn't really up to the task. Image search is a server-side issue, so the two really have nothing to do with each other. Image search, if it works on a phone, would work just as well on the net. The issue is that it won't work.
You're citing Wikipedia. And guess what Wikipedia cites? Wikipedia.
But I did overstate by saying most. From my college history (which I majored in for a year or so) I seem to recall the actual figure at something like 30%, which actually isn't that far from 1 in 100 births. (If the average woman has 10 pregnancies, that's 10% of women dying in childbirth.)
But the argument remains valid. Counting pregnancy as a natural cause, a woman is easily double, probably triple or more times as likely to die of natural causes before the age of 30 than a man is. A man, if he dies of a sickness, it's likely to be related to his work. Consequently, we worked out a division of labor that keeps educated men and all women out of danger and relies on uneducated men to do dangerous tasks.
I didn't say that most women failed to reproduce. I said most women died before 30. I overstated a bit, but the point remains the same. Wikipedia puts the historical count at 1 in 100 births, which works out to about 10%, assuming the average woman had 10 pregnancies. In many cases it was likely as high as 30% of women dying in childbirth.
On the case of oppression, I said nothing about oppression. This is a division of labor issue. On the male side, as I said, there are a lot of high-risk jobs. But if you educate a man, you don't want to risk him in such an occupation, and it's fairly easy to keep him safe, and he can still procreate.
On the womens' side, you've got around a 10-30% chance that the woman will die shortly after finishing her education if you want her to procreate and serve in some serious administrative capacity. So it makes sense to train men in these roles, and keep them out of harm's way. Prior to the 20th century, however, you could not so easily mitigate the survivability challenges of women.
Are you stupid or trolling. He said nothing about the median. Even in your mythical town, to line up with the numbers, it would have to look like this:
You're in a town with 10 women and 9 men, all the men are priests. You claim to have fucked 10 different women, so on average the men fucked 1 woman each. The women, on average, claim to have fucked.5 men. So half of the women are lying. Or at least one women is lying. Or you're lying. In any case, on average we must assume that the numbers are equal, because someone is clearly lying.
95% of American's get plenty to eat (too much, including me).
Actually, the ready access to food with poor nutritional content is one of the primary problems with our current system. Getting food that is adapted to our current way of life requires significant income. Look at obesity among the lower class - it's even a problem in Latin America, where our corporations have convinced people that it's better to drink soft drinks than drink fruit juice from fruits plucked fresh off the vine.
If these companies lost their trademarks, it might be harder for them to run these ad campaigns touting the awesomeness of their flavored sugarwater.
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You're equating conservatism with libertarianism and liberalism with totalitarianism. You're wrong to do so, since it does not fit with any modern definition thereof. Conservatism is about keeping things the way they always have been, liberalism is about making beneficial changes. Obviously it's absurd to talk about either group as an absolute, but that's the essential definition.
Given how absurdly permissive their stated privacy policies usually are, they had damn well better hold to it.
I mean, it's a company. If they want to claim that there's some sort of legally binding contract that shows up just because I viewed their website, at the bare minimum they ought to be fulfilling their obligations. Does that mean they will? In many cases no, but those sites are guilty of a breach of contract, by a contract they unilaterally imposed.
You're assuming:
A) What he did showed technical aptitude.
B) He's applying for a technical position.
I think if both were true, yes, that's reasonable. Otherwise you can only use it as a learning experience, and only if they bring it up.
On Xbox live? Hell, I'd say we're doing this just as much to keep the adults away from the kids.
Alternately, everyone you know who is under 40 is a dick.
What's polite and what isn't doesn't make sense, for the most part. It just is. Magical "bad" words are there to let people know that you not only don't care for someone/thing, but you despise it.
Halo was a clone of every shooter that came before it. The basic mechanics haven't changed much since I first took up hmm... Hexen may have been my first shooter experience. Everything has been incremental technological improvements.
If the clone doesn't offer real value, people will play the original.
Damn. Score one for Linux then.
lsof only shows current access. What he's talking about is logging built into the network drivers that shows which processes access the network.
And it's a good idea.
I seemed to miss the part where this is a marketable product. It looks to me like standard "This research will change the world" silliness that likely won't be commercialized for years. It says as much in the linked posts.
And what is Slashdot for if not publicizing vaporware?
So you think infected machines should be allowed to continue attacks and spying on their owners?
Yes, but it's almost completely ineffectual
He was clearly talking about the architecture, not the UI.
Personally, I'm skeptical that Chrome will offer significant performance improvements over Firefox once its extension system is up to scratch. Even if Chrome's architecture is better, I would expect the extensions themselves to be of similar quality to those in Firefox.
Personally, I prefer Evince or Sumatra or another similarly lightweight external viewer.
^H or ctrl-H, is an ascii character, and the same character that backspace sends. So he was suggesting that the TSA delete^H^H^H^H^H^H fail to delete the text using escaped backspaces instead of literal backspaces, because that would be cheaper on ink.
Why? Just about every OS you just open the zip archive, then open the pdf. It's not as seamless as in-browser gzipped pdf, but it's not actually any slower either.
Actually, this is almost exactly like the original African myths. A witch-doctor supposedly could feed someone a potion to put them into a false death, they would be buried and then dug up later, a slave to the witch doctor. There's probably even a thread of truth to the tales.
The modern zombie is a more recent innovation, dating more or less to Dawn of the Dead. The real difference between this zombie and the mythic one is that here the human hopefully wakes up fully possessed of their senses.
Sometimes, people feed trolls cyanide. It's kind of nice to watch them squirming on the ground.
Yeah except netbooks have a comparable price point and all the same features, without an aura of bad blood hanging over them.
Also if you were going to do that you should use the stupid name first, not second.
Yeah except the Wii cost 60% as much as its competitors and was generally better designed.
Flash and pdf are client-side issues, and the hardware isn't really up to the task. Image search is a server-side issue, so the two really have nothing to do with each other. Image search, if it works on a phone, would work just as well on the net. The issue is that it won't work.
You're citing Wikipedia. And guess what Wikipedia cites? Wikipedia.
But I did overstate by saying most. From my college history (which I majored in for a year or so) I seem to recall the actual figure at something like 30%, which actually isn't that far from 1 in 100 births. (If the average woman has 10 pregnancies, that's 10% of women dying in childbirth.)
But the argument remains valid. Counting pregnancy as a natural cause, a woman is easily double, probably triple or more times as likely to die of natural causes before the age of 30 than a man is. A man, if he dies of a sickness, it's likely to be related to his work. Consequently, we worked out a division of labor that keeps educated men and all women out of danger and relies on uneducated men to do dangerous tasks.
You misunderstood my argument on several points.
I didn't say that most women failed to reproduce. I said most women died before 30. I overstated a bit, but the point remains the same. Wikipedia puts the historical count at 1 in 100 births, which works out to about 10%, assuming the average woman had 10 pregnancies. In many cases it was likely as high as 30% of women dying in childbirth.
On the case of oppression, I said nothing about oppression. This is a division of labor issue. On the male side, as I said, there are a lot of high-risk jobs. But if you educate a man, you don't want to risk him in such an occupation, and it's fairly easy to keep him safe, and he can still procreate.
On the womens' side, you've got around a 10-30% chance that the woman will die shortly after finishing her education if you want her to procreate and serve in some serious administrative capacity. So it makes sense to train men in these roles, and keep them out of harm's way. Prior to the 20th century, however, you could not so easily mitigate the survivability challenges of women.
Are you stupid or trolling. He said nothing about the median. Even in your mythical town, to line up with the numbers, it would have to look like this:
You're in a town with 10 women and 9 men, all the men are priests. You claim to have fucked 10 different women, so on average the men fucked 1 woman each. The women, on average, claim to have fucked .5 men. So half of the women are lying. Or at least one women is lying. Or you're lying. In any case, on average we must assume that the numbers are equal, because someone is clearly lying.
Actually, the ready access to food with poor nutritional content is one of the primary problems with our current system. Getting food that is adapted to our current way of life requires significant income. Look at obesity among the lower class - it's even a problem in Latin America, where our corporations have convinced people that it's better to drink soft drinks than drink fruit juice from fruits plucked fresh off the vine.
If these companies lost their trademarks, it might be harder for them to run these ad campaigns touting the awesomeness of their flavored sugarwater.
That doesn't necessarily rule out nurture. Monkeys have enough of a social structure that you can't rule out socialization.