I don't believe this, and I think it's a common opinion expressed by Christians / Jews/ Muslims. They're so caught up in worshipping their god that they think people who don't believe in a god have to make some kind of effort of faith. This isn't true. I'm an athiest because I DON'T HAVE a religion. I don't deliberately NOT go to church on a sunday. I don't deliberately NOT pray. I don't deliberately NOT read the bible. I just go about my life unconcerned about god. It's got nothing to do with me seeking evidence or proof, because I'm not even interested - I live my life deviod of religion and it's great fun. You should try it some time:)
The site specifies that you have to be cremated by their special process(which adds to the price of the diamons). You can't just walk in with an urn and get them to make it into a diamond. I assume their cremation process captures the carbon gasses produced by burning.
I was thinking the exact same thing...well more along the lines that is was revenge directed at the former boss. As if you post SOMEONE ELSE'S email address to the front page of/. for 'Bob's' sake!
I would think that true teleportation would not involve "scanning" and "reassembling" - wouldn't it involve some kind of funky twisting of the space-time continum so you move through space without actually moving?
There's a great short story by Stephen King that explores this concept, called "The Jaunt". It deals with teleportation, where those undergoing teleportation have been found to be in a fine physical state when they emerge, but are completely violently batshit in the head. In order to stop this happening, "travellers" are put under anasthetic while they undergo teleportation and they seem to come out fine. The story deals with the case of one person who skipped the anasthesia and the resulting consequences, and essentially their soul / consciousness is stripped from their body. The body arrives instaneaneously, the soul just floats around in space for several trillion years until it finds it's body again.
Ooo look, if it's not another small-penis-man whigning about firearm rights. The Australian government has not taken ALL weapons off ALL citizens. It has taken AUTOMATIC weapons off the TINY MINORITY of citizens who were stupid and psychotic enough to own them, and most Australians feel they should have gone further than they did. Australians aren't LIKE gun-obsessed united-statesians. We don't WANT guns, we don't NEED guns, and we resent the implication that we are somehow downtrodden and poorer for the fact that people don't OWN guns here.
Most people (apart from a few psychotic small-penis Sporting Shooters Association rednecks) in Australia feel that the increased gun laws was about the best thing the Howard government has done for the country, and as someone who's been pissed off by most everything else the current government has done, I've got to concur. The SSA (equivalent of your NRA) is regarded in a very poor light by most Australians, of all political pursuasions.
Wow. That's the most interesting/. comment I've read in months. (no I'm not being sarcastic). I've never thought about advertising-based media being structured like that, but it's very true isn't it?
In the time between requesting a trial and you sending me my reg codes, I've probably found a free (one kind or the other) piece of software to do the same job, that's why it's not downloaded!
Just to have a big old whinge, shareware is SOOOO expensive. Most pieces of software that perform a very VERY simple task (the sort of thing that could be accomplished with a couple of BASH commands in Unix, like periodically FTPing to a server to retreive files for instance), cost, like US$50 instead of the US$5 that they are worth! And you wonder why such a massive cracking / serial scene exists. Trying to make unfair profits off the fact that Windows is lacking in features, and difficult for the end-user to develop their own software in.
I live in Australia, and i'm bloody glad we've got gun control laws. It seems that in the US the "right to bear arms" is considered along with other SENSIBLE rights like free speech etc. - I'm glad that Australians are smart enough to see the difference. "Honest" people should have no more rights to own deadly weapons than "criminals" - why? THEY SHOULD HAVE NO REASON TO.
It all rests on the incredibly right-wing, conservative concept that there are GOOD people and BAD people. GOOD people can own guns because, hey, they're GOOD. BAD people are the ones who are going to do BAD things. But that's bollocks. A GOOD gun-owning person could get drunk and confused and go shoot someone on the spur of the moment. A GOOD person's child could get hold of their gun and "have an accident".
I feel much safer and better for living in a country where gun ownership is frowned upon by the general population, and where the "gun rights" lobby is regarded by 95% of the population as a bunch of red neck freaks.
Sounds like a bad idea to me...as far as I'm concerned, I should be able to run whatever software I want on my computer. It's my processor, I can jam whatever code and data through it I want. This is almost as abhorrent as all this new "forced security" stuff that's in the news lately.
I've had some BAD experiences with auto-expiring software. I used some free scientific software that expired at a certain date, forcing you to upgrade. BUT, of course, the guy writing the software (which was free but closed source) had dissapeared off the face of the web, meaning the update didn't exist...the software was rendered completely useless, and the world had lost a valuable piece of information and creativity.
Government take a lot of heat??? Yeah right...the media will love them for it, the bastard uber-conservative public will love them for it. But, on the plus side. banning things has never stopped me getting my hands on them. Make me try harder, in fact.
Seems like someone up above me has been a victim of Uncle Sam's Famous Brainwashing. You don't know what a communist is even. "ooo! ooo! anyone who tries to ban stuff must be a commie, unlike us capitalists who support freedom!" Yeah right. Go read some bloody books.
There seem to be some pretty big problems in how the whole DNS system works in the first place; for a system with a fairly high degree of built-in redundancy, I've often found websites where ONE of their DNS servers has gone down, and I can't access the site. The other DNS somehow isn't queried, other caching DNS servers along the chain aren't queried, and it fails. The IP address I'm looking for is, in theory, sitting in a thousand caches all over the net, but it's not fetched? The loss of Microsoft's DNS a few months back is a good (although not particularly worrying) example.
Then again, maybe I don't notice the times it DOES work like it's supposed to.
Does anyone else out there think they should give up on the whole balloons idea? How many expensive, embarrasing failures have we seen in the last few years?
I agree. I'm dismayed at how far AI hasn't come! Geez, how many years ago was Eliza written now? All the programs seem too simple - language is based on more than rules - REAL conversation is all exceptions to those rules. How hard is it to program a memory, so the AI bot can recall pieces of conversation BEFORE the last response, and return to them? Conversation is more than just random responses.
Has anyone ever tried neural network / genetic algorithm techniques in conversation training? Like - feeding scripts of dialogue (i dunno, from TV shows or shakespear) through a neural network to train computer on how conversation works? Some of the hidden intracacies of conversation may be incorporated into the program that way.
You have that much faith in the legal system? You're SO sure that everything that's legal SHOULD be legal, and everything that's illegal SHOULD be illegal? Your post displays nothing but blind support for government and judicial policy; it fails to take into account issues much more important than what your fore-fathers decided to write into law. There's a difference between being exposed to popups and ads, and having a malicious remote site essentialy take control of essential functions of your computer, and potentially causing destruction of your data. That ain't bullshit - when javascript causes dozens of pop-up windows and crap to surface on my Windows PC at work, the whole thing tends to go down...too bad if I had something important being edited in Word at the time. What about those little programs that go around now that force your (Windows) PC to PPP into pay-per-minute porn sites without your realizing? Is that perfectly okay too? Just because you can't be bothered earning money and making a living an honest way, and instead run a bullshit content-less porn site, you are concerned that YOUR freedoms will be removed.
Yeah wine does starcraft brilliantly! The only problem I have is that occasionally starcraft crashes if lots is going on on screen...if that happens my system pretty much crashes (well...i know the _kernal_ hasn't crashed) because wine's got control of my video card.
The problem is that when a human is watching, they can make a JUDGEMENT. I think it's pretty abhorrent to have a computer decide who's guilty and who's innocent; who's a threat and who isn't. The question is, what data are Borders comparing the faces to, and what do they plan to do about it? If I was caught shoplifting when i was an angry young punk 15 year old, get my picture taken, get punished...then walk into a Borders store 10 years later they've got no right to send the security after me. I've been punished for what I've done, I've been handled by the HUMAN judicial system, it's all over. Depending how it's handled, this could be a true implementation of big brother-style enforcement. Criminal activity is no-longer handled by the police, courts and correctional services like it's supposed to be - suddenly it's in the hands of private citizens and corporations. I thought we got rid of the lynch-mob idea years ago!
It was a very BADLY written article. I found it extremely difficult to follow...it was written more like a drunken party conversation that a serious review. And, as you said, there were no screenshots, despite the/. headline claiming it was a VISUAL comparison. I'll just have a whinge and ask how the hell this made it onto/.
Be's problem is that they just haven't bothered to make the most of their product. I fell in love with BeOS, and the idea of BeOS, when I first saw it. A made-from-scratch OS based on the power and stability of unix, and the ease of use of MacOS. They could have MADE something from that, but they seem to have forgotton to DEVELOP IT FURTHER. We were delivered BeOS 5, and then promtly forgotten about...Be Inc. had this crazy idea about embedded and portable devices, which failed totally. We don't NEED fridges with built in internet..no-one wants them, no-one makes them, so Be were stupid to try and offer an operating system for them. The same goes for portable devices...it will be a long time yet before a large market exists for portable internet devices - for the average user it's still stupidly expensive.
So basically, Be seem to have given up on their GOOD product (BeOS) in favour of their crappy product (BeIA), and are paying the price.
I don't see why more sites don't use SSL for just general day-to-day surfing. Certificates are too expensive and difficult to get for smaller web sites, but in my opinion larger websites who HAVE certificates for their existing 'secure' functions, should just direct people to SSL for ALL data transfer...i mean, why not? Might as well take advantage of the technology, instead of making your whole site unencrypted apart from a single account info / credit card billing section.
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I don't believe this, and I think it's a common opinion expressed by Christians / Jews/ Muslims. They're so caught up in worshipping their god that they think people who don't believe in a god have to make some kind of effort of faith. This isn't true. I'm an athiest because I DON'T HAVE a religion. I don't deliberately NOT go to church on a sunday. I don't deliberately NOT pray. I don't deliberately NOT read the bible. I just go about my life unconcerned about god. It's got nothing to do with me seeking evidence or proof, because I'm not even interested - I live my life deviod of religion and it's great fun. You should try it some time :)
The site specifies that you have to be cremated by their special process(which adds to the price of the diamons). You can't just walk in with an urn and get them to make it into a diamond. I assume their cremation process captures the carbon gasses produced by burning.
I was thinking the exact same thing...well more along the lines that is was revenge directed at the former boss. As if you post SOMEONE ELSE'S email address to the front page of /. for 'Bob's' sake!
I would think that true teleportation would not involve "scanning" and "reassembling" - wouldn't it involve some kind of funky twisting of the space-time continum so you move through space without actually moving?
There's a great short story by Stephen King that explores this concept, called "The Jaunt". It deals with teleportation, where those undergoing teleportation have been found to be in a fine physical state when they emerge, but are completely violently batshit in the head. In order to stop this happening, "travellers" are put under anasthetic while they undergo teleportation and they seem to come out fine. The story deals with the case of one person who skipped the anasthesia and the resulting consequences, and essentially their soul / consciousness is stripped from their body. The body arrives instaneaneously, the soul just floats around in space for several trillion years until it finds it's body again.
Ooo look, if it's not another small-penis-man whigning about firearm rights. The Australian government has not taken ALL weapons off ALL citizens. It has taken AUTOMATIC weapons off the TINY MINORITY of citizens who were stupid and psychotic enough to own them, and most Australians feel they should have gone further than they did. Australians aren't LIKE gun-obsessed united-statesians. We don't WANT guns, we don't NEED guns, and we resent the implication that we are somehow downtrodden and poorer for the fact that people don't OWN guns here.
Most people (apart from a few psychotic small-penis Sporting Shooters Association rednecks) in Australia feel that the increased gun laws was about the best thing the Howard government has done for the country, and as someone who's been pissed off by most everything else the current government has done, I've got to concur. The SSA (equivalent of your NRA) is regarded in a very poor light by most Australians, of all political pursuasions.
In fact, if you shuffle the letters...
AUSTRALIA = A TRIAL USA
:)
Wow. That's the most interesting /. comment I've read in months. (no I'm not being sarcastic). I've never thought about advertising-based media being structured like that, but it's very true isn't it?
In the time between requesting a trial and you sending me my reg codes, I've probably found a free (one kind or the other) piece of software to do the same job, that's why it's not downloaded!
Just to have a big old whinge, shareware is SOOOO expensive. Most pieces of software that perform a very VERY simple task (the sort of thing that could be accomplished with a couple of BASH commands in Unix, like periodically FTPing to a server to retreive files for instance), cost, like US$50 instead of the US$5 that they are worth! And you wonder why such a massive cracking / serial scene exists. Trying to make unfair profits off the fact that Windows is lacking in features, and difficult for the end-user to develop their own software in.
Pfft like this is new. Ain't you ever heard of methamphetamine? Keeps you going for days on end :)
And so say all of us! Good call. Australians DON'T WANT guns, end of story. Anything you hear otherwise is NRA propaganda.
I live in Australia, and i'm bloody glad we've got gun control laws. It seems that in the US the "right to bear arms" is considered along with other SENSIBLE rights like free speech etc. - I'm glad that Australians are smart enough to see the difference. "Honest" people should have no more rights to own deadly weapons than "criminals" - why? THEY SHOULD HAVE NO REASON TO.
It all rests on the incredibly right-wing, conservative concept that there are GOOD people and BAD people. GOOD people can own guns because, hey, they're GOOD. BAD people are the ones who are going to do BAD things. But that's bollocks. A GOOD gun-owning person could get drunk and confused and go shoot someone on the spur of the moment. A GOOD person's child could get hold of their gun and "have an accident".
I feel much safer and better for living in a country where gun ownership is frowned upon by the general population, and where the "gun rights" lobby is regarded by 95% of the population as a bunch of red neck freaks.
Sounds like a bad idea to me...as far as I'm concerned, I should be able to run whatever software I want on my computer. It's my processor, I can jam whatever code and data through it I want. This is almost as abhorrent as all this new "forced security" stuff that's in the news lately.
I've had some BAD experiences with auto-expiring software. I used some free scientific software that expired at a certain date, forcing you to upgrade. BUT, of course, the guy writing the software (which was free but closed source) had dissapeared off the face of the web, meaning the update didn't exist...the software was rendered completely useless, and the world had lost a valuable piece of information and creativity.
Government take a lot of heat??? Yeah right...the media will love them for it, the bastard uber-conservative public will love them for it. But, on the plus side. banning things has never stopped me getting my hands on them. Make me try harder, in fact.
Seems like someone up above me has been a victim of Uncle Sam's Famous Brainwashing. You don't know what a communist is even. "ooo! ooo! anyone who tries to ban stuff must be a commie, unlike us capitalists who support freedom!" Yeah right. Go read some bloody books.
There seem to be some pretty big problems in how the whole DNS system works in the first place; for a system with a fairly high degree of built-in redundancy, I've often found websites where ONE of their DNS servers has gone down, and I can't access the site. The other DNS somehow isn't queried, other caching DNS servers along the chain aren't queried, and it fails. The IP address I'm looking for is, in theory, sitting in a thousand caches all over the net, but it's not fetched? The loss of Microsoft's DNS a few months back is a good (although not particularly worrying) example.
Then again, maybe I don't notice the times it DOES work like it's supposed to.
Does anyone else out there think they should give up on the whole balloons idea? How many expensive, embarrasing failures have we seen in the last few years?
I agree. I'm dismayed at how far AI hasn't come! Geez, how many years ago was Eliza written now? All the programs seem too simple - language is based on more than rules - REAL conversation is all exceptions to those rules. How hard is it to program a memory, so the AI bot can recall pieces of conversation BEFORE the last response, and return to them? Conversation is more than just random responses.
Has anyone ever tried neural network / genetic algorithm techniques in conversation training? Like - feeding scripts of dialogue (i dunno, from TV shows or shakespear) through a neural network to train computer on how conversation works? Some of the hidden intracacies of conversation may be incorporated into the program that way.
You have that much faith in the legal system? You're SO sure that everything that's legal SHOULD be legal, and everything that's illegal SHOULD be illegal? Your post displays nothing but blind support for government and judicial policy; it fails to take into account issues much more important than what your fore-fathers decided to write into law. There's a difference between being exposed to popups and ads, and having a malicious remote site essentialy take control of essential functions of your computer, and potentially causing destruction of your data. That ain't bullshit - when javascript causes dozens of pop-up windows and crap to surface on my Windows PC at work, the whole thing tends to go down...too bad if I had something important being edited in Word at the time. What about those little programs that go around now that force your (Windows) PC to PPP into pay-per-minute porn sites without your realizing? Is that perfectly okay too? Just because you can't be bothered earning money and making a living an honest way, and instead run a bullshit content-less porn site, you are concerned that YOUR freedoms will be removed.
Yeah wine does starcraft brilliantly! The only problem I have is that occasionally starcraft crashes if lots is going on on screen...if that happens my system pretty much crashes (well...i know the _kernal_ hasn't crashed) because wine's got control of my video card.
Did you even read the article??? it makes a point about saying that Wine isn't an emulator!
The problem is that when a human is watching, they can make a JUDGEMENT. I think it's pretty abhorrent to have a computer decide who's guilty and who's innocent; who's a threat and who isn't. The question is, what data are Borders comparing the faces to, and what do they plan to do about it? If I was caught shoplifting when i was an angry young punk 15 year old, get my picture taken, get punished...then walk into a Borders store 10 years later they've got no right to send the security after me. I've been punished for what I've done, I've been handled by the HUMAN judicial system, it's all over. Depending how it's handled, this could be a true implementation of big brother-style enforcement. Criminal activity is no-longer handled by the police, courts and correctional services like it's supposed to be - suddenly it's in the hands of private citizens and corporations. I thought we got rid of the lynch-mob idea years ago!
It was a very BADLY written article. I found it extremely difficult to follow...it was written more like a drunken party conversation that a serious review. And, as you said, there were no screenshots, despite the /. headline claiming it was a VISUAL comparison. I'll just have a whinge and ask how the hell this made it onto /.
Be's problem is that they just haven't bothered to make the most of their product. I fell in love with BeOS, and the idea of BeOS, when I first saw it. A made-from-scratch OS based on the power and stability of unix, and the ease of use of MacOS. They could have MADE something from that, but they seem to have forgotton to DEVELOP IT FURTHER. We were delivered BeOS 5, and then promtly forgotten about...Be Inc. had this crazy idea about embedded and portable devices, which failed totally. We don't NEED fridges with built in internet..no-one wants them, no-one makes them, so Be were stupid to try and offer an operating system for them. The same goes for portable devices...it will be a long time yet before a large market exists for portable internet devices - for the average user it's still stupidly expensive.
So basically, Be seem to have given up on their GOOD product (BeOS) in favour of their crappy product (BeIA), and are paying the price.
I don't see why more sites don't use SSL for just general day-to-day surfing. Certificates are too expensive and difficult to get for smaller web sites, but in my opinion larger websites who HAVE certificates for their existing 'secure' functions, should just direct people to SSL for ALL data transfer...i mean, why not? Might as well take advantage of the technology, instead of making your whole site unencrypted apart from a single account info / credit card billing section.