First, they're not allowed to euthanize you. That is illegal in quite a few places. If you do want to be frozen now, you might as well just kill yourself.
Second. You're giving us a false dichotomy with your "only two options" comment. Yeah, sure you mention it in context of us knowing for a fact that cryogenically freezing someone will irreversibly kill them, but you're still clouding the matter. For one, we don't actually know that cryogenically freezing someone is 100% irreversible. Besides, what on earth do you mean by "lethal"? Dude, you do realize you're already DEAD when they start?
That's worse than dying. Your memories are what make you unique. They are what make you, you. You might as well just die and leave a few DNA samples so they can make a clone out of you. It'd be the same effect, because it wouldn't really be you. How can you enjoy it if you're not yourself anymore.
Awww, how quaint. You've rationalized it in your little narrow minded way of thinking.
First, you don't even offer any proof that it is a "big scam". You merely say it is, wow brilliant debate skills buddy.
You seem to be missing the whole point of being frozen. Not only are you technically not being frozen anymore (due to new discoveries), but you're technically paying almost jack diddly for it. So yeah, you finance it with some el-cheapo life-insurance policy. Why should I care what happens to it, or me for that matter, after I'm dead? If I'm truly dead, then yeah I'm up where I should be, and yeah my family gets my real life-insurance policy. The point of being "frozen" in this manner, is that there is a greater than 0 chance that someday I'll still be living, in a possibly better future. Granted, it may be worse, but I'd still love a chance to be there. Whereas if I die, I die. Absolutely 0 chance of me doing anything but either rotting in nothingness for eternity, burning in hell for eternity, or playing Starcraft in the big LAN party up in the sky for the rest of time.
I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty darn good idea to me. So excuse me if it doesn't fit into your narrow world view, or bursts your holier-than-though righteous bubble.
As for your idea. The only reason you scream scam, is because that's the type of person you are. You yourself say it's an easy way to scam people. I mean, what other explanation could there be? Gasp, could people actually be honest. Apparently not, in your narrow minded opinion.
People should use what they are most productive in. If they feel they are most productive in a command-line, then so be it. I have no problem with that, and neither should anyone else. I've seen some amazingly fast, productive people that pretty much never use a mouse. The rest are just "posh" about their supposed "l33t" command-line skills, and pretend everything but their holy command-line is an abomination that deserves to be castrated and fed to pigs.
But come on, you can't go around bashing every thing because "it doesn't have a command-line version". Oh boo hoo. Grow up! Your parents should have taught you a long time ago that the world doesn't revolve around you. And the sooner you start learning that, the sooner you'll stop getting fisted.
Since neither thing belongs entirely within the other, you should not be talking of supersets OR subsets.
I can't believe you're arguing such a point. This is basic stuff that kids learn in highschool. The word you are looking for is something along the lines of intersect, or overlap. A subset is only a subset of something if it is entirely inside it.
So, you claim that "there are features in Mono not in.Net and features in.Net not in mono", how do you come to the realization that.Net is a subset of Mono? What makes Mono special? You admit it doesn't have everything that.Net has, so I ask you again, why did you not choose Mono to be the subset?
I don't expect you to reply to this. You know you've done irreparable harm, and replying would only make you look worse.
Not only that, but he made himself look like an idiot. I mean, if you don't know that your opinion is right, ffs just keep it to yourself. Sadly, he blurted it out, and now we all know he's clueless, if not borderline stupid.
Someone should mod him up, so he'd get more exposure.
Ok, can you explain to me this whole "grad school" and university business. Here where I am, I'm guessing, is the British system of higher education. Basically you finish highschool, then you go to university where you get something like a bachelors degree. After which you can get postgraduate degrees like honors, masters, etc.
So when you refer to universities, you're actually referring to people getting post-graduate degrees, correct? I also have a feeling that your grad school is the equivalent of our 2 last years of high school, but I'm unsure.
You probably know less about my system than I do about yours. But perhaps there's someone out here on Slashdot that can explain it to us.
One place where they really skimp on education in higher education degrees for Software Engineering, CS etc is parallel programming. At most you get one full course/module on it.
I sincerely doubt that teaching parallel programming is of less importance than Calculus. Sure, calculus is important for formal proofs of algorithms and such. But it pales in comparison to teaching parallel programming and it's accompanying skill set.
I would love to see parallel programming ideas/skills being infused into other parts of CS degrees. Like requiring parallel programming in applicable projects/assignments.
Did you even read my post, or are you knee-jerking to try to show off your knowledge of the topic? Yes, Stalin was bad. Millions of people suffered. But that in no way contradicts what I said in my post.
That's Slashdot for you. Full of moderation-whores, just itching for an opportunity to get moderated up.
Russia was built up in many ways on the back of slave labor.
I'm not here to reply to your comment, cause I totally agree with you. But I'd like to point out one tiny fact. America was also built on the back of slave labor. So were many other countries. Slave labor was widely accepted for a long period of history, and in some parts of the world it still is.
At least they're clear about it. In the US, any thing of this sort would get buried in months and months of "investigations" and press release after press release. Shady coverage by the media, with nothing but sensationalism and greedy news people that are in it for the money. All at the while, everyone involved in the matter and of any consequence is either payed or intimidated by unknown sources. Not to mention they'll dig crap upon crap from time immemorial about someone, in essence turning the whole debate into a smear campaign rather than something of a discussion.
Yes, i exaggerate a little, I know. But most should understand what I mean by my slightly skewed comment. Everything in Russia, these sorts of events included, is simple, crude and effective.
Exactly. It just seems too convenient of a clue that points to the Russians.
In my books, it is just as likely some wacko western country's government agency did this and intentionally used something that would point to the Russians. I mean, only a fool would think that this fact alone proves it was the Russians that did it. How anyone can reconcile such explanations with logic, I do not know.
They never said you can't mod your own Xbox. Fine, it might be illegal in terms of US law, but that's a different story.
But they sure as hell ain't going to let you run modded hardware on their servers.
Frankly, I thank all gaming service providers that keep out cracked/unpatched/edited versions of games. They increase the quality of play immensely. This is the main reason I stopped pirating. Not only did I grow up and lose the time to play, but I decided that the multiplayer component of these games was most certainly worth the money. Thus, they deserved my money. Which is the way it should be.
I say to hell with pirates. Let them pirate all they want, it's not like they'd have bought the game anyways. If all the game publishers charged us for was access to online gaming per game, I would gladly buy/pay it. If it was reasonable, that is. And sure enough, Xbox Live is reasonable. And it keeps fuck tards like you off the servers.
You're missing the point. They still have to prove that they were the ones that wrote it first. There was no third party involved in verifying this. For all _we know_, it is this company that copied Microsoft's stuff and released it under a GPL license. Just because it was released under a GPL license, does not imply that they wrote it first. And since they are claiming that Microsoft copied their stuff (i.e. that they wrote it first), then the onus is on them to prove that they wrote it first. GPL or not.
Looks like you got your eggs all jumbled up. But, IANAL, so I could always be wrong. And if I am, correct me with proof, and I'll gladly change my opinion on the matter.
Either they inherit their parents' genes (and in this case intelligence or whatever you want to call it) or they don't. You can't have it both ways, buddy.
I don't find it too far fetched to think that a certain sub-set of a population for a period of time had a different evolutionary path than another sub-set. And if this evolutionary path was somehow caused or forced by their skin colour, then voila you've just explained the whole thing.
Too bad anyone saying anything along these lines is quickly labeled racist. Not once in this post have I said that a certain race of people is dumber or has less intelligence. And if you think it does, then you've got some seriously media-force-fed bias in your eyes.
I stopped contributing in the image section when the bots started getting insane with the deletions. Honestly, I don't see why they can't go the route of sites like youtube. You post whatever you like there, but the moment someone says that content belongs to them and sends a DMCA takedown request, the site removes it. Same should go for Wikipedia. I guess they forgot that they should _assume good faith_. When my time and effort is thrown away because of a stupid technicality; that's where I draw the line. I'll spend my time aiding some other cause now, thank you very much.
Yeah, anyone can open a savings account in pretty much any bank. Ok some banks do require you deposit a minimum balance, but that's no excuse.
Rather, what I think she was referring to was opening a checking account, or getting a credit card. Both those types of accounts offer credit and thus you'd need a good credit rating to open them. Maybe she doesn't know that you can have an account without credit, i.e. a savings account. It's this whole mentality of living on credit that pervades our culture these days.
That's a fallacious argument, as there is a THIRD option. But besides that, the guy is saying that it's the taxpayers that should pay for those that can't, not the ones that don't have health insurance.
I totally agree with you. But. I'm not sure you understand what I was referring to. I'll quote it so we're clear...
[...]that can use what the camera sees by reading text/barcodes or recognising objects and combining it with GPS and internet data to offer more information on the world around us.
Reading barcodes is one thing, but "recognizing objects" is near impossible for a processor that tiny. And the guy is suggesting it searches the net and provide info on that item on top of all that.
What I can easily imagine is if you took a picture with the camera, and then give it ample time to process that image. Good luck getting anything but rudimentary image recognition in real time, even on an average desktop computer, let alone a smartphone.
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First, they're not allowed to euthanize you. That is illegal in quite a few places. If you do want to be frozen now, you might as well just kill yourself.
Second. You're giving us a false dichotomy with your "only two options" comment. Yeah, sure you mention it in context of us knowing for a fact that cryogenically freezing someone will irreversibly kill them, but you're still clouding the matter. For one, we don't actually know that cryogenically freezing someone is 100% irreversible. Besides, what on earth do you mean by "lethal"? Dude, you do realize you're already DEAD when they start?
That's worse than dying. Your memories are what make you unique. They are what make you, you. You might as well just die and leave a few DNA samples so they can make a clone out of you. It'd be the same effect, because it wouldn't really be you. How can you enjoy it if you're not yourself anymore.
Awww, how quaint. You've rationalized it in your little narrow minded way of thinking.
First, you don't even offer any proof that it is a "big scam". You merely say it is, wow brilliant debate skills buddy.
You seem to be missing the whole point of being frozen. Not only are you technically not being frozen anymore (due to new discoveries), but you're technically paying almost jack diddly for it. So yeah, you finance it with some el-cheapo life-insurance policy. Why should I care what happens to it, or me for that matter, after I'm dead? If I'm truly dead, then yeah I'm up where I should be, and yeah my family gets my real life-insurance policy. The point of being "frozen" in this manner, is that there is a greater than 0 chance that someday I'll still be living, in a possibly better future. Granted, it may be worse, but I'd still love a chance to be there. Whereas if I die, I die. Absolutely 0 chance of me doing anything but either rotting in nothingness for eternity, burning in hell for eternity, or playing Starcraft in the big LAN party up in the sky for the rest of time.
I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty darn good idea to me. So excuse me if it doesn't fit into your narrow world view, or bursts your holier-than-though righteous bubble.
As for your idea. The only reason you scream scam, is because that's the type of person you are. You yourself say it's an easy way to scam people. I mean, what other explanation could there be? Gasp, could people actually be honest. Apparently not, in your narrow minded opinion.
-XcepticZP
Command-line interfaces are a thing of the past.
People should use what they are most productive in. If they feel they are most productive in a command-line, then so be it. I have no problem with that, and neither should anyone else. I've seen some amazingly fast, productive people that pretty much never use a mouse. The rest are just "posh" about their supposed "l33t" command-line skills, and pretend everything but their holy command-line is an abomination that deserves to be castrated and fed to pigs.
But come on, you can't go around bashing every thing because "it doesn't have a command-line version". Oh boo hoo. Grow up! Your parents should have taught you a long time ago that the world doesn't revolve around you. And the sooner you start learning that, the sooner you'll stop getting fisted.
-XcepticZP
Since neither thing belongs entirely within the other, you should not be talking of supersets OR subsets.
.Net and features in .Net not in mono", how do you come to the realization that .Net is a subset of Mono? What makes Mono special? You admit it doesn't have everything that .Net has, so I ask you again, why did you not choose Mono to be the subset?
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I can't believe you're arguing such a point. This is basic stuff that kids learn in highschool. The word you are looking for is something along the lines of intersect, or overlap. A subset is only a subset of something if it is entirely inside it.
So, you claim that "there are features in Mono not in
I don't expect you to reply to this. You know you've done irreparable harm, and replying would only make you look worse.
P.S. Here's some light reading to brush up on your highschool math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset You're welcome
Not only that, but he made himself look like an idiot. I mean, if you don't know that your opinion is right, ffs just keep it to yourself. Sadly, he blurted it out, and now we all know he's clueless, if not borderline stupid.
Someone should mod him up, so he'd get more exposure.
That's the system I do know :)
They actually only have 4 years of "secondary school" as you call it. Then the two years which they call lower and upper sixth form.
So are you saying the sixth forms are equivalent to American grad schools?
Ok, can you explain to me this whole "grad school" and university business. Here where I am, I'm guessing, is the British system of higher education. Basically you finish highschool, then you go to university where you get something like a bachelors degree. After which you can get postgraduate degrees like honors, masters, etc.
So when you refer to universities, you're actually referring to people getting post-graduate degrees, correct? I also have a feeling that your grad school is the equivalent of our 2 last years of high school, but I'm unsure.
You probably know less about my system than I do about yours. But perhaps there's someone out here on Slashdot that can explain it to us.
-XcepticZP
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One place where they really skimp on education in higher education degrees for Software Engineering, CS etc is parallel programming. At most you get one full course/module on it.
I sincerely doubt that teaching parallel programming is of less importance than Calculus. Sure, calculus is important for formal proofs of algorithms and such. But it pales in comparison to teaching parallel programming and it's accompanying skill set.
I would love to see parallel programming ideas/skills being infused into other parts of CS degrees. Like requiring parallel programming in applicable projects/assignments.
-XcepticZP
I'm really curious... Where did you come across that little tid bit of information?
-XcepticZP
Did you even read my post, or are you knee-jerking to try to show off your knowledge of the topic? Yes, Stalin was bad. Millions of people suffered. But that in no way contradicts what I said in my post.
That's Slashdot for you. Full of moderation-whores, just itching for an opportunity to get moderated up.
Russia was built up in many ways on the back of slave labor.
I'm not here to reply to your comment, cause I totally agree with you. But I'd like to point out one tiny fact. America was also built on the back of slave labor. So were many other countries. Slave labor was widely accepted for a long period of history, and in some parts of the world it still is.
-XcepticZP
At least they're clear about it. In the US, any thing of this sort would get buried in months and months of "investigations" and press release after press release. Shady coverage by the media, with nothing but sensationalism and greedy news people that are in it for the money. All at the while, everyone involved in the matter and of any consequence is either payed or intimidated by unknown sources. Not to mention they'll dig crap upon crap from time immemorial about someone, in essence turning the whole debate into a smear campaign rather than something of a discussion.
Yes, i exaggerate a little, I know. But most should understand what I mean by my slightly skewed comment. Everything in Russia, these sorts of events included, is simple, crude and effective.
-XcepticZP
Exactly. It just seems too convenient of a clue that points to the Russians.
In my books, it is just as likely some wacko western country's government agency did this and intentionally used something that would point to the Russians. I mean, only a fool would think that this fact alone proves it was the Russians that did it. How anyone can reconcile such explanations with logic, I do not know.
-XcepticZP
They never said you can't mod your own Xbox. Fine, it might be illegal in terms of US law, but that's a different story.
But they sure as hell ain't going to let you run modded hardware on their servers.
Frankly, I thank all gaming service providers that keep out cracked/unpatched/edited versions of games. They increase the quality of play immensely. This is the main reason I stopped pirating. Not only did I grow up and lose the time to play, but I decided that the multiplayer component of these games was most certainly worth the money. Thus, they deserved my money. Which is the way it should be.
I say to hell with pirates. Let them pirate all they want, it's not like they'd have bought the game anyways. If all the game publishers charged us for was access to online gaming per game, I would gladly buy/pay it. If it was reasonable, that is. And sure enough, Xbox Live is reasonable. And it keeps fuck tards like you off the servers.
-XcepticZP
You're missing the point. They still have to prove that they were the ones that wrote it first. There was no third party involved in verifying this. For all _we know_, it is this company that copied Microsoft's stuff and released it under a GPL license. Just because it was released under a GPL license, does not imply that they wrote it first. And since they are claiming that Microsoft copied their stuff (i.e. that they wrote it first), then the onus is on them to prove that they wrote it first. GPL or not.
Looks like you got your eggs all jumbled up. But, IANAL, so I could always be wrong. And if I am, correct me with proof, and I'll gladly change my opinion on the matter.
-XcepticZP
Noting some guy further up. Higher voltage means less current running through the wires. This means there is less of a fire risk.
Wow, someone got hurt bad.
You reacting this way to his comment is more telling about you and what women have done to you than anything about him.
Heck you could even be Damek's split personality, lol.
Either they inherit their parents' genes (and in this case intelligence or whatever you want to call it) or they don't. You can't have it both ways, buddy.
I don't find it too far fetched to think that a certain sub-set of a population for a period of time had a different evolutionary path than another sub-set. And if this evolutionary path was somehow caused or forced by their skin colour, then voila you've just explained the whole thing.
Too bad anyone saying anything along these lines is quickly labeled racist. Not once in this post have I said that a certain race of people is dumber or has less intelligence. And if you think it does, then you've got some seriously media-force-fed bias in your eyes.
I stopped contributing in the image section when the bots started getting insane with the deletions. Honestly, I don't see why they can't go the route of sites like youtube. You post whatever you like there, but the moment someone says that content belongs to them and sends a DMCA takedown request, the site removes it. Same should go for Wikipedia. I guess they forgot that they should _assume good faith_. When my time and effort is thrown away because of a stupid technicality; that's where I draw the line. I'll spend my time aiding some other cause now, thank you very much.
Yeah, anyone can open a savings account in pretty much any bank. Ok some banks do require you deposit a minimum balance, but that's no excuse.
Rather, what I think she was referring to was opening a checking account, or getting a credit card. Both those types of accounts offer credit and thus you'd need a good credit rating to open them. Maybe she doesn't know that you can have an account without credit, i.e. a savings account. It's this whole mentality of living on credit that pervades our culture these days.
I hope all the people that modded your useless comment +5 insightful die. Really, I do.
That's a fallacious argument, as there is a THIRD option. But besides that, the guy is saying that it's the taxpayers that should pay for those that can't, not the ones that don't have health insurance.
[...]that can use what the camera sees by reading text/barcodes or recognising objects and combining it with GPS and internet data to offer more information on the world around us.
Reading barcodes is one thing, but "recognizing objects" is near impossible for a processor that tiny. And the guy is suggesting it searches the net and provide info on that item on top of all that.
What I can easily imagine is if you took a picture with the camera, and then give it ample time to process that image. Good luck getting anything but rudimentary image recognition in real time, even on an average desktop computer, let alone a smartphone.
Good luck doing ALL of that using any processor that is currently put into any smartphone.