Poker machines and MMO are very similar. The both have similar audio visual stimulus, the same payoff / reward systems. They are both engineered to be addictive. Psychologists will be divided over whether that counts as an addiction, but it's certainly a problem.
There are lots of resources for gambling, see The Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook By Robert R. Perkinson, or the Gambling Anonymous website. Or just google it.
It's called "bushmeat". African tribes are often driven to hunt it, due to famine. It's though that HIV may have transferred to humans via undercooked chimpanzee.
I'm not a denier, but I'd like to see more source code. The Royal Society worked because people were able to reproduce results. Even a worthless bookbinder like Faraday was able to reproduce experiments, if he was curious. Calculus worked because Leibniz published his methodology, and not just his initial assumptions and final results, rather than sitting on it like Newton.
I know there's a few models with published source, but it's a rare thing to see the method and apparatus (i.e. the program that produced the results) displayed in all it's gory detail. The usual excuses ("the code is just research quality", or "nobody would understand it") just don't seem to be in the spirit of science.
Just imagine what anthropologists in 1000 years time will think. They will mark this century as the turning point in human history (just like the last one... and the one before that), and the only evidence of human culture is a few old tape back-ups from slashdot and 4chan.
Warty Warthog was out in October 2004. I'm not sure when in 2005 that report was released, but it can't have been after Dapper Drake (2006).
Remember those day? All the newcomers would agonize over KDE / Gnome, then break their X Server (or X client - which were always named back to front), and not be able to surf onto the forums for help, so they just re-installed Windows.
Monopolizing Linux (the way Canonical has) sure made things a lot smoother.
Trademarks do seem a little harmful to open source. It's a bit of a pain to explain why Firefox is the same thing as Ice Weasel. Inconsistent terminology can hurt a field - just look what happened to postmodernism.
But "Considered Harmful" is a bloody big call. That's comparing trademarks to "gotos". Ouch. Open source has other worries - like web applications (online data processing), proprietary devices (iPhones), companies turning GPL programs into XML wrapped libraries, the.net framework, walled garden communitites (facebook), and proprietary file / stream formats.
I'm guessing that the "Mission Impossible" bits are just there to tempt some studio to turn it into a movie - based on a true story.
My guess would be that they got the passwords by conventional means (looking over shoulders), then just walked in like they were meant to be there, maybe dressed as maintenance workers.
Classics sounds a lot like biology then. Information theory, statistics and fast cheap computers have opened up a lot of fields for math geeks. It seems that physics is not longer the only academic application of mathematics.
31 people in 7 years? That's nothing. Germany has something like 1 intentional homicide per 100,000 people (about 1/4 of the USA murder rate, which is about half of the Zimbabwean murder rate... not that the US needs gun control).
Germany has 82 million people, so that's 820 homicides per year. I am guessing that the biggest offenders will be husbands, and the next biggest offenders will be wives.
I say they should ban marriage - it's obviously a far bigger cause of violence than paintball games.
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If Linux is The Highlander, then is Windows The Borg?
Does that mean that OSX are vampires? And what is Solaris?
Poker machines and MMO are very similar. The both have similar audio visual stimulus, the same payoff / reward systems. They are both engineered to be addictive. Psychologists will be divided over whether that counts as an addiction, but it's certainly a problem.
There are lots of resources for gambling, see The Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook By Robert R. Perkinson, or the Gambling Anonymous website. Or just google it.
Maybe it's just a broom closet. The secret service just tell Biden to practice "covering" in there whenever they need a break from him.
Interestingly, the article mostly works if you replace the word "Linux" with "Vista".
It's called "bushmeat". African tribes are often driven to hunt it, due to famine. It's though that HIV may have transferred to humans via undercooked chimpanzee.
Slashdotters have already been selected to survive with extreme sensory deprivation, and muscle atrophy. If they could only be bred ...
WWI also had Lawrence of Arabia. But the Arabs were the good guys (i.e. on the US / UK side), so it might be unpopular ...
Just wait till they realize what a security hole database queries are!
I'm not a denier, but I'd like to see more source code. The Royal Society worked because people were able to reproduce results. Even a worthless bookbinder like Faraday was able to reproduce experiments, if he was curious. Calculus worked because Leibniz published his methodology, and not just his initial assumptions and final results, rather than sitting on it like Newton.
I know there's a few models with published source, but it's a rare thing to see the method and apparatus (i.e. the program that produced the results) displayed in all it's gory detail. The usual excuses ("the code is just research quality", or "nobody would understand it") just don't seem to be in the spirit of science.
Just imagine what anthropologists in 1000 years time will think. They will mark this century as the turning point in human history (just like the last one ... and the one before that), and the only evidence of human culture is a few old tape back-ups from slashdot and 4chan.
Warty Warthog was out in October 2004. I'm not sure when in 2005 that report was released, but it can't have been after Dapper Drake (2006).
Remember those day? All the newcomers would agonize over KDE / Gnome, then break their X Server (or X client - which were always named back to front), and not be able to surf onto the forums for help, so they just re-installed Windows.
Monopolizing Linux (the way Canonical has) sure made things a lot smoother.
On the bright side, it wouldn't be pink after a few weeks. Though I'd hate to think what color it would be.
I they advertised a car with nothing but explosions and guitar riffs, and no mention of the technical merits, I don't think anyone would be surprised.
Why should computers be different?
It can also lock you in out of the airlocks, but only by accident.
Sorry, I'm just a bit upset that it's 2009, and our biggest problem with computers is still that they just aren't smart enough.
Trademarks do seem a little harmful to open source. It's a bit of a pain to explain why Firefox is the same thing as Ice Weasel. Inconsistent terminology can hurt a field - just look what happened to postmodernism.
But "Considered Harmful" is a bloody big call. That's comparing trademarks to "gotos". Ouch. Open source has other worries - like web applications (online data processing), proprietary devices (iPhones), companies turning GPL programs into XML wrapped libraries, the .net framework, walled garden communitites (facebook), and proprietary file / stream formats.
Trademarks? Big deal.
They are advertising to pointy haired bosses, in order to give employees the tools they need to do their jobs?
Hmm, still sounds like a big company. Maybe they could also do some adds for Kubuntu?
You forgot about opportunity cost.
If you invested the extra $125 in the share market two years ago, you would also have benefited from capital growth and dividends.
It's a big deal, because google has jumped the shark and become a big company. Why do they need to buy TV adds? They *are* an advertising company.
I'm guessing that the "Mission Impossible" bits are just there to tempt some studio to turn it into a movie - based on a true story.
My guess would be that they got the passwords by conventional means (looking over shoulders), then just walked in like they were meant to be there, maybe dressed as maintenance workers.
Classics sounds a lot like biology then. Information theory, statistics and fast cheap computers have opened up a lot of fields for math geeks. It seems that physics is not longer the only academic application of mathematics.
31 people in 7 years? That's nothing. Germany has something like 1 intentional homicide per 100,000 people (about 1/4 of the USA murder rate, which is about half of the Zimbabwean murder rate ... not that the US needs gun control).
Germany has 82 million people, so that's 820 homicides per year. I am guessing that the biggest offenders will be husbands, and the next biggest offenders will be wives.
I say they should ban marriage - it's obviously a far bigger cause of violence than paintball games.
So how's your opensourced vapourware Netscape browser going? I think it's called "Firefox" these days.
HTML should never have gotten more popular than lotus notes. Or flash.
Fixed it for me.
"The best contraceptive I've found is an "Excellent" karma rating on /."
Oh really? Let's try an experiment:
Linux is less stable than Windows, and always has been.
C++ is more elegant than C.
Even power users are faster in a GUI than command line.
Mac users enjoy being marginalized.
HTML should never have gotten more popular than gopher.
So do you think that the karma burn will increase my chances of re-producing?
Perhaps they could be used to make genuine T. Rex protein shakes?