You enter your search criteria, and the wikisearch engine tells you that your choice of topic is Not Notable, and for gods sake why not search for something important.
I was just thinking that. I hadn't heard of the game and now I'm going to at least rent it. If it gets banned temporarily, it must be good. That's a buy. And if they ban it and it somehow stands up in court... well, they're not going to manage that in all countries. Import time!
When they need support or money, they're the last best hope for freedom online. When you want them to actually produce something that looks like results, they're a research product and they claim that any useful code they produce is only a biproduct.
I wish slashdot would quit passing them free publicity. Better projects have gotten farther without getting a dime.
I could have made a computerized scientist, no problem. All you have to do is con a university into giving it a teaching position, and then it can claim the work of it's grad students. Easy.
Instead of having a 'tax', work out micropayments. Then, every time you send an email, you send a penny with it. So if a friend and I send 100 emails back and forth, the net money loss for the two of us is zero - because we are essentially passing the same penny back and forth. For the average person, this would mean not 10 dollars a year but almost nothing - because most people, ignoring spam, send about as much mail as they receive.
For spam companies, this penny an email would turn into a tremendous outflow of cash, because they send millions of emails with little or no response. There's no reason to give money to some central government authority when passing it back and forth between ourselves works just as well. I personally would enjoy a steady leak of cash from the spammer's pockets into yours and mine.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, who has a web page that looks like this gets to complain about usability. Ever. He bitches about form over function for video players, then has a web page that looks like *that*? Hey JWZ, doesn't look like you'd know usability if you saw it!
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He killed a Basalisk... after something else blinded it. For all intents and purposes, he killed a big blind snake - a challenge, because it was a really big blind snake and snakes have pretty good senses - but it was still just a big blind snake.
I've been trying to find the bill number - HR5005 - for about 5 minutes. None of the articles or Slashdot has the bill number itself - just some twisted version of it's name that matches dozens of bills on Thomas.
Which just goes to show - nobody wants you to read the bill, they want you to think what the pundits think. So much for fucking "news" sources.
I follow your argument, but while we can't prove a causal relationship, we can't disprove a casual relationship either. Heroin sounds like a fall-guy to me. Just because we've found a contributing factor doesn't mean we've found all of the factors, or even the prime factor.
The main reason S. aureus becomes so easily resistant to new antibiotics is because it easily picks up circular strands of DNA called plasmids which carry resistance genes on them.
Doesn't the method of DNA transmission imply a solution? Can't we develop a plasmid that kills S. aureus when it takes it on? It looks like S. aureus is saying, "yes, please sabotage my DNA!" Can't we give the disease a disease? Pass it a gene sequence that sterilizes it?
If giving antibiotics for every single illness is a bad idea for humans, then it's likely a bad idea to turn every single cow's bloodstream into an antibiotic river.
I was discussing a billing error with them last night. They said to me, flat out, "It doesn't matter who's right, we're a big company and there is nothing you can do to touch us. We say you owe us the money. Pay up." It's not just BMI. Corporations know they can roll right over any single one person and they are happy, happy to do it.
I don't like it when SF is used as a platform for pro-life/creationist crap.
It's his viewpoint. He can't write from anyone else's. You can't expect an intensely religious guy to just switch that part of himself off when he sits down to write. A lot of his stuff is still quite good. In spite of? Because of? Your call.
You've got to hand it to Card in one way at least. He's not subtle about it. He's not trying to sneak it in the back door. If it's there, it's right there out in the open.
...at the time of the broadcast of the show, he mentioned tossing the concept of normal *files* and folders too. It seems that might have changed a bit, as it was too radical.
I'm pretty sure that files will eventually go the way of punchcards. A file is just a spot on disk you can write to. When it comes to real data, nobody really keeps data in files anymore. It's all in databases. A file doesn't give you transactions, concurrency protection, or easy backup through replication. A database gives all this and more.
One of the things that we can curse microsoft for is giving a bad name to an operating system (Windows) with an integrated database (the Registry). The Registry is a horrid implementation of a rather good idea.
I worked at a wave pool as a lifeguard. Some of the lifeguards that had worked there longer mentioned one year they had a "rescue contest" to see who could save the most people.
That year saw more "rescues" of people to whom the description of "swimmer in trouble" only fit loosely, if at all. To win the contest the lifeguards would jump in to rescue anyone who could even loosely be interpreted as drowning.
The contest got canceled. Why? All of the 'rescues' were creating a paperwork overload and a perception of a dangerous enviornment - while doing nothing to make the place actually safer.
I predict the same thing for the mozilla bug contest. Lots of submissions, lots of work to process and order the submissions, some negative publicity, and at the end of the day, few additional bugs are found.
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Voting in the USA changes nothing - it's irresponsible to ignore the facts and pretend that it does.
Wow. You've seen one too many bad science fiction movies.
Let me get this straight. You're arguing for the giant laser, yet I'm the one who has seen too many science fiction movies?
Oh, and if you mean the "war machine" learns from it's enemies, consider this little dictum: "each war is fought with strategies and tactics meant for the previous one". Last one the US fought was in the Gulf...which was "overwhelming force". Well, looks like the military does learn and adapt, don't th....oh, wait...
So chasing Iraq (with thier outdated military) out of Kuwait with the help of the rest of the world proves that our military can handle any threat?
I can't help but feel that future tacticians will laugh at these toys we're pumping out. There's no way we can build a defense system against the kinds of weapons we can make now. How do you defend against an airburst nuke? You don't. What does this do against gas attacks? Zilch. What happens if it's power supply is sabotaged? Ouch. They can sit around with thier high energy lasers and play star wars untill the cows come home. It won't change a thing. An era of warfare is ending, and a new one is beginning
The soldier of the future is undetectable. He'll be able to look like a native, walk like a native, and pass as a native - and under his normal looking clothes he'll have enough ordinance to destory 5 metropolises in succession - or kill a single target.
Inevitably, the established war machine learns from it's enemies, the easy way or the hard way. Consider the revolutionary war, the korean war, the vietnam war. Each has brought about an evolution in tactics. If we really are in a new war on terrorism, then the tenant that we start from is this - anything that is in a fixed location can be found and destroyed. The new tactics will revolve around not having a fixed position and preventing your current position from being discovered.
Look at that toy and tell me what relevance it has to modern war. Answer: dick. We'll be able to sell them, and that's about it. The stealth bomber is probably the last step in the right direction the military has taken in a long, long, long time.
Giant laser beams. All we need is a giant shark to attach it to and we'll be right on our fucking way! Crap.
But the companies who manufacture GM food created large publicity problems for themselves by having ad campaigns and policies that made people not trust them.
Who brought the shadyness in the ad campaigns and policies to light? Surely every single European didn't do his own investigation into the ads and policies. Who's spotlighting the problems? From where does the word of mouth begin?
Especially farmers who see stories like certain GM crops having been windblown into a farmers field and then having to pay for copyright infringement.
Who publishes the stories? Are you telling me that the mainstream media is on the side of the farmers and freedom of information instead of the corporations? That must be nice.
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You enter your search criteria, and the wikisearch engine tells you that your choice of topic is Not Notable, and for gods sake why not search for something important.
I was just thinking that. I hadn't heard of the game and now I'm going to at least rent it. If it gets banned temporarily, it must be good. That's a buy. And if they ban it and it somehow stands up in court... well, they're not going to manage that in all countries. Import time!
Does he really believe any significant number of people really wants to read books on a computer?
And who wants to sit at a computer and listen to downloaded music? ...lots of people, apparently.
When they need support or money, they're the last best hope for freedom online. When you want them to actually produce something that looks like results, they're a research product and they claim that any useful code they produce is only a biproduct.
I wish slashdot would quit passing them free publicity. Better projects have gotten farther without getting a dime.
There don't seem to be bittorrent links this season. Do they really want to pay for all this bandwidth themselves?
I could have made a computerized scientist, no problem. All you have to do is con a university into giving it a teaching position, and then it can claim the work of it's grad students. Easy.
Instead of having a 'tax', work out micropayments. Then, every time you send an email, you send a penny with it. So if a friend and I send 100 emails back and forth, the net money loss for the two of us is zero - because we are essentially passing the same penny back and forth. For the average person, this would mean not 10 dollars a year but almost nothing - because most people, ignoring spam, send about as much mail as they receive.
For spam companies, this penny an email would turn into a tremendous outflow of cash, because they send millions of emails with little or no response. There's no reason to give money to some central government authority when passing it back and forth between ourselves works just as well. I personally would enjoy a steady leak of cash from the spammer's pockets into yours and mine.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, who has a web page that looks like this gets to complain about usability. Ever. He bitches about form over function for video players, then has a web page that looks like *that*? Hey JWZ, doesn't look like you'd know usability if you saw it!
You mean FPGA, don't you?
He killed a Basalisk... after something else blinded it. For all intents and purposes, he killed a big blind snake - a challenge, because it was a really big blind snake and snakes have pretty good senses - but it was still just a big blind snake.
Which just goes to show - nobody wants you to read the bill, they want you to think what the pundits think. So much for fucking "news" sources.
I follow your argument, but while we can't prove a causal relationship, we can't disprove a casual relationship either. Heroin sounds like a fall-guy to me. Just because we've found a contributing factor doesn't mean we've found all of the factors, or even the prime factor.
Doesn't the method of DNA transmission imply a solution? Can't we develop a plasmid that kills S. aureus when it takes it on? It looks like S. aureus is saying, "yes, please sabotage my DNA!" Can't we give the disease a disease? Pass it a gene sequence that sterilizes it?
If giving antibiotics for every single illness is a bad idea for humans, then it's likely a bad idea to turn every single cow's bloodstream into an antibiotic river.
I was discussing a billing error with them last night. They said to me, flat out, "It doesn't matter who's right, we're a big company and there is nothing you can do to touch us. We say you owe us the money. Pay up." It's not just BMI. Corporations know they can roll right over any single one person and they are happy, happy to do it.
I don't like it when SF is used as a platform for pro-life/creationist crap.
It's his viewpoint. He can't write from anyone else's. You can't expect an intensely religious guy to just switch that part of himself off when he sits down to write. A lot of his stuff is still quite good. In spite of? Because of? Your call.
You've got to hand it to Card in one way at least. He's not subtle about it. He's not trying to sneak it in the back door. If it's there, it's right there out in the open.
I'm pretty sure that files will eventually go the way of punchcards. A file is just a spot on disk you can write to. When it comes to real data, nobody really keeps data in files anymore. It's all in databases. A file doesn't give you transactions, concurrency protection, or easy backup through replication. A database gives all this and more.
One of the things that we can curse microsoft for is giving a bad name to an operating system (Windows) with an integrated database (the Registry). The Registry is a horrid implementation of a rather good idea.
I worked at a wave pool as a lifeguard. Some of the lifeguards that had worked there longer mentioned one year they had a "rescue contest" to see who could save the most people.
That year saw more "rescues" of people to whom the description of "swimmer in trouble" only fit loosely, if at all. To win the contest the lifeguards would jump in to rescue anyone who could even loosely be interpreted as drowning.
The contest got canceled. Why? All of the 'rescues' were creating a paperwork overload and a perception of a dangerous enviornment - while doing nothing to make the place actually safer.
I predict the same thing for the mozilla bug contest. Lots of submissions, lots of work to process and order the submissions, some negative publicity, and at the end of the day, few additional bugs are found.
Voting in the USA changes nothing - it's irresponsible to ignore the facts and pretend that it does.
So let me get this straight: we can't defend against everything, so we shouldn't defend against everything?
The trick is not to defend but to counter-attack with overwhelming force. Did we defend Kuwait from attack? The world trade center?
We defend against a nuke by stopping them before they even get produced, by firm diplomacy backed up by men on the ground with rifles if necessary.
Yes! Exactly! How does a giant laser beam *help* with that process?
Wow. You've seen one too many bad science fiction movies.
Let me get this straight. You're arguing for the giant laser, yet I'm the one who has seen too many science fiction movies?
Oh, and if you mean the "war machine" learns from it's enemies, consider this little dictum: "each war is fought with strategies and tactics meant for the previous one". Last one the US fought was in the Gulf...which was "overwhelming force". Well, looks like the military does learn and adapt, don't th....oh, wait...
So chasing Iraq (with thier outdated military) out of Kuwait with the help of the rest of the world proves that our military can handle any threat?
Like a terrorist?
Yes, quite.
I can't help but feel that future tacticians will laugh at these toys we're pumping out. There's no way we can build a defense system against the kinds of weapons we can make now. How do you defend against an airburst nuke? You don't. What does this do against gas attacks? Zilch. What happens if it's power supply is sabotaged? Ouch. They can sit around with thier high energy lasers and play star wars untill the cows come home. It won't change a thing. An era of warfare is ending, and a new one is beginning
The soldier of the future is undetectable. He'll be able to look like a native, walk like a native, and pass as a native - and under his normal looking clothes he'll have enough ordinance to destory 5 metropolises in succession - or kill a single target.
Inevitably, the established war machine learns from it's enemies, the easy way or the hard way. Consider the revolutionary war, the korean war, the vietnam war. Each has brought about an evolution in tactics. If we really are in a new war on terrorism, then the tenant that we start from is this - anything that is in a fixed location can be found and destroyed.
The new tactics will revolve around not having a fixed position and preventing your current position from being discovered.
Look at that toy and tell me what relevance it has to modern war. Answer: dick. We'll be able to sell them, and that's about it. The stealth bomber is probably the last step in the right direction the military has taken in a long, long, long time.
Giant laser beams. All we need is a giant shark to attach it to and we'll be right on our fucking way! Crap.
But the companies who manufacture GM food created large publicity problems for themselves by having ad campaigns and policies that made people not trust them.
Who brought the shadyness in the ad campaigns and policies to light? Surely every single European didn't do his own investigation into the ads and policies. Who's spotlighting the problems? From where does the word of mouth begin?
Especially farmers who see stories like certain GM crops having been windblown into a farmers field and then having to pay for copyright infringement.
Who publishes the stories? Are you telling me that the mainstream media is on the side of the farmers and freedom of information instead of the corporations? That must be nice.