It's a shame we're almost no closer to colonizing extraterrestrial bodies than we were 30 years ago. The far-future plans NASA periodically comes up with are a lot more interesting than the actual missions they like to carry out... --
Forgot, The Incredible Machine might be a decent test of intellectual abilities. Plus it's not as well-known as Tetris so you might have a large pool of people who've never played it.
Of course, for pure problem-solving, there's always Infocom...
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Might want to try something with a faster learning curve, and maybe something a little bit more general. Simcity maybe? Tetris would be a great example I think, but you might have problems finding people who've never played it before. --
I know it sounds confusing, but if you didn't wear armour, you wouldn't need it to defend yourself. As players use stronger armour, players need
stronger armour to defend themselves!
It's not about the armor; it's the size, strength, and weight. The armor has gotten stronger over the years because it simply as had to. The average linemen in pro football weighs well over 300 lbs, stands a good deal over 6 feet, and is expected to benchpress around 400 lbs. Without the armor you'd see a couple of deaths each season. Hell, I've watched rugby, and I've watched American football, there's no comparison in the scale of force involved. --
does not count. Good work much of it, but not literary speculative fiction like Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, CT Cherryh, Julian May, and other
geniuses of world building, characters, and realistic future speculation are my faves.
-perdida
ummm...first of all I've never heard of "DragonsQuest", whatever that is. Secondly I, and many other people on slashdot, are quite familiar with the authors you cited; I think Alfred Bester was one of the best science fiction authors ever, and I enjoyed C.J. Cherryh's work (by the way, Cyteen wasn't the first time the azi were depicted; Serpent's Reach predates it by about 15 years). Slashdot is one of the few places I've found where intelligent science fiction is appreciated. Do a search on the older stuff link for science fiction, restricting it to book reviews; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. In addition to Bester's The Stars My Destination, reviews have been posted to A Canticle for Leibowitz (in my opinion the greatest science fiction novel of all time), The Chrysalids, and a lot of other works of literary sci-fi.
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Let's be honest here, American football has a lot more force involved than rugby. I mean, put your best rugby team against any professional American football team in either game, and they'd be hurt pretty bad. Just a size/strength issue, which is why we wear the armor... --
The anti-union sentiment on slashdot always manages to surprise me. Here's a couple of ideas for all you laissez-faire ideologues. Why don't you:
a) read a history book on the labor movement, rather than accept what's force-fed you by corporate media outlets and stand-up comics.
b) think a while about what's going to happen when the next big recession hits. Just because your skills are in demand now doesn't mean they always will be; or do you think PHP scripting and network programming are skills so integral to western civilization that you'll always have a job?
c) accept that collective bargaining can fit very neatly within a free market. If a company can't deal with workers organizing, then it's the company's fault. Nobody forces companies to accept unions, it's sometimes just the best business decision to make.
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know it's a little naive, but is anyone else suprised that this is happening in China? I know they've got a space program etc etc but I have a real problem thinging of it as a high tech nation.
That's probably why they're doing it. China seems to be kind of neurotic about their status as an international industrial power. Witness the Great Leap Forward, where they tried to form an industrial base overnight (making farmers give up their fields to build "backyard furnaces" for steel production) or the Three Gorges Dam.
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No government that approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner can possibly propose the breakup of Micorosft.
I don't know if that's necessarily true; it's not against the law to have a monopoly, it's just against the law to use it to drive out competition. I think it would be perfectly logical to allow the merger, with the understanding if they abused it the Justice Department would come down hard on them.
Of course, now that the Republicans stole the Presidency, they have much smoother sailing.
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Just what we need, something that will prevent the natural "thinning of the herd". Get rid of some of the means by which nature creates
some type of balance. 6 billion people on this planet must not be enough.
While the average lifespan of h. sapiens has more than doubled during the past few thousand years, the maximum lifespan hasn't really seemed to change much. People will still die, but with this discovery their last years might be a little more pleasant. If anything comes of this there would be a population boom, but probably not even of the magnitude antibiotics brought after WW2. --
If you're feeling unusually loyal to the company, find a consultant who they can get in on an emergency. Pick an expensive one. Then go on vacation and turn off your phone.
If you don't care, go on vacation. And turn off your phone.
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That kinda bullshit hyperbole is what makes me want to bitch-slap environmentalists these days.
Where the hell did environmentalists come from? Maybe you didn't read the article, but did you even read the slashdot story submission? The power companies are blaming the net; it's hard to get farther away ideologically from an environmentalist than a power company. --
On the one hand I have the same dread most people do when one of their favorite books is going to be turned into a movie. Especially since Clarke's books in general, and Rendezvouz With Rama in particular, are more thoughtful than action-packed. Hopefully they don't try to throw in anything that wasn't in the book.
On the other hand, 2001: A Space Odyssey was in my opinion the greatest movie of all time. So who knows, this one might turn out halfway decent. --
Mice, to me, still seem like a kludgy and hacky implementation of a pointing device. But I guess I can't bitch too much since they do their job and I haven't invented anything better.
I've never done this myself, but the only thing I've seen that might compare to/surpass a mouse is a tablet/pen combination. Might even be more intuitive for an inexperienced user, since they've been (presumably) using pens already... --
Truman would probably have done the same thing as Kennedy.
Ronald Reagan might have triggered a war; not only was he pretty much unconnected from reality, he surrounded himself with advisors who ranged from relatively competent to dangerously unbalanced. Bush's advisors seem to be a little better, but it would still be a gamble.
Clinton probably could have negotiated quite effectively for their removal, though we might have lost more than in them than the missiles in Turkey, though probably not much more, he's pretty shrewd.
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To summarise for US citizens: Our biggest-selling daily paper is a supermarket tabloid, with tits in. It's published by an Australian gangster.
You don't think we have to deal with him too? Granted, his only large circulation newspaper here is the New York Post, which is fortunately pretty far down on the list (it's only in 4th place in New York, and 14th nationally), but he has a pretty strong presence on TV. The weird thing over here is that while conservative groups love to blame the entertainment industry for all the ills in society, they leave him alone (even though his company produces the worst of the slush). Would I be overly cynical in chalking this up to his financial support of far right-wing causes?
I can understand how bitter you must be, though, I know how upset I'd be if the News Corporation bought the New York Times... --
Why must the US Gov stick its nose into any and everything? Do you think it will ever strike them that they do not own and cannot control the Internet?
I guess they figure they built it, so they own it. It's not like they ever declared publicly they were giving it to the rest of the world.
They can pass all the laws they want, maybe even laws banning certain goods to be sold online, but it wont stop it from happening
Actually, it will. They created ICANN. ICANN is creating new domains. Their laws affect the internet. Point disproved. Just because you don't like something you can't pretend it doesn't exist. --
Finally get to see what happens with the whole Tokimi storyline. Was kind of annoyed how they set up what seemed to be a major storyline then just suddenly ended it.
BTW, the Tenchi Muyo OVA was easily the best anime I've ever seen; it's possibly the best anything I've ever seen, so if you haven't seen it I'd suggest you pick it up. Even if you're not an anime fan (I'd always been disappointed by anime until I found it).
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Here.
It's a shame we're almost no closer to colonizing extraterrestrial bodies than we were 30 years ago. The far-future plans NASA periodically comes up with are a lot more interesting than the actual missions they like to carry out...
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Forgot, The Incredible Machine might be a decent test of intellectual abilities. Plus it's not as well-known as Tetris so you might have a large pool of people who've never played it.
Of course, for pure problem-solving, there's always Infocom...
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Might want to try something with a faster learning curve, and maybe something a little bit more general. Simcity maybe? Tetris would be a great example I think, but you might have problems finding people who've never played it before.
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Last time I looked in the back of my PC, I saw that all the components came from Taiwan, Korea and China, not the USA.
They were designed in the US; other countries just cloned them.
It took a Finn to develop the greatest software, and the "second in command" is a Brit! (Alan Cox).
UNIX was invented in the US too; the Finns and Brits just cloned it too.
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I know it sounds confusing, but if you didn't wear armour, you wouldn't need it to defend yourself. As players use stronger armour, players need stronger armour to defend themselves!
It's not about the armor; it's the size, strength, and weight. The armor has gotten stronger over the years because it simply as had to. The average linemen in pro football weighs well over 300 lbs, stands a good deal over 6 feet, and is expected to benchpress around 400 lbs. Without the armor you'd see a couple of deaths each season. Hell, I've watched rugby, and I've watched American football, there's no comparison in the scale of force involved.
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does not count. Good work much of it, but not literary speculative fiction like Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, CT Cherryh, Julian May, and other geniuses of world building, characters, and realistic future speculation are my faves. -perdida
ummm...first of all I've never heard of "DragonsQuest", whatever that is. Secondly I, and many other people on slashdot, are quite familiar with the authors you cited; I think Alfred Bester was one of the best science fiction authors ever, and I enjoyed C.J. Cherryh's work (by the way, Cyteen wasn't the first time the azi were depicted; Serpent's Reach predates it by about 15 years). Slashdot is one of the few places I've found where intelligent science fiction is appreciated. Do a search on the older stuff link for science fiction, restricting it to book reviews; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. In addition to Bester's The Stars My Destination, reviews have been posted to A Canticle for Leibowitz (in my opinion the greatest science fiction novel of all time), The Chrysalids, and a lot of other works of literary sci-fi.
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There is another reader of real science fiction in the house.
Slashdot doesn't really lack science fiction readers you know...
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Let's be honest here, American football has a lot more force involved than rugby. I mean, put your best rugby team against any professional American football team in either game, and they'd be hurt pretty bad. Just a size/strength issue, which is why we wear the armor...
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Anything that makes it more likely that we'll get Shenmue 2 is a good thing...
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The anti-union sentiment on slashdot always manages to surprise me. Here's a couple of ideas for all you laissez-faire ideologues. Why don't you:
a) read a history book on the labor movement, rather than accept what's force-fed you by corporate media outlets and stand-up comics.
b) think a while about what's going to happen when the next big recession hits. Just because your skills are in demand now doesn't mean they always will be; or do you think PHP scripting and network programming are skills so integral to western civilization that you'll always have a job?
c) accept that collective bargaining can fit very neatly within a free market. If a company can't deal with workers organizing, then it's the company's fault. Nobody forces companies to accept unions, it's sometimes just the best business decision to make.
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know it's a little naive, but is anyone else suprised that this is happening in China? I know they've got a space program etc etc but I have a real problem thinging of it as a high tech nation.
That's probably why they're doing it. China seems to be kind of neurotic about their status as an international industrial power. Witness the Great Leap Forward, where they tried to form an industrial base overnight (making farmers give up their fields to build "backyard furnaces" for steel production) or the Three Gorges Dam.
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No government that approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner can possibly propose the breakup of Micorosft.
I don't know if that's necessarily true; it's not against the law to have a monopoly, it's just against the law to use it to drive out competition. I think it would be perfectly logical to allow the merger, with the understanding if they abused it the Justice Department would come down hard on them.
Of course, now that the Republicans stole the Presidency, they have much smoother sailing.
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Just what we need, something that will prevent the natural "thinning of the herd". Get rid of some of the means by which nature creates some type of balance. 6 billion people on this planet must not be enough.
While the average lifespan of h. sapiens has more than doubled during the past few thousand years, the maximum lifespan hasn't really seemed to change much. People will still die, but with this discovery their last years might be a little more pleasant. If anything comes of this there would be a population boom, but probably not even of the magnitude antibiotics brought after WW2.
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Join an open sourced project!
I got the impression he wanted to do something they'd pay him for.
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They're posting from the future! You should have bought Sun stock, knowing how in the future they were going to release this netra thing....
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If you're feeling unusually loyal to the company, find a consultant who they can get in on an emergency. Pick an expensive one. Then go on vacation and turn off your phone.
If you don't care, go on vacation. And turn off your phone.
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That kinda bullshit hyperbole is what makes me want to bitch-slap environmentalists these days.
Where the hell did environmentalists come from? Maybe you didn't read the article, but did you even read the slashdot story submission? The power companies are blaming the net; it's hard to get farther away ideologically from an environmentalist than a power company.
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On the one hand I have the same dread most people do when one of their favorite books is going to be turned into a movie. Especially since Clarke's books in general, and Rendezvouz With Rama in particular, are more thoughtful than action-packed. Hopefully they don't try to throw in anything that wasn't in the book.
On the other hand, 2001: A Space Odyssey was in my opinion the greatest movie of all time. So who knows, this one might turn out halfway decent.
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Mice, to me, still seem like a kludgy and hacky implementation of a pointing device. But I guess I can't bitch too much since they do their job and I haven't invented anything better.
I've never done this myself, but the only thing I've seen that might compare to/surpass a mouse is a tablet/pen combination. Might even be more intuitive for an inexperienced user, since they've been (presumably) using pens already...
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Truman would probably have done the same thing as Kennedy.
Ronald Reagan might have triggered a war; not only was he pretty much unconnected from reality, he surrounded himself with advisors who ranged from relatively competent to dangerously unbalanced. Bush's advisors seem to be a little better, but it would still be a gamble.
Clinton probably could have negotiated quite effectively for their removal, though we might have lost more than in them than the missiles in Turkey, though probably not much more, he's pretty shrewd.
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To summarise for US citizens: Our biggest-selling daily paper is a supermarket tabloid, with tits in. It's published by an Australian gangster.
You don't think we have to deal with him too? Granted, his only large circulation newspaper here is the New York Post, which is fortunately pretty far down on the list (it's only in 4th place in New York, and 14th nationally), but he has a pretty strong presence on TV. The weird thing over here is that while conservative groups love to blame the entertainment industry for all the ills in society, they leave him alone (even though his company produces the worst of the slush). Would I be overly cynical in chalking this up to his financial support of far right-wing causes?
I can understand how bitter you must be, though, I know how upset I'd be if the News Corporation bought the New York Times...
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And as always, there's the heated /. argument about Moore's law buried in there too
What heated argument? They're just saying this is a way to keep it going...
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This helps prevent you loosing karma from people modding down things that should have been at +1 to begin with
Well I'd use that box myself if all of my contents weren't so damn insightful and deserving of positive moderation...
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Why must the US Gov stick its nose into any and everything? Do you think it will ever strike them that they do not own and cannot control the Internet?
I guess they figure they built it, so they own it. It's not like they ever declared publicly they were giving it to the rest of the world.
They can pass all the laws they want, maybe even laws banning certain goods to be sold online, but it wont stop it from happening
Actually, it will. They created ICANN. ICANN is creating new domains. Their laws affect the internet. Point disproved. Just because you don't like something you can't pretend it doesn't exist.
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Finally get to see what happens with the whole Tokimi storyline. Was kind of annoyed how they set up what seemed to be a major storyline then just suddenly ended it.
BTW, the Tenchi Muyo OVA was easily the best anime I've ever seen; it's possibly the best anything I've ever seen, so if you haven't seen it I'd suggest you pick it up. Even if you're not an anime fan (I'd always been disappointed by anime until I found it).
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