The only problem I have here is that the implied message is that spanking a child is the same as physical abuse. To me, as someone who was certainly abused, there is a massive difference. One aspect of that is severity.
The other, which honestly might be more important, is the reason for the punishment - any sort of punishment: physical, emotional, whatever. The real problem I see is that most people do not punish in a consistent, thoughtful way.
Without a consistent method there is no chance for anything to be analyzed or at least nothing of value. There is no way for a child to formulate a model of how the world works and how they should act.
If you could please in the future avoid giving a reasonable, honest and cogent examples it would prove much easier for people here to debate and disagree with you. Thank You.
So, from my brief scanning of the doc file you linked to, what chimney does it change the way the os works with the nic and tcp?
So does this mean that this one of those cases where they improved the performance, on the server side, without breaking any compatibility or adjust the standard at all?
The funny thing, other than just the comment itself, is that I think that truly is the fundamental way wikipedia works. One person's troll is another person's interesting.
You also choose which ISP to buy from. Well, most people these days have a choice of ISPs. Choose the one that doesn't screw you. Then tell your friends to choose the one that doesn't screw them.
If ISPs started doing this that would have to offer the end user something in return, otherwise rather quickly customers will go elsewhere. As long as there is more than one ISP in an area, there should be no problem hence the reason to fight monopolies.
So, what you are saying, what you are trying to tell me is that i have the exact same version as the new version? Is that what are you are trying to tell us?
First off, he was modded troll because the latest version,.9.4, is VERY comparable and does not require a machine that is vastly greater than the the C version, they are very close.
Secondly, his comment adds nothing useful. he is just bitching pointless. Many trolls do that.
More importantly, even if your numbers are taken as meaningful, look at what we are talking about: A 3d java FPS that is ONLY 25% slower than a compiled C program. 3d and java were never in the same sentence, now they are.
Talking about taking a hit with java now means A LOT less than it used. It is likely java will ALWAYS be slower in most cases then C, just like C is slower than assembly. Yet for some strange reason most people rarely complain about that hit.
As with everything, right tool for the right job and java is becoming more capable of being the right tool more often every year.
Mandatory conservation is SO the wrong way to go, for lots of reasons. I would guess that business are the primary offender and are the ones that truly need to be constrained. You should totally let people use as much water as they can afford.
You just raise the cost of the water as the use increases. As their water use grows their cost increases geometricly. Suddenly people conserver water not because they have to but because they choose to.
But there is a reason for reverence for peer review - as a procedure, it weeds out a lot of bullshit.
The only thing that bothered me is that even if it might deserve reverence, it shouldn't get it. To me it seem clear that nothing in science should be revered - not the speed of light, not the theory of evolution, nothing. Something that is revered is not going to be looked at closely because of it's special status. The grandparent post implied that when he suggested that the old way was wrong, he was assaulted by the "peer view" faithful. Or how about a quote I saw recently and like it and it is kinda germane:
Dr. Watson: You're just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else. Sherlock Holmes: Well, he had a point. 'Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be, well... All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes. -from "They Might Be Giants," the 1971 detective comedy written by James Goldman
I know nothing off the grandparent's situation but I do know of a project where they were replication transactions in php because they couldn't do it mysql4. I assume that having the db take care of it is going to be faster then if the code is in php.....
You know, when I first read the grand-parent post I assumed he was talking about cost to manufacture,not total price. The total price will likely be around $200, if not exactly $199.99. Hell, I doubt they can do anything else. Everyone is expecting the system at that price point.
But as far as manufacturing goes, it could be anywhere between 1/3 to 1/4 the cost of the most expensive system with the 1/3 being the most likely. Since Nintendo likes to make a profit on their consoles, the Revolution could cost as little as $150 to make, maybe as "high" as $180. Most people seem to agree that even if the 360 is not a loss leader the PS3 will be which means that the ps3 to make will cost over $400. Here is just one example estimating a production cost on the PS3 at $500.
Well, I know a great number of people (especially here on slashdot) would say that a great deal of the content that is created explicitly for profit is crap. Would less crap be bad? Again, the web highlights that a lot of good content can float to the top in a number of ways and that process has only begun. Admittedly, trying to research a new drug like an OSS project seems like more then a bit of a unlikely.
I think the issue is that without draconian laws enforcing IP laws seems meaningless. To me, IP crime doesn't deserve severe punishment for an offense and if that's required to enforce the law then the problem is being approached in the wrong way.
I really am not sure what the right way is: Maybe government funding is the answer, maybe the free market will provide a solution or maybe we just except that less creative work will be produced.
I like IP and I certainly want the people who create the fantastic IP products that I use to be justly rewarded for the efforts and have some form of control over it. I just don't think we should assume we must have IP, which is something I think the vast majority of people do. They assume we must have it and then try to find a way for it to work. The cost to have strong IP laws could be far higher than no laws at all.
The analogy you suggest, between the information revolution and the industrial one, is probably rather closer to the truth than most of us would like. Consider that in days gone by, skilled craftsmen and knowledgable traders could bring quality goods to society who wanted them, while still catering for those who just want cheap 'n' cheerful. In contrast, in today's industrialised economy, almost everything is cheap, nasty, mass-produced rubbish (or at least nasty and mass-produced). It's hard to find a skilled craftsman even if you want one and are prepared to pay for his services.
The answer lies within your paragraph. The industrial revolution was one of the best things to happen EVER. The chance to have "mass-produced rubbish" is a fantastic thing. In countries where the industrial revolution happened, it is cheap and easy to have everything a body needs to be comfortable, to eat, to live. Basic needs are easy to meet, now. It has not always been that way. As it stands now it is a two-tier system. Your median income person can either have a lot of "rubbish" or a few very well crafted objects.
This two-tier system is already playing itself out on the net already and it is a good thing. The "mass-produced rubbish" in this case is google or wikipedia. Sure, it is not the best, most factually correct information on a certain topic but it's (nearly) free and it is better, faster information that most of the world had access to even just 15 years ago. Or I can use a service like Lexus-Nexus to get more detailed, idiosyncratic information.
I think it is questionable if IP has any or SHOULD have any future. IP has a tendency to make something scarce that doesn't need to be. From life saving drugs to life-enriching music, IP makes scarce things that no longer need to be. Trying to force an old system of control onto a new paradigm is going to cause trouble. It does require at a minimum, as you suggest, a drastic overhaul.
What's most frustrating to me is that I think this is an important issue that need to be discussed with the non-techie public and I don't see it happening any time soon.
You said all nextgen GPUs - do think that is going to include the Revolution? I might be a bit of a Nintendo fanboy and i haven't heard many details on the GPU for the Rev but it seems that by side stepping the desire to compete for "Bigger, Faster, MORE!' they may have avoided a number of issues that may plague the other 2 consoles.
I like the notion that one of Nintendo's advantages might simply be that it will work, regularly and reliably for hours on end in a entertainment center.
"Equality exists primarily in the mind of those who have never had to deal with rasism."
Honestly, being a white male in the bay area I almost never see any rasism first hand - too many races. However, how could someone look at the prison population, see that in some state blacks make up 50% of the inmates but only 5% of the general population and then say that racism is a partisan issue?
I think you may have missed part of the point as well. Why should your collaborators care what you dress like? Why should you care what your collaborators think about how you LOOK?
What I, what anybody, should be graded on is their work: how do I do the job I am suppose to do? Focusing on anything else CAN'T be good business sense, best man for the job and all that. Some jobs how you look is an important part of you job. For a whole lot more, it's not. IT tends to fall into the later.
On top of that, there are ALOT of IT jobs that will have you getting filthy while doing your job. I know way too many people that have to get filthy while wearing a tie. WTF?!? The janitor doesn't have to wear a tie,why do I? Prestige. Status. Class structure. IT is suppose to be "better" than the janitor, hence he should dress better.
And last but not least, you are so wrong. I pay the company with my time. The company is as lucky to have me as I am to have them. Once you start thinking that the company is doing you a favor, you lose all power and become merely another tool. Are you a tool?
Is surprises me that this has been mentioned a couple of times already, that people truly think there is no military application.
First, we are going to set aside the fact that as other have pointed out lack of fear does NOT mean your stupid. This may be gene therapy now but it will lead to drugs that help manage fear and that is where you would get payoff even if being totally fearless was bad in a combat situation.
When fear gets to strong, it gets in the way of making rational choices. So while you might not want a totally fearless solider all the time, there are plenty of times when being able to control the level of fear would be vastly useful.
hey now! you should only be sarcastic when it's NEEDED and not any other time. The kind gentleman will let you know when you have permission. Which is as it should be.
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The only problem I have here is that the implied message is that spanking a child is the same as physical abuse. To me, as someone who was certainly abused, there is a massive difference. One aspect of that is severity.
The other, which honestly might be more important, is the reason for the punishment - any sort of punishment: physical, emotional, whatever. The real problem I see is that most people do not punish in a consistent, thoughtful way.
Without a consistent method there is no chance for anything to be analyzed or at least nothing of value. There is no way for a child to formulate a model of how the world works and how they should act.
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Dear Sir:
If you could please in the future avoid giving a reasonable, honest and cogent examples it would prove much easier for people here to debate and disagree with you. Thank You.
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So, from my brief scanning of the doc file you linked to, what chimney does it change the way the os works with the nic and tcp?
So does this mean that this one of those cases where they improved the performance, on the server side, without breaking any compatibility or adjust the standard at all?
The funny thing, other than just the comment itself, is that I think that truly is the fundamental way wikipedia works. One person's troll is another person's interesting.
You also choose which ISP to buy from. Well, most people these days have a choice of ISPs. Choose the one that doesn't screw you. Then tell your friends to choose the one that doesn't screw them.
If ISPs started doing this that would have to offer the end user something in return, otherwise rather quickly customers will go elsewhere. As long as there is more than one ISP in an area, there should be no problem hence the reason to fight monopolies.
thank you, i am gonna giggle about that for a while....
thank you...sometime i wonder if i am alone in the universe
So, what you are saying, what you are trying to tell me is that i have the exact same version as the new version? Is that what are you are trying to tell us?
What do you mean?
First off, he was modded troll because the latest version, .9.4, is VERY comparable and does not require a machine that is vastly greater than the the C version, they are very close.
Secondly, his comment adds nothing useful. he is just bitching pointless. Many trolls do that.
More importantly, even if your numbers are taken as meaningful, look at what we are talking about: A 3d java FPS that is ONLY 25% slower than a compiled C program. 3d and java were never in the same sentence, now they are.
Talking about taking a hit with java now means A LOT less than it used. It is likely java will ALWAYS be slower in most cases then C, just like C is slower than assembly. Yet for some strange reason most people rarely complain about that hit.
As with everything, right tool for the right job and java is becoming more capable of being the right tool more often every year.
could never been considered
Mandatory conservation is SO the wrong way to go, for lots of reasons. I would guess that business are the primary offender and are the ones that truly need to be constrained. You should totally let people use as much water as they can afford.
You just raise the cost of the water as the use increases. As their water use grows their cost increases geometricly. Suddenly people conserver water not because they have to but because they choose to.
uhm, if you think redwood city is a desert, it shows how much you know about...well, reading.
HINT: Redwoods need alot of water.......guess what they have alot of in REDWOOD city?
The only thing that bothered me is that even if it might deserve reverence, it shouldn't get it. To me it seem clear that nothing in science should be revered - not the speed of light, not the theory of evolution, nothing. Something that is revered is not going to be looked at closely because of it's special status. The grandparent post implied that when he suggested that the old way was wrong, he was assaulted by the "peer view" faithful. Or how about a quote I saw recently and like it and it is kinda germane:
Dr. Watson: You're just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else.
Sherlock Holmes: Well, he had a point. 'Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be, well... All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.
-from "They Might Be Giants," the 1971 detective comedy written by James Goldman
I know nothing off the grandparent's situation but I do know of a project where they were replication transactions in php because they couldn't do it mysql4. I assume that having the db take care of it is going to be faster then if the code is in php.....
You know, when I first read the grand-parent post I assumed he was talking about cost to manufacture,not total price. The total price will likely be around $200, if not exactly $199.99. Hell, I doubt they can do anything else. Everyone is expecting the system at that price point.
But as far as manufacturing goes, it could be anywhere between 1/3 to 1/4 the cost of the most expensive system with the 1/3 being the most likely. Since Nintendo likes to make a profit on their consoles, the Revolution could cost as little as $150 to make, maybe as "high" as $180. Most people seem to agree that even if the 360 is not a loss leader the PS3 will be which means that the ps3 to make will cost over $400. Here is just one example estimating a production cost on the PS3 at $500.
Well, I know a great number of people (especially here on slashdot) would say that a great deal of the content that is created explicitly for profit is crap. Would less crap be bad? Again, the web highlights that a lot of good content can float to the top in a number of ways and that process has only begun. Admittedly, trying to research a new drug like an OSS project seems like more then a bit of a unlikely.
I think the issue is that without draconian laws enforcing IP laws seems meaningless. To me, IP crime doesn't deserve severe punishment for an offense and if that's required to enforce the law then the problem is being approached in the wrong way.
I really am not sure what the right way is: Maybe government funding is the answer, maybe the free market will provide a solution or maybe we just except that less creative work will be produced.
I like IP and I certainly want the people who create the fantastic IP products that I use to be justly rewarded for the efforts and have some form of control over it. I just don't think we should assume we must have IP, which is something I think the vast majority of people do. They assume we must have it and then try to find a way for it to work. The cost to have strong IP laws could be far higher than no laws at all.
thank you mods for modding that post as redundant. Although, I think we already knew that.
The answer lies within your paragraph. The industrial revolution was one of the best things to happen EVER. The chance to have "mass-produced rubbish" is a fantastic thing. In countries where the industrial revolution happened, it is cheap and easy to have everything a body needs to be comfortable, to eat, to live. Basic needs are easy to meet, now. It has not always been that way. As it stands now it is a two-tier system. Your median income person can either have a lot of "rubbish" or a few very well crafted objects.
This two-tier system is already playing itself out on the net already and it is a good thing. The "mass-produced rubbish" in this case is google or wikipedia. Sure, it is not the best, most factually correct information on a certain topic but it's (nearly) free and it is better, faster information that most of the world had access to even just 15 years ago. Or I can use a service like Lexus-Nexus to get more detailed, idiosyncratic information.
I think it is questionable if IP has any or SHOULD have any future. IP has a tendency to make something scarce that doesn't need to be. From life saving drugs to life-enriching music, IP makes scarce things that no longer need to be. Trying to force an old system of control onto a new paradigm is going to cause trouble. It does require at a minimum, as you suggest, a drastic overhaul.
What's most frustrating to me is that I think this is an important issue that need to be discussed with the non-techie public and I don't see it happening any time soon.
And I avoid all of those problems by having no money.
You said all nextgen GPUs - do think that is going to include the Revolution? I might be a bit of a Nintendo fanboy and i haven't heard many details on the GPU for the Rev but it seems that by side stepping the desire to compete for "Bigger, Faster, MORE!' they may have avoided a number of issues that may plague the other 2 consoles.
I like the notion that one of Nintendo's advantages might simply be that it will work, regularly and reliably for hours on end in a entertainment center.
to which his response should have been:
"Equality exists primarily in the mind of those who have never had to deal with rasism."
Honestly, being a white male in the bay area I almost never see any rasism first hand - too many races. However, how could someone look at the prison population, see that in some state blacks make up 50% of the inmates but only 5% of the general population and then say that racism is a partisan issue?
Reminds me of a photo I saw on some signs of "fraken-food" protesters:
"We want no genes in our food!"
I think you may have missed part of the point as well. Why should your collaborators care what you dress like? Why should you care what your collaborators think about how you LOOK?
What I, what anybody, should be graded on is their work: how do I do the job I am suppose to do? Focusing on anything else CAN'T be good business sense, best man for the job and all that. Some jobs how you look is an important part of you job. For a whole lot more, it's not. IT tends to fall into the later.
On top of that, there are ALOT of IT jobs that will have you getting filthy while doing your job. I know way too many people that have to get filthy while wearing a tie. WTF?!? The janitor doesn't have to wear a tie,why do I? Prestige. Status. Class structure. IT is suppose to be "better" than the janitor, hence he should dress better.
And last but not least, you are so wrong. I pay the company with my time. The company is as lucky to have me as I am to have them. Once you start thinking that the company is doing you a favor, you lose all power and become merely another tool. Are you a tool?
Is surprises me that this has been mentioned a couple of times already, that people truly think there is no military application.
First, we are going to set aside the fact that as other have pointed out lack of fear does NOT mean your stupid. This may be gene therapy now but it will lead to drugs that help manage fear and that is where you would get payoff even if being totally fearless was bad in a combat situation.
When fear gets to strong, it gets in the way of making rational choices. So while you might not want a totally fearless solider all the time, there are plenty of times when being able to control the level of fear would be vastly useful.
hey now! you should only be sarcastic when it's NEEDED and not any other time. The kind gentleman will let you know when you have permission. Which is as it should be.