Someone modded this "Offtopic?" WTF, Slashdot.... Japan's birthrate death spiral is *exactly* why they're having this problem. Fewer kids = fewer young people + fewer schools/teachers = fewer engineering degrees.
According to some estimates (cf. Mark Steyn), it may already be too late for Japan to pull out of this without destroying itself in the process (or mass immigration into the markedly monocultural society).
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1) Writable, and sometimes re-writable optical drives were just coming into widespread use, which greatly eclipsed the capacity, speed and reliability of floppy disks.
Except... don't forget that it took Apple a couple of years to get onboard with CD-R and CD-RW. This wouldn't become a problem later on, but the first and second gen iMacs would have had a lot less of an outcry if they'd come with recordable media built-in. (Too expensive at the time though... CD-R drives were running in $300-$350 range still then I think.)
Your definition of "react reasonably" will probably depend on whether you think we're actually in a War against radical Islamic fascism or not.
When two people are coming from such radically different paradigms (1: There are people out there trying to kill us, 2: Bush Lied, People Died, and Dick Chenhy wants to F over the US so he can get rich) there's very little common ground.
People complain about the "radicalization of politics", but the reality is that different segments of society have extraordinarily different conceptions of what is going on in the world. There's very little middle ground for even a well-intentioned politician to try to navigate.
Please contact your representative FIRST, then post to Slashdot(*). Otherwise, save your (metaphorical) breath...
I did... I wrote in and told him not to support the legislation that has now been withdrawn because I thought it was a bad idea. Oh wait, perhaps your 'advice' wasn't meant for people like me... Sounds like the typical results from attending a Rock the Vote concert or something.
Now when it comes to charging her, I dunno. I'm all about intention. If she really was just clueless about how it looked, then she's not guilty of a hoax. That requires intent. IMHO, this should be filed under a misunderstanding, everyone should be VERY thankful that she didn't die and nobody blew up, and we should go forward from there. It shouldn't be about polarized opinions and blame.
That's the thing people bitching about the charge don't seem to understand. She hasn't been sent to the gulag, Siberia, or any of various killing fields. She's been (or will be) charged with a crime. If she's was truly clueless and didn't mean to, then she'll probably be found not guilty -- but that's up to the jury to decide. Being charged with a crime means that the prosecutor/DA thinks you're guilty of a crime -- not that you're actually guilty. That's how the system works.
...they wanted a complete rewrite of the old code, staying with {a seriously crufty old mainframe OS that considers terminals to be wierdass cardreader/cardpunch units} would be just silly.
Whew! I'm sure glad they're moving to UNIX then! No tty's for them! And it's good to know that their fancy new SATA drives won't have to deal with that legacy sequential-tape mindset...
Reminds me of the (presumably rhetorical) question "If Jesus is all powerful, can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he cannot eat it?"
Hey! That's not a rhetorical question down here in San Diego, where there's a Taco Shop on every corner and each one has a picture of Jesus overlooking the grill... =)
Seriously, how long did it take you to come up with this one? Are you even pretending to be impartial or marginally even-handed any more? This is just pathetic... I've been a reading of Slashdot for forever and this kind of crap (your pattern of stories, namely) ranks up there with Jon Katz in terms of sheer, mindboggling tone-deafness.
Do us all a favor and quit. I hear they're looking for aggregators at the Huffington Post. And I'm sure DailyKos would love to have you.
Could you explain more what you mean by "framing the story" in the opening? I have a vague sense of what you're trying to say but not enough to fully understand.
Think of the opening dialogue in the first Myst. You're hearing a narration from someone who's obviously in the midst of some sort of cataclysmic decision lamenting that something has been left open, and the potential for something "unknown" to happen. You (the character) investigate a thud, see something amazing and wonderous and suddenly.... you're somewhere else and have to figure out what's going on.
That hook was (IMO) one of the biggest reasons for Myst's popularity. It (combined with the immersive -- for the time -- environment you found yourself in) got people involved with the game's situation right away.
...which describes how religious-based communities and other 'subcultures' can use the patent-pending process to prevent their members from viewing undesirable television programs and movies."
Also in the news this week is the opposite result: that life cannot exist in comets because of the radiation. So... it's not obvious (to me) that there is any scientific consensus on this topic.
You'll find studies with "the opposite result" for pretty much any remotely important & controversial topic.
Scientific conclusions can be bought. For an example, see the history of Cigarette safety.
And yet, everyone presumes that one side of the Global Warming debate is filled rock-solid consensus-declared Truth while the other side is simply people-being-bought-by-entity-XYZ.
Considering the amount of money at risk on both sides, anyone who claims a bona-fide "consensus" this early on is lying IMHO.
You f'ing moron. You do realize that a) the Senate is not the White House, and b) the Democrats are running Congress right now, right? Oh wait.... Bush is the source of all evil, I forgot.
So, he is a patriot that cherry picks the facts. As long as the ends justify the means, then? I mean, who cares what the truth is as long as he gets his message out. Smells like propaganda.
qmail is still out there, living and breathing quite well thank you very much (no thanks to its creator, though -- I'll grant you that).
qmail+vpopmail+mysql lets us handle hundreds of simultaneous connections on hardware I could probably only barely give away now -- better to use it for parts.
It's arcane, but it's keeping up with everything else out there as long as you're comfortable assembling the parts yourself.
We've been working pretty hard on implementing a useable OCR system at the ISP I work for. Not only using FuzzyOCR, but rolling some of our own algorithms to determine the likelihood of something being image spam.
One thing we didn't expect -- and are still coping on working around -- was something very simple:
Screenshots
The more stringent you are on image/text spam, the greater the likelihood that you're going to create a false positive when someone emails an image with a lot of text in it... e.g., a screenshot of a word document or Explorer window.
Except I grew up in Oregon, where we never got any attention ever. Only so many little states can go "first", by the time it gets to us, the race has been decided.
There was a proposal made a while back (back when everyone was bitching about this before) to have the primary season be decided in terms of # of electoral votes. Primaries were done with all the small states first, gradually growing, until California was at the very end. Perhaps not a bad idea.
And if you have noticed, notice also that that's what all the HS and college folks entering right now will expect in terms of networkable social interaction. All content, across all devices, intelligently displayed, adapted to me.
I'm just waiting for Amazon.com to buy Facebook out.
What if we were digging in some mine somewhere and discovered a "naturally occurring" Honda Civic? You're saying there wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary there?
/me wonders if this isn't leading to an argument over Intelligent Design...
I run several independent qmail/vpopmail mail clusters, with a couple of different webmail packages, IMAP access from anywhere, and Eudora, Thunderbird, and MSOE at various times, and user IMAP from another Exchange server for our corporate parent.
And I *still* prefer to shell in and use pine for my "personal" account on campus rather than the other solutions they provide. It's convenient, easy, has never lost me an email, works under low bandwidth conditions, and after 10 years is just as fast as any of the other clients for me. On the off-chance I actually do need to view something with images in it, I simply (B)ounce it to my work account.
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Someone modded this "Offtopic?" WTF, Slashdot.... Japan's birthrate death spiral is *exactly* why they're having this problem. Fewer kids = fewer young people + fewer schools/teachers = fewer engineering degrees.
According to some estimates (cf. Mark Steyn), it may already be too late for Japan to pull out of this without destroying itself in the process (or mass immigration into the markedly monocultural society).
Except... don't forget that it took Apple a couple of years to get onboard with CD-R and CD-RW. This wouldn't become a problem later on, but the first and second gen iMacs would have had a lot less of an outcry if they'd come with recordable media built-in. (Too expensive at the time though... CD-R drives were running in $300-$350 range still then I think.)
It's not a right in Oregon. In fact, it's specifically against the law there (and in many other States).
"Troll?"
Nice moderation, Slashdot community...
I hate crap like this. Fricken liberals who redefine words to mean whatever they want them to mean (religion = race? That's a new one on me...)
"Truthiness" indeed.
Your definition of "react reasonably" will probably depend on whether you think we're actually in a War against radical Islamic fascism or not.
When two people are coming from such radically different paradigms (1: There are people out there trying to kill us, 2: Bush Lied, People Died, and Dick Chenhy wants to F over the US so he can get rich) there's very little common ground.
People complain about the "radicalization of politics", but the reality is that different segments of society have extraordinarily different conceptions of what is going on in the world. There's very little middle ground for even a well-intentioned politician to try to navigate.
I did... I wrote in and told him not to support the legislation that has now been withdrawn because I thought it was a bad idea. Oh wait, perhaps your 'advice' wasn't meant for people like me... Sounds like the typical results from attending a Rock the Vote concert or something.
That's the thing people bitching about the charge don't seem to understand. She hasn't been sent to the gulag, Siberia, or any of various killing fields. She's been (or will be) charged with a crime. If she's was truly clueless and didn't mean to, then she'll probably be found not guilty -- but that's up to the jury to decide. Being charged with a crime means that the prosecutor/DA thinks you're guilty of a crime -- not that you're actually guilty. That's how the system works.
Slashdot, quit yer bitching.
Whew! I'm sure glad they're moving to UNIX then! No tty's for them! And it's good to know that their fancy new SATA drives won't have to deal with that legacy sequential-tape mindset...
Reminds me of the (presumably rhetorical) question "If Jesus is all powerful, can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he cannot eat it?"
Hey! That's not a rhetorical question down here in San Diego, where there's a Taco Shop on every corner and each one has a picture of Jesus overlooking the grill...
=)
This really takes the cake, kdawson.
Seriously, how long did it take you to come up with this one? Are you even pretending to be impartial or marginally even-handed any more? This is just pathetic... I've been a reading of Slashdot for forever and this kind of crap (your pattern of stories, namely) ranks up there with Jon Katz in terms of sheer, mindboggling tone-deafness.
Do us all a favor and quit. I hear they're looking for aggregators at the Huffington Post. And I'm sure DailyKos would love to have you.
Think of the opening dialogue in the first Myst. You're hearing a narration from someone who's obviously in the midst of some sort of cataclysmic decision lamenting that something has been left open, and the potential for something "unknown" to happen. You (the character) investigate a thud, see something amazing and wonderous and suddenly.... you're somewhere else and have to figure out what's going on.
That hook was (IMO) one of the biggest reasons for Myst's popularity. It (combined with the immersive -- for the time -- environment you found yourself in) got people involved with the game's situation right away.
That wouldn't have anything to do with the Fox Blocker I read about off Daily Kos now would it?
There are so many things wrong with this statement, it's not even +1 Funny.
Are you seriously blaming the entirety of the range of weapons of the US Armed Forces on President George Bush?
And BTW... Bush got better grades at Yale than Gore did at Harvard, and averaged slightly better than Kerry at Yale as well. http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp
And yet, everyone presumes that one side of the Global Warming debate is filled rock-solid consensus-declared Truth while the other side is simply people-being-bought-by-entity-XYZ.
Considering the amount of money at risk on both sides, anyone who claims a bona-fide "consensus" this early on is lying IMHO.
You f'ing moron. You do realize that a) the Senate is not the White House, and b) the Democrats are running Congress right now, right? Oh wait.... Bush is the source of all evil, I forgot.
It's kind of hurd to do that on a running platform.
Sounds like Dan Rather...
I haven't played a FPS on a regular basis since Quake III Arena... but I'm planning on buying this strictly for Portal as well!
Nope! =)
qmail is still out there, living and breathing quite well thank you very much (no thanks to its creator, though -- I'll grant you that).
qmail+vpopmail+mysql lets us handle hundreds of simultaneous connections on hardware I could probably only barely give away now -- better to use it for parts.
It's arcane, but it's keeping up with everything else out there as long as you're comfortable assembling the parts yourself.
We've been working pretty hard on implementing a useable OCR system at the ISP I work for. Not only using FuzzyOCR, but rolling some of our own algorithms to determine the likelihood of something being image spam.
One thing we didn't expect -- and are still coping on working around -- was something very simple:
Screenshots
The more stringent you are on image/text spam, the greater the likelihood that you're going to create a false positive when someone emails an image with a lot of text in it... e.g., a screenshot of a word document or Explorer window.
There was a proposal made a while back (back when everyone was bitching about this before) to have the primary season be decided in terms of # of electoral votes. Primaries were done with all the small states first, gradually growing, until California was at the very end. Perhaps not a bad idea.
(In case you haven't noticed.)
And if you have noticed, notice also that that's what all the HS and college folks entering right now will expect in terms of networkable social interaction. All content, across all devices, intelligently displayed, adapted to me.
I'm just waiting for Amazon.com to buy Facebook out.
*cowers*
"Funny"? How about insightful!? Lol.
I run several independent qmail/vpopmail mail clusters, with a couple of different webmail packages, IMAP access from anywhere, and Eudora, Thunderbird, and MSOE at various times, and user IMAP from another Exchange server for our corporate parent.
And I *still* prefer to shell in and use pine for my "personal" account on campus rather than the other solutions they provide. It's convenient, easy, has never lost me an email, works under low bandwidth conditions, and after 10 years is just as fast as any of the other clients for me. On the off-chance I actually do need to view something with images in it, I simply (B)ounce it to my work account.
Can't beat simplicity.