Amazing words, from the author of such past totally non-condescending remarks as:
I'd guess that you make a habit of such fallacies, and that this tendancy might be part of the reason why you post at 0...
that is to say, you're a simpleton
Whether based on karma or frequency or what, I implore you to let me know when your 1515553 account reaches this new milestone.
Sauce for the gander, eh?
I'll definitely keep you posted. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for the next time you try to insult someone by telling them what a newbie they are and how you, the slashdot old-timer, are far superior due to a string of digits next to your name, only to repeatedly find out that they know far more about the system than you do.
That would explain the piles of dead bodies that I see stacked up next to every soda fountain and convenience store on a daily basis, what with it being faster than a bullet and all.
Okay, I just can't help it - I really hope you are a non-native English speaker. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm going to have to rewrite your post:
What's the difference. Diet (sic!) drinks use aspartam (sic) as a substitute for sugar. Well, for anyone who has (sic) IQ higer (sic) than typical showel (sic) or (sic) brick, I must (sic) not to (sic) explain, (sic) that this chemical-ultratoxin kills faster than (sic) bullet.
If you are a native English speaker, you have the IQ of a showel.
That's been in a while now. It happens as soon as your karma goes into the "Good" category. Had I known you were so concerned, I would have let you know when it kicked in a week or two ago. Congratulations on being as valued to slashdot as a three week old account.
And considering I've had various slashdot accounts since as soon as slashdot added accounts (the oldest comment of mine that I can find in google is from January 1999), it's quite like I've already had several tyrannical disagreements with you, you just don't know it. I look forward to continuing to educate you on how slashdot works, though.
As the prior respondent put it, your house is no more likely to be visited by people on google maps using streetview than it is to have people drive down it. It's just another way to travel.
As far as police camera, my #1 biggest problem is fundamentally different than it is with streetview. First off, the streetview photos are photos, not video. It is a passive and not active technology. I'd rather they not be there at all, but it's inevitable. So my biggest problem with police cameras is that they're private, not public. Only the police have access to them. Again, fundamentally different than streetview.
There is a bit of an good argument to be made here, it's just that so far everyone trying to make it is doing a piss poor job with their examples and their logic.
I don't want my house, garden, neighborhood and face plastered all over the web for everyone to gawk at. You don't want it. Nobody wants it.
Doesn't matter, you said it was ok when you bought that house with that garden in that neighborhood. It's part of being in civilization. If you wanted to hide away, you should have bought a house down the end of a gated road in the country. You want the comforts of living in a highly public place like a city, you get the downsides of it being a highly public place.
You apparently also enjoy posting uninformed mini-rants. Do you even read Penny Arcade? If you do, you know that every day they post a news post with lots of links. Over the years, they've posted links to plenty of stories of verifiable shenanigans by GameStop/EBgames. Typically they just show up on PA a few days before the other sites I read.
Wal-Mart is evil, no doubt. But it's kind of a faceless evil. GameStop is evil with the face of a douchebag. So yeah, I'm going to have to root for Wal-Mart on this one.
If you agree that GameStop is bad for gaming, then this isn't really worse. I don't think Wal-Mart doing it is going to increase the overall trade in used games. If you don't agree that GameStop is bad for gaming, then you don't care about this move anyway.
As such, I'm actually quite happy to hear the news simply because I hope they kick GameStop's ass. I don't buy games from them, but I've read enough of the Penny Arcade to completelyloathethem.
On an unrelated topic, I just thought I'd let you know I'm posting at +2 now on this new account. Not sure how long it's been that way, I just noticed it and had a foggy memory of some comment where somebody got all snotty claiming they could figure me out based on my starting score (and their faulty knowledge of how slashdot worked).
I know, weird to bring it up after about a month. It's just that you seemed so concerned about it.
...make the OS act like Mozilla. As others have pointed out, nothing forces you to use tabbed browsing. You have the choice of opening several tabs or opening things in new windows. You can also have multipe windows with tabs in each.
I wish my operating system worked more like this. I wish I had containers in which I could doc a few different applications in a tabbed fashion. Would help clean up the clutter a bit. Kind of like virtual desktops, except I never really liked them very much. I might doc my source control windows in with my IDE window and the command prompt I was using to test the app. Along with maybe a folder window that was open to the apps directory to easily delete files or edit the config file.
Once docked in these containers, any new windows spawned by those processes would stay in the container. Yeah, it's sounding more like virtual desktops, but with the ability to overlap them rather than them being in their own little completely isolated spaces.
I think the previous talk about Mozilla making each tab a process is more the way to go, as long as efficiency doesn't take a big hit. That way people can decide to use the browser the way that works best for them.
Very well put. Unfortunately, you find that when you talk to someone who doesn't like the scientific conclusions for political reasons, they'll use any rationality on your part in talking about the inherent uncertainty as weakness and claim it invalidates anything you say.
I've had them show up in two unusual places and I've yet to decide which is worse. The first was when they invaded my closet and wound up inside some clothes that were hanging up. The second was when I poured a bowl of cereal and noticed a bunch of ants floating to the top. AFTER eating quite a few bites.
"The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys," Stephen King wrote in an e-mail message. "And to what end? My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer."
Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. "If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump," he said.
Guess which author these two quotes make me more likely to read?
A lot of people have repeated the same arguments above that have already been addressed (not the same thing as "disproven") by people who believe that consciousness could be transferred in the way that you describe.
But the real answer to why you shouldn't do this is simple: we don't know. We don't know what life is and we don't know what death when it comes to consciousness. We don't even know what consciousness really is. And we may never know, as we have to do all of our research from the inside.
Given all those unknowns, do you really want to roll the dice? Sure, if you're on death's door it's not much of a gamble. Otherwise, I'm not sure I see any difference between this and the Heaven's Gate suicides other than the specific trappings of their faiths.
500GB disks that will cost 10 cents a GB to produce at launch
So that's $50 per disk, production cost? You can get a 100 pack of 4.7 gig DVDs for about $30. By my count that's around 470 gig. And that's purchase price, not production cost.
For better or worse, our specific form of democracy is a republic. This allows a smaller group of people to sometimes make decisions that favor business over the constituent. This depends on the constituent being clueless about the particular issue and/or the representative being in a "safe" district.
Not really. FSF created the GPL to use copyright to enable it to specify the terms to keep code open and free. If there were no such thing as copyright, there would be no need for the GPL in the eyes of the FSF (or, at least, in its founder's eyes). I think it's pretty safe to say RMS would agree that he has an "open and virulent bias against copyrights." Actually, he'd probably be more likely to not say that, but to turn it around on you and accuse you of having an "open and virulent bias against freedom"... Here's an excerpt from the summary of his upcoming speech in Austin:
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
Stallman would, if he had his way, abolish copyright as we know it and replace it with a system that forbids closed source and gives users rights to modify and share source code. This really isn't the same thing as what we call "copyright." But this is unlikely to happen, so the GPL uses copyright law against itself to try to guarantee some of those things for code that is GPL licensed.
I think that's a bad assumption. Today there are a lot of essay mills on the web, but you have to pay to get access. That's the whole point of their business. So you'd need to pay for them, possibly a price for every paper you downloaded and compared to yours. And good luck with them having a document text search function. That kind of function would only help the people that are trying to prevent the use of essay mills.
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Thank you for your condescending remarks.
Amazing words, from the author of such past totally non-condescending remarks as:
I'd guess that you make a habit of such fallacies, and that this tendancy might be part of the reason why you post at 0...
that is to say, you're a simpleton
Whether based on karma or frequency or what, I implore you to let me know when your 1515553 account reaches this new milestone.
Sauce for the gander, eh?
I'll definitely keep you posted. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for the next time you try to insult someone by telling them what a newbie they are and how you, the slashdot old-timer, are far superior due to a string of digits next to your name, only to repeatedly find out that they know far more about the system than you do.
chemical-ultratoxin kills faster than bullet
That would explain the piles of dead bodies that I see stacked up next to every soda fountain and convenience store on a daily basis, what with it being faster than a bullet and all.
Okay, I just can't help it - I really hope you are a non-native English speaker. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm going to have to rewrite your post:
What's the difference. Diet (sic!) drinks use aspartam (sic) as a substitute for sugar. Well, for anyone who has (sic) IQ higer (sic) than typical showel (sic) or (sic) brick, I must (sic) not to (sic) explain, (sic) that this chemical-ultratoxin kills faster than (sic) bullet.
If you are a native English speaker, you have the IQ of a showel.
That's been in a while now. It happens as soon as your karma goes into the "Good" category. Had I known you were so concerned, I would have let you know when it kicked in a week or two ago. Congratulations on being as valued to slashdot as a three week old account.
And considering I've had various slashdot accounts since as soon as slashdot added accounts (the oldest comment of mine that I can find in google is from January 1999), it's quite like I've already had several tyrannical disagreements with you, you just don't know it. I look forward to continuing to educate you on how slashdot works, though.
As the prior respondent put it, your house is no more likely to be visited by people on google maps using streetview than it is to have people drive down it. It's just another way to travel.
As far as police camera, my #1 biggest problem is fundamentally different than it is with streetview. First off, the streetview photos are photos, not video. It is a passive and not active technology. I'd rather they not be there at all, but it's inevitable. So my biggest problem with police cameras is that they're private, not public. Only the police have access to them. Again, fundamentally different than streetview.
There is a bit of an good argument to be made here, it's just that so far everyone trying to make it is doing a piss poor job with their examples and their logic.
Hey, guess what - I can drive around and take pictures of neighborhoods and post them on the web, too! Photography - it's not just for robots anymore.
I don't want my house, garden, neighborhood and face plastered all over the web for everyone to gawk at. You don't want it. Nobody wants it.
Doesn't matter, you said it was ok when you bought that house with that garden in that neighborhood. It's part of being in civilization. If you wanted to hide away, you should have bought a house down the end of a gated road in the country. You want the comforts of living in a highly public place like a city, you get the downsides of it being a highly public place.
You apparently also enjoy posting uninformed mini-rants. Do you even read Penny Arcade? If you do, you know that every day they post a news post with lots of links. Over the years, they've posted links to plenty of stories of verifiable shenanigans by GameStop/EBgames. Typically they just show up on PA a few days before the other sites I read.
Wal-Mart is evil, no doubt. But it's kind of a faceless evil. GameStop is evil with the face of a douchebag. So yeah, I'm going to have to root for Wal-Mart on this one.
If you agree that GameStop is bad for gaming, then this isn't really worse. I don't think Wal-Mart doing it is going to increase the overall trade in used games. If you don't agree that GameStop is bad for gaming, then you don't care about this move anyway.
As such, I'm actually quite happy to hear the news simply because I hope they kick GameStop's ass. I don't buy games from them, but I've read enough of the Penny Arcade to completely loathe them .
On an unrelated topic, I just thought I'd let you know I'm posting at +2 now on this new account. Not sure how long it's been that way, I just noticed it and had a foggy memory of some comment where somebody got all snotty claiming they could figure me out based on my starting score (and their faulty knowledge of how slashdot worked).
I know, weird to bring it up after about a month. It's just that you seemed so concerned about it.
Okay, okay! I admit it! My people ate them all! We kept saying one more couldn't hurt, and then they were gone! We're sorry!
I might believe this line of reasoning had the swine flu originated in Georgia rather than Mexico.
...make the OS act like Mozilla. As others have pointed out, nothing forces you to use tabbed browsing. You have the choice of opening several tabs or opening things in new windows. You can also have multipe windows with tabs in each.
I wish my operating system worked more like this. I wish I had containers in which I could doc a few different applications in a tabbed fashion. Would help clean up the clutter a bit. Kind of like virtual desktops, except I never really liked them very much. I might doc my source control windows in with my IDE window and the command prompt I was using to test the app. Along with maybe a folder window that was open to the apps directory to easily delete files or edit the config file.
Once docked in these containers, any new windows spawned by those processes would stay in the container. Yeah, it's sounding more like virtual desktops, but with the ability to overlap them rather than them being in their own little completely isolated spaces.
I think the previous talk about Mozilla making each tab a process is more the way to go, as long as efficiency doesn't take a big hit. That way people can decide to use the browser the way that works best for them.
Very well put. Unfortunately, you find that when you talk to someone who doesn't like the scientific conclusions for political reasons, they'll use any rationality on your part in talking about the inherent uncertainty as weakness and claim it invalidates anything you say.
It should be noted that it does make it harder to do the wrong thing, when memory leak tools test the code.
I've had them show up in two unusual places and I've yet to decide which is worse. The first was when they invaded my closet and wound up inside some clothes that were hanging up. The second was when I poured a bowl of cereal and noticed a bunch of ants floating to the top. AFTER eating quite a few bites.
And god knows that you've got a right to pick any ripe fruit, whether it's yours or not...
Worked for the aborigines.
Guess which author these two quotes make me more likely to read?
Because it's hard?
A lot of people have repeated the same arguments above that have already been addressed (not the same thing as "disproven") by people who believe that consciousness could be transferred in the way that you describe.
But the real answer to why you shouldn't do this is simple: we don't know. We don't know what life is and we don't know what death when it comes to consciousness. We don't even know what consciousness really is. And we may never know, as we have to do all of our research from the inside.
Given all those unknowns, do you really want to roll the dice? Sure, if you're on death's door it's not much of a gamble. Otherwise, I'm not sure I see any difference between this and the Heaven's Gate suicides other than the specific trappings of their faiths.
It can be tricky, since it's having to determine if it's a normal web search or a calculation. I ran into this when I was doing currency conversions.
$1 usd to aud
Just did a regular web search.
1 usd to aud
did the conversion.
This is the best thing since Fluorescent Multilayer Disc!
Also, did anyone else do the math on this?
500GB disks that will cost 10 cents a GB to produce at launch
So that's $50 per disk, production cost? You can get a 100 pack of 4.7 gig DVDs for about $30. By my count that's around 470 gig. And that's purchase price, not production cost.
In fact I would call it democracy in practice.
For better or worse, our specific form of democracy is a republic. This allows a smaller group of people to sometimes make decisions that favor business over the constituent. This depends on the constituent being clueless about the particular issue and/or the representative being in a "safe" district.
Not really. FSF created the GPL to use copyright to enable it to specify the terms to keep code open and free. If there were no such thing as copyright, there would be no need for the GPL in the eyes of the FSF (or, at least, in its founder's eyes). I think it's pretty safe to say RMS would agree that he has an "open and virulent bias against copyrights." Actually, he'd probably be more likely to not say that, but to turn it around on you and accuse you of having an "open and virulent bias against freedom"... Here's an excerpt from the summary of his upcoming speech in Austin:
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
Stallman would, if he had his way, abolish copyright as we know it and replace it with a system that forbids closed source and gives users rights to modify and share source code. This really isn't the same thing as what we call "copyright." But this is unlikely to happen, so the GPL uses copyright law against itself to try to guarantee some of those things for code that is GPL licensed.
There's a good chance it's off the Web
I think that's a bad assumption. Today there are a lot of essay mills on the web, but you have to pay to get access. That's the whole point of their business. So you'd need to pay for them, possibly a price for every paper you downloaded and compared to yours. And good luck with them having a document text search function. That kind of function would only help the people that are trying to prevent the use of essay mills.
I find it's becoming much more common for people to incorrectly claim someone else is using "irony" wrong.
How ironic.