If you mean they will block one more every day, they will be done 1 million DAYS from now, not years. Now, if the first day they block one and the next one two because they double the number, things will be different and they'll be telling the truth much earlier. Unfortunately they will also reach some integer overflow really soon.
You obviously didn't read close enough! Speed in a browser is not about opening pages faster. Speed it's about making the user be less slow when using the browser!
What I'm waiting now is for the new brand of Microsoft cars. Granted, the speed is limited to 30mph but the driver door opens MUCH faster and that's what matters!
I tried to open it with my firefox. What I got was:
"This websites requires Flash and JavaScript to be enabled. If your browser does not support both of these then simply continue to IdleThumbs"
and 6 scripts blocked by NoScript. Then I tried IE8, and I must say, the Firefox version was MUCH faster. Firefox is obviously vastly superior in the speed department.
Yeah, I meant selection "China" in the country selection of Bing itself. Which means that if/when you are allowed to open it from China, that's what you'll see (unless you change the country, which is fairly trivial).
There's an entire list of countries where the search returns that message, including germany:
China
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Turkey
And a lot of middle-east places, actually.
A lots of those I can see how this could make some warped sense for religious/political reasons, but can someone clarify why Germany? What makes it special?
You're missing a lot of things, which surprises me knowing your above-average intelligence levels. But as you seems to dislike offtopicness, I'll keep it short: the type of statistical data that generates stereotypes is stereotypical data fueled by the base sample the subgroup creating the stereotype has access to. To further enhance your example, "a very small faction of the muslim religion that got media coverage" is all the sample for statistical evidence most of the American population has access to when it comes to the Islamic religion. It doesn't help that the Islamic religion and the main religion of the American population have fought wars against each other in the past (without going into who started what), which is deeply stuck inside the social consciousness. Therefore an stereotype is born (tho, given the short-livedness of said stereotype it is more correct to name it a "misconception" than a stereotype, but I said I was going to keep it short).
Notice the relevance (again) of the generational data. Most people that believe "all muslims hate America" are from the previous generation, and people from our generation that believe it are usually shielded (by themselves, or by environment) from the parts of the so called "mainstream", or basic repository of information of our generation, that would be relevant to revealing the misconception.
Finally, you claim that you can't know if I was being serious or not in my joke, given that you don't know me. I said you're both cats from Outer Space right after my joke. I rest my case.
Well, first things first, the irony of you telling me that I read too much into your post, then taking seriously the assertiveness that I believe you are being defensive of me saying you're a cat from Outer Space is pretty much the most ironic thing I've read this morning, which granted has started less than an hour ago.
Now, and totally ignoring your ramblings about intelligence and technology and averages, let's move to the next point.:
Jokes that rely on stereotypes.
Ok, so let's make something clear: stereotypes are sociological constructs based on empirical statistical evidence. By definition, being cultural knowledge and not individual knowledge, they can have a generation delay if changes occur to the grounds where that statistical data is based.
Jokes about stereotypes can be of two main types:
1) Jokes created by generations less than two generational replacements away from the social change that renders the stereotype incorrect, or
2) Jokes created by further generations.
The jokes contained in "1" are generally speaking jokes aimed at ridicule or derision of the joke's subject. The jokes in "2", however, even if they can contain exactly the same words, are created to ridicule the people from the previous generations, or those in the current generation whose beliefs are still rooted in the stereotype, against all statistical and social change available. They can also be aimed (and this is your case) at the excessive (to absurd levels) defensiveness of some members of the social group that the stereotype refers to, or white knights that believe the defense of that group to be their life's goal.
Now, the only way you can distinguish easily between those two types of jokes is by context and by knowing the person (or getting subtle hints in the joke itself, or accompanying sentences. This of course requires a high capability for empathy, a good sense of humour, and a clear view of the world without excessive defensiveness clouding your judgment, and we both know dykes don't have that.
And humour gets heavily impaired as intelligence increases, unless you're British, which you're clearly not.
Really, if you're going to go all almighty about your intelligence and defensive about stereotypes because I said you're a cat from outer space, you have bigger problems than being a slashdotter. I believe there is truth in that.
With all the "^^" going on and similar details, Hurricane78 sounds more stereotypically female than you do. I saw your clever attempt to fix this in your last post, but you people are not fooling me.
And bytes are capable of providing 8 pieces of unrelated, non-interfering, pieces of data. I think you're missing at least one level of abstraction there.
Also, you got it wrong. Their "bits", as you say, are able to store SIX, not five pieces of unrelated, non-interfering, pieces of data. By using three wavelenghts and two polarization, they get to write six different patterns in the disc.
What's happening here is that the coordinates to reach those bits are five: x,y,z,wavelength, polarization. That's why someone decided to call it a 5-dimensional space. But again, each single physical storage "node" can store 6 pieces of information. That's unrelated to the 5 dimensions.
They could use 5 different wavelengths and 4 different polarizations and it would be a 5-dimensional space that can store 20 pieces of information.
But Bioware is actually doing Mass Effect 2 (and has Mass Effect 3 in production), so they don't always move on.
Maybe it was a trilogy since its conception, I don't know. But a lot of people would see that as "more of the same".
And of course, the three expansion packs for "Neverwinter Nights" could be counted as "more of the same".
And how about Baldur's Gate? One expansion, one sequel, and a expansion to the sequel. A lot of "more of the same" going on there.
Hell, I loved MDK2, and that was Bioware doing a sequel for someone else! And as great as it was, it was "more of the same".
(Don't get me wrong, I've love Bioware. But your post was highly inaccurate)
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If you mean they will block one more every day, they will be done 1 million DAYS from now, not years. Now, if the first day they block one and the next one two because they double the number, things will be different and they'll be telling the truth much earlier. Unfortunately they will also reach some integer overflow really soon.
Or the right facts.
Fifth column? The chart only has 3 columns, at least in my firefox. IT shows IE, FF and Chrome. Safari isn't a browser apparently, let alone Opera.
You obviously didn't read close enough! Speed in a browser is not about opening pages faster. Speed it's about making the user be less slow when using the browser!
What I'm waiting now is for the new brand of Microsoft cars. Granted, the speed is limited to 30mph but the driver door opens MUCH faster and that's what matters!
I tried to open it with my firefox. What I got was:
"This websites requires Flash and JavaScript to be enabled. If your browser does not support both of these then simply continue to IdleThumbs"
and 6 scripts blocked by NoScript. Then I tried IE8, and I must say, the Firefox version was MUCH faster. Firefox is obviously vastly superior in the speed department.
Yeah, but by definition only ONE of them is lying.
Worked for me, Iceweasel with NoScript in debian SID 64bits.
Yeah, I meant selection "China" in the country selection of Bing itself. Which means that if/when you are allowed to open it from China, that's what you'll see (unless you change the country, which is fairly trivial).
But are you using the Indonesia version of Bing? If I change my bing.com to Indonesia as my country, I get:
The search sex may return sexually explicit content.
To get results, change your search terms.
and no results whatsoever.
Well played, sir. Well played.
There's an entire list of countries where the search returns that message, including germany:
China
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Turkey
And a lot of middle-east places, actually.
A lots of those I can see how this could make some warped sense for religious/political reasons, but can someone clarify why Germany? What makes it special?
If Hollywood has taught us anything, is that your logic is incredibly flawed as long as basic personal hygiene tools and facilities are provided.
You're missing a lot of things, which surprises me knowing your above-average intelligence levels. But as you seems to dislike offtopicness, I'll keep it short: the type of statistical data that generates stereotypes is stereotypical data fueled by the base sample the subgroup creating the stereotype has access to. To further enhance your example, "a very small faction of the muslim religion that got media coverage" is all the sample for statistical evidence most of the American population has access to when it comes to the Islamic religion. It doesn't help that the Islamic religion and the main religion of the American population have fought wars against each other in the past (without going into who started what), which is deeply stuck inside the social consciousness. Therefore an stereotype is born (tho, given the short-livedness of said stereotype it is more correct to name it a "misconception" than a stereotype, but I said I was going to keep it short).
Notice the relevance (again) of the generational data. Most people that believe "all muslims hate America" are from the previous generation, and people from our generation that believe it are usually shielded (by themselves, or by environment) from the parts of the so called "mainstream", or basic repository of information of our generation, that would be relevant to revealing the misconception.
Finally, you claim that you can't know if I was being serious or not in my joke, given that you don't know me. I said you're both cats from Outer Space right after my joke. I rest my case.
You didn't actually read anything of the above, did you?
Step 1: Ditch a closed-source product Step 2: Choose a better open-source alternative Step 3: Close the source.
Did you even think that before posting it?
Of course, the USA government choosing a Linux distro would not make Linux more vulnerable, and its sourcecode more scrutinized at all.
That first sentence didn't really make much sense, but I'm still at my first Red Bull today.
Well, first things first, the irony of you telling me that I read too much into your post, then taking seriously the assertiveness that I believe you are being defensive of me saying you're a cat from Outer Space is pretty much the most ironic thing I've read this morning, which granted has started less than an hour ago.
:
Now, and totally ignoring your ramblings about intelligence and technology and averages, let's move to the next point.
Jokes that rely on stereotypes.
Ok, so let's make something clear: stereotypes are sociological constructs based on empirical statistical evidence. By definition, being cultural knowledge and not individual knowledge, they can have a generation delay if changes occur to the grounds where that statistical data is based.
Jokes about stereotypes can be of two main types:
1) Jokes created by generations less than two generational replacements away from the social change that renders the stereotype incorrect, or 2) Jokes created by further generations.
The jokes contained in "1" are generally speaking jokes aimed at ridicule or derision of the joke's subject. The jokes in "2", however, even if they can contain exactly the same words, are created to ridicule the people from the previous generations, or those in the current generation whose beliefs are still rooted in the stereotype, against all statistical and social change available. They can also be aimed (and this is your case) at the excessive (to absurd levels) defensiveness of some members of the social group that the stereotype refers to, or white knights that believe the defense of that group to be their life's goal.
Now, the only way you can distinguish easily between those two types of jokes is by context and by knowing the person (or getting subtle hints in the joke itself, or accompanying sentences. This of course requires a high capability for empathy, a good sense of humour, and a clear view of the world without excessive defensiveness clouding your judgment, and we both know dykes don't have that.
See?
And humour gets heavily impaired as intelligence increases, unless you're British, which you're clearly not.
Really, if you're going to go all almighty about your intelligence and defensive about stereotypes because I said you're a cat from outer space, you have bigger problems than being a slashdotter. I believe there is truth in that.
With all the "^^" going on and similar details, Hurricane78 sounds more stereotypically female than you do. I saw your clever attempt to fix this in your last post, but you people are not fooling me.
You're both cats. From outer space.
And bytes are capable of providing 8 pieces of unrelated, non-interfering, pieces of data. I think you're missing at least one level of abstraction there.
Also, you got it wrong. Their "bits", as you say, are able to store SIX, not five pieces of unrelated, non-interfering, pieces of data. By using three wavelenghts and two polarization, they get to write six different patterns in the disc.
What's happening here is that the coordinates to reach those bits are five: x,y,z,wavelength, polarization. That's why someone decided to call it a 5-dimensional space. But again, each single physical storage "node" can store 6 pieces of information. That's unrelated to the 5 dimensions.
They could use 5 different wavelengths and 4 different polarizations and it would be a 5-dimensional space that can store 20 pieces of information.
There's a very specific group of people that think of the children a lot, and that's why this is a bad idea in the first place.
A lot of the times, you actually want the first one. I know I do...
But Bioware is actually doing Mass Effect 2 (and has Mass Effect 3 in production), so they don't always move on. Maybe it was a trilogy since its conception, I don't know. But a lot of people would see that as "more of the same". And of course, the three expansion packs for "Neverwinter Nights" could be counted as "more of the same". And how about Baldur's Gate? One expansion, one sequel, and a expansion to the sequel. A lot of "more of the same" going on there. Hell, I loved MDK2, and that was Bioware doing a sequel for someone else! And as great as it was, it was "more of the same". (Don't get me wrong, I've love Bioware. But your post was highly inaccurate)
My bad. I read IRDA and somehow just thought of the IR.