As I am not a gamer, what strikes me as peculiar is that so many folks find this idea more appealing than the simple act of going outside (it is Spring, y'know) and seeing the real deal. I live in Vermont, so I have more birds than an urban dweller, but playing competitively against strangers on a computer or game console over the 'net seems to me to be the opposite pleasure than one derives from the sight, sound, and aroma of the season. You also have the pleasure of identifying the insect that just feasted on your person, but I digress...
The summary says the finding is "controversial" but this appears inaccurate.
FTFA:
Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, commented: "This exciting study is important because it suggests there are unexpected causes of high blood pressure related to blood supply to the brain. It therefore opens up the possibility of new ways to treat this common, but often poorly managed, condition."
As there is still poor understanding about what changes occur in people when hypertension develops, the finding of JAM-1 is of great interest and opens up multiple new avenues for further research and potential treatment. How is this controversial?
Thank You, Dear. I'm not a granny but old enough to qualify, and I just switched to Ubuntu 'cause SuSE just didn't work right. I'm a former Windows NT-era sysop who detests Microsoft, with just enough Unix (Solaris and Sun OS) experience to have done some C-shell scripting and a tad of VB Script in the.ASP days (which I have all forgotten). Many other slashdotters wish that me (specifically) and boomers (in general) would hurry up and croak. Thanks again for your patience and humanity. May your goodwill redound to you thrice over, someday...
Anyone with a brain will note that this phenomenon started when the boomers reached 40 or so. No one asked to be born when they were. The so-called "boomers" are merely the-pig-in-the-snake, demographically speaking. This group has had jobs in all sectors of the economy. Middle-management wasn't invented to give somebody a job. I think my generation failed most spectacularly in efforts to reduce pollution, when we all should have known better. But don't blame someone for trying to make a living; that could be your dad, mom, uncle, aunt or cousin. If not yours, they certainly are someone's family.
We all know the planet is too crowded. No one wants to volunteer to rectify the problem via their own demise... Have a heart.
Um, Dubya has been in office for 6 years and not-quite 3 months. Are you writing from the future or is your system clock awry? (I agree with your sarcastic proposition, but he's still got time to wreak more havoc. bummer...)
here is the nugget (on page five!) that sums up this piece:
"The book is a paean to strong leadership of a kind that Leni Riefenstahl might have admired.
That is not an employee's point of view; we like the person who waits his turn. And seeing as there are more employees than leaders, this may be why books about asshole bosses tend to sell so well."
Girls on the plus side you can walk all over them and get anything you want. Right. Like going Dutch to Taco Bell in his rustbucket Corolla and dumpster-diving on the way home? Oh yeah, he needs some gas money "just 'til payday"...
Wow. I'm truly sorry for your situation. I haven't the faintest idea why we have had such opposite experiences. This is a Jetbook circa 2005 and a 80GB drive with no other partitions. Since you are acquainted with Slackware, your knowledge is far far greater than mine regarding possible reasons. I only can offer this from personal experience, and it is blatant superstition on my part, but I believe computers are sneaky; they gauge the knowledge of the operator and all problems lie just outside this boundary. My apologies also to folks who took my advice at face value; they would be wise to consider your post.
Again, no problems for this particular hardware/Ubuntu combo. Your mileage may vary...
I just last week switched from SuSE 9.1 to Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my laptop. The old OS always crashed or froze, and was a tempermental beast that chronically corrupted the Reiser FS. The Ubuntu install was less than 20 minutes (although downloading of package upgrades took an hour on DSL) and has been running superbly 24/7 since boottime. I hope you are happy making the change; I most certainly am!
BTW, if you are a Windows person who is looking for a friendly Linux distro, this is for you. You can run Ubuntu from the CD to try it out before installing, and it is the very epitome of "user-friendly." You don't even have to edit config files, if that seems daunting. Take the plunge--you won't regret it.
Since I have lots of time, I participate in meta-moderation every time it is offered. Lately, I have been using the 'See Context' link more often (love Cooliris for this), because in order to meta-mod fairly I must sample the responses and/or parent of post in question. More than a few times, the score has changed, sometimes from 'troll' to 'informative' or the like. I am appalled at the number of comments that are rated 'Funny' when few of them actually are. I look at the moderation system as a necessary chore to make the site livable and am glad that a plurality of users agree. There is an excess of puerile claptrap, but it is easily spotted and dodged.
I wish to applaud the posters who have participated in a lively argument, and managed to find common ground, even if it is agreeing to disagree.
From TFA: "Basically, we want criminals to feel comfortable that who they're dealing with is probably some other criminal and let us in on what's going on," said Brad Buckles, the RIAA's executive vice president for anti-piracy.
I think the word "other" in the preceding should have been given the emphasis. What these clowns want to do is play a criminal in real life, but not be accountable for it. Disgusting, IMO.
It is my (perhaps erroneous) understanding that being modded "Funny" does not change one's karma. On your last point, as others have succinctly noted, if Slashdot is so bad, what are you still doing here?
American politics always makes me chuckle. Me too, and I'm a pawn in that game, being a US citizen. I used to get very upset (marched and got tear-gassed in the '60s) about political issues. After six years of Dubya, it's either chuckle or sob...
Great Idea, but we wouldn't even have to tow it (given enough lead time) if we just built a rocket engine pointing "downwards" and fuel it with the hydrogen and oxygen we extract from the (presumed) water ice? Then it could be pointed anywhere... 8)
This post deserves up-modding! However, the problem I see with the hoo-haw about the subject is not facts, but willful blindness. This is not the only arena in which obtuseness rules...
But Pluto, subject to more anthropomorphizing than any planet should be, somehow gets to be the cute underdog, fighting for its rights against nasty scientists. Blech. 1. Exactly who is doing the anthropomorphizing here? Hint: you. 2. Some people from the New Mexico county in which Clyde Tombaugh (the tireless discover of said celestial body) was born wanted to honor him, in defiance of the slithy toves and slimy weasels that would deprive him of his hard-earned recognition. I'm not going to provide a link you probably won't follow anyway, but you might find that he deduced the presence of an unseen planet from perturbations of Neptune's orbit and found the tiny pinprick of light only after weeks of staring into "blink-comparators" which alternate views of the same patch of sky taken over an interval. 3. Not all scientists are nasty. Some are blinkered by their own exactitude, but many will continue to consider Pluto a planet. Factoid: Part of the reason Pluto was named such was to honor Percival Lowell, (that's the PL part, duh) and if you've never heard of him, you might be beyond remedial reading. 4. You seem to imply that no other research is going on because the question of Pluto's status is taking up all the space for other news. If you look around, there's more than plenty. 5. Stop being sad and judgemental. If you're young and healthy, learn and enjoy as much as you can. Plenty of time for dread and sorrow later...
I seem to recall that my database 101 class (using DBaseIV for us greyhairs) had something like a prime directive: Never build structure into your data. Why was the key (apart from the RFID issues) such a bone-headed construct? Or, as I suspect, it's "good enuff for gummint work" at work?
I'm no scientist, but as amateur astronomer and cosmology 'nut' I can say that even though the central portion (the "bulge") may have higher levels of radiation of all frequencies that would be damaging to life-as-we-know-it, the fact remains that out in the spiral arms of the galaxy there are many stellar nursuries (huge molecular clouds that occasionally have a shock wave pass through that can ignite new stars). These regions sometimes congeal a massive star which burns in a few millions of years rather than the multi-billion life our sun can expect. This star then explodes quite violently, and fries the surrounding neighboorhood, not only with electromagnetic radiation of many frequencies (gamma included), but would bombard nearby star systems with ionizing radiation (unhealthy stuff like the nuclei of iron, etc.) even if it is in the galactic suburbs. So, maybe it is lucky it'd take about 30,000 years at the speed of light to get to the center; it is dangerous enough way out here, nevermind the comets and asteroids. 8)
Something like this was in Newsweek almost three years ago. There was also a Time Magazine cover around then with "The God Gene" in a display font. (saw it on TV commercials for the mag on CNN) There always seems to be a slow newsday somewhere at which the sensational or controversial stuff gets recycled...
people who tow some party line Nice imagery, but the expression is "toe the line", I believe. Agree with your post, but wish to prevent millions of readers from embedding a misperception...OTOH, maybe this is language usage evolving?
Ordinarily I don't stand up for AC's, but this seems to be the most reasonable (and on-topic the whole way) comment in this long debate. Did someone actually mod it down? If so, why? It deserves Insightful, imho.
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As I am not a gamer, what strikes me as peculiar is that so many folks find this idea more appealing than the simple act of going outside (it is Spring, y'know) and seeing the real deal. I live in Vermont, so I have more birds than an urban dweller, but playing competitively against strangers on a computer or game console over the 'net seems to me to be the opposite pleasure than one derives from the sight, sound, and aroma of the season. You also have the pleasure of identifying the insect that just feasted on your person, but I digress...
Whups! How did I miss that? My mistake, and thanks for the correction. Apologies to kdawson, too, I presume.
(loved your mental dialogue, btw)
FTFA: Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, commented: "This exciting study is important because it suggests there are unexpected causes of high blood pressure related to blood supply to the brain. It therefore opens up the possibility of new ways to treat this common, but often poorly managed, condition."
As there is still poor understanding about what changes occur in people when hypertension develops, the finding of JAM-1 is of great interest and opens up multiple new avenues for further research and potential treatment. How is this controversial?
Thank You, Dear. I'm not a granny but old enough to qualify, and I just switched to Ubuntu 'cause SuSE just didn't work right. I'm a former Windows NT-era sysop who detests Microsoft, with just enough Unix (Solaris and Sun OS) experience to have done some C-shell scripting and a tad of VB Script in the .ASP days (which I have all forgotten). Many other slashdotters wish that me (specifically) and boomers (in general) would hurry up and croak. Thanks again for your patience and humanity. May your goodwill redound to you thrice over, someday...
Thanks for the link. I had no idea they existed. May they live long and prosper!
(had my tubes tied back in '84, and have no kids--doing my part...)
We all know the planet is too crowded. No one wants to volunteer to rectify the problem via their own demise... Have a heart.
Um, Dubya has been in office for 6 years and not-quite 3 months. Are you writing from the future or is your system clock awry?
(I agree with your sarcastic proposition, but he's still got time to wreak more havoc. bummer...)
here is the nugget (on page five!) that sums up this piece:
"The book is a paean to strong leadership of a kind that Leni Riefenstahl might have admired.
That is not an employee's point of view; we like the person who waits his turn. And seeing as there are more employees than leaders, this may be why books about asshole bosses tend to sell so well."
'Nuff Said...
You must be one of those Turing Machines I've heard of... nobody else here but us chickens! 8^)
Wow. I'm truly sorry for your situation. I haven't the faintest idea why we have had such opposite experiences. This is a Jetbook circa 2005 and a 80GB drive with no other partitions. Since you are acquainted with Slackware, your knowledge is far far greater than mine regarding possible reasons. I only can offer this from personal experience, and it is blatant superstition on my part, but I believe computers are sneaky; they gauge the knowledge of the operator and all problems lie just outside this boundary. My apologies also to folks who took my advice at face value; they would be wise to consider your post.
Again, no problems for this particular hardware/Ubuntu combo. Your mileage may vary...
I just last week switched from SuSE 9.1 to Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my laptop. The old OS always crashed or froze, and was a tempermental beast that chronically corrupted the Reiser FS. The Ubuntu install was less than 20 minutes (although downloading of package upgrades took an hour on DSL) and has been running superbly 24/7 since boottime. I hope you are happy making the change; I most certainly am!
BTW, if you are a Windows person who is looking for a friendly Linux distro, this is for you. You can run Ubuntu from the CD to try it out before installing, and it is the very epitome of "user-friendly." You don't even have to edit config files, if that seems daunting. Take the plunge--you won't regret it.
Since I have lots of time, I participate in meta-moderation every time it is offered. Lately, I have been using the 'See Context' link more often (love Cooliris for this), because in order to meta-mod fairly I must sample the responses and/or parent of post in question. More than a few times, the score has changed, sometimes from 'troll' to 'informative' or the like. I am appalled at the number of comments that are rated 'Funny' when few of them actually are. I look at the moderation system as a necessary chore to make the site livable and am glad that a plurality of users agree. There is an excess of puerile claptrap, but it is easily spotted and dodged.
I wish to applaud the posters who have participated in a lively argument, and managed to find common ground, even if it is agreeing to disagree.
From TFA:
"Basically, we want criminals to feel comfortable that who they're dealing with is probably some other criminal and let us in on what's going on," said Brad Buckles, the RIAA's executive vice president for anti-piracy.
I think the word "other" in the preceding should have been given the emphasis. What these clowns want to do is play a criminal in real life, but not be accountable for it. Disgusting, IMO.
It is my (perhaps erroneous) understanding that being modded "Funny" does not change one's karma. On your last point, as others have succinctly noted, if Slashdot is so bad, what are you still doing here?
After six years of Dubya, it's either chuckle or sob...
Great Idea, but we wouldn't even have to tow it (given enough lead time) if we just built a rocket engine pointing "downwards" and fuel it with the hydrogen and oxygen we extract from the (presumed) water ice? Then it could be pointed anywhere... 8)
Heh. Maybe the subject line should read: Dubai has no extradition, treaty with the US.
This post deserves up-modding! However, the problem I see with the hoo-haw about the subject is not facts, but willful blindness. This is not the only arena in which obtuseness rules...
2. Some people from the New Mexico county in which Clyde Tombaugh (the tireless discover of said celestial body) was born wanted to honor him, in defiance of the slithy toves and slimy weasels that would deprive him of his hard-earned recognition. I'm not going to provide a link you probably won't follow anyway, but you might find that he deduced the presence of an unseen planet from perturbations of Neptune's orbit and found the tiny pinprick of light only after weeks of staring into "blink-comparators" which alternate views of the same patch of sky taken over an interval.
3. Not all scientists are nasty. Some are blinkered by their own exactitude, but many will continue to consider Pluto a planet. Factoid: Part of the reason Pluto was named such was to honor Percival Lowell, (that's the PL part, duh) and if you've never heard of him, you might be beyond remedial reading.
4. You seem to imply that no other research is going on because the question of Pluto's status is taking up all the space for other news. If you look around, there's more than plenty.
5. Stop being sad and judgemental. If you're young and healthy, learn and enjoy as much as you can. Plenty of time for dread and sorrow later...
I seem to recall that my database 101 class (using DBaseIV for us greyhairs) had something like a prime directive: Never build structure into your data. Why was the key (apart from the RFID issues) such a bone-headed construct? Or, as I suspect, it's "good enuff for gummint work" at work?
I'm no scientist, but as amateur astronomer and cosmology 'nut' I can say that even though the central portion (the "bulge") may have higher levels of radiation of all frequencies that would be damaging to life-as-we-know-it, the fact remains that out in the spiral arms of the galaxy there are many stellar nursuries (huge molecular clouds that occasionally have a shock wave pass through that can ignite new stars). These regions sometimes congeal a massive star which burns in a few millions of years rather than the multi-billion life our sun can expect. This star then explodes quite violently, and fries the surrounding neighboorhood, not only with electromagnetic radiation of many frequencies (gamma included), but would bombard nearby star systems with ionizing radiation (unhealthy stuff like the nuclei of iron, etc.) even if it is in the galactic suburbs.
So, maybe it is lucky it'd take about 30,000 years at the speed of light to get to the center; it is dangerous enough way out here, nevermind the comets and asteroids. 8)
Ordinarily I don't stand up for AC's, but this seems to be the most reasonable (and on-topic the whole way) comment in this long debate. Did someone actually mod it down? If so, why? It deserves Insightful, imho.