Our country reeks of trees, our yaks are really large and they smell like rotting beef-carcasses. And we have to clean up after them and the saddle sores are the best. We proudly wear women's clothing, and searing sand blows up our skirts.
And the buzzards, they soar overhead and poisonous snakes will devour us whole, our bones will bleach in the sun. And we will probably go to hell and that is our great reward for being the-uh Roy-al Canadian Kilted Yaksmen.
I disagree. Self-interest is about much more than shopping and fucking; higher things can bring about higher pleasures. Often the most enjoyable things in life are those that benefit others as well as yourself, for example writing open source software.
IMHO hedonism is equally valid and consistent as any other moral theory. Just remember that it does not mean naive pleasure-seeking; and that self-interest is not always in conflict with the interest of others.
I still have a blocky serial Genius in active use. It has three buttons like any proper mouse does, but otherwise it's similar to the one in the picture. It's not obsolete by any means, though I'd prefer a PS/2 connector to get that serial port free.
The data density of CDs depends on just the wavelength of photons, and not that much on the other properties of the laser. The new laser has interesting implications for novel things like quantum computing, but not for CDs or similar 'classical' technologies.
I was expecting a scientific explanation for Murphy's Law. You know, like conservation laws for energy and momentum are explained from the symmetry of spacetime. If we maintain that Murphy's is a law of physics, there must be a *&^[#%&]$^#%{[[::@;' NO CARRIER
In Soviet Russia, plasma overlords welcome YOU! Before you ask, yes, I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of Soviet plasma overlords. And all your hot grits are belong to naked and petrified Natalie Portman's panties.
This technology does use changing magnetic fields, but it is still different from EM radiation.
There are different kinds of modes for electric and magnetic fields to work with. EM radiation is just one of them, but it is special in the way that it can cross arbitrary distances if properly focused. This works because a sinusoidally changing electric field generates similarly changing magnetic fields, which in turn generate similarly changing electric fields. In a way, the fields themselves are not traveling, but they build up new fields in succession, hence propagating the signal.
In every practical antenna, other modes of electric/magnetic fields are present besides the radiation component. However, the other modes disappear faster than the radiation, as they do not rebuild themselves. The inductive method relies on these other modes, using very different kinds of antenna which don't produce much of the radiation component.
We'll live longer if we don't eat, drink, smoke, fuck and so on...
But what is the point of having life if you don't live it? Boring people may live longer, but they live less.
Many people seem to make this point, which IMHO is a grave misunderstanding. For example, after I became a vegetarian I've felt I enjoy life more. Heavy foods with meat and fat can be enjoyable at the moment of eating, but in the long term I felt they made me feel worse. Vegetarian food gives a 'light' feeling and more energy overall.
The same thing goes with alcohol. I really enjoy a pint or two of dark ale, but anything more and I feel worse.
My general feeling on this topic is that "enjoying life" is a long-term issue. Usually the things that give a moment of pleasure, make you worse in the long run. Things like sports and meditation that take some effort to get into, are those that really make me enjoy life.
Also, your mention of boring people is something I don't understand. In my experience, drinking and smoking do not make people any more interesting, usually it's quite the opposite. I believe many Slashdotters would agree with me that there are way more interesting things in life than shopping and fucking.
It used to be that software was packaged in cardboard boxes that were 8" x 10". Heck, my Ultima: Ascention dragon edition is 12" x 15" (friggin HUGE!). Now the boxes are more like 5" x 7".
They're just trying to rip us off, I tell ya. We're not getting all the software we paid for!
I don't think that should be a problem.. I mean it's software so you can squeeze the same amount of it into a smaller volume anyway.
Maybe in America, everything was invented by Americans independently of the rest of the world?
A European named Christopher Columbus found intelligent life in America in 1492. We're still waiting for Americans to do the same;-)
(OT, this brings to mind my favourite horror movies, Nightwatch (Danish) and Ringu (Japanese). Why the heck did the Americans need to remake these? Both of them rely quite a lot on the milieu, and I imagine the psychological horror effect is diluted if they are taken into a more familiar environment.)
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OK guys, let's hear it...
Our country reeks of trees,
our yaks are really large
and they smell like rotting beef-carcasses.
And we have to clean up after them
and the saddle sores are the best.
We proudly wear women's clothing, and
searing sand blows up our skirts.
And the buzzards, they soar overhead and
poisonous snakes will devour us whole,
our bones will bleach in the sun.
And we will probably go to hell
and that is our great reward
for being the-uh Roy-al
Canadian Kilted Yaksmen.
(with special thanks to Mr. Ren Hoek and Stimpy)
IMHO hedonism is equally valid and consistent as any other moral theory. Just remember that it does not mean naive pleasure-seeking; and that self-interest is not always in conflict with the interest of others.
I, for one, welcome change.
"Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'encule de ta mere. It's like wiping your ass with silk."
I still have a blocky serial Genius in active use. It has three buttons like any proper mouse does, but otherwise it's similar to the one in the picture. It's not obsolete by any means, though I'd prefer a PS/2 connector to get that serial port free.
The data density of CDs depends on just the wavelength of photons, and not that much on the other properties of the laser. The new laser has interesting implications for novel things like quantum computing, but not for CDs or similar 'classical' technologies.
I was expecting a scientific explanation for Murphy's Law. You know, like conservation laws for energy and momentum are explained from the symmetry of spacetime. If we maintain that Murphy's is a law of physics, there must be a *&^[#%&]$^#%{[[::@;' NO CARRIER
But there's no need to connect if they already had the Internet on their computer.
I, for one, welcome our new Windows overworms.
..at least with Sonera ADSL and cable. They give you five IP addresses for no extra cost.
In Soviet Russia, plasma overlords welcome YOU! Before you ask, yes, I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of Soviet plasma overlords. And all your hot grits are belong to naked and petrified Natalie Portman's panties.
In order to verify that this is real science, other scientists will have to duplicate (re-do) the experiment and see that it works out the same.
There are different kinds of modes for electric and magnetic fields to work with. EM radiation is just one of them, but it is special in the way that it can cross arbitrary distances if properly focused. This works because a sinusoidally changing electric field generates similarly changing magnetic fields, which in turn generate similarly changing electric fields. In a way, the fields themselves are not traveling, but they build up new fields in succession, hence propagating the signal.
In every practical antenna, other modes of electric/magnetic fields are present besides the radiation component. However, the other modes disappear faster than the radiation, as they do not rebuild themselves. The inductive method relies on these other modes, using very different kinds of antenna which don't produce much of the radiation component.
In Soviet Russia, Overlords welcome You!
But what is the point of having life if you don't live it? Boring people may live longer, but they live less.
Many people seem to make this point, which IMHO is a grave misunderstanding. For example, after I became a vegetarian I've felt I enjoy life more. Heavy foods with meat and fat can be enjoyable at the moment of eating, but in the long term I felt they made me feel worse. Vegetarian food gives a 'light' feeling and more energy overall.
The same thing goes with alcohol. I really enjoy a pint or two of dark ale, but anything more and I feel worse.
My general feeling on this topic is that "enjoying life" is a long-term issue. Usually the things that give a moment of pleasure, make you worse in the long run. Things like sports and meditation that take some effort to get into, are those that really make me enjoy life.
Also, your mention of boring people is something I don't understand. In my experience, drinking and smoking do not make people any more interesting, usually it's quite the opposite. I believe many Slashdotters would agree with me that there are way more interesting things in life than shopping and fucking.
IMHO, the worst piece of legacy hardware is an x86 CPU. No amount of new ports/interfaces is going to help change that.
Just the other day I was searching for a LaTeX package for drawing chemical formulae. Not that I wanted the formula for the chemical latex..
They're just trying to rip us off, I tell ya. We're not getting all the software we paid for!
I don't think that should be a problem.. I mean it's software so you can squeeze the same amount of it into a smaller volume anyway.
Whoever modded the parent as Informative should be #;#;#;#;#;#;#;#;.
Does Schrodinger's cat have eighteen half-lives?
On a related note, if Schrodinger was looking for regular patterns in the Universe, he should have used Schrodinger's grep instead.
The computer is operated by Mr. William Gates III, as indicated by the notion of 'My Computer'.
I have not watched them! Just the fact of remaking, which smells like a NIH* syndrome, is enough to infuriate me.
(*NIH = Not Invented Here)
Nevertheless, SCO cannot demand any money from the customers that use neutrons -- after all, they are free of charge.
A European named Christopher Columbus found intelligent life in America in 1492. We're still waiting for Americans to do the same ;-)
(OT, this brings to mind my favourite horror movies, Nightwatch (Danish) and Ringu (Japanese). Why the heck did the Americans need to remake these? Both of them rely quite a lot on the milieu, and I imagine the psychological horror effect is diluted if they are taken into a more familiar environment.)