Isn't that the whole point of Facebook?...to divulge personal information to all one's friends, and allowing strangers to also see it in case they happen to be long lost friends.
Some people are morning people. Such people struggle to stay awake at night and spontaneously wake up in the morning.
Some people are night owls. Such people struggle to get up in the morning and aren't sleepy in the evenings (even with only 5 hours sleep the night before).
And you want to make it even more difficult?!? Why? If you want to get up earlier, then do so, but don't force us night owls to struggle even more than we already do.
At least morning people only need to keep their engines running in the evenings (hard enough), whereas night people must actually get them started in the mornings (even harder). And if a morning person really wants to, he/she can actually go to bed earlier, much earlier, and many do. Night people don't have the option of getting up any later.
And it's not just a matter of "going to bed earlier". Do you think I haven't tried that? What about all the years I went to school and work? Do you think I didn't try? (Uni doesn't count. Fewer contact hours.;) I've solved it for the time being by becoming a freelancer.
For some people, going to bed earlier simply doesn't seem to work. I don't know why. And I would not be surprised if this is the cause of many health issues, but because it's the norm, these issues would fall below the radar.
I always thought that:
- the word "republic" was an abbreviation of "represents the public". (ie. a group of decision makers who are meant to represent public opinion)
- the ideal of "democracy" was that the "the people rule the people for the good of the people".
So to me, "modern democracies" really meant "democratically elected republics".
Having read other posts on this page, I realise I was mistaken. It may be that the Utah lawmakers made the same mistake as I.
That said, I believe that with better educated "mobs" and higher technology, we are edging towards what I would call "true democracies", meaning that the people take control more and more. Government powers have already been reduced from telling the people what to do, to legistlating what people may do. As more people get connected, and more people have their say, and more people get organised and driven, then more decisions and driving power come from the people. Eventually the role of goverment will have to change again, and become a manager for peoples opinions (to keep things together). This will be when "the people rule the people for the good of the people".
We're not there yet, but we will be when we have online voting, not just for parties but on portfolios and/or topics, and the ability to change our votes on the fly, not just at "election time".
A house using its insulation as a battery would mean a pretty big battery. With lots of these houses, we could save alot of the energy generated during the night (currently lost, thus wasted due to low demand) to be returned to the grid for use during the day, and especially the evening (peak usage period).
Some years back a man survived in the Indian Ocean for days after his boat sank. He said that when he grew up in north west Australia, his father once told him: "Son, if you ever get stuck out in the desert then what ever you do don't take a piss". Apparently following this advice helped him survive when floating out in the ocean without drinking water.
Probably helped by both preventing dehydration and staying awake.
You're trekking through a wet landscape for a few days, and the seeds start sprouting out of your shoes. (Hope they're not bamboo shoots, 'cos that'd just be torture.)
Blaauw said in a statement. "The next big challenge is to achieve millimeter-scale systems, which have a host of new applications for monitoring our bodies, our environment and our buildings."
And a compact radio that needs no tuning to find the right frequency could be a key enabler to organizing millimeter-scale systems into wireless sensor networks. These networks could one day track pollution, monitor structural integrity, perform surveillance, or make virtually any object smart and trackable.
Yeeess, well... Although I do believe that the vast majority of these will be used for good purposes, there are a few Big Brothers in the world that might their own ideas. And these tiny things are going to be very hard to spot.
Um, could it be that Fox News, by embellishing some military advances for non-techies (most of the voters), is simply trying to keep people positive about military spending?
Don't get too upset about the lack of technical sense in the artice. It's the propaganda that is more worrying.
In the 80's (before the internet) and before jargon was mixed up by casual computer users...
- A "hacker" meant someone who was proficent enough with computers (few people were at that time) that they typed really fast at their keyboard, usually writing code or scripts. Today a "hack" still means quickly written, not carefully thought out code.
- A "cracker" was someone who broke copy protection. Today that would include breaking network security.
I may be considered pedantic, but it would be good to retain the difference in meaning between the two words.
With Scientology, concepts such as "squirrels" and "suppressive persons" are taught to the rank-and-file, and their persecution is the doctrine of the church, fully supported by all its members (because those who don't are kicked out). Thus, the entire Church, as a single entity, stands behind all this - which makes the whole thing evil, and not just some people (or even all leaders).
That's how I picture the Catholic Church's behaviour over several centuries.
I'm probaby going to be flamed for this, but it is my personal opinion, and I think I'm entitled to that...
I'm not against violence, but I am against cruelty.
I agree that violence is part of human nature, including senseless violence. (Geez, I enjoy watching MMA, practicing martial arts and playing war games.)
I'm not surprised that since computer games were introduced, real crime has reduced in numbers. (Though to my memory, without research, it appears as though civilian crime today may be more nasty than it was 25 years ago. Perhaps I'm just older and more aware, or perhaps it's true.)
The whole point of games is to be better than your opponent (whatever that opponent may be: player, NPC, level designer, etc.). And if that means defeating your opponent in combat, then that satisfies two instincts in one go, which is probably why fighting is the most common theme in games.
But there is a big difference between playing Galaga and torturing people to death in full, bloody, well rendered 3D with well acted screams of pain and anguish. In comparison, Galaga can't even be considered a violent game at all.
Regardless of your stance on the issue, surely you've gotto agree with that.
Some games intentionally explore where the limits should go, and I think that's responsible. (But best left for gamers old enough to understand the moral dilemmas, thereof age restrictions.)
But when games are just cruel for the sake of being cruel, then I think that’s just plain wrong.
Now, I'm not talking about Mortal Combat or BF2 or even Carmageddon. I'm talking about something that's so realistic that it actually can be done by anyone. For example, rape games, or beating up a hooker to get your money back. Some people I've come across think that's really funny, and seem to think that hookers are so low that they have no rights anyway. Besides, she's not gonna tell the cops.
Now that's by no means a new mentality (having been around for millenia). But showing idiots that it's funny enough to be in a game, instead of being socially reprehensible... is just plain irresponsible. Those idiots lack an understanding for respect as it is, so why encourage them to be worse?
I think when done right, violent games are actually good and healthy, but I do think that some limits ought to exist. Not for us who can tell the difference, but for those people who are too mentally weak to work out the difference. And there are many such people, even if most of us on/. don't usually mix in those circles.
For my personal photos and movies I sub categorise them using international date format in sub folders named like so:
"1998-03-30 - X's birthday party" (A single day, so full date.)
"1999-06 - Travel to Europe" (A few weeks, so just putting the month in.)
etc.
That way, I can sort alphabetically yet still find events in a sort of timeline.
Or for tax records... (submitted quarterly)
"BAS - 2009-Q4"
"BAS - 2010-Q1"
All the BAS sibmissions are now in order, but grouped together.
My home has internet but really poor mobile phone coverage. It'd be nice to be able to buy a small cheap mobile phone "tower" that I could connect to my router, giving me and my neighbours better mobile phone coverage. I'd accept that it would be locked to some mobile phone provider or other, but I'm sure the provider wouldn't mind as I would be paying with my own money to extend their network coverage to fill in mobile phone shadow pockets that are too small for them to consider.
I figure that such a small, cheap device could be very useful in the outback. Especially, if they could relay connections in an ad-hoc network (it would be fairly static) and be solar powered. Being in the outback, it would be unlikely that they'd be overloaded by usage, but could help save stranded people.
It would also be a cheaper solution to add to commercial aeroplanes. I'm sure they'd come in handy in many other situations too.
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Isn't that the whole point of Facebook? ...to divulge personal information to all one's friends, and allowing strangers to also see it in case they happen to be long lost friends.
In fact, the quake itself was probably Godzilla breaking free from his watery tomb. Look out Tokyo!
Unlikely considering the "monster rescue effort".
Looks like they need Godzilla yet again, to eat the nuclear core, yet again.
Headline on local news: "Japan launches monster rescue effort".
Are they seriously trying to rescue Godzilla?!? I guess they figure Godzilla might absorb the nuke energy.
Some people are morning people. Such people struggle to stay awake at night and spontaneously wake up in the morning.
Some people are night owls. Such people struggle to get up in the morning and aren't sleepy in the evenings (even with only 5 hours sleep the night before).
And you want to make it even more difficult?!? Why? If you want to get up earlier, then do so, but don't force us night owls to struggle even more than we already do.
At least morning people only need to keep their engines running in the evenings (hard enough), whereas night people must actually get them started in the mornings (even harder). And if a morning person really wants to, he/she can actually go to bed earlier, much earlier, and many do. Night people don't have the option of getting up any later.
And it's not just a matter of "going to bed earlier". Do you think I haven't tried that? What about all the years I went to school and work? Do you think I didn't try? (Uni doesn't count. Fewer contact hours. ;) I've solved it for the time being by becoming a freelancer.
For some people, going to bed earlier simply doesn't seem to work. I don't know why. And I would not be surprised if this is the cause of many health issues, but because it's the norm, these issues would fall below the radar.
Or we could all use Swatch time.
Would the Cyberwarfare Unit be equipped with cybernetic limbs, eyes and be able to jack in to the 'net?
Or should it really be called an Internet Warfare Unit, that employs non-cyborgs to protect and attack over the internet?
I always thought that:
- the word "republic" was an abbreviation of "represents the public". (ie. a group of decision makers who are meant to represent public opinion)
- the ideal of "democracy" was that the "the people rule the people for the good of the people".
So to me, "modern democracies" really meant "democratically elected republics".
Having read other posts on this page, I realise I was mistaken. It may be that the Utah lawmakers made the same mistake as I.
That said, I believe that with better educated "mobs" and higher technology, we are edging towards what I would call "true democracies", meaning that the people take control more and more. Government powers have already been reduced from telling the people what to do, to legistlating what people may do. As more people get connected, and more people have their say, and more people get organised and driven, then more decisions and driving power come from the people. Eventually the role of goverment will have to change again, and become a manager for peoples opinions (to keep things together). This will be when "the people rule the people for the good of the people".
We're not there yet, but we will be when we have online voting, not just for parties but on portfolios and/or topics, and the ability to change our votes on the fly, not just at "election time".
I don't think my technical manager at Motorola told me a myth, and he told us exactly what GP said.
A house using its insulation as a battery would mean a pretty big battery. With lots of these houses, we could save alot of the energy generated during the night (currently lost, thus wasted due to low demand) to be returned to the grid for use during the day, and especially the evening (peak usage period).
"Mod 'em"; plural for "mod it", meaning you can mod multiple posts at once.
Some years back a man survived in the Indian Ocean for days after his boat sank. He said that when he grew up in north west Australia, his father once told him: "Son, if you ever get stuck out in the desert then what ever you do don't take a piss". Apparently following this advice helped him survive when floating out in the ocean without drinking water.
Probably helped by both preventing dehydration and staying awake.
You're trekking through a wet landscape for a few days, and the seeds start sprouting out of your shoes. (Hope they're not bamboo shoots, 'cos that'd just be torture.)
Blaauw said in a statement. "The next big challenge is to achieve millimeter-scale systems, which have a host of new applications for monitoring our bodies, our environment and our buildings."
And a compact radio that needs no tuning to find the right frequency could be a key enabler to organizing millimeter-scale systems into wireless sensor networks. These networks could one day track pollution, monitor structural integrity, perform surveillance, or make virtually any object smart and trackable.
Yeeess, well... Although I do believe that the vast majority of these will be used for good purposes, there are a few Big Brothers in the world that might their own ideas. And these tiny things are going to be very hard to spot.
You saw the Ghost busters in action, first hand? And I thought it was just a movie.
Russians down bottles of vodka, lone jocks in the wilderness down bottles of Solo, but physicists down bottles of antimatter. Now who's da man, eh?
Doesn't Iceland have plenty of cold? Even a hot day in the Sahara desert is cold in comparison to the temperature of magma.
Um, could it be that Fox News, by embellishing some military advances for non-techies (most of the voters), is simply trying to keep people positive about military spending?
Don't get too upset about the lack of technical sense in the artice. It's the propaganda that is more worrying.
In the 80's (before the internet) and before jargon was mixed up by casual computer users...
- A "hacker" meant someone who was proficent enough with computers (few people were at that time) that they typed really fast at their keyboard, usually writing code or scripts. Today a "hack" still means quickly written, not carefully thought out code.
- A "cracker" was someone who broke copy protection. Today that would include breaking network security.
I may be considered pedantic, but it would be good to retain the difference in meaning between the two words.
Please some one mod this informative.
With Scientology, concepts such as "squirrels" and "suppressive persons" are taught to the rank-and-file, and their persecution is the doctrine of the church, fully supported by all its members (because those who don't are kicked out). Thus, the entire Church, as a single entity, stands behind all this - which makes the whole thing evil, and not just some people (or even all leaders).
That's how I picture the Catholic Church's behaviour over several centuries.
I'm probaby going to be flamed for this, but it is my personal opinion, and I think I'm entitled to that...
I'm not against violence, but I am against cruelty.
I agree that violence is part of human nature, including senseless violence. (Geez, I enjoy watching MMA, practicing martial arts and playing war games.)
I'm not surprised that since computer games were introduced, real crime has reduced in numbers. (Though to my memory, without research, it appears as though civilian crime today may be more nasty than it was 25 years ago. Perhaps I'm just older and more aware, or perhaps it's true.)
The whole point of games is to be better than your opponent (whatever that opponent may be: player, NPC, level designer, etc.). And if that means defeating your opponent in combat, then that satisfies two instincts in one go, which is probably why fighting is the most common theme in games.
But there is a big difference between playing Galaga and torturing people to death in full, bloody, well rendered 3D with well acted screams of pain and anguish. In comparison, Galaga can't even be considered a violent game at all.
Regardless of your stance on the issue, surely you've gotto agree with that.
Some games intentionally explore where the limits should go, and I think that's responsible. (But best left for gamers old enough to understand the moral dilemmas, thereof age restrictions.)
But when games are just cruel for the sake of being cruel, then I think that’s just plain wrong.
Now, I'm not talking about Mortal Combat or BF2 or even Carmageddon. I'm talking about something that's so realistic that it actually can be done by anyone. For example, rape games, or beating up a hooker to get your money back. Some people I've come across think that's really funny, and seem to think that hookers are so low that they have no rights anyway. Besides, she's not gonna tell the cops.
Now that's by no means a new mentality (having been around for millenia). But showing idiots that it's funny enough to be in a game, instead of being socially reprehensible... is just plain irresponsible. Those idiots lack an understanding for respect as it is, so why encourage them to be worse?
I think when done right, violent games are actually good and healthy, but I do think that some limits ought to exist. Not for us who can tell the difference, but for those people who are too mentally weak to work out the difference. And there are many such people, even if most of us on /. don't usually mix in those circles.
For my personal photos and movies I sub categorise them using international date format in sub folders named like so:
"1998-03-30 - X's birthday party" (A single day, so full date.)
"1999-06 - Travel to Europe" (A few weeks, so just putting the month in.)
etc.
That way, I can sort alphabetically yet still find events in a sort of timeline.
Or for tax records... (submitted quarterly)
"BAS - 2009-Q4"
"BAS - 2010-Q1"
All the BAS sibmissions are now in order, but grouped together.
Yes, and vampires. I wonder if vampires like eating zombies. Old mouldy zombies probably taste a bit like blue cheese.
the daughters became immortal - outlasting the the battle they fought in, but ready to quickly mobilize should that enemy be encountered again.
...and guess what happens in the movie.
My home has internet but really poor mobile phone coverage. It'd be nice to be able to buy a small cheap mobile phone "tower" that I could connect to my router, giving me and my neighbours better mobile phone coverage. I'd accept that it would be locked to some mobile phone provider or other, but I'm sure the provider wouldn't mind as I would be paying with my own money to extend their network coverage to fill in mobile phone shadow pockets that are too small for them to consider.
I figure that such a small, cheap device could be very useful in the outback. Especially, if they could relay connections in an ad-hoc network (it would be fairly static) and be solar powered. Being in the outback, it would be unlikely that they'd be overloaded by usage, but could help save stranded people.
It would also be a cheaper solution to add to commercial aeroplanes. I'm sure they'd come in handy in many other situations too.