this is a joke. It even mentions that AOL wants to make Dalnet a more family enviornment by getting rid of the porn and warez etc. Now anyone who has chatted on dalnet since...well at least 5 years ago, knows that Dalnet without porn, illegal software, mp3s and solicitations for cybersex; is infact - well not much at all. A network with no one on it:)
As I think about it, yes, please, do! The cred card has been one of the most abusable, fraud-prone forms of transaction since its inception. it creates lots of ways of creating debt that wouldn't otherwiose be there by encouraging idiots to spend money they don't have at exorbitant interest rates.
Anyone who can't figure out that they have to pay the money back (plus ridiculous rates of intrest) gets no sympathy from me. I've had a credit card since I was 18 (sure, with a smaller limit, but it could have still gotten me in trouble) and I've always used it wisely - to spend money I *know* I actually have, or will have within an intrest free month. Mostly I use it to buy things over the internet (which they have on computers now) and don't spend a cent I didn't put in the account myself beforehand.
Idiots get over their heads in debt with credit cards, and idots give away their numbers over unsecured websites.
Yeah, living forever probably wouldn't be too fun, I'm sure it would get tiresome and trival pretty quickly. But maybe an extra fifty or one hundred years would be a treat! But if you think about the way it would happen it could be less enticing.
For example, if one could live 200 years say, instead of the say, 75 of average life expectancy now, would it happen that all the periods of life are uniformly extended? That would mean longer adolecence and longer time being elderly and frail.
Or if this, life-giving-serum were applied during life, maybe it would just extend life through the elderly period, so you would get to 80, 100 etc, but just be increasingly frail and beset with problems until you stop taking the serum. I don't think anyone would want *that* sort of eternal life.
The type most people would be interested in would be an extended middle period, or really lower middle, late 20's to early 30's, and to have this physical condition extended, or the deteriation slowed down perhaps. This would also benefit society in general, as people would be unable to work for less of their life, and the proportion of people in the workforce would rise.
Of course I realise this is all bullshit conjecture of the most uninformed nature, I'm just board.
, I had a pretty good idea what was 'appropriate' for children (at least in my family), and just didn't watch anything else. Why? Because my parents raised me to not just absorb the outside world, but to process it as well.
What is appropriate for children, is IMO appropriate for everyone (the two are interchangable). I saw Total Recall when I was ten and I'm neither a rapist nor a homocidal maniac. Sure this doesn't prove a great deal, but as far as I can tell I don't have any psycological problems from the many 'arnie' type movies that me and my cousins regularly watched back then, from ages 6-15 or so. If one can be 'harmed' by something, then one has to be able to understand it. And if one can understand it then they are old enough to view it.
A few hundred years ago kids (teens) were introduced to war and soldiery early on, and yeah it was a different world, but murder and other such crimes were still unacceptable. And I know it is not great analogy, but it illustrates a point. As for sex, young boys regularly engaged in sex in Ancient Greece (homosexual at that! may the devil take the pagan bastards!). These grew up into Platos and Aristotles. Now hold your horses there! I'm not saying I want my kids involved in sex before their 16, but I know that is because of a set of morals imposed on me by society. I don't particularly mind them, they don't hurt anyone and it makes me and most others feel comfortable. But, it is impossible to say that just because someone views material our society deems objectionable for a certain agegroup, at this certain age, that they will be psycologically damaged.
So what I mean to say, is that if a kid gets their hands on mainstream violence and sex in movies, it wouldn't bother me at all, because I did the same and I can differentiate between reality and fantasy. I wouldn't supply my children with hardcore videos, but if they somehow got a hold of one, I wouln't be bothered, because it just isn't going to fuck them up!
Consider a magazine subscription, which is a hell of a lot more analogous to a website than a restaurant. And the fact that in a restaurant (in the US) it is looked down upon not to tip, wheras on a website where there is no one to look at you in disgust people are far less 'generous'. Also consider that the people running the website have bills to pay and possibly salaries, it is easier to rely on a number of subscribers at a set price than the very small number of people that seem to be inclined to make very small donations very infrequently. Lastly, the price of this content, well $30/year to my mind is a little excessive, just a little though. I don't read salon regularly, but if I did $20 would be the right price. Comparable to a magazine subscription, but the content is updated more frequently and has more functionality (hypertext etc.).
I believe this is not so. I am currently in Singapore and for some insane reason Google decided I should be viewing the page in Chineese! (I guess it could be Japaneese or some other such language, I wouldn't know the difference). The reason this is insane is because Singapore's official language of administration is English, and of course because I should be able to choose. Anyway I now go to www.google.com/en .
Talk about your knee jerk reactions. How about you go RTFA and come back and realise what idiotic comment that truly was. These machines can penetrate a bit of wood an inch thick, or a piece of very thin steel.
Gangs roaming with high powered x-ray - what?
I mean really, banning a small amatuer device for taking harmless little x-rays - this is boyond incredulous. And I really cant see people installing these tiny x-ray machines in a park just so that you wander into a stray x-ray's path, oh what a prank! You must really have a low opinion of society if that is the first thing you can think of, and I really wonder how you can function in a society that you feel is that demented, there is alot of easier and more effective ways that we are all plotting against you.... why just think of all the home made BOMBS that we must have laid out to get you!
I think it depends on weather the driving force in the colony(ies) is commercial or some sort of government conglomerate. Even today where we know for sure we have a problem, commercial concerns keep us from adjusting fast enough; commerce cares about the bottom line and little else it seems, and I can't see it taking care with another planet if it doesn't with its own. What a government would do is of course uncertain, but I think they would try to at least make everyone believe they were not making the same mistakes as on Earth - what the reality would be is anyone's guess.
Well I can't remember when a town becomes a city, but I remember you get a Metropolis after population reaches 100,000; and a Megalopolis it reaches 500,000. Frankly, I could only get a Metropolis with around 300,000 people. For somereason it said demand for residentials was high, and there were all these spare residentials down the south with no one in them! Sure they were next to a nuclear power plant...but space was scarce. Oh well, I gave up after a few years.
Have you seen the movie? Do you know the scene which is being referred to? It was the most horrifying scene in the movie, where we see the failed attempts to make the Wynona Rider character, which are grotesque deformed hers. Yeah it was a sensational hollywood movie blah blah blah, but that shows an example of the fears people may have about such 'advancements'.
I for one wish science would get its head out of its ass on this issue and forget about it. Cloning of a full human is just not needed and opens more doors than should ever be. I can see the use for organ cloning etc, but why living humans? Can anyone think of a legit purpose? And 'so that rich impotents can have kids' is not a legit purpose IMO.
is a fantastic idea. I have recently exchanged to the National University of Singapore, and their NUSNET III covers the entire campus with SP'n'P ports that you can hook your laptop upto and connect to the network. Because I live on campus and spend most of my time on it, it's kind of like having access ports everywhere, and the convenience is astounding. Of course in reality if this sort of thing was implemented in a city, there would probably be astronomical charges and all sorts of other crap to dampen the impact.
Its worth exactly as much as the usual sporting skills - bugger all. Being able to do a "180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag" is as useful as being able to throw a disk a few hundred meters (or whatever). Funny how one is seen as pathetic and half the world is obsessed with the other.
(IMO think they are both pretty pathetic, at the 'professional' level that is, who doesn't like a good frag every now and then?)
Last year in my 1st year Foundations of Programming course we had a semester on the functional language Gofer. Of course every time you walked into the lab all you could hear was 'pointless....when am I ever going to need...why?....what is this recursion bs?' Now in second year it made the recursion part of this years course a thousand times easier than it would have been if all we had done last year was java (the other lang we did that year). Of course now that we must use linix this year the same people a grumbling again about that:) so....what can one say?
Would it not be possible to use the 900 numbers as tips instead of micro-payments? I'm referring to the the idea mentioned in 'Tips' (above) but noting that there is no current system with which this could be done.
But say, you go to GoodSite.com and you feel the information is good quality, you get somthing out of it, and so because your a nice guy/gal you ring their (hopefully subtely) listed 900 number, which has a max cost of $1. This is a tip and maybe you give them a dollar every week, or every time you are particularly impressed. Obviously it cannot be mandatory, but I think enough people would be courteous enough to make such a small donation every now and again (after all its not mandatory to leave tips in restraunts..is it? I dont konw, I'm in Australia:)
As for the problems with 900 numbers:
1. This is n/a because it is a tipping service not a mandatory payment, the pr0n sites etc. already have their methods.
2. This I see more as the users responsibility, if they can't control their kids thats their problem. Plus childrens sites would obviously not have the tip mechanism in place.
3. I dont know about 900 numbers, but in Australia they are either 1-500 or 1-900 and you *know* your gonna get charged alot. 1-800 is always free. And maybe there could be a compleatly new number which everyone knows can only charge 1 dollar maximum per call.
Of course there would also be applications for bands releasing their music as mp3's, they only make 20 cents a CD or somthing as it is don't they?
I think the whole point of this part was to show that some of the FreeSoftware Advocates were so fanatical as to choos product F, if that hypothetical (and he does say it is) situation occured.
I was talking a while back to an American friend of mine about what she had to do in applying for college, and I was absolutely amazed by the amount of useless crap that goes into it. I am incidently from Western Australia, and like most of Australia (I think) we have a simple score based solely on grades (half year11/12 performance half end of year12 exams) which seems to me to be the only possible requirement, that is acedemic merit, in selection for an academic institution.
I don't know exactly what the SAT and associated processes involve, but I gathered that clubs one is involved in at school and even sports (?!?) make up a part of it - I can't understand this at all.
So getting back to the interview, I would say that these are certinally not any sort of indicator as to weather or not someone is suitable for a course... But then I find the whole $$American higher education system a little hard to believe.
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this is a joke. It even mentions that AOL wants to make Dalnet a more family enviornment by getting rid of the porn and warez etc. Now anyone who has chatted on dalnet since...well at least 5 years ago, knows that Dalnet without porn, illegal software, mp3s and solicitations for cybersex; is infact - well not much at all. A network with no one on it:)
As I think about it, yes, please, do! The cred card has been one of the most abusable, fraud-prone forms of transaction since its inception. it creates lots of ways of creating debt that wouldn't otherwiose be there by encouraging idiots to spend money they don't have at exorbitant interest rates. Anyone who can't figure out that they have to pay the money back (plus ridiculous rates of intrest) gets no sympathy from me. I've had a credit card since I was 18 (sure, with a smaller limit, but it could have still gotten me in trouble) and I've always used it wisely - to spend money I *know* I actually have, or will have within an intrest free month. Mostly I use it to buy things over the internet (which they have on computers now) and don't spend a cent I didn't put in the account myself beforehand. Idiots get over their heads in debt with credit cards, and idots give away their numbers over unsecured websites.
Yeah, living forever probably wouldn't be too fun, I'm sure it would get tiresome and trival pretty quickly. But maybe an extra fifty or one hundred years would be a treat! But if you think about the way it would happen it could be less enticing. For example, if one could live 200 years say, instead of the say, 75 of average life expectancy now, would it happen that all the periods of life are uniformly extended? That would mean longer adolecence and longer time being elderly and frail. Or if this, life-giving-serum were applied during life, maybe it would just extend life through the elderly period, so you would get to 80, 100 etc, but just be increasingly frail and beset with problems until you stop taking the serum. I don't think anyone would want *that* sort of eternal life. The type most people would be interested in would be an extended middle period, or really lower middle, late 20's to early 30's, and to have this physical condition extended, or the deteriation slowed down perhaps. This would also benefit society in general, as people would be unable to work for less of their life, and the proportion of people in the workforce would rise. Of course I realise this is all bullshit conjecture of the most uninformed nature, I'm just board.
, I had a pretty good idea what was 'appropriate' for children (at least in my family), and just didn't watch anything else. Why? Because my parents raised me to not just absorb the outside world, but to process it as well. What is appropriate for children, is IMO appropriate for everyone (the two are interchangable). I saw Total Recall when I was ten and I'm neither a rapist nor a homocidal maniac. Sure this doesn't prove a great deal, but as far as I can tell I don't have any psycological problems from the many 'arnie' type movies that me and my cousins regularly watched back then, from ages 6-15 or so. If one can be 'harmed' by something, then one has to be able to understand it. And if one can understand it then they are old enough to view it. A few hundred years ago kids (teens) were introduced to war and soldiery early on, and yeah it was a different world, but murder and other such crimes were still unacceptable. And I know it is not great analogy, but it illustrates a point. As for sex, young boys regularly engaged in sex in Ancient Greece (homosexual at that! may the devil take the pagan bastards!). These grew up into Platos and Aristotles. Now hold your horses there! I'm not saying I want my kids involved in sex before their 16, but I know that is because of a set of morals imposed on me by society. I don't particularly mind them, they don't hurt anyone and it makes me and most others feel comfortable. But, it is impossible to say that just because someone views material our society deems objectionable for a certain agegroup, at this certain age, that they will be psycologically damaged. So what I mean to say, is that if a kid gets their hands on mainstream violence and sex in movies, it wouldn't bother me at all, because I did the same and I can differentiate between reality and fantasy. I wouldn't supply my children with hardcore videos, but if they somehow got a hold of one, I wouln't be bothered, because it just isn't going to fuck them up!
Knowledge is, a deadly friend
if no one, sets the rules
The fate of all, mankind I see
is in, the hands of fools
Consider a magazine subscription, which is a hell of a lot more analogous to a website than a restaurant. And the fact that in a restaurant (in the US) it is looked down upon not to tip, wheras on a website where there is no one to look at you in disgust people are far less 'generous'. Also consider that the people running the website have bills to pay and possibly salaries, it is easier to rely on a number of subscribers at a set price than the very small number of people that seem to be inclined to make very small donations very infrequently. Lastly, the price of this content, well $30/year to my mind is a little excessive, just a little though. I don't read salon regularly, but if I did $20 would be the right price. Comparable to a magazine subscription, but the content is updated more frequently and has more functionality (hypertext etc.).
I believe this is not so. I am currently in Singapore and for some insane reason Google decided I should be viewing the page in Chineese! (I guess it could be Japaneese or some other such language, I wouldn't know the difference). The reason this is insane is because Singapore's official language of administration is English, and of course because I should be able to choose. Anyway I now go to www.google.com/en .
You forgot the defiant bit:
Customer: By hook or by crook... We will!
Talk about your knee jerk reactions. How about you go RTFA and come back and realise what idiotic comment that truly was. These machines can penetrate a bit of wood an inch thick, or a piece of very thin steel.
Gangs roaming with high powered x-ray - what?
I mean really, banning a small amatuer device for taking harmless little x-rays - this is boyond incredulous. And I really cant see people installing these tiny x-ray machines in a park just so that you wander into a stray x-ray's path, oh what a prank! You must really have a low opinion of society if that is the first thing you can think of, and I really wonder how you can function in a society that you feel is that demented, there is alot of easier and more effective ways that we are all plotting against you.... why just think of all the home made BOMBS that we must have laid out to get you!
I think it depends on weather the driving force in the colony(ies) is commercial or some sort of government conglomerate. Even today where we know for sure we have a problem, commercial concerns keep us from adjusting fast enough; commerce cares about the bottom line and little else it seems, and I can't see it taking care with another planet if it doesn't with its own. What a government would do is of course uncertain, but I think they would try to at least make everyone believe they were not making the same mistakes as on Earth - what the reality would be is anyone's guess.
Well I can't remember when a town becomes a city, but I remember you get a Metropolis after population reaches 100,000; and a Megalopolis it reaches 500,000. Frankly, I could only get a Metropolis with around 300,000 people. For somereason it said demand for residentials was high, and there were all these spare residentials down the south with no one in them! Sure they were next to a nuclear power plant...but space was scarce. Oh well, I gave up after a few years.
Have you seen the movie? Do you know the scene which is being referred to? It was the most horrifying scene in the movie, where we see the failed attempts to make the Wynona Rider character, which are grotesque deformed hers. Yeah it was a sensational hollywood movie blah blah blah, but that shows an example of the fears people may have about such 'advancements'.
I for one wish science would get its head out of its ass on this issue and forget about it. Cloning of a full human is just not needed and opens more doors than should ever be. I can see the use for organ cloning etc, but why living humans? Can anyone think of a legit purpose? And 'so that rich impotents can have kids' is not a legit purpose IMO.
The review stated repeatedly that the reason IA32 benchmarks were used was because there was no available 64 bit benchmarks.
Its worth exactly as much as the usual sporting skills - bugger all. Being able to do a "180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag" is as useful as being able to throw a disk a few hundred meters (or whatever). Funny how one is seen as pathetic and half the world is obsessed with the other.
(IMO think they are both pretty pathetic, at the 'professional' level that is, who doesn't like a good frag every now and then?)
Last year in my 1st year Foundations of Programming course we had a semester on the functional language Gofer. Of course every time you walked into the lab all you could hear was 'pointless....when am I ever going to need...why?....what is this recursion bs?' Now in second year it made the recursion part of this years course a thousand times easier than it would have been if all we had done last year was java (the other lang we did that year). Of course now that we must use linix this year the same people a grumbling again about that:) so....what can one say?
But say, you go to GoodSite.com and you feel the information is good quality, you get somthing out of it, and so because your a nice guy/gal you ring their (hopefully subtely) listed 900 number, which has a max cost of $1. This is a tip and maybe you give them a dollar every week, or every time you are particularly impressed. Obviously it cannot be mandatory, but I think enough people would be courteous enough to make such a small donation every now and again (after all its not mandatory to leave tips in restraunts..is it? I dont konw, I'm in Australia:)
As for the problems with 900 numbers:
1. This is n/a because it is a tipping service not a mandatory payment, the pr0n sites etc. already have their methods.
2. This I see more as the users responsibility, if they can't control their kids thats their problem. Plus childrens sites would obviously not have the tip mechanism in place.
3. I dont know about 900 numbers, but in Australia they are either 1-500 or 1-900 and you *know* your gonna get charged alot. 1-800 is always free. And maybe there could be a compleatly new number which everyone knows can only charge 1 dollar maximum per call.
Of course there would also be applications for bands releasing their music as mp3's, they only make 20 cents a CD or somthing as it is don't they?
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I think the whole point of this part was to show that some of the FreeSoftware Advocates were so fanatical as to choos product F, if that hypothetical (and he does say it is) situation occured.
I don't know exactly what the SAT and associated processes involve, but I gathered that clubs one is involved in at school and even sports (?!?) make up a part of it - I can't understand this at all.
So getting back to the interview, I would say that these are certinally not any sort of indicator as to weather or not someone is suitable for a course... But then I find the whole $$American higher education system a little hard to believe.