I was following news coverage of passport records on Friday, and apparently they contain WAY more data than your passport, ID, and travel records. Criminal records, details about your interactions with other countries, attempts to change citizenship, etc.
Is anyone else creeped out by how natural the movements of this robot are? Maybe it's the lack of a head and the ominous buzz-of-death, I don't know. As I recall, there's some theoretical curve for robots where the human acceptance of a robot dramatically drops at a sweet spot as reality is approached and doesn't rise until reality is achieved. This robot definitely falls in that zone for me.
You're getting warmer. To paraphrase Chris Rock, if a fourteen year old can score weed, you think the cops don't know who's dealing it and where? Law enforcement simply decides which neighborhoods are OK for street dealers and quietly lets them work. And, if you're reading Slashdot, the odds are it isn't your neighborhood.
I know jack about quantum physics, but a lot of the theories and particles sound like hacks to fudge away anomalies in equations. Is there much push/research out there for an alternative theory?
The assumption is inherent that those jobs are to do something productive. If a town builds a new hospital capable of handling 1000 more ER calls a week, that doesn't mean that the cops are going to go around beating people to meet a quota. But, thanks for the clarification, Mr. Norquist.
But someone like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, for instance, was a perfect candidate....
But there IS no perfect candidate for torture. The same effects of torturing an innocent person come into effect. You have no clue at what point you're getting no new, valid information as the subject will respond the same way; telling you whatever you think they want to know including making it up. Remember after 9/11 how we kept getting bogus terrorist alerts? I'm not so cynical to think this was a pure scare tactic, I think we were seeing the fruits of torture; subjects (some legitimate) telling their torturers whatever they wanted to hear including making up attack targets, accusing anyone they knew, etc.
Yay! Nothing like the combination of XML and Java to bring out the haters. Incompetent use of a language/API doesn't equate to a bad language/API. I can show you plenty of crappy C/C++ code freely browsable in some open source libraries. Does that mean C++ sucks? Hell no.
My experience with Java+XML you ask? OFX servers for financial institutions. Without name dropping, check out the list of banks, brokerages, tax services, and credit card providers (Quicken) out there successfully serving up client data. I guess we're all circle jerking while you're downloading your account information into Quicken or Money.
Some good uses for XML:
Ephemeral representations of atomic, structured data; usually for transport.
Config files. More verbose and the syntax is far better at keeping you from fat fingering a setting and blowing up your app. If you can't clearly read XML, you need glasses.
Some bad uses for XML:
High volume, rapid response data streams; like say an on-line multiplayer game (though I've never benchmarked this)
Unbounded data streams; e.g. streaming media
Databases
I have to admit, I'm clueless about your Java dependency issues. The only way I can see that ever happening is if you're dumping all of your classes into the default top-level package; and that's major user error if you are.
It really didn't take that much. Bill Gates got a handslap on monopoly charges for the low, low price of $6 million in contributions. Very depressing:(
Executive orders are not law and have ZERO bearing on law. This is one of the BS legacies of the Bush administration; he thinks he has the right to decide what and how to enforce our laws. This in itself is impeachable to me, but unfortunately there's too high a percentage of Conservatives who still think he's a great guy for impeachment to remove him from office.
The games have simply changed. Joysticks are great when you're moving a sprite around a 2D map. They're also great for flight simulators. Both of which are almost obsolete as far as major releases go. The only time I use my joystick is when I hop into a chopper when playing Battlefield 2 or 2142.
XDMCP is one of my favorite features of X. But, getting it set up is such a royal pain in the butt, especially on networks with mixed distros and OSs. It's been a few years since I've had to administer it much, but my only real gripe with X was the time it took getting a good XDMCP environment up and running. Hope there's some help with it included.
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I was following news coverage of passport records on Friday, and apparently they contain WAY more data than your passport, ID, and travel records. Criminal records, details about your interactions with other countries, attempts to change citizenship, etc.
Is anyone else creeped out by how natural the movements of this robot are? Maybe it's the lack of a head and the ominous buzz-of-death, I don't know. As I recall, there's some theoretical curve for robots where the human acceptance of a robot dramatically drops at a sweet spot as reality is approached and doesn't rise until reality is achieved. This robot definitely falls in that zone for me.
You're getting warmer. To paraphrase Chris Rock, if a fourteen year old can score weed, you think the cops don't know who's dealing it and where? Law enforcement simply decides which neighborhoods are OK for street dealers and quietly lets them work. And, if you're reading Slashdot, the odds are it isn't your neighborhood.
You mean the mods are obtuse.
GNOME needs to be more usable. Sometimes I think that it was made for 5 year olds.
A lot of irony in this comment. The sign of a great UI is that the young and uninitiated can easy learn them.
Where's the Cloak of Immortality when you need it?
I thought this would be a neat thread about next generation interstellar engines.
Sounds a lot like frog baseball.
I know jack about quantum physics, but a lot of the theories and particles sound like hacks to fudge away anomalies in equations. Is there much push/research out there for an alternative theory?
The assumption is inherent that those jobs are to do something productive. If a town builds a new hospital capable of handling 1000 more ER calls a week, that doesn't mean that the cops are going to go around beating people to meet a quota. But, thanks for the clarification, Mr. Norquist.
...because you know Source Fource is out to beat the Penguin.
But someone like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, for instance, was a perfect candidate....
But there IS no perfect candidate for torture. The same effects of torturing an innocent person come into effect. You have no clue at what point you're getting no new, valid information as the subject will respond the same way; telling you whatever you think they want to know including making it up. Remember after 9/11 how we kept getting bogus terrorist alerts? I'm not so cynical to think this was a pure scare tactic, I think we were seeing the fruits of torture; subjects (some legitimate) telling their torturers whatever they wanted to hear including making up attack targets, accusing anyone they knew, etc.
I'll admit up front: I have things to hide.
Oooh, are you into BBW too?
Two and Two...is that one of the titles? Wait, that's Two IN Two.
Yay! Nothing like the combination of XML and Java to bring out the haters. Incompetent use of a language/API doesn't equate to a bad language/API. I can show you plenty of crappy C/C++ code freely browsable in some open source libraries. Does that mean C++ sucks? Hell no.
My experience with Java+XML you ask? OFX servers for financial institutions. Without name dropping, check out the list of banks, brokerages, tax services, and credit card providers (Quicken) out there successfully serving up client data. I guess we're all circle jerking while you're downloading your account information into Quicken or Money.
Some good uses for XML:
Some bad uses for XML:
I have to admit, I'm clueless about your Java dependency issues. The only way I can see that ever happening is if you're dumping all of your classes into the default top-level package; and that's major user error if you are.
Considering the way most grad students get treated, they probably tested the laser by shooting it at their faces.
It really didn't take that much. Bill Gates got a handslap on monopoly charges for the low, low price of $6 million in contributions. Very depressing :(
Executive orders are not law and have ZERO bearing on law. This is one of the BS legacies of the Bush administration; he thinks he has the right to decide what and how to enforce our laws. This in itself is impeachable to me, but unfortunately there's too high a percentage of Conservatives who still think he's a great guy for impeachment to remove him from office.
If they lost them, which they couldn't have (and after Senator Leahy called them out on this they somewhat admitted that they were lost not destroyed), then they've broken the Presidential Records Act. Actually, we probably have evidence of this already since White House staffers like Karl Rove have been circumventing official record keeping by using Republican National Committee email accounts for official business. Amazing how a little oversight uncovers so much dirt...
Wow, all that carbon will make a lot of nano tubes. Think of how fast the internet will get! Of course, you can only send really small web pages...
Isn't it already in free fall?
The games have simply changed. Joysticks are great when you're moving a sprite around a 2D map. They're also great for flight simulators. Both of which are almost obsolete as far as major releases go. The only time I use my joystick is when I hop into a chopper when playing Battlefield 2 or 2142.
XDMCP is one of my favorite features of X. But, getting it set up is such a royal pain in the butt, especially on networks with mixed distros and OSs. It's been a few years since I've had to administer it much, but my only real gripe with X was the time it took getting a good XDMCP environment up and running. Hope there's some help with it included.
Eagerly awaiting sex bot with Halle Berry likeness...
Burn copies of the Buran.