Opening and editing several GB of files at a time over a network? Any network.
Yeah... sure. If you don't really need to have it done in like... this century. And if they somehow do manage to strip down the bloated (but powerful) monster Adobe apps have become - why the hell use it online if you can get that to work @home? And say that they develop some kind of server backed-up solution where for those huge files you get to use their super-secret-super-powerful server farm - wouldn't most of the menial tasks (open, crop, do little photo-editing) just jam that system?
We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but your multimillion dollar marketing campaign will have to wait for the resources to become available - millions of users are currently adding text to the photos of cats.
... with living things you twit! Not inert material.
Is a byte a living, developing thing? Will it somehow profit from being a different set of bits? Will it profit from interaction with other bytes? What will cause it to mutate? Even if you implement a mutation system - how will a spontaneous "Hello world!" program profit from being a "Hello world!" program compared to the sea of random bytes it is surrounded by?
At best, your explanation is like complaining that a pile of sand does not "evolve" into a sand castle. Or a pile of glass bottles. Or microprocessors.
Programs are not some magical creatures made out ob bytes living in a computer. They are just algorithms presented and implemented through a electrical device. They would work just fine on paper if correctly written.
And there would be the key to the fallacy of your idea.
If you are going to give the inanimate (and incorporeal) thing like a algorithm attributes of a living matter - you can plainly see it evolve. From a simple algorithm, to a more complex one, losing the parts it does not need and acquiring new parts that it does need for survival and procreation. And how does it procreate? By using human minds (or any other inteligent and thinking minds).
Its a parasite, like all ideas. It needs to be shared for it to live on. So, if it is a good algorithm, you will implement it, show it and teach it to others. And it will live on and continue to develop.
Oh.. I am quite sure that kids could get around that.
But I guess that something like that is not the real reason for 30 km/h limit. Nobody would go that far in "thinking about children" department. Its the noise.
You should consider yourself lucky. Someone actually took time and effort to acknowledge the fact that the said road goes through a populated area. And did something about it. That is why the fences are tall and plastic - to block the sound and exhaust fumes. A wire fense would stop hu-mons just fine.
Is this really how our ancestors developed their intelligence? No. That is just the by-product of the civilisation that they have created using their intelligence. Only a highly civilised society can come up with something so pointless and time and mind-wasting as golf.
I have a 30 km/h sign right in front of my window - and my condo is in front of a freeway! And THAT is why there is a 30 km/h speed limit there. Condos are a known habitat of hu-mons.
And while these hu-mons (sturdy creatures that they are) may come out of a head on collision with 1-2 tons of steel moving at 30 km/h with only a broken limb - above that speed hu-mon's chance of survival rapidly decrease.
Not to mention the possible damage that hitting a hu-mon can do to a car and its paint job.
They should have made a big change, like Battlestar Galactica did, and made Kirk a women. Women as in multiple copies/clones like BSG or women as in twins?
The Star Trek Online team, those who worked on the Perpetual Platform (which was recently licensed to BioWare) and a small number of people from the Gods and Heroes team will be remain with the company. Well, that is good to be know.
It warms my heart to know that there are such people out there. Giving second and third chances to high-profile fuck-ups. God bless them. God bless them all.
Well... I am entitled (as are my colleagues) to a student-licensed copy of XP Pro.
About 1 in 5 students knows about that, and about 10% would bother themselves to bring an empty CD to our sysadmin.
Many don't even bother to get their free licensed copies of MS Visual Studio (which we use in our C++ and other programming classes) - it is simpler to use the pirated copy.
I thought that there was going to be some talk about MicroSoft's, Adobe's and others techniques for acquiring and maintaining market share... You know... all those copies of Windowses and Offices and Photoshops and etc... Being so easily distributed and pirated that I am yet to see a user with a licensed Windows copy. Or a legal copy of Photoshop...
Were you really under impression that I was actually trying to employ some or any scientific method in trying to prove or disapprove existence of god(s) through use of bible(s) and other "holy" books?
Wouldn't that be kind of like explaining colour blue to a blind person by poking him in the foot with a needle?
Let me explain. I was being sarcastic, so I wouldn't have to be outright vulgar, when I speak my mind about such time, resource and lives-wasting parasitic organisations and systems such as religion.
Fiction being implied or presupposed doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence for existence of god. If we are to go to such (i)logical depths we could even ascertain that there is more truth in story of Little Red Riding Hood then there is in the story of god(s). Or as some (particularly here on slashdot) will say: "If bible is the proof for existence of god, then Superman comics are proof for existence of Superman".
Oh yes, one can stand on a stack of bibles and qu'rans and waive his or hers "BUT YOU DIDN'T PROVE THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST" banner 'till tomorrow, but that just brings us back to the "Dragon in Garage" country. http://www.users.qwest.net/~jcosta3/article_dragon.htm And you know what they say about people that claim that they have a dragon in their garage?
Slashdot Mirror
When will people start understanding the difference between evolution and creation of life?
Ah yes! Silly me...
They first need to understand both individually so that they can notice the differences.
Sorry... sometimes I just forget that I am talking with humans.
Riiiiight...
Opening and editing several GB of files at a time over a network? Any network.
Yeah... sure. If you don't really need to have it done in like... this century.
And if they somehow do manage to strip down the bloated (but powerful) monster Adobe apps have become - why the hell use it online if you can get that to work @home?
And say that they develop some kind of server backed-up solution where for those huge files you get to use their super-secret-super-powerful server farm - wouldn't most of the menial tasks (open, crop, do little photo-editing) just jam that system?
We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but your multimillion dollar marketing campaign will have to wait for the resources to become available - millions of users are currently adding text to the photos of cats.
... with living things you twit! Not inert material.
Is a byte a living, developing thing?
Will it somehow profit from being a different set of bits?
Will it profit from interaction with other bytes?
What will cause it to mutate?
Even if you implement a mutation system - how will a spontaneous "Hello world!" program profit from being a "Hello world!" program compared to the sea of random bytes it is surrounded by?
At best, your explanation is like complaining that a pile of sand does not "evolve" into a sand castle. Or a pile of glass bottles. Or microprocessors.
Programs are not some magical creatures made out ob bytes living in a computer.
They are just algorithms presented and implemented through a electrical device. They would work just fine on paper if correctly written.
And there would be the key to the fallacy of your idea.
If you are going to give the inanimate (and incorporeal) thing like a algorithm attributes of a living matter - you can plainly see it evolve.
From a simple algorithm, to a more complex one, losing the parts it does not need and acquiring new parts that it does need for survival and procreation.
And how does it procreate?
By using human minds (or any other inteligent and thinking minds).
Its a parasite, like all ideas. It needs to be shared for it to live on.
So, if it is a good algorithm, you will implement it, show it and teach it to others. And it will live on and continue to develop.
Oh.. I am quite sure that kids could get around that.
But I guess that something like that is not the real reason for 30 km/h limit. Nobody would go that far in "thinking about children" department.
Its the noise.
You should consider yourself lucky. Someone actually took time and effort to acknowledge the fact that the said road goes through a populated area.
And did something about it.
That is why the fences are tall and plastic - to block the sound and exhaust fumes. A wire fense would stop hu-mons just fine.
Tried "Can't touch this", didn't work.
Tried "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", didn't work either.
Little help here...?
Only a highly civilised society can come up with something so pointless and time and mind-wasting as golf.
Condos are a known habitat of hu-mons.
And while these hu-mons (sturdy creatures that they are) may come out of a head on collision with 1-2 tons of steel moving at 30 km/h with only a broken limb - above that speed hu-mon's chance of survival rapidly decrease.
Not to mention the possible damage that hitting a hu-mon can do to a car and its paint job.
Neither the state of Massachusetts, the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands or LiveScience are in charge of Gundam.
Uniform and office fetish?
That would be Life of Brian inspired then?
Mod parent up.
...they have a solution for spammers?
Kind of a final solution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_solution but hey... it works.
...FOX will still take you in.
It warms my heart to know that there are such people out there. Giving second and third chances to high-profile fuck-ups.
God bless them. God bless them all.
Dude... that is the first sound argument FOR this device being installed.
I second that proposal.
Where and when do we vote?
Or do we just start trolling the meme around as usual?
Well... I am entitled (as are my colleagues) to a student-licensed copy of XP Pro.
About 1 in 5 students knows about that, and about 10% would bother themselves to bring an empty CD to our sysadmin.
Many don't even bother to get their free licensed copies of MS Visual Studio (which we use in our C++ and other programming classes) - it is simpler to use the pirated copy.
Them japs are sneaky sushi-eating-kamikaze-monkeys.
I thought that there was going to be some talk about MicroSoft's, Adobe's and others techniques for acquiring and maintaining market share...
You know... all those copies of Windowses and Offices and Photoshops and etc...
Being so easily distributed and pirated that I am yet to see a user with a licensed Windows copy. Or a legal copy of Photoshop...
Come on... It is Japanese...
Soo... does this mean that now there is like a chance that Bungie will make that Oni sequel? http://www.bungie.net/Projects/Oni/default.aspx
You know... something above the "snowball in hell" and "1 in a million" level?
Were you really under impression that I was actually trying to employ some or any scientific method in trying to prove or disapprove existence of god(s) through use of bible(s) and other "holy" books?
Wouldn't that be kind of like explaining colour blue to a blind person by poking him in the foot with a needle?
Let me explain. I was being sarcastic, so I wouldn't have to be outright vulgar, when I speak my mind about such time, resource and lives-wasting parasitic organisations and systems such as religion.
Fiction being implied or presupposed doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence for existence of god.
If we are to go to such (i)logical depths we could even ascertain that there is more truth in story of Little Red Riding Hood then there is in the story of god(s).
Or as some (particularly here on slashdot) will say: "If bible is the proof for existence of god, then Superman comics are proof for existence of Superman".
Oh yes, one can stand on a stack of bibles and qu'rans and waive his or hers "BUT YOU DIDN'T PROVE THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST" banner 'till tomorrow, but that just brings us back to the "Dragon in Garage" country. http://www.users.qwest.net/~jcosta3/article_dragon.htm
And you know what they say about people that claim that they have a dragon in their garage?
Preferably medium-sized one with colored lights.