You have to remember though, that there is a huge offer of human beings and it only seems to expand. Add to that the fact that humans are incredibly capable and adaptable super computers, you can see this trend going on for a long time.
One interesting example is the way in which they use people to input captchas in order to allow their bots to spam.
I get what you're saying but what if the intent is militaristic? A highjack civilian plane might not be militarist but will be shot down if necessary. Spying artifacts can be safely described as militaristic as well.
Extreme competition ruins a lot of sports and athletes. The experience and the joy of training/playing is lost and replaced by this constant stress to fare better than others. This doesn't happen to everyone, of course, but I know a lot of people who have been "shamed" (many times by themselves) into stopping all activity because they're not good enough. And lack of practice only makes it worse for a potential comeback.
It even happens with simple things like jogging.
That said. I don't think such a test is inherently bad. If you know that your son has good chances at being better at something, you might think it's a good idea to let him try out those sports to see if he enjoys them and can exploit that "advantage". Just as long as you don't become a maniac who will psychologically pressure the kid into madness nor bet highly on his earnings as sport-star (the potential gold mine kid doesn't usually end well).
Another point to add is that almost all of them look like job contracts. They basically save every and all rights because you're the one interested in using the service and not the other way around.
Sometimes they do this just to be on the safe side (legally speaking) but that still feels wrong and forces very easily breakable ToS on users.
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I use Windows more often than not due to windows only applications. That's pretty much it. I try to pick cross platform for most of what I do but sometimes it's not really an option.
Wine is only an alternative (if it works) with a number of applications and using a virtual machine would mean much better hardware to be efficient.
Yep, but people do not want to spend millions upon millions on different killing machines and mechanisms. They don't want to spend millions upon millions on agencies that will take away their freedoms and do very little useful things and cause a lot of harm. They don't want to pay for wars with countries they have never even heard of and have no incidence on them.
But still, somehow, they end up paying for all of that and more...
Unfortunately, many people have set their opinions and that's where they will stay.
The bad thing is that they just can't keep themselves from trying to convince everyone how bad Firefox is and how it terribly broke their addons. After, they claim to switch to Chrome (as if you were forbidden from using more than one browser) but don't cite how chrome's extensions do the job of the alleged dead FF addons. They even cite addons that have worked for a while (eg: FF 6 onwards).
I regularly use Firefox, Chrome and Opera (FF being my main browser though) and have IE and Safari just for testing and I think the feedback loop between all of them is very interesting. The other four have even made IE a much more decent browser than what we had come to expect (although you still need to deal with some of it's drama.)
The version number is lame but also a somewhat understandable marketing issue but people keep pretending it's a a complete deal breaker to their use of Firefox (how?) and forget all the things Mozilla stands for.
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You have to remember though, that there is a huge offer of human beings and it only seems to expand. Add to that the fact that humans are incredibly capable and adaptable super computers, you can see this trend going on for a long time.
One interesting example is the way in which they use people to input captchas in order to allow their bots to spam.
Yeah, researching bad things is bad. Let's only research how to make fluffy bunnies and food colorant.
That's a feature, not a bug.
Extraordinary actions are easily justified in times of war.
So... People complain that slashdotters don't RTFA but then they post an article you can't access without registering on a site (paywall too?)
This is not good.
They feel attacked. It's a common response. If they accept those kind of statements they can't really be as proud of their country as they are.
In my opinion, patriotism is more often than not an impediment for common sense and diplomacy.
yeah, like those free hippies from LG and GM. Nobody can say those names either. That's why neither company ever made it.
How can they expect us to pronounce a letter! And worse, Two letters one after the other!!!!
He was modded +3 insightful. So, I feel sorry for 3 more people now and I'm reasonably sure they're not trolls. Just horribly indoctrinated.
I get what you're saying but what if the intent is militaristic? A highjack civilian plane might not be militarist but will be shot down if necessary. Spying artifacts can be safely described as militaristic as well.
I sincerely hope you're a troll. If you are, congratulations. If not. I'm very truly sorry for what has been done to you.
Are you referring to GIMP or the long version: "GNU Image Manipulation Program"?
Because the short version seems perfectly fine to me... Unless you think it's too close to imp and that is somehow a terrible thing...
Actually, I live in an American country but, judging by the quality of your comment, you wont understand what that means.
/Grumpy face. (I don't like to complain but... )
How many countries use mp/h and how many km/h? Would it kill them to write the conversion in the article/summary? Just for inclusion sake?
I think you didn't watch the video where it said the classes were meant to excite people into learning and using that branch of computer science.
It's an introduction to Artificial Intelligence. I guess you find the book boring as hell too, right?
Thanks for the sanity.
Extreme competition ruins a lot of sports and athletes. The experience and the joy of training/playing is lost and replaced by this constant stress to fare better than others. This doesn't happen to everyone, of course, but I know a lot of people who have been "shamed" (many times by themselves) into stopping all activity because they're not good enough. And lack of practice only makes it worse for a potential comeback.
It even happens with simple things like jogging.
That said. I don't think such a test is inherently bad. If you know that your son has good chances at being better at something, you might think it's a good idea to let him try out those sports to see if he enjoys them and can exploit that "advantage". Just as long as you don't become a maniac who will psychologically pressure the kid into madness nor bet highly on his earnings as sport-star (the potential gold mine kid doesn't usually end well).
I've patented for loops, quicksort and A*. Go have fun programming.
Why don't you just trust us? I can't understand it.
truth /trooTH/ (noun): Whatever government officials are quoted saying. Bonus points if they're anonymous.
No. The point is to make you skim the rest after being dumbfounded by the first few paragraphs.
I also realize I made a typo. Should be "shalt" but mixing it up a bit doesn't seem so bad in context.
Another point to add is that almost all of them look like job contracts. They basically save every and all rights because you're the one interested in using the service and not the other way around.
Sometimes they do this just to be on the safe side (legally speaking) but that
still feels wrong and forces very easily breakable ToS on users.
quote from Salon.com ToS.
(so full of lawyerly jargon that makes you want to shoot the writer/s)
Thou shall not breathe. (hidden in the heart of an extremely long ToS)
I use Windows more often than not due to windows only applications. That's pretty much it. I try to pick cross platform for most of what I do but sometimes it's not really an option.
Wine is only an alternative (if it works) with a number of applications and using a virtual machine would mean much better hardware to be efficient.
I'd probably shorten it to "having a positive image" but yeah, I completely agree.
Exactly what came to my mind when I read his comment.
Yep, but people do not want to spend millions upon millions on different killing machines and mechanisms. They don't want to spend millions upon millions on agencies that will take away their freedoms and do very little useful things and cause a lot of harm. They don't want to pay for wars with countries they have never even heard of and have no incidence on them.
But still, somehow, they end up paying for all of that and more...
Did I hear the word bailout?
Unfortunately, many people have set their opinions and that's where they will stay.
The bad thing is that they just can't keep themselves from trying to convince everyone how bad Firefox is and how it terribly broke their addons. After, they claim to switch to Chrome (as if you were forbidden from using more than one browser) but don't cite how chrome's extensions do the job of the alleged dead FF addons. They even cite addons that have worked for a while (eg: FF 6 onwards).
I regularly use Firefox, Chrome and Opera (FF being my main browser though) and have IE and Safari just for testing and I think the feedback loop between all of them is very interesting. The other four have even made IE a much more decent browser than what we had come to expect (although you still need to deal with some of it's drama.)
The version number is lame but also a somewhat understandable marketing issue but people keep pretending it's a a complete deal breaker to their use of Firefox (how?) and forget all the things Mozilla stands for.
Anyway, thanks for Firefox & Thunderbird.
You haven't met that many salesmen then...