Can we stop fighting and agree that most first world countries are losing their rights at citizen level?
By the way, third wold countries worry too much about security, poverty, corruption and more to be able to do think much about freedom of speech yay or nay, they mainly move by inertia.
Be careful with this if you are not 100 % sure you'll be around to uncover the prank if it gets out of hand.
I played this once on a half computer tech, half sound tech and things went pretty bad. I hid and locked the taskbar and all the icons (on XP) and stored them in some other folder for easy recovery. But I didn't go to work the following day due to personal reasons. It turns out, this guy and an engineer went nuts over the problem and ended up going back to a recovery point.
I neglected to tell him the truth until I was sure he had cooled off... About, 10 months.:P
Again, careful with what seem like innocent pranks, victims can end up doing a lot of damage and it will be your fault.
and yet, if you believe something is real, it won't matter if it's not.
Some chatbots can fool people for a while and some dumb people, might look like chatbots for a while as well.
Arguably, you are programmed by your environment and past events to react in a specific way. You might say that prediction seems impossible due to the large amount of variables you're not considering but, what if you add enough variables for the AI to become unpredictable? What happens when you can't easily isolate it's logic?
No one is looking for Matrix AI. But these kind of advances are really interesting and might prove useful in who knows how many areas. Why even restrict yourself to humans? How about interaction with animals?
While I understand the sentiment, I wonder how much chinese technology you are bound to encounter in all the technological gadgets you own. Be it Computers, phones or whatever. Can you vouch for the working conditions of the workers in each case?
What about clothing?
In my case. I'm 99% ignorant and am forced to take price-quality relation as practically the unique factor of a purchase.
Maybe it has something to do with people knowing they are doing things that they shouldn't be doing. Like holding people without trial forever?
Exaggerated? maybe, false? for all intents and purposes, no.
Then you go and dodge the truth of that statement by vaguely claiming that those who disclose these kinds of information are attention seekers and call it an "example of an argument". ehhh.. what?
I mention this is trivial and often used an attack and you now claim "I disproved all instances"... of what? What's your argument? That seeking attention makes truths falsehoods? I'd like you to be clear instead of resorting to nonsensical "no you" one liners.
But then, couldn't judges be politically pressured not to sign certain warrants for fear of retaliation? I'm not saying that you're wrong but when there's a potentially corrupt system we might need to think twice about these kind of things...
This is the attitude that allows for people to be successful scammers, er- politicians, promising so many shiny things and later blaming someone/something else for "not being able" to deliver.
The way I see it: A) He is not capable of doing the job he said he would B) He did not intend to do what he said he would.
When I was naive, I thought A) was more likely to happen but, as time goes on, B) is becoming completely undeniable....
Still, I ask myself, what do you do when the contract between the government and the people is not upheld by the former?
I understand what you're saying. I just wanted to offer some of the things I've read about in the past when I researched the GPL license and it's history in court. I'm pretty sure I read a much more thorough article involving GPL related disputes but, as you say, it might not be sufficient depending on the case, the jurisdiction and the lawyers.
Wow, this exchange would be so funny if suddenly all the parties involved were exposed and transported immediately into the same room. Similarly with many YouTube exchanges, which, luckily, I've stopped reading unless I want to just laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I'm amazed no one has talked about this. It wasn't in the previous versions (2.49s).
It's really useful to test and develop different scripts that will save your life. Specially to make your custom import output scripts.
The overall UI change might look hard to old users but it's not that big of a hassle to accommodate and it actually looks more user friendly and still very customizable.
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Can we stop fighting and agree that most first world countries are losing their rights at citizen level?
By the way, third wold countries worry too much about security, poverty, corruption and more to be able to do think much about freedom of speech yay or nay, they mainly move by inertia.
Be careful with this if you are not 100 % sure you'll be around to uncover the prank if it gets out of hand.
I played this once on a half computer tech, half sound tech and things went pretty bad. I hid and locked the taskbar and all the icons (on XP) and stored them in some other folder for easy recovery. But I didn't go to work the following day due to personal reasons. It turns out, this guy and an engineer went nuts over the problem and ended up going back to a recovery point.
I neglected to tell him the truth until I was sure he had cooled off... About, 10 months. :P
Again, careful with what seem like innocent pranks, victims can end up doing a lot of damage and it will be your fault.
Ah, but, in many cases, people will differ on what the simplest explanation is.
and yet, if you believe something is real, it won't matter if it's not.
Some chatbots can fool people for a while and some dumb people, might look like chatbots for a while as well.
Arguably, you are programmed by your environment and past events to react in a specific way. You might say that prediction seems impossible due to the large amount of variables you're not considering but, what if you add enough variables for the AI to become unpredictable? What happens when you can't easily isolate it's logic?
No one is looking for Matrix AI. But these kind of advances are really interesting and might prove useful in who knows how many areas. Why even restrict yourself to humans? How about interaction with animals?
Also, many parents like the idea of being able to reach their kids at any time to know they're ok (or whatever reason).
I've seen these kind of complaints when schools suggest banning cellphones.
Rule of Acquisition #1: People who quote rules of acquisition will never get laid.
People who post anonymously about not getting laid have already given up... wait.. .what, damn........
While I understand the sentiment, I wonder how much chinese technology you are bound to encounter in all the technological gadgets you own. Be it Computers, phones or whatever. Can you vouch for the working conditions of the workers in each case?
What about clothing?
In my case. I'm 99% ignorant and am forced to take price-quality relation as practically the unique factor of a purchase.
Fyi, third world, s40 phone (posting from it).
Just what I was thinking! honorary +6 funny.
Ok, you're scaring me.
If I follow your post's analogy, I get the implication that the current wars can only end with a nuclear bomb.
Yeah well, but the Referee System seems to have been compromised... :P
Why does this suddenly sound biblical? Wait... is this... Hell?
Oh God! I promise I'll be good! ;)
http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1192#comic
go back to this http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2103152&cid=35933476
Remember it started there.
Also, you STILL ignore my point. I don't deny or confirm that journalists, Manning, Wikileaks or whoever are attention seekers.
I only ask: So what?
Read the GGP post again:
Maybe it has something to do with people knowing they are doing things that they shouldn't be doing. Like holding people without trial forever?
Exaggerated? maybe, false? for all intents and purposes, no.
Then you go and dodge the truth of that statement by vaguely claiming that those who disclose these kinds of information are attention seekers and call it an "example of an argument". ehhh.. what?
I mention this is trivial and often used an attack and you now claim "I disproved all instances"... of what? What's your argument? That seeking attention makes truths falsehoods? I'd like you to be clear instead of resorting to nonsensical "no you" one liners.
This seems to be the usual strawman argument against Journalists and other people when they dare to stand up and show the truth.
"OMG! They're just attention seekers!"
"Does it matter if what they're showing is true?"
"err.... ATTENTION SEEKERS!!!1!"
But then, couldn't judges be politically pressured not to sign certain warrants for fear of retaliation? I'm not saying that you're wrong but when there's a potentially corrupt system we might need to think twice about these kind of things...
This is the attitude that allows for people to be successful scammers, er- politicians, promising so many shiny things and later blaming someone/something else for "not being able" to deliver.
The way I see it:
A) He is not capable of doing the job he said he would
B) He did not intend to do what he said he would.
When I was naive, I thought A) was more likely to happen but, as time goes on, B) is becoming completely undeniable. ...
Still, I ask myself, what do you do when the contract between the government and the people is not upheld by the former?
Exactly. Thinking something is good (or better) just because it's expensive is a common mistake.
I understand what you're saying. I just wanted to offer some of the things I've read about in the past when I researched the GPL license and it's history in court. I'm pretty sure I read a much more thorough article involving GPL related disputes but, as you say, it might not be sufficient depending on the case, the jurisdiction and the lawyers.
Quick Google Search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#The_GPL_in_court
http://techrights.org/2007/11/23/gpl-court-test/
Wow, this exchange would be so funny if suddenly all the parties involved were exposed and transported immediately into the same room. Similarly with many YouTube exchanges, which, luckily, I've stopped reading unless I want to just laugh at the absurdity of it all.
How long do you reckon it will be slashdotted?
Also... Really? Plain text password on the activation email? Really?
http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_57_release/
PDF Version: http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_57_release/blender_python_reference_2_57_release.pdf
My bad, I completely missed the console integration in previous versions. I thought the 2.42 change had only affected the API.
And you're right about the whole UI being in python and modifiable. The python action log is cool as well.
Thanks for the clarified information.
I'm amazed no one has talked about this. It wasn't in the previous versions (2.49s).
It's really useful to test and develop different scripts that will save your life. Specially to make your custom import output scripts.
The overall UI change might look hard to old users but it's not that big of a hassle to accommodate and it actually looks more user friendly and still very customizable.