Even the home-brew Newegg builds are just LEGOs; computers themselves aren't the tactice source of tinkering they used to be...
My friend bought his son LEGO mindstorms. You get the added advantage of "car engine" type tinkering, plus computer programming, plus embedded systems, plus robotics, and it actually makes something physical that can be explored with all the senses, not just reading lines of code in a cramped position in front of a monitory...
IMHO, this is much more exploratory than a big mac/windows/linux box and a compiler.
But I don't know what a 7 year old is like, maybe that's too young for mindstorms?
I agree with your statement in many, many cases (e.g., people who complain about sex on TV), except when it is the only choice. Monopolies aren't subject to this logic.
I can make the same argument for internet taxation: Don't like internet taxes? Don't use the internet.
Or for dataplans: don't like AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile plans? don't surf the web on your phone.
All the data comes from Africa. I'm suspicious from the outset. How do they normalize a dataset for Americans? Maybe the correct article title should be "Circumcision provides health benefits to men who live in Africa".
So you're not a feminist? You don't believe in equality?
I agree that everyone should be treated equally, but they are not, and the laws that seem to favor women clearly illustrate male privilege, otherwise there wouldn't be an imbalance and there would just be human laws.
"Most gender issues are utter bullshit. What if I treat a female..."
And you just played your hand: you've never, ever attempted to understand gender issues, otherwise you'd never say something this ignorant. You might as well be commenting on a neurosurgery discussion group. The fact that you would whine about laws not being equal demonstrates you still haven't made the realization of your privilege yet.
Part of your confusion is that you are benefitting from male privilege but don't realize it. One of the hardest realization for any privileged group to come to is that they are in fact privileged. I'm going to do a horrible job explaining this to you, but the first reaction any privileged group has when hearing it is violent denial. So I'm not going to explain because I have trouble getting my ideas across.
Basically, men run the world and treat women like shit -- everywhere and for all time except for the last 100 years where privilege is being explored seriously -- and I'm sure you're seething right now to tell me how wrong i am... then laws try to correct this imbalance. If men weren't the default institution of power, laws would have less appearance of bias.
Just my quick $0.02 because I keep reading the word "feminist" used as a pejorative.
Unless you think women should not be able to vote, get an education, drive, or hold the same jobs men do, you are a feminist.
Feminism is often associated with the left-wing equivalent of right-wing nutjobs. While yes, there are a small %age women out there who fit an unflattering image of what most conservatives visualize when they hear the word feminist, in reality, most civilized mature people are feminists, regardless of political party, religion, or other demographic.
Of course, those of you who think women actually do belong uneducated, imprisoned (nonconsensually), barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, are truly not feminists.
Socketed CPUs... for what, maybe one frequecny bump in an existing generation or form factor? do they include an upgradeable thermal solution for your fancy new CPU? no? Oh, sorry about that.
Display upgrade? You mean like swapping in an 18" display instead of a 14" display? I bet that looks awesome folded up! Is the duct tape extra?
Removable drive. Oooooo! I'm impressed!
Manuals? Yay PDFs!/snickers/
Replacement parts? Ok, that's actually a good one.
> Your turn.
OMG that was the strongest hand ever played in an upgradeability battle. You so throw down.
If that is what passes for an "upgradeable" laptop, I'll stick with my recyclable mac, thanks for playing. Next.
Cutting welfare payments to red states would fix the budge problem in a few years. If they don't want socialism, and they don't pay taxes b/c they are too poor, then why should my blue state profits help 'em?
Can somebody explain how if the iPhone is so uncrackable/breakable that Apple can still export it? I seem to recall some kind of PGP problem where exporting something that was too secure was a violation of US laws. Or maybe I'm mixing reality with a bad Nicholas Cage movie, which is entirely possible.
Yeah, I got a lot wrong in there. I'm not a gun nut, but I love my AR (BCM upper&lower) and AK74 (Saiga via Arsenal Inc.). (And an AR 14.5" barrel is still legal if the muzzle break is pinned and it extends to 16" from the breech.)
But what I don't get is this sudden pedantry. I've never met someone who DIDN'T refer to their AK or AR as an "assault rifle." Of course, they will always follow with the caveat, "yeah, it's not technically an assault rifle, but I've got a CFH barrel, an M4 breech and bolt carrier with the excess not cutaway, and an H2 buffer, and I shoot M855 5.56 NATO, but I don't have an RDIAS." Seriously: I have yet to go to the range or on a shoot with someone who refers to them as anything other than an assault rifle (plus caveat). You know you say it (you = any generic AR owner).
But apparently everyone on slashdot knows this distinction and always uses the proper terms, except me.
I agree, the definition is absurd. My point that I didn't clearly make is that it doesn't matter what anyone claims on/. or on forums: the legal definition of what a state calls it is what matters. Just like laws call tomatoes a vegetable. Totally absurd, but you or I changing the definition to suit our argument is more absurd because we have no legal grounds supporting our claims.
It's a small block of aluminum that fits into low-profile AR15 lower receivers and makes it a full auto (not even select fire, that's a weird cam design that you have to buy fully assembled).
It costs about $50 to make and $15,000-$20,000 to register if your state even allows it.
Actually an assault rifle has very strict legal definitions, and ARs and AKs, even semi-auto with no select-fire, are absolutely assault rifles.
The primary distinctions are high capacity magazines and 24" barrels. Even weirder, I know that my AK needed no less than 9 American made parts to be considered a "US legal assault rifle" (the freaking furniture counts!).
Citation needed. But I'm pretty sure I'm right (lol) that full-auto/select-fire is not required for true legal assault rifle definition.
That sound you hear is your battery life flying out the window... i mean really, do we need to add this capability to a table and phone? mobile phone battery life decreases with each generation, so let's add a GPU!/facepalm
Political fact checking is actually a lot harder than it seems. I used to follow politifact.com and there were a large number of debates over their assessment of policy statements, largely due to the fact that emperical data for dollars spent or benefits from policy (in terms of dollars) are either not recorded, not part of public record, or are just estimates from various biased "experts".
There isn't even agreement on how to measure federal spending (e.g., when Bush administration purposefully excluded out the cost of the two wars when computing debt/deficit)!!!
Heh, reminds me of playing tomb raider back in 1997 on a voodoo/3dfx and not being able to find all the secrets because the texture maps all looked the same.
I didn't find enough depth in the article to really understand his point. Sounds like he's saying: the more detail in-game, the more hand-holding for the player to make the game 'fun'. Sure, color palettes, collaterals, space, and the actual path to follow vary, but I expected him to go back at least more than 5 years to talk about level design.
Personally, I LOVE all the eye candy on high end games: shadows, grass blades, dust, wind, lots of material shaders, cloth physics, but I think too much of the budget goes into collaterals and shaders, and not enough goes into actual plot and motivation. BioShock looked effing gorgeous, but holy cats did I find it boring.
I haven't really played a game yet where the detail was too distracting, but I have played many games where it was so boring and repetitive I just didn't care enough to finish, regardless of how pretty it was.
Anyone who's ever planed Monkey Island or Grim Fandango and then plays any of the modern first-person games knows what I mean about opportunity cost and reward for working hard at solving a game.
Heh, and I didn't mention Infocom once./pats self on back/
What's the alternative? And don't give me some unix freeware crap, I've tried several, they are crap. Microsoft Money was the only viable alternative, but the conversion process sucked ass. I have 18 years of quicken data that I'm not about to lose, and until there's a real alternative for consumers (i.e., $100 price point), I'm not leaving, regardless of the weird interface, and periodic interface bugs. At least the database is rock solid. (runs to knock on some wood)
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...to a car engine in the computer world.
Even the home-brew Newegg builds are just LEGOs; computers themselves aren't the tactice source of tinkering they used to be...
My friend bought his son LEGO mindstorms. You get the added advantage of "car engine" type tinkering, plus computer programming, plus embedded systems, plus robotics, and it actually makes something physical that can be explored with all the senses, not just reading lines of code in a cramped position in front of a monitory...
IMHO, this is much more exploratory than a big mac/windows/linux box and a compiler.
But I don't know what a 7 year old is like, maybe that's too young for mindstorms?
Yeah, because democrats would never ever do that. *cough* Wisconsin recall *cough*
"So you think it's fine that one party tries to obstruct justice?"
Nope. I never even implied that.
And if you think that just one party does it, pay attention to union protests, which are more often than not backed by Democrats.
It makes me laugh how people take sides over partisan TACTICS, because both sides use exactly the same thuggery.
What makes me a liberal dem isn't dirty tactics by the "other side", it is ideology.
From your source, TFA:
"with at least half a dozen of the demonstrators at Miami-Dade paid by George W. Bush's recount committee."
Whoa nellie! 6 paid demonstrators! dayum, turn the hoses on that unruly mob.
Look, I'm a liberal dem, but you sound like an idiot. Quit making us look stupid.
Ah, then we are in agreement.
I agree with your statement in many, many cases (e.g., people who complain about sex on TV), except when it is the only choice. Monopolies aren't subject to this logic.
I can make the same argument for internet taxation: Don't like internet taxes? Don't use the internet.
Or for dataplans: don't like AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile plans? don't surf the web on your phone.
Bring it on! Anything to reduce the number of electoral votes Texas owns!
Kidding, kidding.
Sort of.
The dataset comes from Africans living in Africa. How do you adjust the sample population for America from 3rd-world conditions?
The title should be "Circumcision CORRELATES with better health in AFRICAN men living in AFRICA"
As of yet, they have no explanations as to WHY they are healthier.
Be afraid. Be suspicious.
Beat me to it!
All the data comes from Africa. I'm suspicious from the outset. How do they normalize a dataset for Americans? Maybe the correct article title should be "Circumcision provides health benefits to men who live in Africa".
So you're not a feminist? You don't believe in equality?
I agree that everyone should be treated equally, but they are not, and the laws that seem to favor women clearly illustrate male privilege, otherwise there wouldn't be an imbalance and there would just be human laws.
"Most gender issues are utter bullshit. What if I treat a female..."
And you just played your hand: you've never, ever attempted to understand gender issues, otherwise you'd never say something this ignorant. You might as well be commenting on a neurosurgery discussion group. The fact that you would whine about laws not being equal demonstrates you still haven't made the realization of your privilege yet.
Part of your confusion is that you are benefitting from male privilege but don't realize it. One of the hardest realization for any privileged group to come to is that they are in fact privileged. I'm going to do a horrible job explaining this to you, but the first reaction any privileged group has when hearing it is violent denial. So I'm not going to explain because I have trouble getting my ideas across.
Basically, men run the world and treat women like shit -- everywhere and for all time except for the last 100 years where privilege is being explored seriously -- and I'm sure you're seething right now to tell me how wrong i am... then laws try to correct this imbalance. If men weren't the default institution of power, laws would have less appearance of bias.
Just my quick $0.02 because I keep reading the word "feminist" used as a pejorative.
Unless you think women should not be able to vote, get an education, drive, or hold the same jobs men do, you are a feminist.
Feminism is often associated with the left-wing equivalent of right-wing nutjobs. While yes, there are a small %age women out there who fit an unflattering image of what most conservatives visualize when they hear the word feminist, in reality, most civilized mature people are feminists, regardless of political party, religion, or other demographic.
Of course, those of you who think women actually do belong uneducated, imprisoned (nonconsensually), barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, are truly not feminists.
Carry on.
Socketed CPUs... for what, maybe one frequecny bump in an existing generation or form factor? do they include an upgradeable thermal solution for your fancy new CPU? no? Oh, sorry about that.
Display upgrade? You mean like swapping in an 18" display instead of a 14" display? I bet that looks awesome folded up! Is the duct tape extra?
Removable drive. Oooooo! I'm impressed!
Manuals? Yay PDFs! /snickers/
Replacement parts? Ok, that's actually a good one.
> Your turn.
OMG that was the strongest hand ever played in an upgradeability battle. You so throw down.
If that is what passes for an "upgradeable" laptop, I'll stick with my recyclable mac, thanks for playing. Next.
The closest thing we've ever come to the Valley of Galt is called TED, and it is 99% liberal, and about 50% screamin' lib-ruhl.
Flight you say? Yes yes, just like outsourcing.
Cutting welfare payments to red states would fix the budge problem in a few years. If they don't want socialism, and they don't pay taxes b/c they are too poor, then why should my blue state profits help 'em?
Can somebody explain how if the iPhone is so uncrackable/breakable that Apple can still export it? I seem to recall some kind of PGP problem where exporting something that was too secure was a violation of US laws. Or maybe I'm mixing reality with a bad Nicholas Cage movie, which is entirely possible.
Yeah, I got a lot wrong in there. I'm not a gun nut, but I love my AR (BCM upper&lower) and AK74 (Saiga via Arsenal Inc.). (And an AR 14.5" barrel is still legal if the muzzle break is pinned and it extends to 16" from the breech.)
But what I don't get is this sudden pedantry. I've never met someone who DIDN'T refer to their AK or AR as an "assault rifle." Of course, they will always follow with the caveat, "yeah, it's not technically an assault rifle, but I've got a CFH barrel, an M4 breech and bolt carrier with the excess not cutaway, and an H2 buffer, and I shoot M855 5.56 NATO, but I don't have an RDIAS." Seriously: I have yet to go to the range or on a shoot with someone who refers to them as anything other than an assault rifle (plus caveat). You know you say it (you = any generic AR owner).
But apparently everyone on slashdot knows this distinction and always uses the proper terms, except me.
I agree, the definition is absurd. My point that I didn't clearly make is that it doesn't matter what anyone claims on /. or on forums: the legal definition of what a state calls it is what matters. Just like laws call tomatoes a vegetable. Totally absurd, but you or I changing the definition to suit our argument is more absurd because we have no legal grounds supporting our claims.
> Which orifice did you pull 24" from?
My pyloric sphincter, to be exact.
Registered Drop-In Auto Sear (RDIAS). Google it.
It's a small block of aluminum that fits into low-profile AR15 lower receivers and makes it a full auto (not even select fire, that's a weird cam design that you have to buy fully assembled).
It costs about $50 to make and $15,000-$20,000 to register if your state even allows it.
Actually an assault rifle has very strict legal definitions, and ARs and AKs, even semi-auto with no select-fire, are absolutely assault rifles.
The primary distinctions are high capacity magazines and 24" barrels. Even weirder, I know that my AK needed no less than 9 American made parts to be considered a "US legal assault rifle" (the freaking furniture counts!).
Citation needed. But I'm pretty sure I'm right (lol) that full-auto/select-fire is not required for true legal assault rifle definition.
That sound you hear is your battery life flying out the window... i mean really, do we need to add this capability to a table and phone? mobile phone battery life decreases with each generation, so let's add a GPU! /facepalm
Political fact checking is actually a lot harder than it seems. I used to follow politifact.com and there were a large number of debates over their assessment of policy statements, largely due to the fact that emperical data for dollars spent or benefits from policy (in terms of dollars) are either not recorded, not part of public record, or are just estimates from various biased "experts".
There isn't even agreement on how to measure federal spending (e.g., when Bush administration purposefully excluded out the cost of the two wars when computing debt/deficit)!!!
Sigh.
...and their anti-big brother legislation.
Just sayin', before they start publishing data they should check their cables. /ducks
Heh, reminds me of playing tomb raider back in 1997 on a voodoo/3dfx and not being able to find all the secrets because the texture maps all looked the same.
I didn't find enough depth in the article to really understand his point. Sounds like he's saying: the more detail in-game, the more hand-holding for the player to make the game 'fun'. Sure, color palettes, collaterals, space, and the actual path to follow vary, but I expected him to go back at least more than 5 years to talk about level design.
Personally, I LOVE all the eye candy on high end games: shadows, grass blades, dust, wind, lots of material shaders, cloth physics, but I think too much of the budget goes into collaterals and shaders, and not enough goes into actual plot and motivation. BioShock looked effing gorgeous, but holy cats did I find it boring.
I haven't really played a game yet where the detail was too distracting, but I have played many games where it was so boring and repetitive I just didn't care enough to finish, regardless of how pretty it was.
Anyone who's ever planed Monkey Island or Grim Fandango and then plays any of the modern first-person games knows what I mean about opportunity cost and reward for working hard at solving a game.
Heh, and I didn't mention Infocom once. /pats self on back/
What's the alternative? And don't give me some unix freeware crap, I've tried several, they are crap. Microsoft Money was the only viable alternative, but the conversion process sucked ass. I have 18 years of quicken data that I'm not about to lose, and until there's a real alternative for consumers (i.e., $100 price point), I'm not leaving, regardless of the weird interface, and periodic interface bugs. At least the database is rock solid. (runs to knock on some wood)