It's a little deeper than you think in there... in the nature vs nurture debate our predisposition to insects falls into the nature part probably under instincts, so have fun overriding that one.
Please someone mod the parent up. An overcomplicated password that need password management software ceased to be a password ("something you know") and were turned into a token ("something you have"). If your Lastpass DB is corrupted, goodbye passwords.
Yup, I think you pretty much nailed it on all points, but I would add this: Whatever is produced, the kids are guaranteed to love it. It turns out that children are kinda stupid and have terrible taste. I think the "adult" reaction to all this is to just leave the Star Wars franchise to the children, and not to expect it to entertain us adults.
It's a sensible and rational suggestion, but there are good movies for kids that also manage to entertain adults. George Lucas din't have the knack, but Pixar (Wall-E, The Incredibles, Up) and Dreamworks (Antz, Shrek, Wallace & Gromit) does.
Modern medical science isn't terribly far ahead of the placebo effect when it comes to many chronic diseases including advanced pancreatic cancer. It's reasonable to try to separate the efficacy of a new medicine from the efficacy of psychosomatic healing when qualifying a drug. But to ignore the later entirely is not good medicine.
That hypothesis is far from proven. I'd like to point you to an interesting literature review:
Removed from the observational nature of the clinical trial, we can’t expect the observed “placebo effects” to persist, as they’re partially a consequence of the trial itself. A more detailed review of placebos is a post in and of itself, so I’ll refer you to resources that describe why placebo effects are plural, that placebo effects are subjective rather than objective and there is no persuasive evidence to suggest that placebo effects offer any health benefits. What’s most important is the understanding that placebo effects are a measurement artifact, not a therapeutic effect..
Jeff Mitchell tried to respond to the criticism in Hacker News (a bit similar to the criticism made in Slashdot) in this post on his blog. I don't think he's successfully answered everything said here, but it is good to read his rationale.
Almost every single link in the summary leads to fosspatents.com, home of the infamous shill Florian Mueller. I guess I'll wait for more credible sources, thanks.
It would be nice if we could have the JRE as a completely separate product from the plugin. I could happily live without the plugin (and do!) but the JRE itself is useful for other apps.
After this horrible sequence of 0-day exploits, I've finally disabled the Java plugin in ALL my browsers. There you are, instructions for removal of the Sun (or IBM) Java browser plugin on Windows, without removing the JRE.:)
These people are doing a nice work tracking the games with potential and/or incomplete Linux support. So far, 183 games and apps will likely be (or already is) ported.
I had 4 games that were listed as supported. Of those, two of them would not install (as in you can click the install button and it would give a message that it was installed but there would be nothing downloaded). One of them installed but would not launch.
Yeah, the list of "supported" Linux games is still too rough. There is a good map of that situation here: http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com.
Asking their users for money is a much better approach than defaulting to sending search results to Amazon, and I think they'd get more money long term.
Please read: A Personal Appeal from Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth
But, generally speaking, people who are actually cheating aren't going to post about it on Facebook.
You overestimate the care that other people have with their own privacy. In the last two years, three people close to me (relatives, friends, etc.) had divorced from their significant other. ALL these divorces involved cheating evidence (not suspicious posts, but things like "Hey babe, let's get it on today on your place?") on Facebook. People are simply like that.
It's not really ready to collapse, that statement was most likely aimed at helping it secure low cost loans with governmental backing, as is the way of things in Japan
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Where is the link?
Well, maybe no link is better than the typical Slashdot behavior, i.e., linking to the blog of that infamous paid Oracle shill... :)
It's a little deeper than you think in there... in the nature vs nurture debate our predisposition to insects falls into the nature part probably under instincts, so have fun overriding that one.
Obviously, you've never been in China.
Please someone mod the parent up. An overcomplicated password that need password management software ceased to be a password ("something you know") and were turned into a token ("something you have"). If your Lastpass DB is corrupted, goodbye passwords.
Yup, I think you pretty much nailed it on all points, but I would add this: Whatever is produced, the kids are guaranteed to love it. It turns out that children are kinda stupid and have terrible taste. I think the "adult" reaction to all this is to just leave the Star Wars franchise to the children, and not to expect it to entertain us adults.
It's a sensible and rational suggestion, but there are good movies for kids that also manage to entertain adults. George Lucas din't have the knack, but Pixar (Wall-E, The Incredibles, Up) and Dreamworks (Antz, Shrek, Wallace & Gromit) does.
5. Google deletes Paranoid Peter's data, real threats and conspiracy evidences are lost forever. Whoa, it could be a Hollywood script!
Modern medical science isn't terribly far ahead of the placebo effect when it comes to many chronic diseases including advanced pancreatic cancer. It's reasonable to try to separate the efficacy of a new medicine from the efficacy of psychosomatic healing when qualifying a drug. But to ignore the later entirely is not good medicine.
That hypothesis is far from proven. I'd like to point you to an interesting literature review:
Removed from the observational nature of the clinical trial, we can’t expect the observed “placebo effects” to persist, as they’re partially a consequence of the trial itself. A more detailed review of placebos is a post in and of itself, so I’ll refer you to resources that describe why placebo effects are plural, that placebo effects are subjective rather than objective and there is no persuasive evidence to suggest that placebo effects offer any health benefits. What’s most important is the understanding that placebo effects are a measurement artifact, not a therapeutic effect..
...karma really DOES exist!
Jeff Mitchell tried to respond to the criticism in Hacker News (a bit similar to the criticism made in Slashdot) in this post on his blog. I don't think he's successfully answered everything said here, but it is good to read his rationale.
Almost every single link in the summary leads to fosspatents.com, home of the infamous shill Florian Mueller. I guess I'll wait for more credible sources, thanks.
I sure hope they make this available on Steam or some other PC game portal... TAKE ME MONEYS!!!
Well, there is a rumor in Twitter about a Steam version in the works...
Sorry, here is the correct link for the supposed Steam port.
I sure hope they make this available on Steam or some other PC game portal... TAKE ME MONEYS!!!
Well, there is a rumor in Twitter about a Steam version in the works...
"Nobody" uses ChromeOS? Perhaps this will make you should rethink your conclusion...
It would be nice if we could have the JRE as a completely separate product from the plugin. I could happily live without the plugin (and do!) but the JRE itself is useful for other apps.
After this horrible sequence of 0-day exploits, I've finally disabled the Java plugin in ALL my browsers. There you are, instructions for removal of the Sun (or IBM) Java browser plugin on Windows, without removing the JRE. :)
These people are doing a nice work tracking the games with potential and/or incomplete Linux support. So far, 183 games and apps will likely be (or already is) ported.
Just call the next one "Cloud". I store everything in the Cloud.
Cloud's too slow.
Let me know when your local telco upgrades that copper so you can upload data at 160MB/s and also drops usage caps.
~Whoooosh!~
...just made Hell freeze over.
YEEEEEEEEEEEAH
I had 4 games that were listed as supported. Of those, two of them would not install (as in you can click the install button and it would give a message that it was installed but there would be nothing downloaded). One of them installed but would not launch.
Yeah, the list of "supported" Linux games is still too rough. There is a good map of that situation here: http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com.
I'm trying to undo an unfair mod I applied to an insightful post. Slashdot should let us (at least for one minute) undo a mistaken mod :(
The fault lies with the university's PR department this time.
Obligatory PHD Comics strip: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
Asking their users for money is a much better approach than defaulting to sending search results to Amazon, and I think they'd get more money long term.
Please read: A Personal Appeal from Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth
Hey, it worked for Jimmy Wales!
Chances are someone will mix up a Steamuntu, even if its not officially supported by Valve but gets all the official Ubuntu updates.
Yeah, someone already did just that :)
Absolutely true!
Suppose for instance that suddenly tomorrow all oaktrees had pollen that is deadly to most humans.
Hi, Mr. Shyamalan! I didn't know you had an Slashdot account!
But, generally speaking, people who are actually cheating aren't going to post about it on Facebook.
You overestimate the care that other people have with their own privacy. In the last two years, three people close to me (relatives, friends, etc.) had divorced from their significant other. ALL these divorces involved cheating evidence (not suspicious posts, but things like "Hey babe, let's get it on today on your place?") on Facebook. People are simply like that.
Why should he be worried? Innovation benefits everybody, no matter who does it!
Also, if he gets worried, he can ask Machete for help!
It's not really ready to collapse, that statement was most likely aimed at helping it secure low cost loans with governmental backing, as is the way of things in Japan
Are you really sure that this way of things is exclusive to Japan?